<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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">Call for Papers:  2020 Korean Film Workshop at </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of California, Berkeley</span></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">"Authoritarian Modalities and Film Censorship: South Korean Cinema in the 1970s"</span></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"><br></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">The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce a call for working papers for a one-day Korean film workshop, tentatively scheduled for mid-July of 2020.  This workshop aims to explore the subject of film censorship in the 1970s, the decade often considered the abject nadir of South Korean cinema.  P</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">laced under the grip of Park Chung Hee’s draconic authoritarian regime and facing volatile changes within the film and media environment itself (such as the spread of television), South Korean cinema entered an extended period of decline that lasted until the 1980s.  Yet the 1970s also witnessed the advent of a wide array of unusual popular films, accompanied by stringent and complex modes of control, regulation, and constraint by the state apparatus.  The workshop thereby intends to illuminate the complex relationship between authoritarian politics and filmmaking practices and aesthetics.  <u>Papers that draw extensively on primary sources and archival research are strongly preferred and will be given priority.</u>  Papers/abstracts can be submitted in either Korean or English. <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"> </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">Issues related to the subject of censorship in the 1970s 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="gmail-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">The authoritarian logic (and its limits) behind the regulation of film contents</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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 organizations and their interactions with filmmaking personnel and other state apparatuses in their efforts to make film popular and politically legitimate </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Controversial issues, subjects, and topics and their representational constraints</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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 production companies’ responses to censorial pressure<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Evolution of film policy and regulations and their implications with regard to filmmaking<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Question of film authorship under strict film regulation and restrictions<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Question of “taste” including “vulgarity” [chŏjil], particularly the representation of sex(uality) and extreme violence and their parameters under censorship, and “nation-lessness” [</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">mukukchŏksŏng], along with how such representations complicate the boundaries between “low” and “high” taste</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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 cinematic affect </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Controversial and overlooked individual cases and their industrial impact</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Contemporaneous critical discourse of popular culture/film and censorship practices</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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 historical background that gave rise to the 1970s film censorship system, as well as its lingering aftereffects<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Modus operandi of censorship regarding foreign and/or co-produced films  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-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">Social interest or advocacy groups and film censorship  </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"><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>Feb 1, 2020</b>.  Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by <b>Feb 15, 2020</b>.  Completed papers are requested by <b>June 1, 2020</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">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"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Feb 1, 2020: </b>P</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">aper 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">Feb 15, 2020:</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">June 1, 2020:</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">Mid-July 2020:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Date of workshop <span></span></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>