<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Call for Papers:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Korean Film Workshop at Berkeley 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">History and Historiography of Korean Film</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley announces a call for working papers for Korean film workshop, scheduled for July 15 of 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>It brings attention to the broad topic of history and historiography of Korean film.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Over the past two decades, South Korean film has garnered an impressive visibility on the international scene.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>This workshop examines the changing contour of Korean film history and its relationship with other cultural development and disciplinary engagements.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>For instance, the recent discovery of colonial-era Korean films has fueled the scholarship on the colonial visual culture, which in turn has reinvigorated the academic interests in Korean film history.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>On the other hand, the advent of digital media technologies has proliferated various types of visual narratives, spectatorial engagement and reception patterns that changed the way viewers understand film history.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>How do these disciplinary and technological developments intersect with the critical discourse of Korean film history and national (or transnational) cinema? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This workshop is designed to reflect upon the contradictory tendencies and perspectives that these developments have made upon the history of Korean film.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>It welcomes papers on the issue of Korean film history from all periods, as well as empirical research projects that relate to these questions through case studies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The issues considered for the workshop include (but are not limited to):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Location of Korean film history in relation to other disciplines such as history of modern literature, art history, urban studies, cultural studies, sociology, media studies, communication studies, Cold War studies, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Writings of early film historians, e.g., Yi Youngil, Yun Pongchun and others, and their legacies</span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Challenge of revisionist scholarship to national cinema history</span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Challenge of trans-regional cultural/film studies to Korean film history</span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Film archive, preservation, and digitization of film sources</span></p><p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'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