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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>I'd like to circulate for your information the below conference program at USC. If you're in the area, you're more than welcome to come by. <br><br>Best,<br>Sunyoung Park <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
1" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Times"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
1" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Times">New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Times;mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
1" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times">Social Sciences Building 250</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
1" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times">University Park Campus of the University of Southern
California</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
1" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times">Friday-Saturday, November 6-7, 2015</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:KO"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Times;
mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black">This conference aims to explore and
generate new critical perspectives on the cultural history of 1980s South Korea
through a transnational intellectual dialogue among some of the most
distinguished international experts on the period. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black">The decade of the 1980s is
rightly celebrated by Koreans today as the era of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">minjung</i> (people’s) culture, a time when a collective effort by
ordinary citizens and intellectuals alike led to upheaval and the
democratization of the country within the space of a few years. Previous
representations of the era, however, have tended to privilege a political
narrative of liberation over many complexities and contradictions. On the one
hand, the focus on democratization has left in the </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black;mso-fareast-language:KO">shadow
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black">other coeval
processes such as rapid economic expansion, the rise of a middle class as a
social subject, and the opening up of culture through new media and technology.
On the other hand, the persistent centering of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">minjung</i> intellectuals as the agents of democratization has led to a
neglect of the contributions of workers, women, and common Koreans as well as
the downplaying of the international aspects of the movement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Times;
mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:black">Bringing together Korean, American,
and Australian scholars, this conference encourages presenters and participants
alike to engage in a broadening and contextualizing reflection on the
significance of the 1980s for Korean culture then and today. Some of the </span>major
issues to be raised in panels are the extent and significance of
internationalism both inside and outside the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">minjung</i> movement, the agency of working-class masses in the
decade’s cultural production, the impact of new media and technologies on 1980s
cultural imaginations, the affinity and variances between different media
cultures, and the ruptures and continuities that characterized Korean culture
as the 1980s gave way to the democratic 1990s. As a closing event, a round
table forum will attempt to take a new and enriched look at 1980s Korean
culture from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.<span style="mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The conference is generously supported
by <span style="mso-fareast-language:KO">the Northeast Council of the
Association for Asian Studies and by the Center for Feminist Studies, the
Department of History, the East Asian Studies Center, the Korean Heritage
Library, the Korean Studies Institute, and the School of Cinema Studies at USC.
It is organized jointly by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
at USC and <span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">the Academy of East
Asian Studies and the Department of Korean Language and Literature at
Sungkyunkwan University.</span><span style="color:red"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">For further information, please
contact Sunyoung Park at sunyounp@usc.edu.<span style="mso-fareast-language:
KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:KO"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Conference Program
and Schedule</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><u>Friday, November 6</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8:00-9:00 am<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>Breakfast<span style="mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9:00-9:10 am<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>WELCOMING ADDRESS<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-outline-level:
1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Kyung Moon Hwang</b>, USC<span style="mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">9:10-10:40 am <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>PANEL I. Locating the 1980s in Korean History and
Memory</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-1.5in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Namhee Lee, </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">University of California, Los Angeles<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Popular Memory of the
1980s and Unpacking the Regime of Discontinuity</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Kyung Moon Hwang</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, USC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
Irrepressibility of Teleology: The 1980s as Historiography</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">Discussant: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Jennifer Jung-Kim</b>, UCLA<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10:40-11:00 am<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>Coffee
Break </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in">11:00-1:00 pm<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>PANEL II. Internationalizing the
1980s Democratization Movement </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Ruth Barraclough</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, Australian National University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Mobile Activism and Political Tourism:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">South Korean and Australian Student Exchanges in
the 1980s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Jae-Yong Kim</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, Wonkwang University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Overcoming Colonial Modernity: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">An Intellectual Journey from 1980s Anti-imperialism to
1990s Transnationalism</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Kyunghee Sabina Eo</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, USC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Queering the Dreams of a Third-World Brotherhood:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Black Women in 1980s South Korean Literature and Film</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">Discussant: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Viet Thanh Nguyen</b>, USC Center for Transpacific Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1:00-3:00 pm<span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Lunch
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3:00-5:00 pm <span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>PANEL
III. Laboring and Gendering National Culture </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Jin-kyung Lee</b>, University of California, San Diego</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Re-tracing the Political:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">the State, Leftist Nationalism and
Aesthetics in Authoritarian South Korea</span><span style="font-family:Times;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Jung-Hwan Cheon</b>, Sungkyunkwan University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
background:white;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Where have all the “Shouting
Stones” Gone?:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
background:white;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">A History of Korean Workers’
Literary Clubs in the 1980s</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Hye-Ryoung Lee</b>, Sungkyunkwan University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Bright Constellation:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:KO"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">The Birth and Significance of South Korean Women’s
Literature in the 1980s<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">Discussant: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Ruth Barraclough</b>, ANU</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6:00-8:00 pm<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Dinner in Koreatown </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><u><span style="mso-fareast-language:
KO"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><u>Saturday, November 7</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in">8:00-9:00 am<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Breakfast </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">9:00-9:10 am<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></b>OPENING REMARK </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Sunyoung Park, USC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">9:10-11:10 am <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>PANEL IV. Rethinking 1980s Mass Culture </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Inyoung Nam</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, Dongseo University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;background:white">Screening<i> Minjung</i>: South Korean Independent
Documentary Film-Making in the 1980s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Yun-Jong Lee</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">, Dong-a University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Between Progression and Regression: Ero Film as Cinema of
Retreat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Sunyoung Park,</b> USC </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">In Other Times: Science Fiction
and Democratization in 1980s Korea </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1">Discussant: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Alice Echols</b>, USC Gender Studies Program</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11:10 am-11:30 pm<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Coffee
Break</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11:30-1:00 pm <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>ROUND
TABLE FORUM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Publishing
New Perspectives in 1980s Korean Cultural History</p>
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