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The USC academic community will participate in a panel discussion on the international implications. This panel will feature KSI postdoctoral fellows Sandra Fahy and Ki-young Sung, School of International Relations professors Saori Katada and Daniel Lynch, and Director of the Center for International Studies Patrick James. This panel will be moderated by David Kang.

Sandra Fahy is a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on internal socio-political dynamics of the DPRK, particularly since the 1990’s March of Suffering. She uses linguistic and medical anthropology to explore memory, collective social suffering, trauma, political dissatisfaction, national loyalty and “self-talk” in oral accounts she collected from North Korean famine survivors defected to South Korea and Japan. Dr. Fahy earned her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies in 2009. She held a Korea Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in Paris at l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Le Centre de Recherches sur la Corée (2009-2010) and in Los Angeles she is the Sejong Society post-doctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute of the University of Southern California (2010-2012). She studied Korean at Seoul National University (2001-2003) and Yonsei University (2005-2006). Prior to embarking on her doctoral field research with North Korean famine survivors she studied testimony, survival and archival methods at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel (2003). Her BA and MA research at York University, Toronto, Canada (1998, 2000) focused on the Shoah, genocide and collective social suffering in literature and historiography. Her work is in press at peer-reviewed journals such as Food, Culture and Society; Anthropology Today and Journal of Korean Studies. She is currently finishing her first monograph, a social history of the March of Suffering.

Patrick James is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. James is the author or editor of 18 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Lady Davis Professorship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Beijing Foreign Studies University Eminent Scholar and the Eccles Professor of the British Library. James has been Distinguished Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis for the ISA, 2006-07, and Distinguished Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration for ISA, 2009-10. He served as Vice-President (2008-09) of the ISA. He will be President of the International Council for Canadian Studies in 2011-13. James also served a five-year term as Editor of International Studies Quarterly.

David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business at the University of Southern California, with appointments in both the School of International Relations and the Marshall School of Business. At USC he is also director of the Korean Studies Institute and the East Asian Studies Center. Kang’s latest book is "East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute" (Columbia University Press, 2010). He is also author of "China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia" (Columbia University Press, 2007); "Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines" (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and "Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies" (co-authored with Victor Cha) (Columbia University Press, 2003). Kang has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization and International Security, and his co-authored article “Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History” was awarded “Best article, 2007-2009,” by the European Journal of International Relations. Kang has also written opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as writing a monthly column for the Joongang Ilbo in Korean. He received an A.B. with honors from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Berkeley.

Saori N. Katada is Associate Professor at School of International Relations, University of Southern California. She is the author Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001). She also has three co-edited books and numerous articles on the subject of trade, financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia as well as Japanese foreign aid. For her research on regionalism, she was recently awarded the Japan Foundation Research grant and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has her PhD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science) in 1994, and BA from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington DC, and as International Program officer at the UNDP in Mexico City.

Daniel Lynch is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California and is a member of the USC U.S.-China Institute executive committee. He’s the author of two books, Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to Global Culture (2006) and After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and “Thought Work” (1999). He publishes extensively in academic journals and also in popular publications such as the Far Eastern Economic Review. Lynch is currently researching how Chinese political and intellectual elites expect China will, or should, change in the years leading up to about 2030. He is focusing on five interrelated issue-areas: domestic political processes and institutions; comprehensive national power and its implications for the country's role(s) in world politics; Party-state defense of cultural integrity and national identity under conditions of deepening globalization; development and diffusion of potentially transformative new technologies; and prospects for achieving sustainable development.

Ki-Young Sung is a postdoctoral fellow at Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He completed his PhD (international relations) in July 2011 at University of Warwick, the United Kingdom with a research project on the inter-Korean economic relations during the second nuclear crisis. He also studied international political economy (MA, Warwick, 2006), international economics (MA, Sogang University, South Korea, 2001) and Sociology (BA, Korea University, 1991). Prior to joining academia, he has worked for leading newsmagazines in South Korea, including Shindong-A (monthly), Weekly Dong-A, and Sisa-Journal from 1995 to 2005 primarily focusing on political economy of the Korean affairs.