[KS] NOV 12-13: GLOBAL KOREAN LITERATURE CONFERENCE and SPECIAL AUTHOR EVENT

[NA Kwon]

Dear colleagues,
Would you kindly distribute the following announcement?
Many thanks,
Aimee Kwon

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Associate Professor
Duke University
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image
Women's Studies




*Global Korean Literature at a Crossroads:
<http://sites.duke.edu/klaconf2015/> Celebration of Continuity and
Transformation <http://sites.duke.edu/klaconf2015/>*



*November 12-13, 2015 Duke University Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall*



*240 John Hope Franklin Center 2204 Erwin Road Durham, NC*



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*Thursday, 12 November 2015*


3:00pm                    Welcome


3:10 - 5:10pm          *Divided Knowledge and Trans-Borders*
*Chair: Eileen Chow, Duke University*



*Awakening from Ruin: Ch'oe Inhun and the Unfulfilled Bildungsroman of the
1960s Intellectual *We Jung YI, Penn State University


*Placing North Korean Literature in Korean Studies*
Immanuel J. KIM, Binghampton University SUNY


*Redacted Autobiography, Forced Decolonization in Yi T'aejun's Early North
Korean Literature*
Ji Young KIM, University of Chicago


Discussion: Gaehwa Bae, Harvard Yenching Institute



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*Friday, 13 November 2015*


9:00am                    Welcome


9:10 - 11:00am        *Sino-Korean Imaginations in Early Modern Asia*

*Chair: Morgan Pitelka, UNC Chapel Hill*


*Imagined Geography as Ethical Utopia: Envisioning Worlds in Late Chosŏn
Literature *Sookja CHO, Arizona State University


*Rethinking the 'Sinographic Sphere' Through the Poetics of Japanese and
Korean Chronicles*
Wiebke DENECKE, Boston University


*British-Korean Encounters: Late-Chosŏn Diplomacy and 1930's Medievalism*
Sophie BOWMAN, Ewha Womans University


Discussion: Jiwon Shin, Arizona State University

   Michael Pettid, Binghamton University SUNY


11:00 - 11:15am        Coffee Break


11:15am - 1:00pm    *Translation and Mobility*

*Chair: Leo Ching, Duke University*


*Mobility on Track: Locomotive Modernity in Colonial Korean Cinema *Han
Sang KIM, UC San Diego



*Sapphic Marriage and Fairytales of the Self-made Man *Yoon Sun YANG,
Boston University


*Representing Transnational Women in 1950s South Korea*
Yunji PARK, University of Southern California


Discussion: Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University

   Kelly Jeong, UC Riverside


1:00 - 2:30pm          Lunch

*RSVP for Friday lunch with dietary restrictions to Debbie Hunt
(ddhunt at duke.edu <ddhunt at duke.edu>).*


2:30 - 4:20pm         *(Re)Mapping and Crossing Borders*

*Chair: Shai Ginsburg, Duke University*

*Stories of Unification: Korean and German Perspectives on an Era of Change*
Birgit Susanne GEIPEL, UC Riverside


*Minjung as an Unfinished Project: A Non-Teleological Reading of Shin
Hak-Chul's *History of Modern Korea *Paintings*
Kevin Michael SMITH, UC Davis


*Korean Literature as National and Global*
Jonathan GLADE, Michigan State University


Discussion: Dafna Zur, Stanford University

    Ellie Choi, Cornell University


4:20 - 4:30pm         Break


4:30 - 5:45pm       *Roundtable: New Directions for Global Korean Studies*

    With Mai Shaikhanuar-Cota, Managing Editor, Cornell East Asia Series,
East Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies


*6:15 - 8:30pm*      *Special Event: Contemporary Novelist in Focus
(Perkins Library 217)*

    Featuring KANG Young-Sook, acclaimed author of *Rina*, and other
novels, with literary critic, KIM Jonghoi and Associate Director of Dalkey
Archive Press, Jake Snyder.

Reading and reception open to the public.






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Sponsored by Duke University Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES),
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Korea Forum, The Novels
Project @ Duke, Franklin Humanities Institute, and Literature Translation
Institute of Korea.

Visit our website at http://sites.duke.edu/klaconf2015/.


*For more information, please contact Nayoung Aimee Kwon (na.kwon at duke.edu
<na.kwon at duke.edu>).*









<na.kwon at duke.edu>



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