Fall 2014
Michael Bourdaghs (University of Chicago); Katherine Lee (University of California Davis); Eun-Young Jung (University of California San Diego); Christine Yano (University of Hawaii); Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University); Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University); Noriko Manabe (Princeton University)Korea/Japan Music Symposium
Friday 21 November, 9:30AM-3:30PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center, the Center for Korean Research, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Japan/Korea Music Symposium will explore interconnections in Korean and Japanese popular music in the latter half of the 20th century. This symposium is the first in what will be a series of events at Columbia over the next several years aimed at exploring connections in scholarly work on Korea and Japan. The symposium will feature introductory and concluding remarks by Michael Bourdaghs and three panels, each composed of two scholars working on music and sound in Korea/Japan.
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Please see below for a tentative schedule.
Schedule
9:30-10:00am: Light breakfast
Introduction
10:00-10:15am: Michael Bourdaghs
Panel 1
10:15-11:30pm: Eun-Young Jung; Christine Yano
Panel 2
11:30-12:45pm: Katherine Lee; Noriko Manabe
Lunch for participants only
12:45-1:45pm
Panel 3
1:45-3:00pm: Keven Fellezs; Nicholas Harkness
Discussion and concluding remarks
3:00-3:30pm Michael Bourdaghs; participants; audience
3:30pm Symposium ends