New School Media Forum:

Thursday, April 30, 2009
11:45 AM – 4:00 PM

The New School for General Studies
Ana-Maria and Stephen-Kellen Auditorium (screening)
Room 1204, 2 West 13th Street (forum with Hwang Sok-yong)

I. Film Screening: The Old Garden
Directed by Im Sang-soo, 2007
Based on Hwang Sok-yong’s eponymous novel
11:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Ana-Maria and Stephen-Kellen Auditorium, 2 West 13th Street

II. A Conversation with Hwang Sok-yong
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room 1204, 2 West 13th Street

This event is co-sponsored by the Foreign Language Program of the New School for General Studies (NSGS), the Asian Studies Program of CUNY, and Seven Stories Press.

About the Author:

Hwang Sok-yong is one of South Korea's foremost authors, a writer of worldwide renown, and the recipient of Korea's highest literary prizes and numerous international awards. His work, which grapples with the troubled history of the divided Korean peninsula, has earned him the rare achievement of a wide readership and appreciation in both North and South Korea. Americans were first to exposed to Hwang's writing when his novel, The Guest (Seven Stories Press), was published in the U.S. in 2005. His second American release will be The Old Garden, due out in September 2009. Recently, Hwang began experimenting with a new mode of storytelling in the digital age by serializing his novels on the Internet and running an online magazine.

The New School Media Forum is a research forum for faculty and students in the fields of media, film and cultural studies at the New School. It aims to foster and extend research in those fields by organizing lectures, symposia and conferences. The New School Media Forum is supported by the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Eugene Lang College and the Department of Media Studies and Film at New School for General Studies.