10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Opening Remarks

        Immanuel Kim (George Washington University; President, Korean Literature Association)

10:15AM – 11:00 AM Session I ALTERNATIVE SPACES

           Moderator: Theodore Hughes (Columbia University)

           Haeun Bae (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), “The Shaping of Erotic-horror Genre
in 1970s Korean Cinema: How the Dynamics of Authorship and Censorship in Film Production
Affect Genre”

           Haerin Shin (Vanderbilt University), “Synthetic Realism and the Multivalence of Presence in
           Memories of Alhambra and Palantir”

           Discussant: Kelly Jeong (University of California, Riverside)

11:00 – 11:15 BREAK

11:15AM – 12:15 PM Session II READING THE BODY

          Moderator: Mi-Ryong Shim (University of Georgia)

          Eun Ah Cho (University of California, Irvine), ““Sisters” on the Border: Sisterhood and Motherhood of North Korean Defector Women and (Im)possibility
of Solidarity in Kim Yu-jung’s Love Song for Youth (2012)”

         Jeong Eun Annabel We (Rutgers University), “Shades of Convalescence: On Pangyŏk and Disability”

         Ivanna Yi (Cornell University), “Dreaming of a Sentient Land: Ecofeminism and Crises of Embodiment in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian”

         Discussant: Jenny Wang Medina (Emory University)

12:15PM – 1:15PM LUNCH

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Session III DESIRING SUBJECTS

            Moderator: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University)

            Soonyoung Lee (University of California, Riverside), “Different Trajectories and Desires of Postwar Youths: 1960s South Korean Youth Films Compared
with Japanese taiyouzoku films and the French New Wave films”

            Jihyun Shin (University of British Columbia), “Consuming Seoul through Apartments: Fantasized Images of Seoul in Weekly Magazines and Films
during the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979”

            Discussant: Jae Won Chung (Rutgers University)

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM BREAK

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP (BY INVITATION ONLY)

     We Jung Yi (Vanderbilt University), Worm-Time: Division, Survival, and Resilience in South Korean Culture

     Discussants: Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California); Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan)

Co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea; Columbia Alumni Association, Korea