Welcome

The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is pleased to host the 3rd International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), October 18 – 19, 2024 on the Penn campus. This year the conference also features a plenary session of Professor Pyong Gap Min, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. The conference will provide a venue for scholars across the globe to come together to share their on-going projects on Korea/Koreans and Korean diaspora and develop academic networks. For this conference, the program will consist of papers that address various aspects of Korea/Koreans including family, health & population, gender & sexualities, (im)migration, race & ethnicity, stratification & inequality, political sociology / economic sociology, as well as other important issues of Korea/Koreans (see the topics below). 

1. 1. Family, Health & Population (organizer: Jaein Lee & Sojung Lim)
   2. Gender & Sexualities (organizer: Hyeyoung Woo)
   3. (Im)migration, Race & Ethnicity (organizer: Minjeong Kim)
   4. Stratification & Inequality (organizer: Jung In)
   5. Political Sociology / Economic Sociology (organizer: Su Yeone Jeon)
   6. Other topics (organizer: ChangHwan Kim)

Both the call for submissions and conference regitration are now closed. Thank you to all who have submitted abstracts and to those that will join us for this conference. Please feel free to ask any questions about the conference by emailing to the conference organizers (ICSKatPenn@gmail.com).