The Seoul Conference 2014
with Professor Ulrich Beck
Seoul National University Conference July 9 - 12, 2014 Theme “Climate Change and Risk Society: New Trends of Megacity Transformation” Organized by Center for Social Sciences of Seoul National University, Joongmin Foundation for Social Theory, Brain Korea 21 plus research program of Graduate School of Environmental Studies of SNU Sponsored by ERC Fund, Korean Sociological Association
Venue : Room Number 306, GLocal Hall, Graduate school of Environment Studies, Seoul National University Time Session 09:00 - 10:00 Open discussion about Beck’s keynote address 10:00 - 12:30 Methodological Cosmopolitanism
Moderator Young-Hee Shim (Professor, Hanyang University) - Ulrich Beck (Professor, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) ▶ Methodological Cosmopolitanism Revisited - Sang-Jin Han (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University) and Young-Do Park (Research Professor, Yonsei University) ▶ Another Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Reconstruction of the Neo-Confucian Concept of Tianxiayugong (天下爲公) in the age of Global Risks - Kyung-Sup Chang (Professor, Seoul National University) ▶ Asianization of Asia: Asia-as-society and its theoretical and methodological implications - YUI Kiyomitsu (Professor, Kobe University, Japan) ▶ Multiple Reflexive Modernities and Cosmopolitization: Methodology of Visual Communication and the case of Japan in East Asia - Hong Chansook (Research Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Korea) ▶ Sonderweg or methodological Cosmopolitanism? A Critique of “Individualization without Individualism” as a Variant of methodological Cosmopolitanism 12:30 - 14:00 14:00 - 16:30 Climate Change and the Role of Media
Moderator Hee Je Bak (Professor, KyungHee University) - Ingrid Volkmer (Associate Professor, University of Melbourne) ▶ Making the invisible visible: journalists as actors in new spheres of publicness - Midori Aoyagi and Shinichiro Asayama (Researcher, Social & Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) ▶ Mass media coverage and public opinion in Japan - Sun-Jin Yun (Professor, Seoul National University), Dowan Ku (Director, Environment and Society Research Institute), Nyun-Bae Park (Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Energy Research) and Joon Han (Researcher, AIEES, Seoul National University) ▶ Framing Climate Change as an Economic Opportunity in South Korean Newspapers - Zhifei Mao (Ph.D. candidate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ▶ The News Framing of Financial Crises in China - Tze-Luen Alan Lin (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University) ▶ Mapping the Climate Discourse Networks: Media Coverage of Climate Change in Taiwan 17:00 - 18:00 Exploration of East Asian Network Formation
Venue : Room Number 306, GLocal Hall, Graduate school of Environment Studies, Seoul National University Time Session 09:00 - 12:00 Climate Change and Megacity Transformation
Moderator Jong-Ho Hong (Professor, Seoul National University) - Anders Blok (Associate Professor, The University of Copenhagen) ▶ World port cities as cosmopolitan risk community: mapping urban climate policy experiments in Europe and East Asia - Sun-Jin Yun (Professor, Seoul National University) ▶ The One Less Nuclear Power Plant Initiative in Seoul: An Experiment of Deliberative Energy Governance Facing Climate and Energy Crises and its Challenges - CHOU Kuei Tien (Director of Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University) ▶ From Anti-Pollution to Climate Change Risk Movement – Reshaping the Civil Epistemology - XIE Xuxuan (Researcher, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission) ▶ The economic impacts of high penetration renewable energy in China to 2050 - Julia S. Guivant (Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina) ▶ Certifications of food supply chains as low-carbon innovation cosmopolitan networks: the case of GMOs and non -GMOs soybeans in the triangulation between Brazil, EU and Asia
Venue : Room Number 306, GLocal Hall, Graduate school of Environment Studies, Seoul National University Time Session 09:00 - 12:00 Risk Research and Risk Governance
Moderator Anders Blok (Associate Professor, The University of Copenhagen) - Ana Maria Vara (Professor, National University of San Martin) ▶ What's in a battery? Lithium mining in South America and cosmopolitization - ZHAO Yandong (Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Society Chinese Academy of S&T for Development) ▶ Social networks and reduction of risk in disasters: An example of Wenchuan earthquake - Young-Hee Shim (Professor, Hanyang University) ▶ An Emipirical Research on Family Risk in East Asia - Sae-Seul Park (Research Associate, Han Institute for Foreign Studies) ▶ The need for participatory consumerism to fight the risks of climate change
Venue : Room Number 205, Graduate school of Environment Studies, Seoul National University Time Session
09:30 - 12:00 Wrap - up Discussion and future plan
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