Those who attended the free one-day Korean film seminar in SOAS’s Vernon Square building May last year won’t need persuasion. This year, it has expanded to two days, and is in the main Russell Square building. Free, but advance registration is required.
Years of Radical Change: Korean Screen Culture
Date: Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June 2013, 9am – 6pm
Venue: Russell Square, College Buildings, Room G2
From the 1980s New Wave of South Korean directors to the big budget spectaculars of the 2000s, South Korean cinema is attracting worldwide attention like never before. The past few years have also seen an exponential growth in the popularity of South Korean screen culture in Asia and beyond. The recent ‘Korean Wave’ (hallyu) of television dramas (soap operas), cinema and popular music has generated a remarkable amount of interest in Korea and its ‘culture.’ North Korea also has a long-established cinematic tradition and is a rare example of a country that has been ruled by a filmmaker. In the wake of last year’s successful workshop on South Korean film, Years of Radical Change (1) held at SOAS, the Centre for Korean Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Film and Screen Studies will host a two-day conference that aims to examine critically some of the most important issues affecting Korean screen culture today; particularly cinema, television and music videos.
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Friday 31 May 2013 | ||
8:30-9:15 | Registration and Coffee (in foyer, main building) | |
9:15-9:30 | Introduction ~ Room: G2 | |
9:30-11:30 | Panel 1 ‘Gender, sexuality and the body’
Chair: Dr Rossella Ferrari (SOAS) ~ Room: G2
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11:30-12:00 | Tea & Coffee Break ~ Room G2 | |
12:00-13:30 | Panel 2 Gender and History
Chair: Professor Jim Hoare (SOAS) ~ Room: G2
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13:30-14:30 | Lunch ~ Room G2 | |
14:30-16:30 | Panel 3 ‘Inside and outside the borders of Korea’
Chair: Dr Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University) ~ Room: G2
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16:30-17:00 | Tea & Coffee Break ~ Room G2 | |
17:00 -18:00 | Plenary session 1
Chair: Dr Shin Chi-yun (Sheffield Hallam University) ~ Room G2
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Saturday 1 June 2013 | ||
9:00-11:00 | Panel 4 ‘South Korean television, videogames and Hallyu’
Chair: Dr Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS) ~ Room G2
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11:00-11:30 | Tea & Coffee Break ~ Room G3 | |
11:30-13:00 | Panel 5a ‘North Korea and North Koreans on screen’
Chair: Dr Xiaoning Lu (SOAS) ~ Room G2
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Panel 5b ‘City, Aesthetics of Resistance and Screen Media in South Korea.’
Chair: Dr Kang Jaeho (SOAS) ~ Room G3
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch ~ Room G3 | |
14:00-15:00 | Plenary session 2
Chair: Dr Aidan Foster-Carter (Leeds University) ~ Room G2 Johannes Schönherr, Freelance Writer: “North Korea’s International Movie Collaborations.” |
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15:00-18:00 | Panel 6 ‘History and film (2): The Colonial Period and the pre-modern period.’
Chair: Dr David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University) ~ Room G2
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16:30-17:00 | Tea & Coffee Break ~ Room G3 | |
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Register for the conference on the SOAS website here.
(automatically generated) Read LKL’s review of this event here.