Professor Soyoung Kim (Korea National University of Arts, Seoul) will be hosted at two events on the Homewood campus next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The event is co-sponsored by The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mediating Eurasian Pasts<\/em><\/strong> February 10, 5-7 PM, Gilman 479<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Weight of the (Un)\/written<\/em><\/strong> February 11, 1:30-3:30 PM, Gilman 35<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soyoung Kim is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Korea National University of Arts, Director of the Trans-Asia Screen Culture Institute, and Visiting Professor at Duke University, UCBerkeley and Irvine, She is the editor of the History of Korean Cinema ( 10 vols), National Research Foundation of Korea, co-editor of Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space, with Chris Berry and Lynn Spiegel, and Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene with Shiuhhuah Serena Chou and Rob Wilson. In her cinematic and scholarly work, filmmaker Soyoung Kim engages with theoretical and practical questions on national and global cinema and mediates, through cinematic media and installations, historical events such as colonialism, dictatorship, and displacement before, during, and after the Cold War. Particularly in her documentary essayistic work on the Koryo minority, a Korean-ethnic population displaced thrice\u2014under Stalin, through the Japanese occupation, and after the Soviet occupation following the Cold War\u2014Soyoung Kim retells the historical trauma of this people and articulates it in vivid ways within larger geopolitical and climactic archways. Her visual work touches on \u201cscales of time and space, which do not nest neatly but have oddly configured geometries.\u201d Her work contributes to the decolonization of memory and foregrounds spaces of subalternity within Asian cinema but also discusses the impact of globalization on this cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a filmmaker, Soyoung Kim has directed the Women\u2019s History Documentary Trilogy “Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea” (2000), “I\u2019ll Be Seeing Her” (2002), and “New Woman: Her First Song” (2004), as well as the feature film “Viewfinder”. She was previously invited as the Guest of Honor for the Guanajuato International Film Festival. KIM also directed the full-length documentary “Drifting City” (2015), and an exile trilogy epic about the Eurasian Korean\u2019s diaspora “Heart of Snow”, “Heart of Blood”, “Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang”, and “Goodbye My Love, North Korea”. Her most recent projects is the Women’s History Trilogy, “Ana Inn: Harvesting the Light” (ACC,2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\nMediating Eurasian Pasts: Soyoung Kim\u2019s Exile Trilogy and Other Works (2014-2024)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n