[KS] Reminder: Korean Literature Association 2024 Annual Conference at Ohio State University

[Pil Ho Kim]

*Act! Performativity of Korean Literature*


Korean Literature Association Annual Conference

The Ohio State University, Columbus

October 11-12, 2024



*Pre-conference Virtual Session* (10/10, 7-9pm, all US Eastern Time)


   - Adrianna Hajduga (Jagiellonian) “Literature Designed to Serve: The
   Case of Kim Il Sung’s With the Century Intervening into Mental Structures
   and Performative Schemes of the North Korean Society”
   - Mina Kwon (North Georgia) “Embodied Knowledge Research: Research-based
   Critical Translation Project of Traditional Korean Puppet Theatre”
   - Jan Creutzenberg (Ewha) “Acting Out the Ape: Performance of Otherness
   via Kafka in Korea”
   - Discussant: Jaehyuk Lee (OSU)

*Day 1* (Friday, 10/11): Pomerene Hall Room 280 (also on Zoom)

8:45-9:00am  Opening Remarks

9:00-10:00am *Keynote Lecture: *Translating the Musical Literacy of Pansori

Chan E. Park (Professor Emerita, OSU)

10:15am-12:15pm *Plenary Session*: Performativity, Adaptation, and
Contemporary Korean Theater


   - Areum Jeong (Arizona State) “Documenting the Jeju 4.3 in Creative
   VaQi’s The Story of Island”
   - Jieun Lee (Emory) “Korean Transnational Women Adoptees and Adoption in
   Contemporary Korean Theater”
   - Victoria Caudle (UCLA) “Casting Race: The Performance and
   Performativity of Race and Disability in Wandŭk-i and its Adaptations”
   - Spencer Lee-Lenfield (Harvard) “Translating As Scriptwriting: O
   Kyung-sook’s Theatrical Adaptation of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee”
   - Discussant: Hayana Kim (OSU)

1:15-2:15pm *Performance Presentation*, "Nolpan: Khoj"

Performed by Jin Won (dancer/choreographer); Directed by Yong Suk Yoo
(Carnegie Mellon); Introduction and post-performance Q&A moderation by
Kee-Yoon Nahm (Yale)

2:20-4:20pm *Parallel Sessions*

*Attuning to the Poetic Sounds of the Korean Diaspora* (Pomerene 280)


   - Hoon Lee (Indiana) “‘Bared Noise, Groan, Bits Torn from Words’:
   Abstraction, or a World-Building in Dictee”
   - Vero Chai (Rutgers) “(M)Otherworldly Utter: Sounding Theresa Hak Kyung
   Cha’s Dictee”
   - Olan Munson (Michigan) “From Autogenesis to Autogeography: Comparing
   Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi” [virtual]
   - I. Jonathan Kief (UNC) “Speaking and Listening across Borders: Radio
   Texts in the Cold War Koreas and Beyond”
   - Discussants: Jina Kim (Oregon) and Jae Won Edward Chung (Rutgers)

*Text as a Performative Space* (Pomerene 250)


   - So-Rim Lee (Penn) “Of Other Bodies and Worlds: Tracing a Cultural
   Discourse of Remedy in the Postwar Dailies”
   - Jinsoo An (Berkeley) “Poetry in Performance?: The Case of Lee
   Chang-dong’s film Poetry”
   - Tanner Rogers (Minnesota) “The Urban, the Rural, and the National: A
   Spatial Analysis of Pak Bŏm-sin’s Lying Like a Blade of Grass“
   - Discussants: Ted Hughes (Columbia [virtual]) and Sunyoung Park (USC)

4:30-6:00pm *Parallel Sessions *

*Bringing the Body and the Sound to Bear on Text *(Pomerene 280)


   - Young A. Jung (George Mason) “Return of Blood, Excrement, and Body: On
   Materiality and Physicality of the Body”
   - Sunhong Kim (Michigan) “Fight for Victory! The Combative Spirit of
   P’iri in the Korean War Poems/Songs and Records”
   - Yoonbin Cho (Penn) “Film Narration in Korea’s Changing Media
   Landscape: Byeonsa Performances and Their Modern Revival on Television and
   YouTube”
   - Discussant: Immanuel Kim (George Washington)

