Writing for Peace

Session I
Human Values and Political Change
Oe Kenzaburo / We Must Be Still and Still Moving...
Kim Uchang / Politics and Human Values

Session II
Literature and Human Universality
J.M.G. Le Clezio / Literature at universal
Yu Jong-ho / From the Scene of Reading: Literature and Universal Human Values
Luis Sepulveda / Literature y Universalidad Humana
Hwang Seok-young / Changing Together While Resisting

Session III
Ideals of Peace in the Korean Tradition
Tibor Meray / Memories, Pain, Doubts and Hopes
Paik Nak-chung / The Search for Reconciliation and Peace on the Korean Peninsula: The Case of Hwang Seok-young's Guests
Hyun Ki-young / Literature of Memory Struggle

Session IV
East Asian Ideas of World Order
Hasumi Shigehiko / The Temptation of "Red"
Bok Koh-ill / The Ideal International Order in East Asia

Session V
Power, Human Values and Political Order: Dictatorships, Wars and Peace
Orhan Pamuk / Traffic, Religion and "We"
Ko Un / Peace, Violence and Literature
Wolf Biermann / Unwegsame Wege
Oh Jung-hee / The Shadow of War Cast in Me

Session VI
The Idea of Perpetual Peace
Robert Hass / The Idea of Perpetual Peace
Choi Jang-Jip / The Conditions for Peace in the Korean Peninsula: From the Perspective of Kant's 'Perpetual Peace'

Session VII
Varieties of Modernity in the World
Bei Dao / Modernity and the Country Mouse
Hwang Ji-woo / Stigmata of the Modern Circulation, Function, Style of Korean Poetry Today
Kim Yeon-soo / Clock, History and Fate of Individuals

Session VIII
Peace and Difference: Gender, Race, Religion
Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Writing for Peace
Cho Uhn / Speaking to Silence: Writing Women's War Experiences
Margaret Drabble / Peace and Difference: Gender, Race and the Universal Narrative
Kim Seung-hee / Gender Discrimination and Below the 38th Parallel: Living in False Peace and in False War

Session IX
Varieties of Western Modernity
Masao Miyoshi / The University, the Universe, the World and "Glottalization"
Kim Kwang-kyu / my Encounter with Western Modernity
Erling Kittelsen / Opening a View - from and to Language
Choi Yun / Facets of Modernity

Session X
Commonality of East Asian Cultures: Past, Present and Future
Moyan / There Can Be No Common Feature Without Individual Character
Park Yeemun / Social Responsibility of Poetic Obligation
Choi Won-shik / The Construction of A Common Language of East Asia

Session XI
Technological Change and the Globalization of Communication
Jean Baudrillard / LA DIASPORA MENTALE DES RESEAUX
Kim Seong-kon / Film as a Cultural Text
Robert Coover / Literary Hypermedia and the Cave
Kim Young-ha / Tsunamis, Kundera, Kafka and a Few Thoughts

Session XII
Ecology, Sustainable Growth and Literature
Gary Snyder / Writers and the War Against Nature: Those Who Love the World
Jang Hoe-ik / Environmental Issues Reflected in Science and Literature
Vera G.Galaktionova / Heroes of the New Literature: Spokesperson of National Interests or and Ideology of Globalization?

Session XIII
Poverty and Stratification of the World
Thomas Brussig / Armut und Krieg Heute
Gong Sun-ok / A Poor Writer in the Age of Globalization

Contributors
Foreign Participants
Domestic Participants

Appendix I: Prospectus
Appendix II: The 2nd Seoul International Forum for Literature: Seoul Declaration of P