Description

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

Description

The 2nd Ontario Korean Speech Contest will be held on Saturday March 8, 2008. Students learning Korean present their speeches in four categories: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Open. OKSC will offer the best opportunities for learners of Korean to demonstrate their knowledge and performance of the Korean language.

The 2nd Ontario Korean Speech Contest will be held as follows.
Date and time: Saturday March 8, 2008, 1:00pm – 5:30pm
Place:
Department of East Asian Studies Lounge
University of Toronto
Robarts Library, 14th floor, Room 14-087
130 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario
(take elevator “P4” from the 2nd floor of Robarts Library)

Hosted by: The Organizing Committee for the 2nd Ontario Korean Speech Contest
Application deadline: February 1, 2008
Speech submission deadline: February 27, 2008