A day or two before the start of the workshop, we will send an email to all registered participants with a link to the event. If you have any questions or trouble with registration, please email us at queeringthestraits@gmail.com.

Todd Henry & Greg Pflugfelder

Workshop #2

CROSS-STRAIT CULTURES: PERFORMANCE, MEDIA, AND HISTORY

SESSION A
Friday, April 30, 2021 8:00PM – 10:45PM EST
Saturday, May 1, 2021, 9:00–11:45 AM, Seoul/Tokyo time *

OPENING REMARKS
9:00–9:10 AM
Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures & Department of History, Columbia University

PRESENTATIONS
9:10–9:35 AM
Thomas Baudinette, Lecturer, International Studies, Macquarie University
“Shipping Across the Strai(gh)ts: Exploring the Queer Potentials of K-Pop Idol Fandom Between Japan and Korea”

9:35–10:00 AM
So-Rim Lee, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
“From Boyfriend to Boys Love: South Korean Male ASMRtists and Digital Gender Norms”

RESPONSES
10:00–10:15 AM
Suk-Young Kim, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

10:15–10:30 AM
James Welker, Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kanagawa University

GENERAL DISCUSSION
10:30–11:45 AM

SESSION B
Saturday, May 1 2021, 8:00PM – 1045PM EST
Sunday, May 2, 2021, 9:00–11:45 AM, Seoul/Tokyo time *

OPENING REMARKS
9:00–9:05 AM
Todd A. Henry, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, San Diego

PRESENTATIONS
9:05–9:30 AM
Soo Ryon Yoon, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
“Performing Kwieo Methodologies, Queering Performance Methodologies”

9:30–9:55 AM
Yeong Ran Kim, Mellon Film and Digital Media Fellow, Sarah Lawrence Colleg
“Yeosung Gukgeuk: Queer Archives, Performance, and Historiography”

RESPONSES
9:55–10:10 AM
Makiko Yamanashi, The Japanese Society for Theatre Research

10:10–10:35 AM
Yoon Sun Yang, Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University

GENERAL DISCUSSION
10:35–11:45 AM

* Equivalent times for other time zones:

New York – Friday & Saturday, 8:00–10:45 PM
Chicago – Friday & Saturday, 7:00–9:45 PM
Los Angeles – Friday & Saturday, 5:00–7:45 PM

Honolulu – Friday & Saturday, 2:00–4:45 PM
Sydney – Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 AM–12:45 PM
Hong Kong / Perth – Saturday & Sunday, 8:00–10:45 AM

Berlin / Paris / Rome – Saturday & Sunday, 2:00–4:45 AM

London – Saturday & Sunday, 1:00–3:45 AM

Co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea; Columbia Alumni Association, Korea; the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture (Columbia); the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Columbia); the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego; Transnational Korean Studies (UCSD); and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (Columbia).