KSAA CONFERENCE 2001
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1. Laurel Kendall: "Hungry Ghosts and other Matters of Consumption in the Korean Spirit World"
Laurel Kendall (Ph.D. Columbia, 1979) is Curator in charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. She also teaches in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. Recognized as a leading anthropologist of Korea, with more than a quarter century of experience, she has also worked in China, Japan, and Vietnam. Laurel Kendall has written widely on shamans, marriage, modernity, gender, and ritual.
She is the author of Getting Married in Korea: of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (University of California Press, 1996), Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life (University of Hawaii Press, 1985), and The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: of Tales and the Telling of Tales (University of Hawaii Press, 1988). With Charles F. Keyes and Helen Hardacre, She was a co-editor and contributor to Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern Nation State(University of Hawaii Press, 1995). She was co-producer with Diana Lee of the video An Initiation Kut for a Korean Shaman, and has consulted on several other documentary film projects dealing with Korea.
2. Professor O. Yul Kwon: "Australia-Korea Economic Cooperation in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects"
Professor Kwon (Ph.D. McMaster University, Canada) holds the Korean Foundation Chair in Korean Studies at Griffith University, Australia since 1996. He is also the foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Korean Studies at Griffith University. Prior to joining Griffith University, Professor Kwon was a professor of Administration at the University of Regina, Canada and was the foundation Director of the Institute for Northeast Asian Studies of the University of Regina.
Professor Kwon has published six books and edited two books. He has published more than 40 articles in refereed journals and as chapters of books, and also published numerous articles in business magazines and special columns in newspapers. He has presented more than 70 papers at academic and professional conferences in six continents. Professor Kwon has been commissioned by the Canadian federal government, the Saskatchewan provincial government in Canada, and private companies in Canada to undertake a number of business and economic research projects.
His recent research interests focus on Korean economic and business issues, and he has published extensively on Korean economic development, economic policy, the 1997 financial crisis, and Korea's international business environment.