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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">University
of California, Berkeley</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16pt">Cordially
invites you to the following colloquium</span></i><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16pt"><br></span></i></p>
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<p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">'We
Are Not Fighting Against the Commies:' The War Film Genre and Politics of
History in Recent South Korean Cinema</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Colloquium:
Center for Korean Studies | <b>October 14 | 4 p.m.</b> | <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Speaker: <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/kyukim"><b><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">Kyu Hyun Kim</span></b></a>, </span>Associate Professor
of History, <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/kyukim"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">University
of California, Davis</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:14pt">In this talk, designed to be a part of my ongoing
engagement with the problem of representing history in Korean cinema, I will
focus on a select group of recent Korean films directly depicting or set
against the North-South conflicts following the 1945 liberation, culminating in
the Korean War (1950-1953), including <i>Welcome to Dongmakgol</i> (2005), <i>71
Into the Fire</i> (2009), <i>A Little Pond</i> (2009), <i>In Love and the War</i>
(2010), <i>The Front Line</i> (2011) and <i>Jiseul</i> (2012), to discuss how
these films address the question of historically representing the war
experience. My interpretations of these films will differ significantly from
the existing academic analyses (heavily psychoanalytic or otherwise
textually-focused) in that I will try to illuminate these films in view of
their interactions with the genre conventions of war film, as well as in
relation to the changing socio-cultural perceptions of the post-liberation
history and the Korean War that cannot be entirely attributed to shifting tides
in the politics of left and right. I will hopefully demonstrate that, instead
of simply following the (elite- or media-generated) politically charged
understanding of the post-liberation history, these films are reflecting
complex patterns of interaction among cinematic conventions, cultural habitus,
select invocation of memories and historical data, and the anxieties and
fantasies of contemporary Koreans in relation to global modernity.</span></p>
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Contact: <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a></span>, 510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">And
other upcoming events at CKS…</span></i></b></p>
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<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:black">Panel on 1970s South
Korean Literature, Film, and State-sponsored Visual Art</span><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></h3>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Panel Discussion: Center for Korean Studies | <b>October 24 |
4 p.m.</b> | </span><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?barrows" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt">Barrows Hall</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">, Barbara Christian Conference Room (554)</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Panelist/Discussants:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/aboutus/faculty/ryuyoungju_ci" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Youngju Ryu</span></strong></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Assistant Professor of Modern Korean Literature,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/aboutus/faculty/ryuyoungju_ci" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">University of
Michigan</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">; </span><a href="http://fm.berkeley.edu/ji-sung-kim/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Ji
Sung Kim</span></strong></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Department of Film & Media, UC
Berkeley;</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/graduate/grad-students.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Yuri Chang</span></strong></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"> Department
of Art History,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/graduate/grad-students.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">Binghamton
University</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Moderator:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=8" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Elaine Kim</span></strong></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Professor,
Department of Ethnic Studies,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">UC Berkeley</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Sponsors:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Literature: In 1970s South Korea, poet Kim Chi Ha became an
international symbol of democracy when he challenged – in writing, in prison,
and on trial – the legtimacy of the military dictatorship. Last year, Kim
returned to center stage as a staunch ally of the dictator’s daughter and a
mouthpiece of the ultraconservatives who supported her election as South
Korea’s president. This talk will explore the changing place of committed
literature in the ongoing struggle over the meanings of South Korean
modernization.<br>
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Film: South Korea has often been touted as the quintessential demonstration of
the superiority of free market capitalism for ‘developing’ the Global South. This
talk explores the experience of neoliberalism from the vantage point of
post-IMF South Korean cinema. In films like ‘The Host,’ for instance, the
monster can be seen in relation to U.S. empire-building in South Korea, which
has served as a ‘host’ for the American military for almost seven decades.<br>
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Visual Art: This presentation explores the politics of representation of power
and memory in public space by examining cultural exhibitions – in particular
the monumental art projects sponsored by the South Korean government for the
1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1995 Gwangju Biennale - as attempts to manipulate
traumatic historical memory with a spectacle of capitalist success.</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Event Contact:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156)">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">510-642-5674</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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Contact:</span><span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="color:black">510-642-5674</span></p>
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