2012 ASAK/ASI International Conference

“The United States in East Asia”

September 21-22, 2012

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea



Friday, September 21, 2012 (Samsung Convention Center)



10:00 - 11:45 Sessions 1-3



Session 1: Representations of Violence in Film (Magnolia Room)

Chair: Hyung-Sook Lee (Ewha Womans University)

Junghyun Hwang (Kwandong University), “I’ve Got a Hunch We’re Going Around in Circles”: The Making of Neoliberal American Subjectivity in Hollywood Korean War Films

Sun-chieh Liang (National Taiwan Normal University), Reclaiming American White Power: Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill I & II

Comment: Jung-Jin Yi (Seoul National University)



Session 2: Transpacific Politics (Water Lily Room)

Chair: Seong-Ho Lim (Kyung Hee University)

Harris Hyun Soo Kim (Ewha Womans University), Understanding the Political Attitudes and Behavior of American Voters: A Social Structural Explanation

Youngsik Bong (Asan Institute for Policy Studies), Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The U.S. Dilemma on the Territorial Dispute between Korea and Japan

Okyeon Yi (Seoul National University), Debunking Presidentialism in the U.S. and South Korea

Comment: Fumiaki Kubo (University of Tokyo), Sung-youn Kim (Seoul National University)



Session 3 (G*): Negotiating Diasporic Identities (Camellia Room)

Chair: Eun-Gwi Chung (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

SangKeun Yoo (Seoul National University), Immigrants, the Abject of the Nation

Brian Kim (University of California, Los Angeles), Diasporic (Dis)Identifications: Negotiating Korean/American Identity in South Korea

TIAN Lanshu (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Glocalization: The Cultural Construction, Representation and Concession between “Americanness” and “Chineseness” in NBA China

Comment: Eui Young Kim (Inha University)



11:45 – 1:00 Lunch



1:00 – 1:15 Opening Ceremony (Mugunghwa Hall)

Chair: Seongho Yoon (Hanyang University)

Welcoming Remarks: Sangjun Jeong (President, ASAK)

Congratulatory Remarks: Leslie A. Bassett (Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Seoul)



1:15 – 2:00 Presidential Address

Chair: Dongshin Yi (Seoul National University)

Sangjun Jeong (President, ASAK), American Studies in Korea



2:00 – 3:00 Keynote Speech

Chair: Dongshin Yi (Seoul National University)

Donald E. Pease, Jr. (Dartmouth College), Re-Scripting the “Forgotten War”: Korea in the Asian/American Century



3:00 – 3:15 Coffee/Tea Break



3:15 – 5:00 Sessions 4-6



Session 4: Racial Dissonance in the U.S. (Magnolia Room)

Chair: Dong Ho Sohn (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Kyung-Sook Boo (Sogang University), The Logic of Lynching and the Construction of Americanizable Alienness

Edward T. Chang (University of California at Riverside), Confronting Sa-i-gu: Twenty Years after the Los Angeles Riots

Comment: Young Hyo Lee (Chonnam National University), Seongho Yoon (Hanyang University)



Session 5 (K**): The U.S. Influence on Education in Asia (Water Lily Room)

Chair: Jeong Hyun Shin (Seoul National University)

Hyung Shik Lee (Konkuk University), The U.S. Influence on the Teaching of English Literature in Korea

Jae-Hyup Lee (Seoul National University), The U.S. Influence on Korean Legal Education: A Critical Appraisal

Jae-Kyoung Lee (Ewha Womans University), Comparing Journalism Education: The United States, Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore



Session 6: Cultural Exchange between East Asia and the U.S. (Camellia Room)

Chair: Inchan Pak (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Chaeki Freya Synn (Keimyung University), The Reception of American Abstract Expressionism in Korea

Shuichi Takebayashi (Kindai University), “We Gotta Get Out Of This System”: Economic Abundance, Counterculture, East Asia, and Revolution

Comment: Joo Eun Lee (Sungshin Women’s University), Seunggu Lew (Gangneung-Wonju National University)



5:00 - 5:15 Coffee/Tea Break



5:15 - 7:00 Sessions 7-9



Session 7: Conflicts and Cooperation between Asia and the U.S. (Magnolia Room)

Chair: Sang-Yoon Ma (Catholic University of Korea)

Seyed Mohammad Marandi (University of Tehran), The U.S. Iranian Nuclear Standoff and the American Non-Recognition of Post-Revolutionary Iran

LI Liwen (Beijing Foreign Studies University), U.S. Trade Policy toward China after September 11

Comment: Jaechun Kim (Sogang University), Ihn-Hwi Park (Ewha Woman’s University)



Session 8: Korean Americans and the Literary Imagination (Water Lily Room)

Chair: Hoon Sung Hwang (Dongguk University)

Robert Grotjohn (Chonnam National University), Cathy Park Hong, Suji Kwock Kim, and Transnational Ethnicity

John R. Eperjesi (Kyung Hee University), On Mountains and the Korean Diaspora: Reading Gary Pak’s Ricepaper Airplane

