UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Department Presents:

PAIN AND TRAUMA IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA

Saturday, May 14, 2011
9:00am - 6:00pm
UCSD, Pepper Canyon Lecture Hall
106 Russell Dr, San Diego, CA 92093

The Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego is pleased to present "Pain and Trauma in East Asian Cinema," a one-day conference that will be held at Pepper Canyon Lecture Hall 106 on Saturday, May 14th, 2011, from 9am to 6pm. This conference will examine the cinemas of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan from the point of view of visual representations of violence, destruction, and pain. Panels will explore this topic through such issues as war trauma, ecological and urban pain, and ghost and horror films. Many of the leading scholars in the field of East Asian cinema will be in attendance, along with UCSD faculty and graduate students from the departments of History, Literature and Visual Arts. Our goal is to enable conference attendees to better understand, empathize, and respond to traumatic subjectivity and its images. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served throughout the day, and a reception will follow the conference.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:00am
Continental Breakfast (Visual Arts Facility courtyard)

9:00 - 10:45am
Welcoming Remarks
Paul Ricketts, Ph.D. student, Visual Arts, UCSD

Panel 1: Ghosts and Horror
Moderator: Jessica Jordan, Ph.D. student, History, UCSD
Respondent: Stefan Tanaka, Professor, History, UCSD

"The Abiding Desire: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Laboring Phantoms"
Jonathan M. Hall, Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Pomona College

"Working Through National Disappointment: Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy"
Se Young Kim, Ph.D. student, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa

"Viral Colony: Reading Two South Korean Post-Colonial Horror Films"
Kyung Hyun Kim, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine

10:45 - 11:00am
Break/ Refreshments (Visual Arts Facility courtyard)

11:00 - 1:00pm
Panel 2: Ecological and Urban Pain

Moderator: Lesley Ma, Ph.D. student, Visual Arts, UCSD
Respondent: Yingjin Zhang, Professor, Literature, UCSD

"Tracing the Derelict Body: Trauma and Industrial Ruins in Wang Bing's Documentary "West of the Tracks""
Ling Zhang, Ph.D. student, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

"Gorgeous Three Gorges at Last Sight: Cinematic Remembrance and the Dialectic of Modernization"
Sheldon Lu, Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Davis

""Suzhou River" and the Aesthetics of Ecological Trauma on Film" Andrew Hageman, Ph.D. candidate, English Literature, UC Davis

"Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible: Pain and Trauma in Independent Chinese Filmmaking"
Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor, History, UCSD

1:00 - 2:00pm
Lunch (Visual Arts Facility courtyard)

2:00 - 4:00pm
Panel 3: War Trauma
Moderator: Tim Shea, Ph.D. student, Visual Arts, UCSD
Respondent: Kuiyi Shen, Professor, Visual Arts, UCSD

"Controversies and Conventions: Re-reading Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death""
Michael Berry, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCSB

"Twenty Years Later: Cities of Sadness"
Robert Chi, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

"Hiroshima Mon Amour: Posthuman Fluxus"
Mat Jarvis, Ph.D. candidate, Visual Arts, UCSD

"Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son: Transgenerational Transgression in Imamura Shôhei's "Vengeance is Mine""
David C. Stahl, Associate Professor, Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University

4:00 - 4:15pm
Break/ Refreshments (Visual Arts Facility courtyard)

4:15 - 6:00pm
Roundtable Discussion with Invited Speakers
Chairs: Lesley Stern and Norman Bryson, Professors, Visual Arts, UCSD

6:00 - 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese (Visual Arts Facility courtyard)

For more detailed information visit:
http://painandtrauma.blogspot.com/

or email:
sghanbari@ucsd.edu