<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i>Act!</i> Performativity of Korean Literature</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Korean Literature Association Annual Conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ohio State University, Columbus</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">October 11-12, 2024</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Pre-conference Virtual Session</b> (10/10, 7-9pm, all US Eastern
Time)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Adrianna Hajduga (Jagiellonian) “Literature Designed to
Serve: The Case of Kim Il Sung’s With the Century Intervening into Mental
Structures and Performative Schemes of the North Korean Society”</li><li>Mina Kwon (North Georgia) “Embodied Knowledge Research:
Research-based Critical Translation Project of Traditional Korean Puppet
Theatre”</li><li>Jan Creutzenberg (Ewha) “Acting Out the Ape: Performance of
Otherness via Kafka in Korea”</li><li>Discussant: Jaehyuk Lee (OSU)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Day 1</b> (Friday, 10/11): Pomerene Hall Room 280 (also on Zoom)<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">8:45-9:00am Opening
Remarks<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9:00-10:00am <b>Keynote
Lecture: </b>Translating the Musical Literacy of Pansori<br></p>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chan E. Park (Professor Emerita, OSU)</p></div></blockquote><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10:15am-12:15pm <b>Plenary Session</b>: Performativity, Adaptation, and Contemporary Korean Theater <br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Areum Jeong (Arizona State) “Documenting the Jeju 4.3 in
Creative VaQi’s The Story of Island”</li><li>Jieun Lee (Emory) “Korean Transnational Women Adoptees and
Adoption in Contemporary Korean Theater”</li><li>Victoria Caudle (UCLA) “Casting Race: The Performance and
Performativity of Race and Disability in Wandŭk-i and its Adaptations”</li><li>Spencer Lee-Lenfield (Harvard) “Translating As
Scriptwriting: O Kyung-sook’s Theatrical Adaptation of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s
Dictee”</li><li>Discussant: Hayana Kim (OSU)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1:15-2:15pm <b>Performance Presentation</b>, "Nolpan: Khoj"</p>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Performed by Jin Won (dancer/choreographer); Directed by
Yong Suk Yoo (Carnegie Mellon); Introduction and post-performance Q&A moderation
by Kee-Yoon Nahm (Yale)</p></div></blockquote><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2:20-4:20pm <b>Parallel
Sessions</b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Attuning to the
Poetic Sounds of the Korean Diaspora</b> (Pomerene 280)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Hoon Lee (Indiana) “‘Bared Noise, Groan, Bits Torn from
Words’: Abstraction, or a World-Building in Dictee” </li><li>Vero Chai (Rutgers) “(M)Otherworldly Utter: Sounding Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee” </li><li>Olan Munson (Michigan) “From Autogenesis to Autogeography:
Comparing Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi” [virtual]</li><li>I. Jonathan Kief (UNC) “Speaking and Listening across
Borders: Radio Texts in the Cold War Koreas and Beyond” </li><li>Discussants: Jina Kim (Oregon) and Jae Won Edward Chung
(Rutgers) </li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Text as a Performative Space</b> (Pomerene 250)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>So-Rim Lee (Penn) “Of Other Bodies and Worlds: Tracing a
Cultural Discourse of Remedy in the Postwar Dailies”</li><li>Jinsoo An (Berkeley) “Poetry in Performance?: The Case of
Lee Chang-dong’s film Poetry”</li><li>Tanner Rogers (Minnesota) “The Urban, the Rural, and the
National: A Spatial Analysis of Pak Bŏm-sin’s Lying Like a Blade of Grass“</li><li>Discussants: Ted Hughes (Columbia [virtual]) and Sunyoung
Park (USC)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4:30-6:00pm <b>Parallel Sessions </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Bringing the Body and the Sound to Bear on Text </b>(Pomerene
280)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Young A. Jung (George Mason) “Return of Blood, Excrement,
and Body: On Materiality and Physicality of the Body”</li><li>Sunhong Kim (Michigan) “Fight for Victory! The Combative
Spirit of P’iri in the Korean War Poems/Songs and Records” </li><li>Yoonbin Cho (Penn) “Film Narration in Korea’s Changing Media
Landscape: Byeonsa Performances and Their Modern Revival on Television and
