[KS] Thursday, 1/31 at UC Berkeley: Flashpoint in Korea: Proxies, Rivals, and the Origins of the Korean War

Fri Jan 25 14:20:13 EST 2013

The Center for Korean Studies 

University of California, Berkeley

Cordially invites you to our first event of 2013

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(Photo: John Rich)

Flashpoint in Korea: Proxies, Rivals, and the Origins of the Korean War

Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | January 31 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Panelist/Discussants: Allan R. Millett, History and American Studies, University of New Orleans; Sheila Miyoshi, East Asian Studies, Oberlin College; Michael Devine, Director, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum

Moderator: Hong Yung Lee, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Sponsors:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies,  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/> Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)

The Korean War, following hard upon the horrors of World War II and marking the hot-war initiation of the "Cold War," 
has been discussed as a civil war and a proxy war; as a new kind of international conflict and as a continuation of unfinished business. 

In conjunction with the closing of the exhibition "Korea in the Cross-Fire: The War Photographs of John Rich" the Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Korean Studies present a discussion of the origins of the Korean War in the context of internal, Asian, and international rivalries.

Speakers:

"The War Before the War: Korea, 1945-1950"
Allan R. Millett (Ambrose Professor of History & Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans)

"Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Keep the Korean War from Going Nuclear"
Michael Devine (Director, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum)

"Brothers At War: The Unending Conflict in Korea"
Sheila Miyoshi Jager (Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College)

Moderator: Hong Yung Lee, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Event Contact:  <mailto:ieas at berkeley.edu> ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

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Other upcoming events…

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Wither in Hong Songsoo - A reading of a story by Kyung Hyun Kim

Preceded by "Weather in Hong Sangsoo (video essay by Kyung Hyun Kim, 21 min)

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | February 6 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3315> Kyung Hyun Kim, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The speaker will read from a story about an imaginary dialogue that takes place between the narrator, a retired film critic, and Hong Sangsoo, an amnesiac filmmaker. It is set in 2022. The story attempts to braid together a few concerns in the works of Hong Sangsoo that encompass the possibility of nondualistic relations: between authenticity and falsity, between humility and vanity, and between cultivation and resolute action. 

Preceding this reading of a story entitled “Wither in Hong Sangsoo” is a 21-minute video essay called “Weather in Hong Sangsoo.” “Weather in Hong Sangsoo” is a compilation film that collages footage from films Hong has thus far directed in a career that spans over the past 15 years—one that began with his debut film, “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996), and continues most recently with “In Another Country” (2012). The video essay foregrounds cryptic themes found in Hong Sangsoo’s films, such as weather, trees, and the unseen, and argues that they are constant forces of passion, renewal, and even transmigration in Hong’s work. 

Kyung Hyun Kim is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of Critical Theory Emphasis at UC Irvine. He is the author of "The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema" [Duke University Press, 2004] and "Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era" [Duke University Press, 2011].

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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