[KS] Duke Events: Transnational North Korea, Wed 4/3, Fri 4/5

[Cheehyung Kim]

Dear KS Colleagues,

Duke's semester-long project on Transnational North Korea concludes
this week with a film screening and a workshop. Please contact Aimee
Kwon (na.kwon at duke.edu) or Cheehyung Kim (ck131 at duke.edu) with any
inquiries. Thank you.

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Film Screening

Desert Dream
(Zhang Lu, 2007, 123 min, South Korea/France, in Mongolian and Korean
with English subtitles, 35mm)

Wednesday, Apr 03, 2013, 7:00PM - 9:30PM
Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater, Duke University

- Introduced by Prof. Nayoung Aimee Kwon (AMES)
- Q&A to follow with director Zhang Lu!
- Preceded by a 6pm reception for director Zhang Lu, hosted by Duke
East Asia Nexus (DEAN), in the Old Trinity Room, West Union Building!

Hungai lives with his family on the isolated Mongolian Steppes and is
stubbornly devoted to the reforestation of the barren land that
surrounds him. When his wife and daughter leave for the city, Hungai
finds himself hosting a pair of North Korean refugees, Soonhee and her
son Changho, who gradually fill familial roles in ways his own wife
and daughter had not. A frontier tale of a loner and his lost
horizons, Desert Dream is a minimalist paradox mapped out in epic
proportions, defining the borders that corral the desires and
realities of self-styled nomads and settlers. Zhang Lu composes his
ambitious epic with picture-book simplicity and rhythmic off-screen
sound tapestries without surrendering the humanism of its drama.

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Workshop

Transnational North Korea and Northeast Asia: Migration and Urbanization

Friday, April 5, 2013 from 9:30AM-5:00PM

Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, Duke University

9:30 Coffee and light refreshments

9:45 Welcome
- Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke, AMES)

10:00 - 12:00 MIGRATION AND BORDER-CROSSING
- Moderator: Leo Ching (Duke, AMES)

Border-crossing and Beyond in Zhang Lu's Dooman River
- Kyeong-Hee Choi (U of Chicago, EALC) and Sohye Kim (U of Chicago, EALC)

A Conversation with Filmmaker Zhang Lu
- Discussant: Guo-Juin Hong (Duke, AMES)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Please RSVP to ddhunt at duke.edu no later than
Tues., Apr. 2nd)

2:00 - 4:00 URBAN RECONSTRUCTION AND SPECTACLE
- Moderator: Hwansoo Kim (Duke, Religion and AMES)

Socialism as Spectacle: History, Market, and North Korean Migration
- Hyun Ok Park (York University, Sociology)

Post Korean War Socialist Economic Order and North Korea's Urban Reconstruction
- Cheehyung Kim (Duke, AMES and History)

Discussants: Robin Visser (UNC, Asian Studies) and Eileen Chow (Duke, AMES)

4:00 – 5:00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION