- Organized by Trans: Asia Screen Culture Institute
in alliance with Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society - Date: October 9-11, 2006
- Conference venue: Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea
This conference is an endeavor to create a platform for the discussion of the national cinemas of East Asia as well as the trans-Asian screen cultural flows through East Asia and South East Asia. The increasingly dynamic and inclusive tendencies in trans-Asian film cultural dissemination and exchange calls for collaborative work across both linguistic/national as well as disciplinary boundaries. The three day event is composed of two parts: one day devoted to the screening of two key films; two days of panel presentations and discussions. The topics open for examination are not limited to the cinema but include many other new “screen” technologies and their attendant communities: Web/Internet arts; television drama; public-space screen presentations; video installations; DMB, etc. We especially encourage the participation of new scholars interested in this emerging inter-discipline of tran-Asian screen culture. We envision this conference as a means to bring together researchers from within and outside specific Asia-area studies to engage in dynamic conversation. The conference site is the Seoul Art Cinema, the most revered and exciting center of cinephile culture in Seoul.
Please send proposals for individual papers and/or full panels no later than July 15, 2006 to: Kim Soyoung (Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of the Arts, soha8@knua.ac.kr) and Earl Jackson, Jr. (Visiting Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of the Arts ejackson@ucsc.edu). The full details will be available on Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society website soon (www.inter-asia.net).
Participants are urged to secure funding from their home institutions, however, we will have limited funding to provide accommodations for selected participants subsidized by Korea National Univ. of Arts School of Film and Multimedia. Everyone is also encouraged to attend the Eleventh Pusan International Film Festival which begins shortly after the conclusion of the conference. Invited guests of the conference will be provided Guest Passes for the Festival with the support of the festival.