[KS] Korean Film symposium at the University at Buffalo next week

[Bruce Acker]

The University at Buffalo's Asia Research Institute is pleased to share information about our First Annual Korean Studies Symposium, Genre, Gender, and Language in Korean Film and Drama<https://calendar.buffalo.edu/event/genre-gender-and-language-in-korean-film-and-drama-2/>.
Click here for a full schedule of symposium events<https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ixja-rV_0GT4qLpax6vJRg1anxv758ZbqYDlrOSHuw/edit>, including keynotes, film screening, literary reading, panels, and abstracts.

The reading by Matthew Salesses from his latest novel The Sense of Wonder on April 11 will be on Zoom, and the panels and keynotes on April 14-15 will be hybrid events. See the links to join below.

If you are in the Western New York area and would like to attend, please email koreanfilm2023 at buffalo.edu<mailto:koreanfilm2023 at buffalo.edu> to let us know we can expect you.

Bruce Acker
Assistant Director, Asia Research Institute
716.645-2580
backer at buffalo.edu<mailto:backer at buffalo.edu>

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The Sense of Wonder: A K-drama Literary Reading
Matthew Salesses, Columbia University
April 11, 2023
8-9:00 pm
VIA ZOOM
Click here to register for the Zoom event<https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcOGvrD0pE9UHrO6h61ixoIsmSx99PP-H>
The eighth book by bestselling Korean American author Matthew Salesses, The Sense of Wonder blends themes of K-drama and basketball to examine racism, injustices, challenges, and tensions experienced by Asian Americans.
Author Q&A moderated by Kelly Rich, Harvard University.
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Korean Cinema and the Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon-rye
Molly Hyo Kim, Hanyang University
With screening of Waikiki Brothers (2001), directed by Yim Soon-rye
April 13, 2023
6-9:00 pm
Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main St., Buffalo, Suite 530
The event is hosted by Squeaky Wheel, and will take place at Journey's End Refugees Services
Molly Hyo Kim is Adjunct Professor of the College of Humanities at Hanyang University. She has published her works in Acta Koreana, the Journal of Cultural Studies, and the International Journal of Korean History. Discussion moderated by Ekrem Serdar, curator at Squeaky Wheel, and Margaret Rhee, assistant professor of Media Study at UB and the New School.
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Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama
Keynotes, panels and special presentations
April 14, 10 am - 5:45 pm, Capen 10, UB North Campus
Keynote address by Joseph Jeon, Professor of English, UC-Irvine
April 15, Capen 240, 10:30 am - 5:00 pm, UB North Campus
Keynote address by Nam Lee, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Chapman University
Featuring scholars from the U.S., Asia and Europe examining a wide range of topics in Korean film and television, including sexuality, LGBTQ representation, translation, violence and popular productions like Squid Game and Parasite
View the full schedule here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ixja-rV_0GT4qLpax6vJRg1anxv758ZbqYDlrOSHuw/edit?usp=sharing>
Join by Zoom<https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/95170782173?pwd=WVNXTU9ESkt3bTVDNitDOWpXalFZQT09>
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Symposium events are sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies, Asia Research Institute, Asian Studies Program, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Center, UB Departments of Media Study, English, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, Art, Linguistics, Global Film Studies Minor Program, Gender Institute and UB Humanities Institute.

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