Triangle East Asia Colloquium: Transnational Korean Cinema and Media Conference
Reception
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium
Film Screenings
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
FedEx Global Education Center Auditorium
Q & A
8:00 pm -8:30 pm
8:30 am – 9:00 am
FedEx GEC Room 4003
Morgan Pitelka, Director of the Carolina Asia Center
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Panel I: Visuality and Gendered Body Across Borders
9:15 am – 10:45 am
Hyon Joo Yoo
Associate Professor of English
University of Vermont
The Cinema of the Real: A Transnational Paradigm
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Southern California
Naked Ambitions: The Nude in Korean Cinema
Comments: Nathaniel Isaacson, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, NC State University
Panel II: Cross-Media Dialogue in Neoliberal Korea
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington
Webtoon Platform and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond
Assistant Professor of English
Vanderbilt University
The Optics of Mutant Vectors: Run-away Neoliberalism in Train to Busan
Comments: I. Jonathan Kief, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, UNC- Chapel Hill
Lunch
12:30 am – 1:30 pm
Esther Kim Lee, Professor of Theater Studies, Duke University
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Panel III: Remapping Cold War East Asia
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Evelyn Shih
Assistant Professor of Chinese
University of Colorado Boulder
Funny Noises: Cold War (A)synchronies in Taiwanese and South Korean Film Comedy
Hye Seung Chung
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
Colorado State University
Archive Revisionisms: Reevaluating South Korea’s State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era
Comments: Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Closing Remarks
Ji-Yeon Jo, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, UNC- Chapel Hill
I. Jonathan Kief, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, UNC – Chapel Hill
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM