2025 Korea Update. “Democracy, Dictatorship, and Trauma”

Full Program

Introductions and Welcome, 9:00 - 9:10am

9:10-10:05am

Speaker: Kyung Moon Hwang, ANU

• "The Authoritarian Spectre in South Korea"

10:10-11:05am

Speaker: Fyodor Tertitskiy, Korea Univ.

• "Full Reversal in North Korea: What Kim Jong-un’s Abandonment of Unification Means"

11:10-12:00pm

Discussion and open forum, moderated by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, ANU

• "Democracy, Dictatorship, and Trauma on the Korean Peninsula, 2024-25"

• Panelists: Kyung Moon Hwang, Fyodor Tertitskiy, Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Lunch: 12:00-1:00pm

1:00-1:55pm

Speaker: Su-kyoung Hwang, Uni. Sydney. (Moderated by Hayeon Lee, ANU)

• "Commemorating the Korean War from the Margins"

2:00-2:55pm

Speaker: Sung-Ae Lee, Macquarie Univ. (Moderated by Ying Xin Show, ANU)

• "Traumatic Subjectivity and the Persistence of History in Han Kang’s Fiction"

Afternoon Tea: 2:55-3:15pm

3:15-4:10pm

Speaker: Jinsook Choi, UNIST, Ulsan. (Moderated by Eunseon Kim, ANU)

• "Leveling Speech: Non-Honorifics and the New Egalitarianism in South Korea"

4:15-5:10pm

Speaker: Susan Hwang, University of California at Santa Barbara. (Moderated by Roald Maliangkay, ANU)

• "From 'March' to 'Whiplash': Songs of Protest in South Korea"

5:15-5:30pm: Wrap-Up Discussion