*Literature in/as a Political Battlefield *(Pomerene 250)


   - Hyowon Park (UCLA) “Kwangju on the Caribbean Archipelago in a
   Relational World: The Resurgence of the ‘Poetics of Relation’ in the 5/18
   Literature of the 1980s-2010s”
   - Aimée Lê (Pusan National) “Worker Writing and Performance: The Case of
   Ssangyong Motors”
   - Soonyoung Lee (Bard College) “The Performativity of Financial
   Capitalism in Contemporary Korean Fiction”
   - Discussant: Pil Ho Kim (OSU)

*Day 2* (Saturday, 10/12): Pomerene Hall Room 280 (also on Zoom)

9:00-10:00am *Writer Talk: Playwright Kim Eunsung* [virtual]

"Putting South Korean Society on Stage: A Perspective of a Playwright Born
in the 1970s"

10:15am-11:45pm *Plenary Session:*

*Performativity and Intercultural Dialogue in Translating Korean Drama*


   - Walter Byongsok Chon (Ithaca College) “Intersecting Life and Art and
   Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the English Translations of Myung-Wha Kim’s
   Plays”
   - Jisun Kim (Yale) “Translating/Transforming Performative
   Universalities: In the Case of Yeon-Ok Ko's The Sensibility of a Wife”
   - Kee-Yoon Nahm (Yale) “Performing Departures from Korea in Translations
   of Yun Mi Hyun’s Texas Aunt and The Wooden Boat”
   - Discussant: Yong Suk Yoo (Carnegie Mellon)

1:30-3:30pm *Parallel Sessions*

*Performing Ethnicity in the Global Korean Diaspora* (Pomerene 280)


   - Jerôme de Wit (Vienna) “Performative Agency in the Literature of
   Korean-Chinese Author Pak Sŏnsŏk”
   - Nick Allaman (OSU) “A Beautiful Garment Riddled with Holes: Crafting
   Place and Identity in Chaoxianzu writer Jin Renshun’s Short Fiction”
   - Iris Kim (Columbia) “Epistolary Intimacy: Letters to Family in Divided
   Korea through Zainichi Media”
   - Ji-yoon An (UBC) "The Predicament of (Korean) Diasporic Cinema: An
   Exploration of Past Lives"
   - Discussants: Miya Qiong Xie (Dartmouth [virtual]) and Keita Moore
   (OSU)

*Queer, Gendered, or Vegetarian Performance of the Body *(Pomerene 250)


   - Raymond Ra (USC) “The Conspicuously Fabulous: Queer Korean Performance
   as Errantry”
   - Hyun Jung Kong (Penn State) “The (Un)Masking of the Bodies: Cinematic
   Performances of the Military Sex Workers in Tour of Duty”
   - Vanessa Baker (Indiana) “Hypermasculine Performance in Ch’ae Mansik’s
   1939 Kŭm ŭi chŏngyŏl (Passion of Gold)”
   - Perry D. Miller (Indiana) “Bigeon (비건) at the Hwesik (회식) and Other
   Limit Experiences: Plant-based Lifestyles and the Performance of Self in
   the Korean Workplace.
   - Discussants: Kevin Shadel (Berkeley [virtual]) and Deborah Solomon
   (Otterbein)

3:45-5:45pm *Plenary Session: Performativity in Pre-Modern Korean
Literature*


   - Marjorie Burge (Colorado) “Hyangga as Performance: Contextualizing the
   Ritual Efficacy of Silla Songs”
   - Althea Volpe (Sapienza) “Recitation and chanting of Buddhist dhāraṇīs
   in Contemporary Korea: The Case of Master Ǔisang’s Pǒpsǒngge” [virtual]
   - Hyun Suk Park (UCLA) “Virtual Courtesans: Courtesan-Celebrities in the
   Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Korea”
   - Owen Stampton (Sheffield) “Yi Kwang-su’s The Martyr: Critiquing the
   Present through Staging the Past”
   - Discussants: Ross King (UBC [virtual]) and Hwisang Cho (Emory)

5:50pm Closing Remarks


For more information about the KLA membership and conference registration,
please visit the website: https://koreanlit.org/
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