<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,serif;font-size:13pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Call for Papers:  Korean Film Workshop at UC Berkeley 2019</span></b><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stupendous Villainy in Korean Cinema<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce a call for working papers for a Korean film workshop, tentatively scheduled for late-May of 2019.  This workshop aims to illuminate the subject of villainy in popular films of Korea from the 2000s to the present.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>The continuing success of Korean films has garnered the interest of critics in the persistence of the popular genre form. Their appropriation of blockbuster aesthetics, reworking of narrative and genre conventions, as well as the treatment of diverse subject matters, have all received keen critical attention. This workshop focuses on a narrower element of Korean film’s popular appeal: the stupendous depiction of villainy. Through an examination of the strange depth of antiheroes and psychopaths, this workshop endeavors to elucidate an oft-neglected, yet impressive aesthetic achievement of recent popular Korean cinema.  The sophisticated technique of character development in creating the archetype of the villain not only highlights the broader range and depth of new trends in popular filmmaking, but also calls for new ways to conceptualize the relationship between filmic representation and the society at large.  The broad contour of the antagonist, ranging from the lure of transgression and a fear of the dreadful, will be of particular interest.  <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The issues related to the subject of villainy in Korean cinema include (but are not limited to):<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Taxonomy of violent behaviors and actions on screen<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Film censorship and its impact on the depiction of antisocial gestures<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The broad question of evil and evil-doing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Antiheroes and psychopaths as a social and epistemological problem<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cinematic discourses of ethnic, racial and/or sexual Other and villainy <span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Configuration of villainy and genre conventions<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dynamic narrative elements and innovation </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">in</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">the making of villainous characters<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Meanings and limitations of investigative narrative structures, as found in, for instance, crime thrillers and film noirs. <span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Allegorical and/or political implications of villain characters<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The deployment of celebrity “star” image in performance, presentation, and consumption of villain characters<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Corporeal characteristics, e.g., deformity, disfiguration or disability, associated with villain characters<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Clinical or psychological account of abnormal behavior or crime<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">U</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">se of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">violence, retributive </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">justice, and law</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Temporal and spatial features of threat and restoration of order</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Villainy as a means for intercultural inquiry and analysis<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Villainy as an optic for understanding politics, history and culture<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Neoliberal order, precarity and survival<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Relationship between space and subjectivity, or urban and/or rural locations of evil<span></span></span></p><p class="m_-161067725210503947gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Forgiveness and amnesia<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For those who are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a 250-word abstract and short CV to the email address below by <b>Dec 10, 2018</b>.  Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by <b>Jan 5, 2019</b>.  Completed papers are requested by <b>April 1, 2019</b>  to provide sufficient time for discussants to prepare responses.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:anjinsoo@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">anjinsoo@berkeley.edu</a><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The Center for Korean Studies will provide roundtrip economy-class airfare, basic ground transportation, hotel accommodations, and meals during the workshop for all accepted participants. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">DEADLINES<span></span></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">December 10, 2018: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submit paper proposal (with a short CV)<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">January 5, 2019: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of acceptances<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">April 1, 2019: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Completed papers due<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Late-May, 2019: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Date of workshop <span></span></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-161067725210503947gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div>--------------------------------<br><div>Jinsoo An<div>Associate Professor, Korean Studies</div></div><div><br></div><div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div>Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures</div><div>3413 Dwinelle Hall, MC 2230</div><div>Berkeley, CA 94720-2230</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>