<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b>The 3rd International Conference of Popular Narratives and Media Studies</b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">"Divine Violence and Noble Rage: Gender and Justice in Korean Crime Fiction" <b><br></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><i style="font-size:16px"><br></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><i style="font-size:16px">April 10-11, Institute for Korean Studies, Pennsylvania State University (hybrid)</i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b>Keynote Speakers </b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Caroline Reitz, CUNY Graduate Center </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Ted Hughes, Columbia University </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b>A Special Lecture on Korean Literature </b>Young-jun Lee, Director of the Research Institute for Korean Studies<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)"><b>Conference Description</b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)">In recent years, Korean crime narratives\u2014crime fiction and crime-themed TV dramas, films, and webtoons\u2014have attracted significant attention from readers, audiences, and scholars both within Korea and internationally. In response to this growing popularity and the increasing scholarly interest in the historical, social, and aesthetic dimensions of Korean crime narratives, the PSU-SKKU Consortium on Korean Popular Narratives and Media is hosting its third international conference, aiming to explore cultural representations of state, institutional, political, and everyday violence against socially vulnerable and marginalized groups in both premodern and modern Korean crime fiction. Drawing on Walter Benjamin\u2019s concept of law-annihilating \u201cdivine violence,\u201d which confronts</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)">the injustice embedded in legal systems, as well as feminist scholarship on gender and justice in modern crime narratives, this conference invites papers that examine the aesthetic and political potential of crime narratives in expressing the precarity of the marginalized and the meaning of justice.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)">Please See the attached CFP for details including submission instructions.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)">Jooyeon Rhee, Pennsylvania State University</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,3,33)"><br></p></div>