Yoon Young Choi (Yonsei University), Writing Outside the News: History, Nation, and News Media in Susan Choi's American Woman

Comment: Soo-Young Lee (Hanyang Cyber University), JaeEun Yoo (Hanyang University)



Session 9 (G): War and the Media (Camellia Room)

Chair: Robert Grotjohn (Chonnam National University)

Hyen Joo Park (Ewha Womans University), Sensory Reporting of Vietnam War: Dispatches

Miyuki Daimaruya (Ochanomizu University), Images of Korean War Veterans in Hollywood: Analyzing Clint Eastwood’s Heart Break Ridge (1986) and Gran Torino (2008)

Zohreh Kharazmi (University of Tehran), The Concept of Global Threat: The American Press and the Representation of Iran and North Korea

Comment: Seung-bok Yi (Soongsil University)



7:00 – 9:00 Reception (Mugunghwa Hall)





Saturday, September 22, 2012 (Sinyang Humanities Hall)



10:00 – 11:45 Sessions 10-12



Session 10: The Presence of American Education in Asia (Room 302)

Chair: EunYoung Cho (Jeonju University)

Rocio G. Davis (City University of Hong Kong), "An Army of Teachers": Memoirs and the U.S. Educational Intervention in the Philippines

Yuko Takahashi (Tsuda College), Influence of the Seven Sisters Colleges on Women’s Higher Education in East Asia: The Case of Bryn Mawr and Tsuda College

Sangmee Bak (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), English Education for Family Status (Re)Production in Globalizing Korea

Comment: Henna Riikka Pennanen (University of Jyvaskyla), Sookyung Cho (Soongsil University)



Session 11: Violence and Renewal (Room 309)

Chair: Chulwon Cho (Seoul National University)

Sung Hee Yook (Sookmyung Women’s University), The Collective Silence of Japanese Internees: Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter and Hisaye Yamamoto's “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara”

Shinji Iwamasa (Shirayuri College), The Function of Zen’s Koan in the Writings of Terry Tempest Williams after 9/11

Comment: Gui-woo Lee (Seoul Women’s University)



Session 12 (G, K): Constructing Americanness (Seminar Room-4th Floor)

Chair: Hyeyurn Chung (Sungshin University)

Woori Han (Chung-Ang University), Beyond the New Woman and the Flapper: Female Identity in the 1920s America

Mija Lee (Inha University), English as an Assimilation Process of Chinese Americans in The Woman Warrior

Yoojin Kim (Kyung Hee University), A Narrative of Catastrophe, a Nation of Violence: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Comment: Jin Paik (Korea University)



11:45 – 1:00 Lunch



1:00 – 2:45 Sessions 13-16



Session 13: U.S.–China Relations (Room 302)

Chair: Jung-Hoon Lee (Yonsei University)

Yucheng Qin (University of Hawaii at Hilo), Diplomatic Inertia: America’s China Policy from Burlingame to Truman

Jih-Un Kim (Webster University), The U.S. “Return to East Asia” in the Eyes of China

Edy Parsons (Mount Mercy University), Economic Interdependence and Regional Stability: Implications for U.S.- Chinese Relations in the 21st Century

Comment: Jihwan Hwang (University of Seoul), Yukyung Yeo (Kyung Hee University)



Session 14: Cultural Translation and Appropriation (Room 309)

Chair: John Eperjesi (Kyung Hee University)

Eui-Young Nam (The University of Tokyo), Diffusion of Popular Culture through the U.S. Military Network: The Development of the Military-Entertainment System in the U.S., Japan, and Korea since the World War I

Hyewon Shin (Hongik University), Cyberpunk in Korea: A Study of Korean Science Fiction Films

Sung Hee Choi (Ewha Womans University), Translating the “Broadway Musical” onto the Korean Stage and Beyond

Comment: Shuichi Takebayashi (Kindai University), Jungman Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)



Session 15 (K): Cultural Contacts (Room 301)

Chair: Hae Sung Hwang (Hansung University)

Namgyun Kim (Pyeongtaek University), The 19th Century American Whaling Business and Asia

Sun-Kug Jung (Kyung Hee University), New Life for Monsters and Vampires in Contemporary Culture

Hyun Song Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Change in Koreans’ Attitude towards the U.S. and Americans



Session 16 (G, K): Comparative Culture (Seminar Room-4th Floor)

Chair: Suh-Reen Han (Seoul National University)

Wonyoung Kang (Inha University), The Role of English in The God of Small Things

Sujin Kang (Kyung Hee University), A Study on Narrative Characteristics of Audition Reality Shows and Neo-liberal Subjectivization: On the Cases of The X Factor UK series 7

Comment: Jina Kwon (Seoul National University)



2:45 – 3:00 Coffee/Tea Break



3:00 – 4:45 Sessions 17-20



Session 17: National, Ethnic, and Diasporic Identities (Room 302)

Chair: Jae H. Roe (Sogang University)

LI Jinzhao (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Becoming Transnational, Becoming National: Identity Construction of Chinese Americans in China

