Professor Soyoung Kim (Korea National University of Arts, Seoul) will be hosted at two events on the Homewood campus next week.
Mediating Eurasian Pasts February 10, 5-7 PM, Gilman 479
The Weight of the (Un)/written February 11, 1:30-3:30 PM, Gilman 35
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.
As a filmmaker, Soyoung Kim has directed the Women’s History Documentary Trilogy “Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea” (2000), “I’ll 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’s 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).