2015 EPIK Young Leaders Conference

EPIK Spiders (EPIK: Exchange for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Spiders), a network of EAI intern graduates, held the EPIK Young Leaders Conference, a thesis competition for undergraduate and graduate students from the distinguished universities around the world, on August 12, 2015. The 6th EPIK Young Leader's Conference was convened under the theme "Are conventional boundaries unraveling?." The winners were chosen after rigorous evaluation from renowned scholars from EAI knowledge network. During this year's conference, held at Kukdo Hotel, presentations and discussions on selected theses were presented and discussed by undergraduate and graduate panelists who are former EAI interns.

Opening Session

Opening Address

Sung Pyo Hong, Seoul National University; President of 2016 EPIK Spiders Committee

Welcoming Address

Sook-Jong Lee, President of EAI

Session I

Moderator

Prof. Heon Joo Jung, Yonsei University

Presentation

“The Pillars of Westphalia Remain Intact: How the Nation-States Survive the era of Globalization and Interdependence”

Woo Jeong Jang, Brown University



“Of Sovereignty, Norms, and the International Political System: The Potential of the‘New Sovereignty’ Scholarship amid Globalization”

Bum Joon Kwon, Sogang University



“Unraveling the Conventional Boundaries of the Law of War: The Classification and Regulation of Non-International Armed Conflicts in the Modern World”

Evan Ritli, Monash University

Discussion

Eric Anderson, University of California San Diego

Ga Young Chung, Seoul National University

Hoo Ri Kim, Cornell University

Yun-Jin Kweon, LSE-Peking University

Yea-Seul Lim, Stanford University

Ekaterina Mozhaeva, Georgetown University

Session II

Moderator

Prof. Ji Yeoun Song, Seoul National University

Presentation

“The Rationality of Using Emotions in International Politics”

Min Seon Ku, Yonsei University



“Unraveling of the Conventional Boundaries in Taiwan: Democratization and the Path to Independence”

Benjamin Lee, University of Washington

Discussion

Min Cho, Smith College

Sung Pyo Hong, Seoul National University

You Jung Kim, Seoul National University

Sun Na Park, Ewha Womans University