[KS] Conference on New Perspectives on 1980s Korean Cultural History

sunyoung park syoung90 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 25 16:18:30 EDT 2015


Dear Colleagues,

I'd like to circulate for your information the below conference program at USC. If you're in the area, you're more than welcome to come by. 

Best,
Sunyoung Park 





















New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

Social Sciences Building 250

University Park Campus of the University of Southern
California

Friday-Saturday, November 6-7, 2015

 



This conference aims to explore and
generate new critical perspectives on the cultural history of 1980s South Korea
through a transnational intellectual dialogue among some of the most
distinguished international experts on the period. The decade of the 1980s is
rightly celebrated by Koreans today as the era of minjung (people’s) culture, a time when a collective effort by
ordinary citizens and intellectuals alike led to upheaval and the
democratization of the country within the space of a few years. Previous
representations of the era, however, have tended to privilege a political
narrative of liberation over many complexities and contradictions. On the one
hand, the focus on democratization has left in the shadow
other coeval
processes such as rapid economic expansion, the rise of a middle class as a
social subject, and the opening up of culture through new media and technology.
On the other hand, the persistent centering of minjung intellectuals as the agents of democratization has led to a
neglect of the contributions of workers, women, and common Koreans as well as
the downplaying of the international aspects of the movement.


Bringing together Korean, American,
and Australian scholars, this conference encourages presenters and participants
alike to engage in a broadening and contextualizing reflection on the
significance of the 1980s for Korean culture then and today. Some of the major
issues to be raised in panels are the extent and significance of
internationalism both inside and outside the minjung movement, the agency of working-class masses in the
decade’s cultural production, the impact of new media and technologies on 1980s
cultural imaginations, the affinity and variances between different media
cultures, and the ruptures and continuities that characterized Korean culture
as the 1980s gave way to the democratic 1990s. As a closing event, a round
table forum will attempt to take a new and enriched look at 1980s Korean
culture from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.


The conference is generously supported
by the Northeast Council of the
Association for Asian Studies and by the Center for Feminist Studies, the
Department of History, the East Asian Studies Center, the Korean Heritage
Library, the Korean Studies Institute, and the School of Cinema Studies at USC.
It is organized jointly by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
at USC and the Academy of East
Asian Studies and the Department of Korean Language and Literature at
Sungkyunkwan University. 


For further information, please
contact Sunyoung Park at sunyounp at usc.edu.

 

Conference Program
and Schedule

 

Friday, November 6

 

8:00-9:00 am               Breakfast

 

9:00-9:10 am               WELCOMING ADDRESS       

Kyung Moon Hwang, USC

 

9:10-10:40 am  PANEL I. Locating the 1980s in Korean History and
Memory

 

Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles 

Popular Memory of the
1980s and Unpacking the Regime of Discontinuity

 

Kyung Moon Hwang, USC

The
Irrepressibility of Teleology: The 1980s as Historiography

 

Discussant: Jennifer Jung-Kim, UCLA  

 

10:40-11:00 am                       Coffee
Break 

 

11:00-1:00 pm             PANEL II. Internationalizing the
1980s Democratization Movement 

 

Ruth Barraclough, Australian National University

Mobile Activism and Political Tourism:

South Korean and Australian Student Exchanges in
the 1980s

 

Jae-Yong Kim, Wonkwang University 

Overcoming Colonial Modernity: 

An Intellectual Journey from 1980s Anti-imperialism to
1990s Transnationalism

 

Kyunghee Sabina Eo, USC

­­­Queering the Dreams of a Third-World Brotherhood:

Black Women in 1980s South Korean Literature and Film

 

Discussant: Viet Thanh Nguyen, USC Center for Transpacific Studies

 

1:00-3:00 pm                           Lunch


 

3:00-5:00 pm               PANEL
III. Laboring and Gendering National Culture 

 

Jin-kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego

Re-tracing the Political:

the State, Leftist Nationalism and
Aesthetics in Authoritarian South Korea



Jung-Hwan Cheon, Sungkyunkwan University

Where have all the “Shouting
Stones” Gone?:

A History of Korean Workers’
Literary Clubs in the 1980s

 

Hye-Ryoung Lee, Sungkyunkwan University

Bright Constellation:

The Birth and Significance of South Korean Women’s
Literature in the 1980s  

 

Discussant: Ruth Barraclough, ANU

 

6:00-8:00 pm               Dinner in Koreatown 

 

 

Saturday, November 7

 

8:00-9:00 am               Breakfast 

 

9:00-9:10 am               OPENING REMARK 

Sunyoung Park, USC

 

9:10-11:10 am  PANEL IV. Rethinking 1980s Mass Culture 

 

Inyoung Nam, Dongseo University 

Screening Minjung: South Korean Independent
Documentary Film-Making in the 1980s

 

Yun-Jong Lee, Dong-a University 

Between Progression and Regression: Ero Film as Cinema of
Retreat

 

Sunyoung Park, USC 

In Other Times: Science Fiction
and Democratization in 1980s Korea 

 

Discussant: Alice Echols, USC Gender Studies Program

 

11:10 am-11:30 pm     Coffee
Break

 

11:30-1:00 pm             ROUND
TABLE FORUM

                                    Publishing
New Perspectives in 1980s Korean Cultural History






 		 	   		  
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