<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><h1 style="font-size:22px;font-family:lexia,Georgia,serif;font-weight:300;color:rgb(5,102,107);line-height:28px">Dear Colleagues,</h1><div><br></div><div>If you're attending the MLA convention this year, please join our panel and the Q & A/discussion on Korean literature.  This is the inaugural year for the Korean Language, Literature and Culture Forum, and below are the details of the panel.  Thank you.</div><h1 style="font-size:22px;font-family:lexia,Georgia,serif;font-weight:300;color:rgb(5,102,107);line-height:28px"><br></h1><h1 style="font-size:22px;font-family:lexia,Georgia,serif;font-weight:300;color:rgb(5,102,107);line-height:28px">409. Newness in the Return to the Past: Korea</h1><div id="conv_program_details" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px"><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><i><a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_browse_day?day=2" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">Friday, 8 January</a>, <a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_browse_day?day=2#p0515" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">5:15–6:30 p.m.</a>, 310, JW Marriott</i></p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><b style="color:inherit!important">Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean</b></p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><i>Presiding: </i><a style="color:rgb(0,108,204)">Kelly Y. Jeong</a>, Univ. of California, Riverside</p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><i>Speakers:</i> <a style="color:rgb(0,108,204)">Jung Ja Choi</a>, Dartmouth Coll.; <a style="color:rgb(0,108,204)">Kyeong-Hee Choi</a>, Univ. of Chicago; <a style="color:rgb(0,108,204)">Sunghyun Park</a>, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales</p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><i>Session Description:</i></p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px">Panelists reflect on the various ways that Korean literature, film, and other arts reflect on Korea's recent past, especially the tragic events of Kwangju in May 1980.</p><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><b style="color:inherit!important">Subject:</b></p><ul class="" style="margin:0px 8px 20px 0px;padding:0px;list-style:none"><li class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 16px;clear:both;display:block"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_browse_subject?subj=61&subsubj=" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">Asian Literatures</a></p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:16px"><b style="color:inherit!important">Keywords:</b></p><ul class="" style="margin:0px 8px 20px 0px;padding:0px;list-style:none"><li class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 16px;clear:both;display:block"><a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_search?kw_target=all&keyword=Kwangju" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">Kwangju</a>, <a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_search?kw_target=all&keyword=democracy" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">democracy</a>, <a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_search?kw_target=all&keyword=neo-liberalism" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">neo-liberalism</a>, <a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_search?kw_target=all&keyword=globalization" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">globalization</a>, <a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_search?kw_target=all&keyword=nationalism" style="color:rgb(0,108,204);text-decoration:none">nationalism</a></li></ul></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Kelly Y. Jeong<br></div><div>Associate Professor, Korean Studies and Comparative Literature</div><div>Director of Korean Studies Program<br>Department of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages<br>UC Riverside<br>900 University Avenue HMNSS 2401<br>Riverside, CA  92521<br><br>Tel  951 827 1534 (Message)<br>Fax 951 827 2160 (Dept.)<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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