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We would like you to invite you to the (2018 Situations International Conference),
the theme of which is “The Culture Industries in Asia: Into the Digital Age” When: Nov 30 - Dec 1, 2018 Where: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus at The University of Hong Kong Co-hosted by Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong and Department of English BK 21 Project, Yonsei University [Program] November 30th (Friday) 8:30 - 9:00 am Registration 9:00 – 9:10 am Opening Remarks: Prof. Nicole Huang (HKU) & Prof. Terry Murphy (Yonsei University) 9:10 – 10:00 am Plenary Speaker: Prof. Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University)“Globalization, Digitalization and Renationalization” Moderator: Prof. Nicole Huang (HKU) Discussant: Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (HKU) 10:00 – 11:15 am Panel 1: New Media Panel Chair: Prof. Peter Paik (U of Wisconsin Milwaukee) Benoit Berthelier (UC San Diego) “Digital North Korea: The Geopolitics of Data, Technology and New Media on the Korean Peninsula” Seunghan Paek (Catholic Kwandong U) “The Groundless Ground: Gaming as a Form of Life in the Post-internet Era” Hee-eun Lee (Chosun U) “Youtube as Digital Noise and Glitch: From Niche Market toMainstream Media Industry” 11:15 – 11:30 am Coffee Break 11:45 – 1:00 pm Panel 2: Politics of Identities Panel Chair: Dr. Daniel Vukovich (HKU) Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India) “Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Pornotopia in the ‘Indian’ Culture Industry” 11:45 – 1:00 pm Panel 2: Politics of Identities Panel Chair: Dr. Daniel Vukovich (HKU) Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India) “Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Pornotopia in the ‘Indian’ Culture Industry” Steven Kim (Jeju Peace Institute) “Who Am I in the Digital Age?: Creation of Transnational Identities through Hallyu and K-pop” Ian Dixon (Deakin U/Nanyang Technological U) “UnderbellyInferno: Producer/Celebrity/Fan Online Interfaces inAustralian Television." 1:00 – 2:15 pm Conference Lunch 2:15 – 3:05 pm Plenary Speaker: Prof. Laikwan Pang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “The Fatality and Natality of Hong Kong Film Industry”Moderator: Prof. Stephen Chu (HKU) Discussant: Prof. Gina Marchetti (HKU) 3:05 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break page2image162916163:15 – 4:45 pm Panel 3: History, Music, and Stardom Panel Chair: Dr. Esther Yau (HKU) Hye Rin Shin (Postgraduate, Yonsei University) “Immortal and Digital: Mythification of Bruce Lee Through Digital Editing” Leung Ka Yan (PhD Candidate, HKU) “Masking and Mocking Dissent: A Case Study on a Hong Kong Mock-Gangsta Rap Group, The Low Mays” Maxime Decaudin (PhD Candidate, The University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)) “Hong Kong’s Nature: A Cultural History of Landscape Transformations and Their Justifications from Early Colonization to the Present” Zhang Shimin (MPhil Candidate, HKU) “China’s Hip-hop on the Tik Tok: Between Cultural Industryand Cultural Politics” page2image18390640Dec 1 (Saturday)page3image16366080page3image16365456page3image16364832 9:00 – 9:50 am Plenary Speaker: Prof. Kyunghyun Kim (UC Irvine)“Becoming Black - Exploring Korean Hip Hop in the Age of Hallyu” Moderator: Prof. Suk Koo Rhee (Yonsei University)Discussant: Dr. Alvin Wong (HKU) 9:50 – 11:45 am Panel 4: Cultural Phenomenon Panel Chair: Dr. Fiona Law (HKU) Keehyeung Lee (Kyung Hee U) “K-pop Stardom’ under Scrutiny through a Cultural StudiesLens: Situating the South Korean Idol Phenomenon in a Larger Socio-Cultural Context” Soochul Kim (Hanyang U) & Kyung Han You (Hankuk U of Foreign Studies) “The Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality TV ProgramsFeaturing North Korean Resettlers Kyoung-Suk Sung (U of Bonn) “Film as a Form of Art or Mere Entertainment? Questionsabout the Re-definition of Cinema in the Digital Age” Mikah Lee & Younghan Cho (Hankuk U of Foreign Studies) “Banal Orientalism on YouTube: The Online Representationof South Korea in ‘Eat Your Kimchi’ Helen Shin (Yonsei University) “The Liveness of Dying: The Aesthetics of Live Streamed Horror in Gonjiam” 11:45 – 11:55 am Coffee Break 11:55 – 1:20 pm Panel 5: Gender and Media Representations Panel Chair: Dr. Jason Ho (HKU) Dr. Eli Sorenson Park & Prof. David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “The Future as a Number: Temporal Trajectories of Hong Kong” Tanvi Solanki, "Between the Local, Cosmopolitan, and the Digital: The Case of the Jaipur Literature Festival" (Yonsei University) Sungbean Son (Postgraduate, Yonsei University) “The Media Production of Digital Age in Korea: Focusing on Observational Entertainment Programs” Chaogunha Prechaya (Postgraduate, Yonsei University) “The Politics of Gender Diversity in Thailand: A Tale of CulturalWarfare” 1:20-1:30 Closing Remarks: Prof. Peter Paik (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) & Dr. Winnie Yee (HKU) |
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