[KS] War, Resistance, Poetry: Reading and Book Talk with Don Mee Choi (Dec. 1 2021)

[Sung Un Gang]

Dear members of Korean Studies mailing list,


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Next Wednesday, Don Mee Choi, poet and winner of the National Book Award 
2020, will read from her books /Hardly War/ and /DMZ Colony. /As an 
interlocutor of the event, I will be grateful if you would find time to 
join us. Please feel free to share the announcement through your network 
and with your friends and colleagues.

Best,

Sung Un Gang

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*War, Resistance, Poetry*

Reading and Book Talk with Don Mee Choi

Wed, 12/01/2021 - 19:00 to 20:30 CET

https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/calendar/event/next-picador-reading-don-mee-choi-dec-1-2021-6180


Please join us for Picador Professor Don Mee Choi’s reading, “War, 
Resistance, Poetry,” on Wednesday, December 1 at 7pm! Don Mee Choi will 
read from her books /Hardly War/ and /DMZ Colony/. The reading will be 
followed by a conversation with scholar and podcaster Sung Un Gang on 
writing, translating, and her time as a Picador Guest Professor. The 
event will be held in English and streamed on YouTube (please click here 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxnuxmkZcE8>). The event is free and 
open to the public. If you want to receive a reminder and the link via 
email, please register here 
<https://www.eventbrite.de/e/war-resistance-poetry-tickets-215595761727?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch>. 


The reading is presented by the Picador Guest Professorship for 
Literture in cooperation with Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 
Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, and Koreaverband. The Picador Guest 
Professoship is a private-pubic cooperation by Leipzig University, 
Holtzbrinck Berlin - Inspire Together, and the German Academic Exchange 
Service. You can find out more about the guest professorship on 
www.picadorprof.de.

The current Picador Professor Don Mee Choi is the author of /DMZ Colony/ 
(Wave Books, 2020), which won the 2020 National Book Award. It was also 
the finalist for the 2021 T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize. Her other 
books include /Hardly War/ (Wave Books, 2016), /The Morning News Is 
Exciting/ (Action Books, 2010), and several pamphlets of poems and 
essays. She has received the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 2019 
International Griffin Poetry Prize for her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s 
/Autobiography of Death/ (New Directions, 2018), 2019 DAAD 
Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & 
2019 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and 2011 Whiting Award for Poetry. 
Most recently she has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2021 
MacArthur Grant. Choi’s poetry incorporates photos by her father, a war 
photographer, and other visual and archival materials in order to 
explore the overlapping histories of Korea and the US. More of Choi’s 
books, translations, and interdisciplinary arts projects can be seen on 
her website <https://www.donmeechoi.com/>.

Sung Un Gang is a research associate in the Department of Korean Studies 
at the University of Bonn 
<https://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/japkor/de/pers/gang> and a Ph. D. candidate 
in the Department of Theater and Media Culture Studies at the University 
of Cologne 
<https://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/dissertationsprojekte-im-integrated-track/profilseiten-it/1212>. 
He examines the politics of the public discourse surrounding female 
audiences during the colonial era. He studied German literature at the 
University of Bonn (M.A.) and Seoul National University (B.A.) with two 
grants by DAAD. He was a junior fellow at the International Center for 
Korean Studies at Kyujanggak Institute (2018) and a scholarship holder 
of a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for Humanities Cologne (2015-2018). He is 
producing a monthly interview podcast with queer Asians in Germany 
entitled “Bin ich süßsauer?” <https://binichsuesssauer.podigee.io/>
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