
The International Institute of Korean Studies UCLan (IKSU) is holding its annual conference on 19-20 April. The programme is as follows:
Day 1: 19 April 2024 (Friday)
Opening session
- Opening Remarks by Sojin Lim (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
- Welcoming Remarks by Niki Alsford (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Session 1 – Migration and Diaspora
Chair: Niki Alsford (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Speakers:
- Social Cohesion in South Korea: Mutual Integration through Entrepreneurial Incubation by Felicia Istad (Korea University, South Korea)
- Intersecting Asias: Reflections on Connections and Mobility of Yemeni Refugees and Their Arrival on Jeju Island, South Korea by Yura Hyeon (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
- Toward an Anthropology of Foreignness: Ambivalences and Negotiations of Foreign-Born Media Personalities in South Korean Entertainment Programmes by Olga Fedorenko (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Welcome back home (?): South Korean Reality as Seen by Koryo-saram Migrant Minority by Andrii Ryzhov, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- A Sociological Analysis of the 2013 South Korean Refugee Act: Its Birth, its Operations, and its Future by Nora Kim (University of Mary Washington Fredericksburg, US)
Session 2 – Gender and Sexuality I
Chair: Ed Griffith (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Speakers:
- The Intersection of Christianity, Feminism, and Decolonialisation: The Case of Korean Christian Women’s Work for Compatriot A-bomb Survivors by Yuko Takahashi (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
- From Factory Girls (‘Gong-Sooni’) to Call Centre Ladies (‘Call-Sooni’): An Anthropological Exploration of the Transformation of the Status of Korean Female Workers Over 50 Years (1970s–2020s) by Kwanwook Kim (Duksung Women’s University, South Korea)
- Skills, Tradition, and Modernity: Bread and Bakeries in Narratives of Identity and Practice among Rice Cake Manufacturers in South Korea by Antti Leppanen (University of Turku, Finland)
Session 3 – Gender and Sexuality II
Chair: Jeong-Im Hyun (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Speakers:
- Changing Meanings of Love and Marriage in South Korea: An Anthropological Perspective by Hyun Hee Lee (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- A Sociological Examination of Masculinity in Korean Boys’ Love (BL) Dramas by Jeremiah Magoncia (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
- Unveiling the Invisible: Women’s Roles in North Korea’s Informal Economy by Irene Chianese (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Navigating ‘Critical Consciousness’ among Women: Declining Fertility Rates and Its Impact on the South Korean Society by Torunika Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Day 2: 20 April 2024
Session 4 – Encounters and Intersections
Chair: Myungji Yang (University of Hawaii at Manoa, US)
Speakers:
- Encounters of Sleepless Residents and (Im)Material Embodied Techniques: An Ethnographic Study of Ethical Practice as an Art of Co-dwelling in a Dementia Care Home by Jong-min Jeong (Chonnam National University, South Korea)
- Rethinking Becoming Cyborg of those Living with Disability in Korea: Disability, Gendered Body and Embodiment with Performative Ethnography and the Life Histories of Things by Jiyoung Song (Kangwon National University, South Korea)
- The Republic of Apartments: Financialisation and the Performativity of Finance in the Korean Housing Market by Ban Lee (Lancaster University, UK)
- Instagramming Kimchi: An Exploration of the Social Media Landscape of Korean Restaurants in Ankara by Hatice Çelik & Sila Selin Tűrkel (Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey)
Session 5 – Roundtable Discussion for Publication
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