THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
September 8-9, 2023
11:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Joseph Regenstein Library 122
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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This two-day conference brings together former and current students of Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History, Bruce Cumings, as they celebrate his critical scholarship. Participants will present their latest research and participate in roundtables on key themes that emanate out of Professor Cumings' work. As widely recognized, Bruce Cumings has left an immense and lasting impact on fields ranging broadly from international history and political economy to comparative politics and social theory with path breaking studies on the Korean War, the Cold War, and US relations with East Asia. The title of the conference takes inspiration from one of his books (Parallax Visions, 1999) that showcases this breadth. While written at the end of the last century, it remains relevant to recall the significance of paying attention to differences in perspective and the importance of understanding and working through them, at yet another juncture of global realignments. Roundtable themes include: Rethinking the Cold War & Area Studies, Ideologies & Cultures of Dissent, International Flows of Labor & Capital, and Geopolitics of Empire.
Friday, September 8
11:30 AM Opening Remarks & Luncheon (for participants and registrants)
- CEAS Director
- History Chair
- EALC Chair
- Korea Committee Chair
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM Session 1: Rethinking the Cold War & Area Studies
- Eilin Pérez, "Landscapes, at a Distance: Historicizing the Korean Peninsula through the Visual Field"
- Heekyoung Cho, “Russian Literature in Korea and the Cold War”
- Roundtable: Heekyoung Cho, Patrick Ibers, Haruo Iguchi, Monica Kim, Suzy Kim, Eilin Pérez
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Session 2: Ideologies & Cultures of Dissent: Left & Right
- Ingu Hwang, “Human Rights and Democratization in South Korea”
- Myung-sahm Suh, "Polarized Beliefs: Korean Evangelicals at the Intersection of the Cold War Geopolitics and the Cultural War on Gender Politics"
- Roundtable: Henry Em, Ingu Hwang, Dong-no Kim, Namhee Lee, Myung-sahm Suh
6:00 PM Dinner (for participants and registrants)
Saturday, September 9
11:30 AM Luncheon (for participants and registrants)
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM Session 3: International Flows of Labor & Capital
- Jaewoong Jeon, “From Parallax Visions to Structural Convergence: The Case for A Macrohistory of Capitalism Centered on Korea and Taiwan”'
- Roundtable: Chong Myong Im, Jaewoong Jeon, Ken Kawashima, Covell Meyskens, Limin Teh, Jake Werner, Emily Jungmin Yoon
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Session 4: Geopolitics of Empire
- Stacie Kent, "Following Sage Advice: Karl Polanyi Goes to China"
- Roundtable: Kornel Chang, Alexis Dudden, Suk-jung Han, Stacie Kent, David Krolikoski, Albert L. Park
Kornel Chang (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Heekyoung Cho (University of Washington, USA)
Alexis Dudden (University of Connecticut, USA)
Henry Em (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
Suk-jung Han (Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea)
Ingu Hwang (Boston College, USA)
Patrick Iber (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Haruo Iguchi (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan)
Chong Myong Im (Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea)
Jaewoong Jeon (New York University, USA)
Ken Kawashima (University of Toronto, Canada)
Stacie Kent (Boston College, USA)
Dong-No Kim (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
Monica Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Suzy Kim (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
David Krolikoski (University of HawaiʻI at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA)
Namhee Lee (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School, California, USA)
Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna College, The Claremont Colleges, California, USA)
Eilin Pérez (Yale University, Connecticut and Cooper Union, New York, USA)
Myung-sahm Suh (Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea)
Limin Teh (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Jake Werner (Quincy Institute, USA)
Emily Jungmin Yoon (University of HawaiʻI at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA)
This program is co-sponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Library.