Friday, May 3, 2019
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening remarks by Eugenie Birch (Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, University of Pennsylvania) |
| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote speech by Francisco Sanin (Syracuse University; co-director of the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15-12:15 |
Panel 1: Materializing Transition “Encircling Seoul: Walls and Gates of the City” “Playing the Palace: New Leisure Experiences in Early 20th-Century Seoul” “Dis-placing the Indigent: Keijō’s (Seoul) Urbanization in Late Colonial Korea” “Delayed Completion of a Colonial Modernization Project: Refurbishment of Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul from the 1930s to 1960s and the Creation of a New Urban Landscape” Discussant: Sinwoo Lee (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30 |
Panel 2: Constructing Cold War Urbanism: Urban Planning, Architecture, and Infrastructure “The Modernist Dream: The Yŏŭido Master Plan of 1969” “Constructing Ambivalent Korea(s): Architecture, Urbanism, and Statecraft” “Infrastructures of Displacement: The Transpacific Travel of Urban Renewal during the Cold War” Discussant: Jini Kim Watson (New York University) |
| 3:30-3:45 | Coffee break |
| 3:45-5:45 |
Panel 3: Unsettled City: Urban Environment, Virtual Spatiality, and Dislocation “Workers, Emigres, and Shamans: The Evolution and the Future of Yongsan’s Last Shantytown” “Urban Fear and New House Syndrome in South Korea” “Seoul, Dislocation, and the Emergence of the Korean Laptop Nation” Discussant: Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto) |
| 6:00-8:00 | Reception |