Recent Books in Korean Studies, Colloquium

Department: Center for Critical Korean Studies

Date and Time: October 23, 2020 - October 30, 2020 | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Event Location: Zoom WEBINAR & Facebook LIVE

Event Details


Share:
  |    |  



Program in PDF Form

Friday, October 23, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM PT
Followed by Q & A with Authors
Registration Link: bit.ly/CCKS_RB_01

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
By Christina Klein (Boston College, English)
Interlocutor: Hye Kyoung Kwon (UCI CCKS Postdoctoral Fellow)

Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
By Susie Woo (California State University, Fullerton, American Studies)
Interlocutor: Eleana Kim (Associate Professor, UCI Anthropology)

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PT
Followed by Q & A with an Author
Registration Link: bit.ly/CCKS_RB_02

Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
By David Fedman (University of California, Irvine, History)
Interlocutor: Vanessa Baker (UCI East Asian Studies)

Friday, October 30, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM PT
Followed by Q & A with Authors
Registration Link: bit.ly/CCKS_RB_03

Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress
By Elizabeth Son (Northwestern University, Theatre)
Interlocutor: Tara Rodman (Assistant Professor, UCI Arts-Drama)

Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
By Youjeong Oh (The University of Texas at Austin, Asian Studies)
Interlocutor: Jinna Ji Eun Kim (UCI Sociology)

For more information, please contact Joo Hoon Sin (sinjh@uci.edu).