Christal Phillips (Yonsei University), “Amerasians”: Hardships and Successes of Biracial Asians at Home and Abroad

Seonju Lee (Ewha Womans University), Diaspora and Citizenship: Korean Migration to Hawaii

Comment: Hyungji Park (Yonsei University), Chang-Hee Kim (Yonsei University)



Session 18: Migrations, Transits, Exchanges (Room 309)

Chair: Sooyoung Chon (Ewha Womans University)

Henna-Riikka Pennanen (University of Jyvaskyla), Building a Career in and out of East Asia: Nineteenth-Century American Experts S. W. Williams and W. E. Griffis

Shigeo Fujimoto (Tezukayama University), Transpacific Girl Scouts Movement and Americanization in the Early 20th Century: The Case of the Girl Scouts Organization, Japan

Fu Meirong (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Decoding China’s Technological Brain Drain to the United States: A Cultural Perspective

Comment: Hyang-Jin Jung (Seoul National University), Jeehwan Park (Seoul National University)



Session 19: Representations of Gender in the Transnational Context (Room 301)

Chair: Shuichi Takebayashi (Kindai University)

Sooyoung Lee (Hanyang Cyber University), The Creation of Ethnic Subjectivity in Onoto Watanna's Works

Jihyun Yun (Korea University), The Rhetorical Construct of the Geisha in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha and Mineko Iwasaki’s Geisha of Gion

Minhoe Kim (Pusan University of Foreign Studies), The Transnational Memory of Comfort Women and Ethnic Identity

Comment: Robert Grotjohn (Chonnam National University), Eunsook Koo (Cheongju University)



Session 20 (G): Capital, Economy, and Nation Building (Seminar Room-4th Floor)

Chair: Keunkwan Ryu (Seoul National University)

Masumi Takagi (Hitotsubashi University), The Creation of Railroad Work by the Young Men’s Christian Association in Cleveland in the 1870s

Howard Kahm (Yonsei University), Bank Manager: Banking Policy during the American Military Occupation of Korea

Akiko Sato (Osaka University), Science and Technology for the Economic Reconstruction and Independence of Japan after World War II: Total Quality Control (TQC) Advocated by the U.S. Scientist, W. Edwards Deming

Comment: Kwangjin Lee (Sogang University)



4:45 - 5:00 Coffee/Tea Break



5:00 -7:00 Sessions 21-24



Session 21: American Studies in the Global Context (Room 302)

Chair: Youn-Son Chung (Korea Military Academy)

Cyrus R. K. Patell (New York University, Abu Dhabi), The Global Network University and U.S. Global Studies

MEI Renyi (Beijing Foreign Studies University), 30 Years of American Studies in China: An Overview and a Case Study

Zeinab Ghasemi Tari (University of Tehran), A Comparison of American Studies Programs in the Middle East: A Case Study

Ioana Luca (National Taiwan Normal University), The Eastern European in American Studies

Comment: Mary Yu Danico (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), Kyung-Sook Boo (Sogang University)



Session 22: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (Room 309)

Chair: Hyung Dae Lee (University of Maryland University College, Asia)

Mayako Shimamoto (Osaka University), Henry A. Wallace: Critic of America’s Atomic Monopoly, 1945-1948

Michael F. Hopkins (University of Liverpool), Dean Acheson and the Place of Korea in American Foreign and Security Policy, 1949-1953

Han Sang Kim (Seoul National University), Pretended Universality on the “Free World” Screen: Depiction of Everyday Life in South Korea through Local USIS Films

Comment: Junkab Chang (Jeonbuk National University), Dongshin Yi (Seoul National University)



Session 23 (K): Contemporary American Politics (Room 301)

Chair: Chung Hee Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Byoung Kwon Sohn (Chung-Ang University), Protest Mobilization for Values and Identity: The U.S. Tea Party Movement

Han Soo Lee (Soongsil University), Analyzing the Influence of Presidential Responsiveness on Public Support for the President: Does Presidential Responsiveness Affect Presidential Popularity?

Kwangil Yoon (Sookmyung Women’s University), Polarization and the 2012 Election

Young Hwan Park (Yeungnam University), Electoral Competitiveness, Predispositions, and Choices

Comment: Hyun-Jin Seo (Sungshin Women’s University), Joohyun Kang (Sookmyung Women’s University)



Session 24 (G): International Relations (Seminar Room-4th Floor)

Chair: Jong Hee Park (Seoul National University)

Geary Choe (Seoul National University), U.S.-China Trade Rivalry in East Asia

Steven C. Denney (Yonsei University), The Political Economy of Trade and the KORUS FTA

Marcel Karl Will (University of Cologne), Taming the Rising Dragon: The Taiwan Issue and the U.S. Preponderance in the Asia-Pacific Region

Comment: Tae-Hyung Kim (Soongsil University), Sung Chul Jung (Seoul National University)



7:00 – 7:15 Closing Remarks and Photo Session

Dong Ho Sohn (President Elect, ASAK)



7:30 – 9:00 Banquet



*G: Graduate Student Session

**K: Korean Session