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The 12th biennial conference of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia will be held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on February 4th and 5th.
The conference is due to take place in hybrid format, with some presentations on-site at the Monash Clayton campus and others via Zoom. All presentations can be viewed remotely. The draft program for the conference can be found here https://bit.ly/3tO6Wpn.

We are happy to invite all Korean Studies scholars to attend the conference, either in person or via Zoom. There is no fee to attend, but registration is required. Please complete the form linked here https://bit.ly/356RNFr by 31st January.
Zoom participants will be sent a link nearer the time of the conference.

Monash University Korean Studies and the Korean Studies Association of Australasia  presents:  

The 12th Korean Studies Association of Australasia 2021 Biennial Conference  Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between  Australia and the Republic of Korea 

Conference Schedule (DRAFT) 

Friday 4th February 2022 (Venue: Monash University Clayton Sports Centre- Legends and  Premiers Rooms) 

* = in-person 

† = via Zoom

8:30-9:00	Registration (Legends Room); Tea and coffee (Vestibule, adjacent to Premiers Room)
9:00-9:30	Opening ceremony (Premiers Room)  Lucy Marshall (First Secretary, Australian Embassy in Seoul)  Chair: Andrew David Jackson (Monash)
9:30-10:30	Keynote (Premiers Room): Sophie Hee Jung Choi (NSW School of Languages; President of  Korean Language Teachers Association NSW):  Future-looking Korean language education that leads the way and provide quality learning  in Australian school context*  Chair: Lucien Brown (Monash)
10:30-11:00	Tea and coffee (Vestibule)
11:00-12:30	Session 1 (Premiers Room): Politics and  North Korea   Chair: Maria Rost Rublee (Monash)  David Hundt (Deakin): An economic theory  of North Korean politics and the potential  of China's developmental approach*  Jonathan Lim (Charles Sturt): Australia Korea Cyber diplomacy - Advancing  Bilateral Cooperation on Cyber and Critical  Technologies*  Gordon Kang (ANU): Ontological Security  and Crisis Narratives: Understanding the  North Korean Nuclear Paradox†	Panel 1 (Legends Room): Korean heritage  language education, research and roles of  ‘actors’  Chair and discussant: Mi Yung Park  (Auckland)  Daniel Marsh (UNSW): The role of heritage  language in ethnic and cultural identity  construction: a study of young Korean  Australians†  Jiyoung Kim (UNSW): Heritage language  maintenance in bicultural families in South  Korea: the role of home and mainstream  community†  Weiwei Zhang & Seong-Chul Shin (UNSW): Korean migrant children’s language use and  attitudes towards heritage language  maintenance and identity: A China survey  study†
12:30-1:30	Lunch (Vestibule/Premiers Room)
1:30-3:00	Session 2 (Premiers Room): Political  science   Chair: David Hundt (Deakin)  Alexander M. Hynd (UNSW): Middle Power  Hierarchy Construction and Order in the  Asia Pacific: The Case of South Korea*	Session 3 (Legends Room): Modern Korean  History  Chair: Caleb Kelso-Marsh (UWA)  Andrew David Jackson (Monash): Women's  Participation in the late and post  dictatorship cinematheque movement and  South Korean Cinephilia*

	Maria Rost Rublee (Monash): Nuclear  Pressure:  Australian and Korean Policy  Responses to Diverging Trends*  Seung Kwang (Jeffrey) Choi (Monash): Korea’s ODA Norm Transformation and its  Implications for its Middle Power   Diplomacy in Asia†	Jin-kyung Park (HUFS): The Woman  Question in the White-Yellow War in 1910s  Korea†    Mark Caprio (Rikkyo): The United States  OSS and the Korean Overseas   Independence Movement†
3:00-3:30	Tea and coffee (Vestibule)
3:30-5:30	Session 4 (Premiers Room): South Korean  society  Chair: Hyein Cho (Monash)  Gil-Soo Han (Monash): ‘No Abe, Yes Japan’  Movement in 2019: Bolstering National  Pride and Identity*  Stella Jang (Sydney): The changing role of  religious networks in cross-border marriage  in South Korea*   Christian Caiconte (Sydney): Surplus Modernity: Park Chung Hee’s   Developmental Unconscious*  Lucien Brown (Monash): Soju*	Panel 2 (Legends Room): The Next 60 years  of Australia-ROK Relations: Imagining  Spaces of further Collaboration  Chair: Jo Elfving-Hwang (UWA)  Younghye Seo-Whitney (ANU):   Rediscovering Australian Missionary  Linkages to South Korea’s Pro-Democracy  Movement (1960s-1980s)†  Jae-Eun Noh (UWA): Australia-South Korea  Cooperation in International Development†  Caleb Kelso-Marsh (UWA): Why Investing  in Screen Cultures Pays Off: Lessons for  Australia from the Korean Film Industry* Jo Elfving-Hwang (UWA): Reflecting on 60  years of academic Korea expertise in  Australia: (Missed) Opportunities and  Challenges Ahead†
5:30-6:00	Library talk (Legends Room): Jung-Sim Kim (Monash):   Korean Studies resources in Australia: past and present focused on Monash University  case*
6:00	Conference Reception and Light Dinner Canapes (Premiers Room)
7:30	Traditional Korean Musical Performance 문화패 소리 Legends Room

