Resonance – Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Hosted by the University of Oregon on Friday, November 11, 2022 and Saturday, November 12, 2022 in Global Scholars Hall 123.

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies.

This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

9:00-9:20 Congratulatory Remarks (Moderating: Jina Kim)

Executive Director of School of Global Studies and Languages: Professor Aneesh Aneesh
Director of Center for Asian and Pacific Studies: Professor Maram Epstein

9:20-9:30 Welcome & Resonance

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Resonance as a Method

Chair: Kelly Jeong (UC, Riverside) (virtual)

Mi-ji Kim (Dankook University), Resonance to ‘the cutting edge’: The Adoption of American Literature and Print Culture Network in East Asia in the 1930s
Haeun Bae (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Can the Voice of Poetry Resonate in the Capitalized Society Again?: ‘Poetic Act’ after the Hope Bus Movement in Korea
Woohyung Chon (Chung Ang University), International Film Festivals in Korea as a Field for Agonistics and Resonance

11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Ethics of Resonance and the Question of Belonging

Chair: Immanuel Kim (George Washington University)

Lindsay Schaeffer (UC, Riverside), The Structure of Empathy and the Self in South Korean Television Loser Growth Dramas
John Treat (Yale University), Yi Kwang-su and Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Literary History

2:00-3:30 Panel 3: Witnessing Traumatic Performances

Chair: Susanna Lim (University of Oregon)

Bruce Fulton (University of British Columbia), Trauma and Historical Memory in Modern Korean Drama
Hayana Kim (Northwestern University), Bodies Resonating with Grief: Representing the Kwangju Uprising on Stage and Troupe Shinmyŏng’s Rising People (1988)
Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University), Traumatic Resonance of Violence in Kang-baek Lee’s plays, Three and Watchman (virtual)

3:30-3:45 Coffee and Tea

3:45-5:15 Roundtable on Translating K-Literature & Beyond: Sora Kim-Russell

In conversation with Glynne Walley (University of Oregon) and Immanuel Kim

9:30-11:00 Panel 4: Resonance and Dissonance Across, Between, and Beyond Borders

Chair: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University) (virtual)

Miya Xie (Dartmouth College), Resonance and Dissonance in Chinese Ethnic Korean Literature (virtual)
Jerome de Wit (University of Tübingen), The Crisis in Korean-Chinese Cultural Identity in the 21st Century: Focusing on the Literature of Hŏ Ryŏnsun (virtual)
Jaewuk Kim (University of Southern California), The Cosmopolitan Everyday: In Search of the Marvelous in Ch’oe Inhun’s ‘The Gray Club’ and Kuunmong

11:15 -12:45 Panel 5: Urban(e) Resonances

Chair: Dong Hoon Kim (University of Oregon)

Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University), The Skies of Seoul, the Moon of Seoul: Critique of Urbanity in South Korea’s American Roots Music
Kevin Michael Smith (UC, Berkeley), A Tune of Two Cities: Seoul, Tokyo, and the Timbre of Simultaneity
Evelyn Shih (University of Colorado Boulder), From ‘The Laughing Song’ to ‘The Happy Provincial Gentleman’: Colonial Transformations of the Sonic Color Line in East Asia (virtual)

1:45-3:15 Panel 6: Resonating Women’s Voices in Self-Writing

Chair: Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California) (virtual)

Sangmi Bae (Waseda University), Resonance with Others: Transformations of the Autobiographical Novel in The Man’s House by Park Wan-suh
Soonyoung Lee (UC, Riverside), Enacting Texts, Resonant Texts with Plural ‘I’s: Focusing on 1970s South Korean Female Workers’ Memoirs
Christian Baier (Seoul National University), Facts, Fiction and Controversy: The Emotional Resonance of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (virtual)

3:30-4:30 Workshop: Developing a Major in Korean Language and Literature

4:30-4:40 Closing Remarks

Department Head, EALL: Professor Yugen Wang

4:40-5:00 Looking Beyond Resonance

KLA Executive Committee