CKR-AKS Regional Collaboration

CKR is pleased to co-sponsor this event with the generous support from the Academy of Korean Studies.

Korea, Media, Archive: Rethinking Optics
Friday, May 12, 2017, 9:30 AM – 6 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017, 10 AM – 6 PM
918 International Affairs Building

By RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at gt2359@columbia.edu to attend as an observer.

For the agenda, please click here.

The aim of the workshop is to investigate the new forms of seeing which arose in confrontation with successive cultural and political forces and the advent of new technologies.Toward these ends, the conference maps out three broad and interrelated dimensions of mediated visuality in modern Korea: media archaeology, the lasting effects of the Cold War, and the idea of cosmopolitanism. While its concerns are grounded in the Korean 20th century, the intellectual scope of the conference must of necessity expand its vision to regional and intercontinental practices.

Participants:

Sejung Ahn, University of Minnesota
Moonim Baek, Yonsei University
Steven Chung, Princeton University
Olga Fedorenko, Seoul National University
Jane Gaines, Columbia University
Namhee Han, Leiden University
Theodore Hughes, Columbia University
Jaeho Kang, SOAS University of London
Han Sang Kim, Rice University
Hieyoon Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
Chaeeun Lee, City University of New York
Hwajin Lee, Inha University
Sohl Lee, Stony Brook University
Yongwoo Lee, New York University
Hyun Seon Park, Yonsei University
Hyungji Park, Yonsei University
Ying Qian, Columbia University
Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt University

Sponsored by
The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
Center for Korean Visual Culture, Yonsei University

Co-sponsored by
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
MA in Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea
The National Research Foundation of Korea