Yoon Dong-Ju Centennial International Conference: “A New Path”

Date: December 8 (Friday), 2017
Venue: College of Liberal Arts Centennial Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-09:40 Opening Remark
Chair: Yoon Hee Hong (Vice President, Yonsei University Institute of Humanities)
Young Seo Baik (Dean of Liberal Arts College, Yonsei University)

09:40-09:55 Welcoming Remark
Yong-Hak Kim (President, Yonsei University)

10:00-12:00 Panel1:
Poetry that is written easily: Poetry, Aesthetics, and the Significance of Writing
Chair: Mun Im Baek (Yonsei University, Korea)
Commentator: Shin Hyoung Cheol (Chosun University, Korea)

1. Kyeong-Hee Choi (The University of Chicago, USA),
2. Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University in St. Louis, USA),
Tonight, too, the Stars are Touched by a Breeze”: Memory and Ethics in Contemporary Korean Literature
3. Yeo Myeong Seo (Nanjing University, China),
Self-Reflection, Shame, and the Logic of Neo-Confucianism

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

13:00-15:00 Panel 2:
"A six-mat room is another man’s nation": Diaspora in the Asian Context
Chair: Seung Jong Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)
Commentator: Hyun Mee Kim(Yonsei University, Korea)

1. Saerom Bae (Yonsei University, Korea),
Diaspora in Colonial and Post-Colonial Eras: A Reading of Yoon Dong-Ju and Seo Kyung-Sik
2. Cheul-whoan Jang, (Yonsei University, Korea)
Yoon Dong-Ju and Diaspora
3. Song Woo Nam (Pukyong National University, Korea),
Some Aspects of Yoon’s Consciousness of Space: Korea, Manchuria, and Japan

15:20-16:50 Keynote Address:
Commentator: Jin-Bae Chung (Yonsei University, Korea)
Chair : Jaekyung Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)

Nakajima Takahiro, (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Yoon Dong-Ju, Our Contemporary"

16:50-18:30 Panel 3:
“Francis Jammes” and “Rainer Maria Rilke”: Yoon in the Context of World Literature
Commentator: Hae Kyung Sung (Seoul Women’s University), Clara Hong (Yonsei University, Korea)
Chair: Kelly Walsh (Yonsei University, Korea)

1. Paul Tonks (Yonsei University, Korea),
"Exploring East Asian and English Literary Cultures in the Era of Yoon Dong-Ju"
2. Astrid Lac (Yonsei University, Korea),
“Yoon Dong-Ju and Lee Yang-Ji”
3. Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley University, USA)
"Youth and Authenticity in Hamlet and Yoon Dong Ju"