Day 1: Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Day 2: Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Venue: Center for Korean Studies Conference Room

This conference explores the ideology and practice of development in North Korea and South Korea by focusing on the two Koreas’ mutual but opposite, responsive but divergent discourse-formation and societal transformation contingent on the universal rationality of technoscience geared for the masses. The technoscientific developments of the two Koreas are critically juxtaposed—mirrored across the impermeable border—to analyze not only the binary comparative perspectives between North and South but also the diversified directions and entangled historical moments of colonialism,the Cold War, and global modernity. The combined term“technoscience and statecraft” then describes the confluence of operations between population management, technological education, and scientific primacy imposed on the masses.

The event is free and open to all. For further information, including information regarding disability access, telephone the Center for Korean Studies at 808-956-7041. This event is in part supported by the Academy of Korean Studies Strategic Research Institute Program (AKS-2020-SRI-2200001).

The University of Hawai‘i is an equal opportunity institution.