Centre of Korean Studies
Years of Radical Change: Conference on Korean Screen Culture
The list of speakers will be confirmed in due course
Date: 31 May & 1 June 2013
Room: G2, Ground Floor, SOAS University of London
From the 1980s New Wave of South Korean directors to the big budget spectaculars of the 2000s, South Korean cinema is attracting worldwide attention like never before. The past few years have also seen an exponential growth in the popularity of South Korean screen culture in Asia and beyond. The recent ‘Korean Wave’ (hallyu) of television dramas (soap operas), cinema and popular music has generated a remarkable amount of interest in Korea and its ‘culture.’ North Korea also has a long-established cinematic tradition and is a rare example of a country that has been ruled by a filmmaker. In the wake of last year’s successful workshop on South Korean film, Years of Radical Change (1) held at SOAS, the Centre for Korean Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Film and Screen Studies will host a two-day conference that aims to examine critically some of the most important issues affecting Korean screen culture today; particularly cinema, television and music videos.
Event Admission
Details on how to register will be confirmed in due course.
Call for Papers
Suggested topics include the following:
South and North Korean cinema past and present
Government policy towards cultural production
Film festivals
Anime
Video games
Intertextuality and the influence of Korean cinema on Hollywood
The Korean wave (hallyu) in Asia and beyond
Television dramas
Korean popular music videos
Papers on other forms of popular culture will also be considered.
Proposals (for individual papers as well as panel proposals) should include the name, institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, an abstract of 400 words, and a 100-word biography of the author. Please send proposals by 31 January 2013 to Dr Andrew David Jackson at radicalchange@soas.ac.uk
Successful applicants will be required to send the complete paper of 5,500 – 6,000 words by 20 April 2013.
For all enquiries, please contact Andrew David Jackson atradicalchange@soas.ac.uk
The organisers will make an effort to secure funding for accommodation and economy travel expenses to presenters (from outside London) whose papers have been accepted.
The organisers would like to publish outstanding papers from the conference, and will provide further details in due course.
Further information
http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/events/korean-popular-culture-2013/3...
Sponsor: Academy for Korean Studies (AKS)
Website: Centre of Korean Studies
