2024 International Conference

The Potential of Transnational Networks of Difficult Heritage: Hansen’s Disease Heritage in Northeast and Southeast

 

Date & Time: October 4, 2024, 09:30-17:00

Venue: Samik Hall, Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC)

Organizers: Mega-Asia Project (SNUAC), Korean Social History Association

Sponsor: Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Sorokdo National Hospital

 

09:30-09:40 Registration

09:40-09:50 Welcoming Remarks (Simultaneous interpretation)

Prof. Jaehyung Kim (Korea National Open University)

09:50-10:10 Congratulatory Speech (Simultaneous interpretation)

Prof. Suhong Chae (Seoul National University)

Prof. Hochul Seo (Korean Social History Association)

Director Jongeok Park (Sorokdo National Hospital)

10:10-10:50 Keynote Speech (Simultaneous interpretation)

Prof. Sungyong Joh (Johsungyong Architect Office / UBAC) – Intervention through History

 

[Session 1]

10:50-12:10 Korea (Moderator: Prof. Jungwon Huh-Seoul National University)             

Prof. Jaehyung Kim (Korea National Open University) – The Politics of Memory in the Sorokdo National Hospital as a Heritage of Hansen’s Disease in South Korea

Prof. Yeonkyung Lee (Yonsei University) – Your Paradise, Sorokdo: What to Remember, How to Remember This ‘Difficult’ Island

     Hyunchul Kim (Toronto University) – Resettlement again: The forced displacement of Hope Village in South Korea in the 1970s and (im)possibility of Heritagization

Discussants: Prof. Jintae Hwang (Dongguk University), Prof. Han Sang Kim (Ajou University)

 

12:10-13:30 Lunch

 

[Session 2]

13:30-14:50 Japan & Taiwan (Moderator: Dr. Hyunjong Noh -Soongsil University)

 Prof. Shu-yi Wang (Chinese Culture University) – Quarantine Landscapes of the Losheng Sanatorium in Taiwan

Prof. Yiling Hung (National Tsing Hua University) – The Evolution of Disease Space: The Example of Hansen’s Disease in Taiwan

Prof. Waka Hirokawa (Senshu University) – The Ongoing Movement to Register Nagashima’s Hansen’s Disease-Related Historical Properties as World Heritage from Historical and Critical Perspectives

Discussants: Prof. Haenam Park (Keimyung University), Prof. Sung Hee Ru (Hankyong National University)

 

[Session3]

15:00-16:20 Malaysia, Vietnam, & Indonesia (Moderator: Prof. Heonik Kwon-Seoul National University)

Prof. Heonghong Por (Universiti Sains Malaysia) – Discourse and Dissonance: Heritagization of Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement in Malaysia

Prof. Van Thuy Pham (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) – Leprosy and Leprosarium system in French Indochina: An Overview

 Dr. Ravando (Monash University) – “I am a leper, are you also afraid of me?”: Donorojo and the Care for Leprosy Patients in Java

Discussants: Prof. Daeyeong Youn (Seoul National University), Prof. Minjae Zoh (Seoul National University)

 

16:20-17:00 Group Discussion-