21st Century Korean/American Formations
Media, Diaspora, Environment

Friday, November 12, 2021
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Hybrid Symposium (In-Person and Online)
In-Person: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
* Please Read Below for the Vaccine and Mask Requirement *
100 Academy Wy, Irvine, CA 92617 (free parking)
Webinar Register: bit.ly/CCKS2021
Schedule: bit.ly/ProgramCCKS

The alliance between the United States and South Korea in the second half of the 20th century was mutually beneficial, with Korea achieving rapid development as a key client state that supported U.S. trade and security ambitions in the Asia Pacific region. Although many of the features of the postwar alliance remain in place, the 21st century has brought a good deal of changing pressures and shifting priorities. Whereas once it was possible to participate in a US-centered world system that insured relative political and economic security, we now are living through a more uncertain period of transition in which older arrangements are coming under scrutiny. The purpose of this one-day symposium is to think about the impact of this shifting terrain on social and cultural matters, and to anticipate new challenges and possibilities as we move forward in a world that seems to present new formations, which demand from us new ways of living, thinking, and feeling. Bringing together leading thinkers on a range of topics, our focus for this event is on three discrete areas in which change has occurred rapidly—media, diaspora, environment—in order to make sense of these new formations.
Lunch and light refreshments will be served.

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* COVID NOTICE *

The Beckman Center requires all visitors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Visitors must show their official COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card (or a digital photo of the card) before entering the building. Guests are also required to wear a mask at all times while inside the building, except when they are actively eating or drinking.

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PROGRAM ｜ 21st Century Korean/American Formations

WELCOME
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Director CCKS

Kyung Jae Park
Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles

SESSION 1: MEDIA
10:15 AM – 12:15 AM

Part 1: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Sowon Park (UC Santa Barbara)
From Hyangga to K-Pop: What US diversity politics can learn from Korean multi-script culture

Hye Jin Lee (University of Southern California)
The growing popularity of K-pop and the splintering of the K-pop fandom

Moderator: Zachary Gottesman (UC Irvine)

Part 2: 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

A conversation with Angela Killoren, (CEO, CJ ENM America)

Moderator/Session Organizer: Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (UC Irvine)

LUNCH
12:15 PM – 01:30 PM

SESSION 2: DIASPORA
01:30 PM – 03:00 PM

Kim Park Nelson (Winona State University)
Korean Adoptee Diasporas, Experience, and Cultures

Yuri Doolan (Brandeis University)
Mixed Race Koreans and Their Search for Origins

Crystal Mun-Hye Baik (UC Riverside)
Korean American Activisms: A Feminist Oral History Project

Moderator: Juwon Lee (UC Irvine)

Session Organizer: Eleana Kim (UC Irvine)

SESSION 3: ENVIRONMENT
03:15 PM – 04:45 PM

Scott Knowles (KAIST)
Vaccines and Warheads in the Anthropocene

Yeonsil Kang (KAIST)
The Anthropocenic Relics in the Korean Peninsula

Respondent: Kim Fortun, (UC Irvine)

Moderator: Tim Schütz (UC Irvine)

Session Organizer: David Fedman (UC Irvine)

RECEPTION
04:45 PM – 06:00 PM