Years of Radical Change: Korean Screen Culture

Panel 1 ‘Gender, sexuality and the body’

Chair: Dr Rossella Ferrari (SOAS) ~ Room: G2

• Allan Christopher Simpson, SOAS: "Cinema of the Iban: An Analytical Narrative of South Korean LGBT Film."
• Ji-Yoon An, University of Cambridge: “New Korean Cinema and Fathers' Crises in Masculinity.”
• Dr Colette Balmain, Kingston University: “Whiteness, community and contamination: Postcolonial community and sexual miscegenation in White: The Melody of the curse, Kim Gok & Kim Sun, South Korea: 2010).”
• Dr. Nikki J.Y.Lee ,  Nottingham Trent University: “Korean Male Star Body:  Rain and the Transnational Hollywood Action Movie”

Panel 2  Gender and History

Chair:  Professor Jim Hoare (SOAS) ~ Room: G2

• Dr Chi-Yun Shin, Sheffield Hallam University: “ Between Crime and Punishment: Morals of Motherhood in Mother (2009) and Poetry (2010).”
• Dr Hana Lee, Yonsei University: “The Unending War: continuity and Discontinuity in Korean War Films in the Post-Cold War Era.”
• Dr Andrew David Jackson, SOAS: “Sound, image and distanciation in Spring in my Hometown .”

Panel 3 ‘Inside and outside the borders of Korea’

Chair:  Dr Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University) ~ Room: G2

• Jessica Conte, University of California, Irvine: “Moui: Legend of Portrait Framing Vietnam and South Korea's Past and Present.”
• Juyeon Bae, University of Nottingham: “Border Crossing Body: Focus on Traffickers and Stateless Things.”
• Dr Hye Seung Chung, Colorado State University: “In Search of Self (in others):Recent Trends in Korean Multicultural Films.”
• Graham Neil Gillespie, King’s College: “Telescoping Busan on-screen, past and present: urban space and cultural policy in Nameless Gangster(2012).”

Plenary session 1

Chair: Dr Shin Chi-yun (Sheffield Hallam University) ~ Room G2

• Dr David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University: “The unbearable Lightness of Hong Sang-soo's HaHaHa: Awkward Humour, Nervous Laughter, self-Critique in a Contemporary Korean Comedy.”
  

Panel 4 ‘ South Korean television, videogames  and Hallyu’

Chair:   Dr Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS) ~ Room G2

• Irina Lyan, Hebrew University, Israel: “Discovering Korea on Screen: A case Study of Korean Popular Culture in Israel.”
• Chloe Paberz , Universite Paris piest-Nanterre-La Defense (UPO): “The narrative of the outcast among South Korea videogame developers.”
• Dr. des. Marion Schulze, University of Neuchatel: “ Korea VS K-Dramaland”
• Dr Sung-Eun Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: “ Intercultural Communication in Audiovisual Translation- Subtitling and Dubbing in Korean.”

Panel 5a ‘North Korea and North Koreans on screen’

Chair: Dr Xiaoning Lu (SOAS) ~ Room G2

• Dr. Nicolas Levi, the Polish Academy of Sciences : “Kim Jong Il: a film director who ran a country.”
• Dr Mark Morris, University of Cambridge: “Chunhyang at War: Rediscovering the Franco-North Korean film Moranbong (1958).”
• Christopher Green, University of Cambridge: “Now On My Way to Meet Who? The Two Faces of Ije mannareo gamnida.”

Panel 5b  ‘City, Aesthetics of Resistance and Screen Media in South Korea.’

Chair: Dr Kang Jaeho (SOAS) ~ Room G3

• Taey Iohe, Artist-Researcher, University College Dublin  &  Dr. Hyun Bang Shin, London School of Economics: “City, Aesthetics of Resistance and Screen Media in South Korea.”

Plenary session 2

Chair: Dr Aidan Foster-Carter ( Leeds University) ~ Room G2

• Johannes Schönherr, Freelance Writer: “North Korea's International Movie Collaborations.”

Panel 6 ‘History and film (2): The Colonial Period and the pre-modern period.’

Chair:  Dr David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University) ~ Room G2

• Jake Bevan, the University of Exeter : “Once Upon  A Time In Colonial Korea.”
• Dr Jeeyoung Shin, Independent scholar: “ Re-imagining Colonial Korea and the Hybrid Culture in New Korean Cinema.”
• Dr Baek Moonim , Yonsei University: “Remembering Colonization, Restaging Ressentiment: Male Heroes in Korean Cinema.”

• Dr Chung, Chong-Hwa, Researcher, Korean Film Archive: “The influence of American silent serial films on  early Korean Cinema.”

• Dr Charles La Shure, Hanguk University of foreign studies: “Reimagining Tradition: Premodern Korean Literature in Modern Korean Film.”