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

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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”

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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)