Beyond Hate and Exclusion: Seeking Paths Toward Hospitality―Institute for Humanities to Hold Annual Academic Conference
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2026-06-08
The Institute for Humanities and its Humanities Korea Plus (HK+) Project Group will host the 13th Annual Academic Conference commemorating Sookmyung Women’s University’s 120th anniversary under the theme, Intersecting Discord, Practicing Hospitality: Traversing the Politics of Race and Gender. Supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, the conference will be held in both online and offline formats on June 12.
This year’s conference examines contemporary society as an “age of discord,” shaped by overlapping and multidimensional crises. It will explore how exclusionary discourses—including misogyny, transphobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, and the rise of the far right—intersect with issues of race, gender, and class. Through critical analysis of how exclusion and conflict overlap and reproduce themselves, the conference seeks to move beyond the logic of hatred and antagonism and create a space for imagining coexistence, solidarity, and new forms of social relations.
Professor Hyun Mee Kim (Yonsei University) will deliver the keynote lecture titled A World Organized by Emotions of Hate and Shrinking Democracy. Additional presentations will include: The (Non-)Institutionalization of LGBTQ+ Citizenship in Korean Society by Professor Bomyung Kim (Ewha Womans University); The Current State of Gender Conflict in Korean Society by Professor Seunghoon Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University); Fragmented Motherhood: Reproductive Labor and the Reconfiguration of Motherhood in Joanne Ramos’s The Farm by Professor Sunghee Yuk (Sookmyung Women’s University); and Cinematic Representation and Activism on Race and Gender in Camptown: Intersectional Readings and the Search for Afro-Asia Solidarity by Professor Minhwa Ahn (Korea National University of Arts).
In the morning session, three emerging scholars selected through a paper competition will present their research as part of the Next-Generation Scholars Session. Researchers including Jina Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University), Haengmi Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University), Hongkyu Ha (Sookmyung Women’s University), Kyungok Kim (Sookmyung Women’s University), Youngbeom Kim (Hallym University), Sooyoung Lee (Duksung Women’s University), and Jisook Ye (Sookmyung Women’s University) will participate as discussants.
Professor Inchan Park, Director of the Institute for Humanities at Sookmyung Women’s University, said, “We hope this conference will provide an opportunity for mutual cooperation and meaningful dialogue in responding to the multiple forms of hatred emerging in our society.”
The conference will take place on June 12 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 101 of the Faculty House at Sookmyung Women’s University in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and will be accessible both in person and online. Participation is open to all without prior registration. More information is available on the Sookmyung Institute for Humanities website (srih.kr).