Tentative Program

Friday, March 28, 2008

9:00am	Opening Remarks Nancy ABELMANN (Professor, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
9:10am - 12:00pm	Education Exodus, Who/Why? Moderator: Jung-ah CHOI (Lecturer, Chicago State university) 9:10AM Chon Sun IHM (Education and Social Policy, Sejong University, Seoul) Analysis of Early-Age Overseas Education of Korean Youth 10:00AM Bon-Giu KOO (Anthropology, The University of Auckland) Living Transnationally: A Case Study of Korean Early Study Student Families in New Zealand 10:50AM Break 11:10AM Sunny JEONG (Executive Director, Korean Cultural Center) Video montage of student autoethnographic projects
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 3:40pm	The Challenges of Language Acquisition and Retention Moderator: Catherine PRENDERGAST (Professor, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 1:00PM Kayoun CHUNG (Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Korean English Fever and Temporary Migration: Understanding Korean Sojourner Parents’ Desire and Practice for their Children’s English Education in the U.S. 1:50PM Juyoung SONG (Language, Literacy, and Culture, Ohio State University) Language Ideologies in Transnational Space: Three Korean Families’ Imagined Communities and Their Language Socialization Practices 2:40PM Break 2:50PM Yeonsun Ellie RO (Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Indeterminate Futures and Language Acquisition Practices among Temporary/Permanent Korean Immigrant Families
3:40pm - 4:00pm	Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Reports from the Field: New Research on Education Exodus Moderator: Soo Ah KWON (Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, and Human & Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Sangsook LEE-CHUNG (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Academia, Nationalist Masculinity, and Korea’s Education Exodus Yu-Kyung KANG (English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Hee Young CHOI (Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Parental choice and children’s bilingual and biliteracy development: Focus on temporary resident Korean families Boonsoon BYUN (Doctoral student, Ed.D. Program, University of Southern California) South Korean Parachute Kids in Southern California

Saturday, March 29, 2008

9:00am - 11:30am	The Daily Life of Chogi yuhak Moderator: Jae Hoon LIM (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) 9:00AM Sohyun AN (Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Early Study Abroad Korean Youth in a Midwestern City: Their Ideas and Experiences of Education and the Larger Society of the U.S 9:50AM Hakyoon LEE (Second-Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa) “I Am a Kirogi Mother, So This is My Job, Not Father’s!”: Education Exodus and Life Transformation in Korean Immigrant Women 10:40AM Kyung Ju AHN (Anthropology, Syracuse University) From Korea to Upstate New York: A Transnational Study of Korean Mothers’ Self-Crafting and Religious life
11:30am - 12:00pm	Lunch, Debut of Chogi Yuhak Website
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Practitioners' Forum Moderator: Sumie OKAZAKI (Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Panelists: Rick Williams (Dean of Students, Judah Christian School, Champaign, IL) Julie Misa (Director, International Student & Scholar Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Sharon Wheeler (Tutor, American English and American Culture)
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Undergraduate Research Forum on ESA Moderator: Sunny JEONG (Executive Director, Korean Cultural Center) Jay KO: "Formation of Chogi Yuhak Students' Identity" Namkye KANG: "FOB vs. Twinkey" Eun Ik KOH: "You Must be Canadian..."
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Book meeting for Presenters