8:00-9:00 - Doors Open & Registration Coffee and light refreshments served
9:00-9:20 - Welcome and Introduction
Linda Yarr, PISA, “Why look beyond the nuclear issue in trying to understand NK?”
James Person, NCNK, “The National Committee on North Korea: Its Goals and Principles”
9:20-10:40 - Exploring North Korean History and Literature, Maggie Nelsen, Moderator
Meredith Shaw, University of Southern California. "Springtime, Youth, Modernity and Family: Evolving Propaganda Narratives in New DPRK State Fiction"
André Schmid, University of Toronto. “The North Korean State - Our Shared Myths”
Immanuel Kim, University of Binghamton, “Interruptive Laughter in Comedy Film My Family's Problem”
James Person, Johns Hopkins University, "De-constructing Myths in North Korea's Political, Diplomatic, and Ideological History"
10:40-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:20 - The Arts, Sports, and Media in North Korea, Daniel Wertz, NCNK, Moderator
B.G. Muhn, Georgetown University, “The Contemporaneity in North Korean Art, Chosonhwa”
George Vitale, International Taekwondo Federation,“Taekwon-Do - Opening Doors In & Out Of NK Since 1980”
Darcie Draudt, Johns Hopkins University, "Media Representations of Women in the DPRK"
12:20-1:40 - Lunch and Keynote Address: Jon Brause, World Food Programme
Gregg Brazinsky, GWIKS, Moderator
1:40-3:20 - Humanitarian Engagement with the DPRK, Esther Im, NCNK, Moderator
Randall Spadoni, World Vision, “The Humanitarian Imperative and North Korea.”
Andrew Yeo, Catholic University, “The Limits and Possibilities of People-to-People Engagement”
Daniel Jasper, American Friends Service Committee, “Engaging North Korea: Breaking the Conflict Cycle”
Jessica Lee, Council of Korean Americans, “Korean American Community's Perspective on US-North Korea relations”
3:20-3:40 - Break
3:40-5:00 - Academic & Science Engagement with the DPRK, Linda J Yarr, Moderator
Frederick Carrière, Syracuse University, “Syracuse University’s Academic Exchanges with the DPRK: Premature or Preempted?”
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia, “Soft Power and Academic Engagement with North Korea”
Norma Nichols, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, “PUST as an Agent of Peace.”
5:00-5:30 - Wrap Up and Next Steps: Daniel Wertz, NCNK