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An Interdisciplinary Workshop
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) and the Center for Korean Studies present, "Korean Waves: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Korean Popular Culture in East Asia and the World," featuring Richard Pena and Charles Armstrong (Columbia); Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois); Kyung Hyun Kim (University of California - Irvine); Wondam Paik (Sungkonghoe University) and others.
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Sponsor: The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University, with the support of the Korea Foundation and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency
Date: November 16 – 17, 2007
Location: Davis Auditorium, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Schedule
Friday November 16
8:00 -10:30 PM
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Film Screening: Epitaph (Gidam) - US Mainland Premier. Introduced by directors Bum Shik Jung and Sik Jeong. Followed by a discussion with the directors.
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Saturday November 17
9:30 - 9:45
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Opening remarks by Charles K. Armstrong, Director, CKR |
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| 9:45 - 11:15 |
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Session 1: Understanding Korean Waves - "Hallyu" in Context
Moderator: Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University
Speakers: Jung Sun Park, California State University - Dominguez Hills
"Korean Popular Culture and Korean Americans"
Wondam Paik, Sungkonghoe University "The Korean Wave in Asia and Trans-Asia Cultural Traffic"
Jung-Sook Park, Columbia University. "Hallyu and North Korea"
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11:15 - 11:30
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Coffee Break |
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11:30 - 1:00
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Session 2: Korean Cinema
Moderator: Theodore Hughes, Columbia University
Speakers: Kyung Hyun Kim, UC-Irvine "Virtual Women, Natural Men: Korean Cinema in the Global Era"
Kyu Hyun Kim, UC-Davis. "The Representation of the Colonial Period in the Contemporary Korean Cinema"
Darcy Parquet, film critic "The South Korean Film Industry"
Richard Pena, Columbia University "The Korean Film Boom in the United States"
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| 1:00 - 2:30 |
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Lunch
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| 2:30 - 4:00 |
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Session 3: Melodrama
Moderator: JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University
Speakers: Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois "Melodrama and Korean Society"
Yi Seung-yeol, television director "Creating Korean TV Drama"
Edward Chun, Columbia University "The Music of Melodrama"
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4:00 - 4:15
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Coffee Break
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4:15 - 5:45
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Session 4: Consuming Korea -Music, Performance, Food
Moderator: Nicole Cohen, Columbia University
Speakers: Sang Mi Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "‘Korean' Dancer Choe Seung-hui in Japan and the United States"
Joshua Pilzer, Columbia University "Performing the Korean Exotic in Post-war Japan"
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University "The Globalization of Korean Food"
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6:00
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Dinner reception
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Film Screening: Hwang Jin Yi. Discussion with director Yoon-Hyung Chang |
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