Saturday 5th February 2022  (Venue: Sports Centre- Legends and Premiers Rooms)

Day 2
8:30-10:00	Session 5 (Premiers  Room): Business and  Economics  Chair: Jae-Eun Noh (UWA)  Kevin Kheng Oon Chan (USA): Effects of  policy settings on the dynamics of   innovation and entrepreneurial activities*  Benoit Berthelier (Sydney): Digitizing  Socialism: Computers, Cybernetics and  Economic Rationalization in 1960s North  Korea*	Session 6 (Legends Room): Premodern  Historical Connections  Chair: Andrew David Jackson (Monash)  David W. Kim (ANU): Royal Taoist   Sogyeokseo: The Political Encumbrance of  Confucian Sarims in the Gimyo Literati  Purge (1519)*  Vadim Akulenko (Far Eastern Federal  University): The Historiography of   Kojosŏn’s Location Discourse in the DPRK†

	Sung-Young Kim (Macquarie): Green  Growth Korea: Opportunities and Challenges  in Korea’s Steps Towards a Hydrogen  Economy†	Christine Mae Sarito (Bonn): Role of the  Kisaeng in Late Chosŏn Korea through the  Lens of ‘Asymmetrical Dependency’†
10:00-10:30	Tea and coffee (Vestibule)
10:30-12:30	Panel 3 (Premiers Room): Charting New  Waves: Exploring the Possibilities of  Auckland, New Zealand as a Site for Korean Studies Scholarship  Chair: Patrick Thomsen (Auckland)  Mi Yung Park (Auckland): Researcher  Identity, Place, and Belonging: Conducting  Research in the Korean Language   Community in New Zealand†  F'ine Koloamatangi (Auckland): ‘K-Pop has  Strengthened my Pacific Identity’ – the Use  of K-Pop as a Medium for Exploring  Expressions of Identity amongst Pacific Fans  in Aotearoa-New Zealand†  Sunhee Koo (Auckland): What can K-Pop do  for me? Fandom, voice, and sense of  belonging among K-Pop fans in Auckland†  Patrick Thomsen (Auckland): Connecting  the Pacific with Korea through Queer  Talanoa: Pacific Research Methodologies  and the  Power of Story Telling in Korean Studies†	Session 7 (Legends Room): Migration Chair: Gil-Soo Han (Monash)  Shu Zhu (UWA): A Beautiful “Successful  Ageing”: An Exploration of the Embodied  Experience in Ageing among Older Korean  Migrants†  Jaekyung Roh (Monash): From   disconnection to revitalisation: Older  Korean migrants’ negotiations of later life  through digital media use*  Hyein Cho (Monash): Filling the Gaps: The  Narratives of Korean-Australian   Practitioners and Community Volunteers  Working in the Domestic and Family  Violence Sector*  Young Hee Han (Auckland): Strengthening  we-ness: The experience of intercultural  relationships between Korean and non Korean couples in New Zealand†
12:30-1:30	Lunch (Premiers Room)
1:30-2:30	Keynote (Legends Room): Kenneth Wells (The University of Canterbury): Closing the Gap:   The academic contribution to Australasian-ROK relations†  Chair: Gil-Soo Han (Monash)
2:30-3:00	Tea and coffee (Vestibule)
3:00-5:00	Session 8 (Premiers Room): Korean Popular  culture goes global   Chair: Roald Maliangkay (ANU)  Kathryn Phillips (Macquarie): K-pop,  Consumption, and Community; an   Ethnographic Case Study of Sydney Cover  Dancers*  Jonathan Glade (Melbourne): Korean Food:  National Cuisine as Global Culture*   Bin Zhou (Auckland): Chinese K-pop Fans'  Digital Nationalism and Imagination of  Nation on Social Media†  Ty Choi (HUFS): Riding the Wave of Hallyu  with K-dramas: From Winter Sonata to Dae  Jang Geum to Squid Game†	Session 9 (Legends Room): Korean  Language and Culture in Australasia Chair: Lucien Brown (Monash)  Theo Mendez (UWA): Do You Speak Asian?:  Exploring Australia’s Asia Illiteracy Through  Young People’s Understandings of School  Curricula and Popular Culture*  Nicola Fraschini (UWA): Korean language  learning and classroom emotions: Insights  from an intensive single-case Q   methodology study†  Brad Wilke (NSW Dept of Education): Propagating Korean Language Education in  Australian Schools†  Soyeon Kim (Monash): A study of the  Family Language Policy (FLP) focusing on  Korean and English cross-cultural families in  South Korea and Australia†

5:00-5:30	KSAA General Meeting (Legends Room)
5:30-6:00	Overview and going forward  Best paper awards   Wrap-up and thanks by conference chairs
6:00	Conference dinner and reception (Premiers Room)