[KS] forthcoming conference on Korean screen culture

Andy Jackson gp200 at yahoo.com
Wed May 8 04:54:13 EDT 2013


Dear list members, please note the schedule for the forthcoming conference on Korean film and screen culture.  It is a free event, so please come along. 
Best, 
Andrew David Jackson (SOAS)


The Centre ofKorean Studiesin collaboration with the Centre for Film and Screen Studies
Presents
Years of radical change(2):
SOAS Conference on Korean Screen Culture
School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom.
Friday May
31st-Saturday June
1st 2013.
Venue: SOAS Philips Building (Main Building)
Rooms G2,G3,G51 (Main Building), Brunei Suite (Brunei Gallery).
Please note this schedule is provisional and
may be subject to changes (latest May 8th 2013)
Friday
31st May
8:30-9:15 – Registration and Coffee (in foyer,
main building)
9:15-9:30 - Introduction   Room: G2 
9:30-11:30 – Panel 1 ‘Gender, sexuality
and the body’
Chair: Dr
Rossella
Ferrari (SOAS)     Room:G2
Allan
Christopher Simpson, SOAS:  "Cinema
of the Iban: An Analytical Narrative of South Korean LGBT Film."
Ji-Yoon
An, University of Cambridge: “New Korean Cinema and Fathers' Crises in
Masculinity.”
Dr
Colette Balmain, Kingston University: “Whiteness, community and contamination:
Postcolonial community and sexual miscegenation in White: The Melody of the curse, Kim Gok & Kim Sun, South Korea:
2010).”
Dr.
NikkiJ.Y.Lee
,  NottinghamTrent
University:
“Korean Male Star Body:  Rain and the
Transnational Hollywood Action Movie”
11:30-12:00 – Coffee break (G2)  
12:00-13:30 – Panel 2  Gender and History
Chair:  Professor Jim Hoare (SOAS)               Room:G2
Dr Chi-Yun Shin, Sheffield Hallam University: “Between Crime and Punishment: Morals of Motherhood in Mother (2009) and Poetry (2010).”
Dr
Hana Lee, Yonsei University:  “The Unending
War: continuity and Discontinuity in Korean War Films in the Post-Cold War
Era.”
Dr
Andrew David Jackson, SOAS: “Sound, image and distanciation in Spring in my Hometown.”
13:30-14:30 – Lunch (G2)
14:30-16:30 – Panel 3 ‘Inside and outside the bordersof Korea’
Chair:  Dr Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State
University)         Room: G2
Jessica
Conte, University of California, Irvine: “Moui:Legend of Portrait Framing
Vietnam and South Korea's Past and Present.”
Juyeon
Bae, University of Nottingham:  “Border
Crossing Body:Focus on Traffickers and Stateless Things.” 
Dr Hye
Seung Chung, Colorado State University: “ In Search of Self (in others):Recent
Trends in Korean Multicultural Films.”
Graham
Neil Gillespie, King’s College: “Telescoping Busan on-screen, past and present:urban space and
cultural policy in Nameless Gangster(2012).”
16:30-17:00coffee(G2)  
17:00-18:00Plenary session1(G2) 
Chair: Dr
Shin Chi-yun (Sheffield Hallam University)
 Dr David Scott Diffrient,
Colorado State University: “ The unbearable Lightness of Hong Sang-soo's
HaHaHa: Awkward Humour, Nervous Laughter, self-Critique in a Contemporary
Korean Comedy.”
18:00 Reception (Brunei Suite)
 
Saturday
1st June
9:00-11:00 – Panel 4 ‘South Korean television, videogames  and Hallyu’
Chair:  Dr
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS) Room: G2
Irina
Lyan, Hebrew University, Israel: “ Discovering Korea on Screen: A case Study of
Korean Popular Culture in Israel.”
Chloe
Paberz , Universite Paris West-Nanterre-La Defense (UPO):
“The narrative of the outcast among South Korea videogame developers.”
Dr.
des. Marion Schulze, University of Neuchatel: “ Korea VS K-Dramaland”
Dr
Sung-Eun Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: “ Intercultural
Communication in Audiovisual Translation- Subtitling and Dubbing in Korean.”
11:00-11:30 – Coffee (G3)
11:30-13:00 – Panel 5a‘North Koreaand North Koreans on screen’
Chair: Dr Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)Room: G2
Dr.
Nicolas Levi, the Polish Academy of Sciences : “Kim Jong Il: a film director
who ran a country.”
Dr
Mark Morris, University of Cambridge: “Chunhyang at War:Rediscovering the
Franco-North Korean film Moranbong (1958).”
Christopher
Green, University of Cambridge:  “ Now On
My Way to Meet Who? The Two Faces of Ije
mannareo gamnida.”
11:30-13:00 – Panel 5b  ‘City, Aesthetics of Resistance and Screen
Media in South Korea.’
Chair: Dr
Kang Jaeho (SOAS)              Room: G3 
Taey Iohe,
Artist-Researcher, University College Dublin  &  Dr. Hyun Bang Shin, London
School of Economics: “City, Aesthetics of Resistance and Screen Media in South
Korea.”
13:00-14:00 – Lunch (G3)
14:00-15:00 – Plenary session 2  (G2)
Chair:  Aidan
Foster-Carter ( Leeds University)
Johannes
Schönherr, Freelance Writer: “ North Korea's International Movie
Collaborations.”
15:00-18:00 Panel 6 ‘History and film (2):
The Colonial Period and the pre-modern period.’
Chair:  Dr David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State
University) Room: G2
Jake
Bevan, the University of Exeter : “Once Upon  A Time In Colonial Korea.”
Dr
Jeeyoung Shin, Independent scholar: “ Re-imagining Colonial Korea and the
Hybrid Culture in New Korean Cinema.”
Dr BaekMoonim , Yonsei University:  “Remembering Colonization, Restaging
Ressentiment: Male Heroes in Korean Cinema.”
16:30-17:00 coffee break (G3)
Dr
Chung, Chong-Hwa, Researcher, Korean Film Archive:  “The influence of American silent serial
films on  early Korean Cinema.”
Dr
Charles La Shure, Hanguk University of foreign studies:  “Reimagining Tradition:Premodern Korean
Literature in Modern Korean Film.”
18:00 Conference ends
Organisers: DrAndrew
David Jackson, Jane Savory, Rahima Begum, Professor Yeon Jae Hoon (SOAS).
The
conference is grateful for funding received from the AKS (Academy of Korean
Studies).  
The event is free and open to the public
but registration is essential to guarantee a place. Places are limited and will
be allocated on a first come first served basis.
For registration and
updated information about the conference please check:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/events/korean-popular-culture-2013/31may2013-years-of-radical-change-conference-on-korean-screen-culture.html
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