Saturday, April 7, 2018
9:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Joukowsky Forum
SCHEDULE
Opening Remarks (9:30 am)
Panel One: Social and Behavioral Sciences (9:45-11:45 am)
Don Operario (Brown, Professor of Public Health), Chair
Todd Henry (UCSD, Associate Professor of History), “Neuropsychiatry as Area Studies: Han Tong-se (1930-1973) and the Diagnostics of Gender/Sexual ‘Deviance’ in Cold War South Korea”
Timothy Gitzen (UMinn, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology), “The ‘Ghosting’ of Health: Queer Infections, Biosecurity, and HIV/AIDS in South Korea”
John (Song Pae) Cho (Sarah Lawrence College, Assistant Professor of Sociology), “The Luxury of Love: Loneliness and Other Queer Affects Among Korean Gay Men”
Horim Yi (Korea University, Ph.D. candidate, Health Policy), “Health Disparities Between LGB Adults and the General Population in South Korea: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Study”
Discussant: Alexis Dudden, (UConn, Professor of History)
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Panel Two: Humanities (12:45-2:45 pm)
Samuel Perry (Brown, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies), Chair
Allan Simpson (SOAS, Ph.D. candidate, Korean Literature), “‘The Queer Unwanted’ in the Age of HIV/AIDS and South Korean Activism”
Yeong Ran Kim (Brown, Ph.D. candidate, Theater and Performance Studies), “Scenes of Encounter: Representations of Queer Intimacy and Sociality in Korean Queer Cinema”
Jung Joon Lee (RISD, Assistant Professor of Photography), “For Military Use: The Queer Gaze and the Problematics of Bodies in ‘Military Photography’”
Kyunghee Eo (USC, Ph.D. candidate), “Politics of Purity: Theorizing Queer Virginity through No Ch’ŏnmyŏng’s ‘Deer’”
Discussant: Samuel Perry
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Readings of Queer and Transgender Literature (3:00-4:00 pm)
Featuring a reading by Korean novelist Bi Kim, undergraduate and faculty readings of queer Korean fiction in translation, followed by a Q&A session
Film Screening: “Weekends,” Dong-ha Lee, Director (7:00 pm, Smith-Buonanno Room 201)
The event is made possible by the generous funding of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council, the School of Public Health, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the Department of East Asian Studies.