| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 1, 2008 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
| Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
AN EXPERTS WORKSHOP
Updated (01/30/08)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
9:00 – 9:30 Continental breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 Opening remarks
10:00 – 10:50 Panel I: The Financial Sector
Presenters:
• Kang-Kook Lee (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) “Emergence of Financial Capital in the Neoliberal Economy”
• Laura Nelson (Californa State University, USA) *unable to attend
• Jin-Ho Jang (ISDPR, Seoul National University, South Korea), “Transformation of Corporations in Post-Crisis: An actor-Centered Approach”
10:50 – 11:05 BREAK
11:10 – 12:10 Discussant: Tania Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
12:20 – 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:15 Panel II: Individual Self-Management
Presenters:
• Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois, USA), “The South Korean Other: Korean American Subject Formation”
• Dong-Jin Seo (Kaywon School of Art and Design, Korea), “The Will to Self-Empowerment, the Will to Freedom: Consuming self-empowerment culture, Becoming neo-liberal subject”
• So Jin Park (Yonsei University, Korea), “Educational Manager Mothers: South Korea’s Neoliberal Transformation”
3:15 – 3:30 BREAK
3:40 – 5:00 Discussant: Ritu Birla (University of Toronto, Canada)
6: 00 DINNER
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2
9:30 – 10:00 Continental breakfast
10:00 – 11:00 Panel III: Population Control Through Family & Race
Presenters:
• Sallie Yea (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) “A New Kind of Import/ Export Economy: Foreign Women as Wives and Workers in a Globalised Korea” * Unable to attend
• Hyun Ok Park For the Rights of “Colonial Returnees”: Korean Chinese, Decolonization, Neoliberal Democracy in South Korea (York University)
• Young-Gyong Paik (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ,”The Fear of Decreasing Population and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary South Korea” *unable to attend
11:00 – 11:15 BREAK
11:15 – 12:15 Discussant: Tong Lam (University of Toronto, Canada)
12:15 – 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:15 Panel IV: Welfare and Labour Politics
Presenters:
• Kwang-Yeong Shin (Jungang University, Korea), “Globalization and Social Inequality in Korea”
• Jennifer Chun (University of British Columbia, Canada), “The Contested Politics of Gender and Employment: Revitalizing the South Korean Labor Movement”
• Jesook Song (University of Toronto, Canada), “Youth as Neoliberal Subject of Welfare and Labor”
3:20 – 3:40 BREAK
3:40 – 5:00 Discussant: Ken Kawashima (University of Toronto, Canada)
DINNER
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 FOR WORKSHOP PRESENTERS ONLY
9:30 – 11:30 Discussion with continental breakfast
Panel V: From the Workshop to Books
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
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