<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="6">The Center for Korean Studies</font></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="6">University of California, Berkeley</font></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="6">Cordially invites you to the following symposium</font></i></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></i></p></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><i><font>Note: The Center for Korean Studies has moved to a new location (1995 University Avenue, Suite 510R). Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held at Doe Library, Room 180. </font><font size="4"> </font></i></h3></font></div></h3></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000"><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><span>Art of the Korean Division: Imagined Unification, Ethical Subjectivity, and Crow’s Eye View</span></h3></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |<b> October 3 | 4 p.m.</b> | 180 </font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?doe" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Doe Library</a></font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Speaker:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="http://art.stonybrook.edu/faculty/sohl-lee/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong>Sohl Lee</strong></a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor of Contemporary East Asian Art,</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font><a href="http://art.stonybrook.edu/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Stony Brook University</a></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Sponsor:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</a></font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">This talk is inspired by one of the foremost South Korean literary critics, Paik Nak-chung, who theorized “division system (pundan ch’aeje)” and “division reality (pundan hyŏnsil)” as the ultimate logics organizing social formation and reality in Korea. Following the epistemological shift in South Korean artists’ North Korea-related endeavors—from the pictorial representation of “the Korean nation as one” (by 1980s dissident artists) to the introduction of double or multiple-frame and ethical dis-identification between the South and the North (starting from the 1990s, especially during the Sunshine Policy era of 1998-2007) and a provocative exhibition of the 20th-century inter-Korean architecture history (2014)—this talk will posit the “reality of division” not as a historical reality to overcome but as an effective model of democracy, a pure manifestation of democratic antagonism that has productively influenced the history of contemporary Korean art.<br><br>Photo caption: Installation view, Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, Korea Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the 2014 Korean Pavilion.</font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Event Contact:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cks@berkeley.edu</a><font color="#000000">, 510-642-5974</font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">____________________________________</font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><i><b>And other upcoming events...</b></i></font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><img src="cid:ii_i0jzrxdg0_148b3af924d252b2" width="134" height="179" style="margin-right:0px"><br></font></font></p><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><span><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">International Politics in East Asia: Abe's Diplomacy - Global and Regional</font></span></h3><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Colloquium: Center for Japanese Studies | <b>October 9 | 4:30 p.m.</b> |</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?facultyclub" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Faculty Club</a><font color="#4d5963">, Seaborg Room</font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Speaker:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="http://www.jica.go.jp/english/about/president/profile.html" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong>Akihiko Tanaka</strong></a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">President,</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font><a href="http://www.jica.go.jp/english/index.html" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Japan International Cooperation Agency</a></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label>Sponsors: </label><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)</a>, <a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)</a>, <a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</a>,<a href="http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco</a></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited more countries than any previous prime minister of Japan. On the other hand, one could point out conspicuous omission in his itinerary: China and South Korea. How do we explain Abe's active global diplomacy and strained relations between Japan and its immediate neighbors? History issues and differences over territories are obviously relevant to explain the current international relations in Northeast Asia. But Abe's "globe-trotting diplomacy" cannot be reduced to reactive responses to the increasing influence of China globally. Tanaka will discuss more fundamental, long-term interests of Japan that can explain Mr. Abe's diplomacy.<br><br><strong>Akihiko Tanaka</strong> is President of the <a href="http://www.jica.go.jp/english/index.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Japan International Cooperation Agency</a> (JICA). Before assuming the present post, he was Professor of International Politics at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Most recently he was Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2011-2012), Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2009-2011), and Director of the Division of International Affairs of the University of Tokyo (2008-2010).<br><br>He obtained his B.A. in International Relations at the University of Tokyo in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.<br><br>Mr. Tanaka’s specialties include theories of international politics, contemporary international relations in East Asia, and Japan’s foreign policy. He has numerous books and articles in Japanese and English including the New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century (Tokyo: The International House of Japan, 2002).<br><br>He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his academic achievements in 2012.</font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Event Contact:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="mailto:cjs-events@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cjs-events@berkeley.edu</a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">510-642-3415</font></font></p></div>
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</div>_________________________________________________________</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000"><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><span>Kyung-sook Shin and Korean Literature</span></h3></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies |<b> October 24 | 2 p.m. </b>| </font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?alumniHouse" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Alumni House</a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">Toll Room</font></font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000"><label>Featured Speaker: </label><strong>Kyung-sook Shin</strong>, Award Winning Author</font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Sponsor:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</a></font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">This special symposium, attended by award-winning author Kyung-sook Shin, will focus on the impact of her works on the global stage. The event culminates with a one-on-one conversation with the author, Q&A session, and book signing. <br><br><b>Program</b><br><br><u>2:00-2:10 Welcome Remarks</u><br>Laura Nelson, Chair, Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley<br>Youngmin Kwon, Visiting Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley<br><br><u>2:10-3:00 “On Modern and Contemporary Korean Fiction”</u><br>Speaker: Christopher P. Hanscom, Professor of Korean Literature, UCLA<br><br><u>3:00-4:45 Panel on East Asian Literature, Translation, and Publication</u><br>Chair: Daniel O’Neill, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, UC Berkeley<br>Bruce Fulton, Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature, University of British Columbia<br>Jiwon Shin, Professor Korean Literature, Arizona State University<br>Ha-yun Jung, Professor, Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Ewha<br>Marcella Marini, Editor, Sellerio<br><br><u>4:45 Coffee Break</u><br><br><u>5:00-6:00 A Dialogue with Kyung-sook Shin<br>Shin Kyung-sook, Novelist</u><br>Laura Nelson, Chair, Center for Korean Studies<br><br>6:00-7:30 Reception and Book Signing in Alumni House<br><br><b>Bio</b><br>Kyung-sook Shin is one of South Korea’s the most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts, and won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her first novella, Winter Fables, starting her career as a writer at the age of 22.<br><br>Since then Shin has published seven novels including Deep Sorrow, A Lone Room, The Train Departs at 7, Violet, Lee Jin, Please Look After Mom and I’ll Be Right There, nine short story collections, and three essay collections as well.<br><br>Her writing is characterized by a profound point of view focusing on the human mind, a resonating and colorful style utilizing symbolism and metaphor, and an expressive and heartfelt narrative style. Setting social changes and political situations as the backdrops of her works, Shin mainly looks inwards at humans’ psychological wounds and difficulty in reconciling themselves to their present and future.<br><br>Please Look After Mom has been translated into more than thirty languages. It is Shin’s first book to appear in English and it has been met with critical acclaim; since its publication, it has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Shin became the first Korean and first woman to receive the Man Asian Literary Prize for the English translation of Please Look After Mom in 2011.<br><br>I’ll Be Right There has been published in a number of countries, including the US, Spain, China, Poland, Italy, and Norway, and the English edition was published in June 2014. It has been received rave reviews by media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly and put on must-read lists in many countries. It was included in the list of “30 Books You Need To Read in 2014” by the Huffington Post. It was also named as “the best foreign literature in the 21st Century” in China and “the best book of the winter 2012” in Poland.<br><br>Shin has been honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu in 2009 for the French translation of her work, A Lone Room (La Chambre Solitaire), as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2011 and has been serving as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Since her international success with Please Look After Mom, Shin has been participating in many international events for writers as a speaker.</font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Event Contact:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cks@berkeley.edu</a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">510-642-5674</font></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><label><font color="#000000">Document:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/document/d/1dRBUOkfiz7hLtF3rCubDRYk_W1LeYBJtlOJFazOdk4I/edit" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Full Program</a></font></p></div>
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