YouTube” </li><li>Discussant: Immanuel Kim (George Washington) </li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Literature in/as a Political Battlefield </b>(Pomerene 250)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Hyowon Park (UCLA) “Kwangju on the Caribbean Archipelago in
a Relational World: The Resurgence of the ‘Poetics of Relation’ in the 5/18
Literature of the 1980s-2010s”</li><li>Aimée Lê (Pusan National) “Worker Writing and Performance:
The Case of Ssangyong Motors”</li><li>Soonyoung Lee (Bard College) “The Performativity of
Financial Capitalism in Contemporary Korean Fiction”</li><li>Discussant: Pil Ho Kim (OSU)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Day 2</b> (Saturday, 10/12): Pomerene Hall Room 280 (also on Zoom)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9:00-10:00am <b>Writer
Talk: Playwright Kim Eunsung</b> [virtual]<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"Putting South Korean Society on Stage: A Perspective of a
Playwright Born in the 1970s"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10:15am-11:45pm <b>Plenary
Session:</b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Performativity and Intercultural Dialogue in Translating
Korean Drama</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Walter Byongsok Chon (Ithaca College) “Intersecting Life and
Art and Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the English Translations of Myung-Wha
Kim’s Plays”</li><li>Jisun Kim (Yale) “Translating/Transforming Performative
Universalities: In the Case of Yeon-Ok Ko's The Sensibility of a Wife”</li><li>Kee-Yoon Nahm (Yale) “Performing Departures from Korea in
Translations of Yun Mi Hyun’s Texas Aunt and The Wooden Boat”</li><li>Discussant: Yong Suk Yoo (Carnegie Mellon)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1:30-3:30pm <b>Parallel Sessions</b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Performing Ethnicity in the Global Korean Diaspora</b> (Pomerene
280)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Jerôme de Wit (Vienna) “Performative Agency in the
Literature of Korean-Chinese Author Pak Sŏnsŏk” </li><li>Nick Allaman (OSU) “A Beautiful Garment Riddled with Holes:
Crafting Place and Identity in Chaoxianzu writer Jin Renshun’s Short Fiction”</li><li>Iris Kim (Columbia) “Epistolary Intimacy: Letters to Family
in Divided Korea through Zainichi Media”</li><li>Ji-yoon An (UBC) "The Predicament of (Korean) Diasporic Cinema: An Exploration of Past Lives"</li><li>Discussants: Miya Qiong Xie (Dartmouth [virtual]) and Keita
Moore (OSU) </li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Queer, Gendered, or Vegetarian Performance of the Body
</b>(Pomerene 250)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Raymond Ra (USC) “The Conspicuously Fabulous: Queer Korean
Performance as Errantry”</li><li>Hyun Jung Kong (Penn State) “The (Un)Masking of the Bodies:
Cinematic Performances of the Military Sex Workers in Tour of Duty”</li><li>Vanessa Baker (Indiana) “Hypermasculine Performance in Ch’ae
Mansik’s 1939 Kŭm ŭi chŏngyŏl (Passion of Gold)”</li><li>Perry D. Miller (Indiana) <span lang="KO" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">“</span>Bigeon (<span lang="KO" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">비건</span>) at
the Hwesik (<span lang="KO" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">회식</span>)
and Other Limit Experiences: Plant-based Lifestyles and the Performance of Self
in the Korean Workplace. </li><li>Discussants: Kevin Shadel (Berkeley [virtual]) and Deborah
Solomon (Otterbein)</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3:45-5:45pm <b>Plenary
Session: Performativity in Pre-Modern Korean Literature</b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Marjorie Burge (Colorado) “Hyangga as Performance:
Contextualizing the Ritual Efficacy of Silla Songs”</li><li>Althea Volpe (Sapienza) “Recitation and chanting of Buddhist
dhāraṇīs in Contemporary Korea: The Case of Master Ǔisang’s Pǒpsǒngge”
[virtual]</li><li>Hyun Suk Park (UCLA) “Virtual Courtesans:
Courtesan-Celebrities in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Korea”</li><li>Owen Stampton (Sheffield) “Yi Kwang-su’s The Martyr:
Critiquing the Present through Staging the Past” </li><li>Discussants: Ross King (UBC [virtual]) and Hwisang Cho
(Emory)</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5:50pm Closing Remarks</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For more information about the KLA membership and conference registration, please visit the website: <a href="https://koreanlit.org/" target="_blank">https://koreanlit.org/</a></p>
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