[Commlist] South Korean Women's Cinema - Online Conference

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Call for Papers:
SOUTH KOREAN WOMEN’S CINEMA
Online conference 23-25 September 2021
Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom)
Funded by The Academy of Korean Studies


While the profile and popularity of Korean cinema abroad has peaked with 
the success of multi-Oscar award-winning film Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 
2019), women’s cinema and women filmmakers’ wide-ranging contribution to 
Korean cinema have been consistently overlooked by film audiences and 
academics alike. Such neglect is evident in a dearth of English-language 
sources on women filmmakers in the Korean film studies scholarship.
As the first major English-language conference focused solely on Korean 
women’s cinema, the conference aims first of all to celebrate Korean 
women filmmakers (from pioneers to new generation) and contributions 
they have made in the history of Korean cinema. The event also intends 
to provide a site that enables the feminist film scholars to explore a 
range of topics and issues that include what it means to do women’s 
cinema in Korea and the relationship between activism and cinema, as 
well as addressing gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and the #MeToo 
Movement within the Korean film industry and wider fields. In addition, 
the conference seeks to illuminate the current status of women’s cinema 
and to envisage future trends.
INVITED SPEAKERS (so far) include:
Chungmoo Choi (University of California, Irvine)
Yim Soon-rye (filmmaker) Kangyu Garam (documentary filmmaker)

We’d like to invite proposals for (maximum) 20-minute papers that 
address any topics related to the South Korean women’s cinema, including 
case studies on:
•	Female authorship (directors, producers, screenwriters, etc.)
•	Female film stars
•	Female subjectivity / agency on screen
•	Women’s film history  •	Women in Korean film industry
•	Documentary films & activism •	Women and transnational filmmaking

The conference also welcomes expression of interests in participating in 
the “Teaching Korean Women’s Cinema” workshop.  (A modest amount of 
honorarium is available to the workshop participants.)
Deadline for submission of proposals: Monday 2 August 2021

Please send proposals (of about 200 words) & short bio (of about 50 
words) + EOI in the workshop and any queries to the conference 
organiser: Dr Chi-Yun Shin ((c.y.shin /at/ shu.ac.uk)) by Monday 2 August 2021.

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