October 11, 2012 (Thursday)

10:00-10:20     Opening Ceremony

 

               ● Opening Address

                    - Gu Ho Eom (Director, Asia-Pacific Research Center)

              ● Congratulatory Speech

                    - Sung-Chull Lee (Vice-President, HanyangUniv.)

10:30-13:00     Session I

 

Retrospective Glance at Russian and Eurasian Studies

Chair:           Gu Ho Eom (Director, Asia-Pacific Research Center)

Papers:        
                ● Robert Orttung (Assistant Director, Institute for European, Russian, 
                   and Eurasian Studies, the George Washington Univ.) 

                   “Retrospective Overview of Russian and Eurasian Studies”
 
                ● Sooheon Park
                   (Former President, Korean Association of Slavic Studies)
                   
                   “Russian Studies in Korea since the Rise of the 'Third Generation':
                     With Focus on Social Science Fields”


Discussants:        

                ● Seongjin Kim (Associate Professor, Ducksung Women’s Univ.)

                ● Seung Soo Hyun (HK Research Professor, Hanyang Univ.)

Current Main Issues and Ongoing Research Agenda

Chair:           Seok Hwan Kim (President of Korea Institute for Eurasian Studies)

Papers:               
                ● Ilya Gerasimov (Editor, Ab Imperio)

                “Getting Russian Studies Back from the Ghetto of Area Studies:
                  A Research Perspective” 

                ● Sangtu Ko (President, Korean Association of Slavic Studies) 

                “Current State and Trend of Slavic Studies in Korea”

Discussants:        

                ● Kye Hyeong Ki (HK Research Professor, Hanyang Univ.)

                ● Dckjoon Chang
                   (Director, Institute of Eurasian Studies, Kookmin Univ.)

 

13:30-16:00     Session III
 
Associations’ Reports: Past History and New Vision


Chair:        Il Ko (Former President of the Korean Association of Russian Language and Literature)

Papers: 
               ● Catriona Kelly
                  (Director, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford Univ.)
 
               “Eurasian Studies: Reflections on Institution-Building and
                 the State of the Field” 

               ● Lynda Park (Chief Executive of ASEEES, Pittsburgh Univ.)

               “From AAASS to ASEEES – The Future of Slavic, East European,
                 and Eurasian Studies”

 

               ● Sang Hyun Kim (HK Professor, Hanyang Univ.)
 
               “Ex Libro! Creation of Asian Division within and Korean Contributions
                 to ASEEES and to World Union of Slavists”


Discussants:

               ● Hakyung Jung
                  (Professor, Dept. of Russian Language and Literature,
                   Seoul National Univ.)

               ● Bora Chung
                  (Lecturer, Dept. of Russian Language and Literature, Yonsei Univ. )

               ●  Joonseo Song (HK Professor, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)