The 'Other' Moving across Boundaries - Affirmative Cultural Politics of Alterity

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The 'Other' Moving across Boundaries

- Affirmative Cultural Politics of Alterity

Sept. 4th-5th, 2009.

LG Convention Hall, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

September 4th(Friday)

Opening

Moderator: Jeon, Hye Young (Director of Korea Culture Research Institute)

10:30 Opening Address: Oh, Jung-Hwa (Director of Ewha Institute for the Humanities)

11:00 Keynote Speech I: The Power of Social Imaginaries: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge

Lorraine Code (Philosophy, York University, Canada)

11:50Lunch

13:30 Keynote Speech II :

Homi Bhabha (English Literature, Harvard University, USA)

14:20Break

Session I:

History of Setting Boundaries

14:30 Gender, Diversity, and Ethnocentrism in Europe

Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut (Sociology, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, France)

14:55 Discussion

15:20Genealogy of the Formation of the Other from a Social Historical Perspective

Yasar Aydin (Sociology, Universität Hamburg, Germany)

15:45 Discussion

16:10Break

Session II:

The Formation of Gendered Other

16:20Diverse Conditions and Cultural Hybridity of Female Immigrants in Korea

Lee, Suan (Sociology, Ewha Womans University - EIH, Korea)

16:45Discussion

17:10 Object Sexuality: Post-Human Erotics and Their Detractors

Jennifer Terry (Women’s Studies, University of California at Irvine, USA)

17:35Discussion

18:00Dinner

September 5 th (Saturday)

10:00 Keynote Speech III: "Zainichi" Who? – The Other who can not move across borders

Suh, Kyung-Sik (Minority Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, Japan)

Session III:

Alterity Discourse and National Identity

10:50Alterity Discourse (Occidentalism & Orientalism)

Chung, Jin-Bae (Chinese Literature, Yonsei University, Korea)

11:15 Discussion

11:40Feminism and National Identity

Chung, Hyun-Back (History, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)

12:05Discussion

12:30Lunch

Session IV:

Imaginative Experience and the Represented Other

14:00Women, Violence, and Otherness in Visions of the United States

Shirley Samuels (English Literature, Cornell University, USA)

14:25Discussion

14:50The Other in Literary Works

Kim, Mi-Hyun (Korean Literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea)

15:15Discussion

15:40Break

Round Table:

16:00Theoretical & Methodological Alternatives to Overcome Alterity

Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Philosophy, Universität Bremen, Germany),

Jacqueline Bhabha (Human Rights Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, USA)

Hoang Thi Tho (Philosophy, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam)

Kim, Ae-Ryung (Philosophy, Ewha Womans University - EIH, Korea),

Gong, Im-Soon (Sungshin Women’s University, Korea)

Moderator: Choe, Hyondok (Philosophy, Ewha Womans University – EIH, Korea)

18:00End of Conference

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갑자기 영어가 올라와서 불편하지요? 他者, 소외된 계층, 소수자들의 문제를 다루는 국제회의인 듯 합니다. '인물로 본 문화' 개정판 필자 가운데 한분인 재일교포 학자 서경식 선생님이 참여하시기도 하여 올려보았습니다. 다음 번 우리말로 된 팜플렛을 구해서 올리도록 하지요.

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정현백 선생님의 발표 주제가 관심을 끄네요. 호미 바바도 나오고.... 그런데 글 모양새를 보고나니 국제회의 자체가 영어로만 진행될 것 같은 인상을 주는군요. 전에 같은 장소인 이대에서 했던가, 한 학술회의는 통역기도 없이 영어로만 진행을 해서 당혹스러웠습니다. 억울하면 영어를 유창하게 할 정도까지 공부해라 이 분위기였죠... ^^;;;

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그렇지는 않습니다. 서경식 선생님이 보내주셨는데 외국에 계신 분들에게는 모두 영어 안내장을 보낸 듯 합니다. 회의 진행은 우리말과 영어입니다. 서 선생님 발표를 꼭 들어보라고 권하고 싶습니다.