[KS] [KLA Conference] Invitation to join and attend KLA Conference

[Kim, Immanuel]

Dear friends,

We cordially invite you to become a member of Korean Literature Association
and attend this year's conference on Zoom at The George Washington
University. Join here in this link, and be sure to fill out the form on "Click
here and Sign Up."
http://korlit.org/wp/membership/

Date: November 19 and 20, 2021
Time: 10am EST

Once you become a member, we will send you the Zoom link.

This year, we have several panels on diverse topics. Below is the program.
We also have a workshop on premodern literature and a workshop of publishing
with editors from Columbia University Press and the Journal of Korean
Studies.

We will also have a socializing platform for you to reconnect with fellow
scholars and colleagues.
See you in November at the nation's capital!

Best,
Immanuel, president of KLA


Korean Literary Association Conference 2021

George Washington University November 19-20, 2021

Day 1, November 19, 2021

10am-12pm EST North Korean Culture

Moderator: Immanuel Kim (George Washington University)

Gabor Sebo (Yonsei University) “Altered Voices of North Korean Silver
Screen: An Unusual Look at The Outside World of North Korean Cinema”

Pil-ho Kim and Makayla Cherry (Ohio State University), “Translating Double
Trouble: Familial and National Crisis in Twenty-first Century North Korean
Films”

Benoit Berthelier (University of Sydney), “Layers of Abstractions & Layers
of Ideology: Reading North Korean Video Games”

1-3pm EST Beyond Literary Prose

Moderator: Jina Kim (University of Oregon)

Andrii Ryzhkov (National Autonomous University of Mexico), “Perceptions of
South Korea in North Korean Defectors’ Poetry”

Maya Stiller (University of Kansas), “Carvers of Memory: Autographic
Graffiti at Kŭmgangsan”

Richard Mcbride (Brigham Young University), “Of Monasteries and Monks:
Mainstream Sinitic Buddhism in the Poetry of Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn”

Kevin Michael Smith (UC Berkeley), “Romanticism Strait: Coloniality and
Liminality in Im Hwa’s Maritime Poetry."

3-5pm EST Teaching and Researching Premodern Korea, Roundtable Discussion

Si Nae Park (Harvard University), Sunyoung Son (Cornell University), Ivanna
Yi (Cornell University), Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University)

Day 2, November 20, 2021

10am-12pm EST The National and the Intimate

Moderator: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University)

Jonathan Glade (University of Melbourne), “Collective Contrition:
Constructing a Future through a Shared Reckoning with the Past”

Marcy Tanter (Tarleton State University), “Interpreting Primary Source
Documents to Tell the Story of the Gwangju Uprising”

Owen Stampton (University of Sheffield), “‘We Should Have Attended School’
– Exploring Women and Enlightenment Era Didacticism in Yi Kwang-su’s
Kyuhan”

1-3pm Diasporic and Transnational Voices Between Empires

Moderator: Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California)

Jeehyun Choi (University of California at Berkeley), “The Korean American
Left Between Empires”

Santosh Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), “Colonial Joseon as Viewed
through British-Indian Travel Literatures”

Miya Qiong Xie (Dartmouth College), “Korean Language for Chinese
Nation-State: Ri Kŭn-jŏn’s The Tiger Rock”

Jerome de Witt (University of Tübingen), “Coping with Capitalism: The
Function of Humor in Korean-Chinese Literature of the 1990s”

3-4pm EST Publishing Workshop with Christine Dunbar (Columbia University
Press) and Jisoo Kim (Journal of Korean Studies)


-- 
Immanuel Kim
The Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud
Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies
East Asian Languages and Literatures
The George Washington University

*Friend: A Novel from North Korea*
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/friend/9780231195614

*Laughing North Koreans*
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793608291/Laughing-North-Koreans-The-Culture-of-Comedy-Films


*Rewriting Revolution*
https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/rewriting-revolution-women-sexuality-and-memory-in-north-korean-fiction/
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