| Curtain-raiser: Thursday 2 June |
| 7pm-9.30pm |
London Korean Film Festival: Teaser Screening #2
The Priests (Jang, Jae-hyun, 2015) @ Picturehouse Central
With introduction by Jinhee Choi. |
| Day 1: Friday, 03 June 2016 |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Registration (K0.31, King’s Building) |
| 9.30-10.45 |
Plenary (Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building)
Professor Kim, Kyung Hyun (University of California, Irvine)
“Dividuated Cinema: Temporality in Recent Korean Blockbuster Films” |
| 10.45-11.00 |
Coffee Break (K-1.14, King’s Building) |
| 11.00-12.30 |
Panel 1. Chair: Jinhee Choi (S-1.04, Strand Building)
[K-pop: Performance, Fandom and Discourse]
- Han, Ae Jin (PhD student, Sussex)
“The Mediatised Performance of K-Pop in Remediation”
- Shin, Layoung (Postdoc, UCSD)
“K-Pop, Fandom, and Same-Sex Sexuality among Young Women”
- Sung, Sang-Yeon Loise (Lecturer, U of Vienna)
“Transnational K-pop fandom and fan culture in Cosmopolitan Europe”
- Belyakov, Ilya (PhD student, U of S. Carolina)
“Narrative of PSY by South Korean Media before and after ‘Gangnam Style’ release: why did it change?”
Panel 2. Chair: Mark Morris (S-1.06, Strand Building)
[Screening Korean History]
- Gillespie, Graham (PhD student, KCL)
“From Post-Trauma to Virtual History: Cinematic Representations of the Gwangju Uprising”
- Jackson, Andrew David (Assoc Prof, U of Copenhagen)
“Historical text and image in Spring in My Hometown”
- Wall, Barbara (Research Assistant, U of Hamburg)
“The (sym-)pathetic image of a murderer: Crown Prince Sado in Korean historical TV dramas and films”
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| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch (K-1.14, King’s Building) |
| 13.30-15.00 |
Panel 3 Chair: Andrew Jackson (S-1.04, Strand Building)
[Culture, Memory, and Nostalgia: the Reply series]
- Kang, Kyoung-Lae (Assist. Prof, Korea University)
“The Era of Memory in Korean Screen Culture: Reading through Respond 1988 and Deep Rooted Tree”
- Keblinska, Julia (PhD student, UC Berkeley)
“Answer Me: Redeeming History through Technological Feeling in Contemporary Korean Drama”
- Pișcărac, Diana (University of Bucharest)
“Regional identities and the celebration of Korean unity in diversity in the ‘Reply’ drama series”
- Ryu, JaeWook (PhD student, Lancaster University)
“The Reply series Beyond Nostalgia: Internal Orientalism from Present to Past”
Panel 4. Chair: Kukhee Choo (S-1.06, Strand Building)
[Traveling, Shopping, Cooking and Eating in Korean Media]
- Wang, Xing (MA student, Peking U)
“Gazing at villages in Korean Reality Television”
- Taylor-Jones, Kate (Senior Lecturer, U Sheffield)
“Shopping, Sex and Lies: Sweet Dreams and the disruptive process of girlhood”
- Wang Medina, Jenny (Adjunct, CUNY Guttman)
“Consumption, Class, and Cultural Belonging in South Korean Culinary Dramas”
- Bruno, Antonetta L. & Somin Chung (Prof, U of Rome La Sapienza and Research Assistant, Inha University)
“Mokbang: Pay me and I’ll show you how much I can eat for your pleasure”
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| 15.00-15.15 |
Coffee Break (K-1.14, King’s Building) |
| 15.15-16.30 |
Panel 5. Chair: Chris Berry (S-1.04, Strand Building)
[Representing and Working in the Region]
- De Wit, Jerome (Junior Prof, U of Tuebingen)
“The Tear-Drenched Tumen: The Psychological Impact of Border Changes Depicted in Zhang Lu’s Tumen River (2011)”
- Lee, Hyunseon (SOAS)
“North Korean Cinema Hybrids. Shin Sang-ok in Pyongyang”
- Sun, Jiashan (Assoc. Prof, Chinese Academy of Arts)
“Reality Difficulties and Future Potentials of Film Co-Shooting by China and Korea”
- Dunkel, William (Graduate student, Korea University)
“Welcome to Transnational Animation City: Identifying the Korean Aesthetic in Legend of Korra”
Panel 6. Chair: Kate Taylor-Jones (S-1.06, Strand Building)
[Cinema of Desire, Love and Marriage]
- Lee, Hee-seung Irene (U of Auckland)
“The Ethics of Becoming a Subject: Hong Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)”
- Shin, Chi-Yun (Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University)
“Spectres of Colonial Love & Postcolonial Exorcise in Epitaph (2007)”
- Simpson, Allan (PhD student, SOAS)
“The Queer Unwanted’ in Kim Jho Gwangsoo’s Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012)”
- Kim, Molly H. (Lecturer, Korea University)
“Tales of Prostitutes: Politics, Military Regime and South Korean Hostess Film”
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| Day 2: Saturday, 04 June 2016 |
| 10.30-12.00 |
Panel 7. Chair: Hyunseon Lee (K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s Building)
[Documentary]
- Bae, Sangmi (PhD student, Korea University)
“Overdeterminated Conditions of Women Workers: Documentary Films about South Korean Woman Workers”
- Chung, Bora and Liora Sarfati (Lecturers, Yonsei U. and Tel Aviv)
“Documenting Grief through Protest: Kwanghwamun TV Project of the Sewŏl Victims Birthday Video Clips”
- Park, Jinhee (PhD student, USC)
“Repatriation and Departure as Dissensus of the Cold War: Family Ethnography in Korean Documentaries”
- Lu, Yao (PhD student, Shanghai Jiaotong; Fudan) & Dai Yuchen (Fudan University)
“Chinese image in South Korea’s documentary and the documentary transmission in China: a case study of the documentary of super china”
Panel 8 Chair: Jinhee Choi (K-1.56, King’s Building)
[Gender in Korean Media]
- Balmain, Collete (Kingston U)
“Little Lolitas in contemporary South Korean Cinema”
- Choo, Kukhee (Asst Prof. Sophia University, Japan)
“Girlhoods Apart: Popular Music and Nostalgia in Project Makeover (2007) and Sunny (2011)”
- Tilland, Bonnie (Asst. Prof., Yonsei University)
“Save Your K-Drama for Your Mama: Mother-Daughter Bonding in Between Nostalgia and Futurism”
- Marion Schulze (Center for the Understanding of Social Processes (MAPS) University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
“Everyday feminism and the construction of Otherness: The example of international fans of South Korean television series”
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| 12.00-13.15 |
Lunch (River Room, King’s Building) |
| 13.15-14.45 |
Panel 9. Chair: Hye-kyung Lee (K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s Building)
[Korean Cultural Industry]
- Messerlin, Patrick (Prof. Emeritus, Sciences Po, Paris)
“A Sustainable Korean Film Industry: What Can Be Learnt from France?”
- Parc, Jimmyn (Visiting Lecturer, Sciences Po, Paris)
“Understanding the Conglomeration of the Korean Film Industry: From Import Quotas to Screen Quotas”
- Khan, Afzal (PhD student, Kyungpook Nat University, Taegu)
“A Study on Korean Cultural Contents Based on Webtoon”
- Liu, Xiaoxia (Assoc. Prof., Southwestern U, Chongqing)
“Cooperation between China and Korea as Korean Drama Production Trend”
Panel 10. Chair: Chi-Yun Shin (K-1.56, King’s Building)
[Real Men Don’t: the Paternal, the Manly and the Unruly]
- Bae, Juyeon (Korea National University Of Arts)
“The Emergence of Paternal Multiculturalism in Contemporary Korean Cinema”
- Plaice, Mark (PhD student, KCL)
“Domesticating the Gangster? Introducing the Korean family drama gangster film”
- Hyland, Robert (Queen’s U)
“Duty to the Nation: Masculinity and Obligation in Contemporary South Korean Cinema”
- Liu, Yang (PhD student, U of Macau)
“Trauma Nationalism and Pop Culture: A Fantasy Analysis on Post-Cold War Korea Films”
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| 14.45-15.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15.00-16.30 |
Panel 11. Chair: Chris Berry (K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s Building)
[Korean Cinema and Society: Modernity, Confucianism, and Religion]
- Kim, Eunhye (PhD student, Yonsei University)
“A study of the Korean Movie ‘The Housemaid(하녀)’ through the Linguistic Approach -focused on the Discourse Analysis”
- Magnan-Park, Aaron (Asst. Prof., HKU)
“Obaltan: Choson Neorealism and the Conundrum of Aimless Confucianism”
- Morris, Mark (Cambridge University)
“Situating Buddhism in Korean Film”
- Sung, Kyoung-Suk (Lecturer, Bonn University)
“Reflecting society through film: An analysis about the interrelationship between film and society in Korean historical films focused on Attorney (2013) and Ode to my father (2014)”
Panel 12. Chair: Hee-seung Irene Lee (K-1.56, King’s Building)
[Hallyu & Beyond]
- Kang, Wooseok (PhD student,USC)
“An Aesthetic of the Cool: the Unexpected Emergence of Zainichi Cinema through Hallyu”
- Kim, Grace MyHyun (UC Berkeley)
“Virtual Korea: Learning about Korea through K-dramas”
- Kim, Suweon (Webster University, Ghana)
“Hallyu in Sub-Saharan Africa: preliminary investigations in Ghana”
- Nielsen, Jacob Ki (Researcher, U of Copenhagen)
“Transracial Moves, Migration and the American Dream in Never Forever (2007) and Fetish (2008): Towards a Transnational East Coast Cinema”
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| 16.30-16.45 |
Concluding Remarks |
| 17.00-18.30 |
Reception (Great Hall, King’s Building) |
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