The 1st Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer Camp
Title: “Imagining ‘Inter-Asian-ness’ beyond Neo-liberalism”
- Dates: 2008. 6.30~7.3.
- Venue: Yonsei University, Seoul
- Organizer: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society
- Co-organizers: Korea National University of Arts (School of Film, TV, and Multimedia), Sungkonghoe University (Institute for East Asian Studies), Yonsei University (Graduate Program in Culture and Gender Studies and Graduate School of Communication and Arts)
- Contacts: E-mail iacsssummercamp2008@gmail.com; Website www.inter-asia.net
<Statement>
This Summer Camp aims at organizing an open forum where young cultural studies researchers and graduate students gather and discuss common interests and current issues. The camp intends to provide participants with the opportunity to share, with fellow-researchers and cultural practitioners, concerns about emerging cultural phenomena and agenda in Asia and beyond. Another purpose of the camp lies in fostering the participants’ visions and passions as future scholars and activists.
Today, the neo-liberalist order is greatly influencing the methods of governance, the profit-making of corporations, the general trend of popular culture, and the knowledge production of academia. Cultural researchers are in the situation of having to understand the actual workings of the world through creating critical discourses and cultural practices. This camp is a place for education, in which next generation cultural researchers gather and communicate through researching radical changes brought about by neo-liberalist order.
Throughout the Camp, young researchers and students who are interested in the cultural currency and urgency of Asia will have uplifting experiences of learning and networking by discussing with scholars, experts, activists, and policy-makers. Asia is rapidly changing and the future generation of cultural studies researchers and cultural workers is emerging. In the camp, we wish to create a critical perspective toward what is happening “here and now” in the inter-Asia and a sustainable platform for solidarity and collaboration among the young generation.
<Organizers>
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society associated in Seoul hosts the 2008 summer camp. The organizing committee is listed below;
1. The organizing Committee
- Cho Hee Yeon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
- Paik Won Dam (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
- Shin Hyun Joon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
- Shim Bo Seon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
- Cho Haejoang (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Kim Hyun Mee (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Lee Sang Gil (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Yoon Tae Jin (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Kang Myung Koo (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Kang Nae-hui (Chungang University, Korea)
- Kim So Young (Korea National University of Arts, Korea)
- Yoo Sun Young (Korean Press Foundation, Korea)
- Chua Beng-Huat (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
- Chen Kuan-Hsing (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Earl Jackson (Korea University, Korea)
- Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India)
- Mouri Yoshitaka (Tokyo National University of Music and Arts, Japan)
2. The graduate students committee
- Shim Bo Seon (Committee chair) / Bark-Yi Eun Sil (Yonsei University) / Cho Chang Eun (Myungji University) / Hwang Miyojo (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, India) / Joung Seung Hwa (Yonsei University) / Kang Ju Hee (Yonsei University) / Kim Dong Hyun (Yonsei University) / Kim Soo Yeon (Korea National University of Arts) / Kim Sue (Sungkonghoe University) / Sohn Irhe (Korea National University of Arts)
<Streams>
- The camp consists of seven ’stream’s. ‘Stream’ is a concept in which each team communicates and exerts social influence by acting in a stream-like manner.
- Each stream runs four sessions, which are
- a. Lectures (Faculty members lecture on subjects related with streams)
- b. Seminar (students present working papers)
- c. Workshop (researchers or practitioners give presentations and intensive team discussion follows) or Field work (upon decision of stream participants)
1) Cultural Movement and cultural policy
“How cultural movement works? What is the impact of cultural policy on cultural activism? How the two interact?”
- Teachers: Cho Dong Won, Kang Nae-hui (Chungang University, Korea), Won Yong Jin (Sogang University, Korea)
- Field Work: Visiting Radical Social Sites (Cultural Action, Medi Act, Migrant Worker Television, People’s Media, Newscham)
2) New urban spectacle and Asian Cinema Anew
“The emerging topics. New films, new directors, and new stars. Digital Experimentation. History and trauma in film. The transformation of urban landscape and designs.”
- Teachers: Earl Jackson (Korea University, Korea), Guo-Juin Hong (Duke Univerisity, United States), Kim So Young (Korea National University of Arts, Korea), Lim Dae Keun (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea), Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University, India)
- Workshop: Media For Change: Art and Technology Media Lab
- Field Work: The Old Seoul Railway Station
- Moderators and Discussants: Lee Hyong Sook (Ewha Women’s University), Ahn Soo Jeong (Korea National University of Arts), Jeon Minsung (Korea National University of Arts), Sohn Ireh (Korea National University of Arts), Bae Juyeon (Korea National University of Arts)
3) Cultural economy and New Media
“How are the creative industries and the new mediascape reorganized in the changing cultural ecology? How the different forces in industries and media compromise and clash?”
- Teachers: Kelly Hu (Chung-cheng University, Taiwan), Lee Sang Gil (Yonsei University, Korea), Mouri Yoshitaka (Tokyo National University of Music and Arts, Japan), Shin Hyun Joon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea), Yoon Tae Jin (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Field Work: Alternative Cultural Spaces/Sangam Digital Media Center
4) Memory, nationalism, and inter-Asia
“How is the new form of Asian-ness emerging in the globalizing world. How is the past nationalism and inter-Asia related with new Asia?”
- Teachers: Dai Jin-Hua (Peking University, China), Paik Won Dam (Sungkonghoe University, Korea), Kwon Huyk Tae (Sungkonghoe University, Korea), Yoo Joong Ha (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Field Work: Historical Sites (Korea Democracy Foundation, Jinbo Network, The War Memorial of Korea)
5) Gender and sexuality in the global space
What conditions the newly emerging identity-politics within Asian and beyond? How can we go beyond the essentialist notion of identities and create new solidarity and networks across various identity-based politics?
- Teachers: Kim Hyun Mee (Yonsei University, Korea), Kim Mi Ran (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
- Field Work: Visiting Women’s Spaces in Seoul
<detailed schedules> (the following schedules are subject to change)
June 30, Mon: Opening
12:30 am-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm-2:00 pm: Registration
2:00 pm – 3: 30 pm : Keynote Speech, Yoo Sun Young
3: 40 pm – 5: 10 pm : Orientation
5: 10 pm – 6: 00 pm : Stream meetings
6: 10 pm – 7: 10 pm : Dinner
7: 30 pm – : Opening Party
July 1, Tue.: Lectures
10: 00 am – 12: 00 pm : Session 1
12: 00 pm – 1: 30 pm : Lunch
1: 30 pm – 3: 30 pm : Session 2
3: 45 pm – 5: 45 pm : Session 3
6: 00 pm – 6: 50 pm : Dinner
7: 00 pm – 9: 30 pm : Film Screening: Out: Smashing Homophobia Project (110min)
9: 30 pm – 9: 50 pm : Performance by L FLOWer
July 2, Wed. : Presentations and Workshops
10: 00 am – 12: 00 pm : Workshop
12: 00 pm – 1: 30 pm : Lunch
1: 30 pm – 3: 30 pm : Presentation 1
3: 45 pm – 5: 45 pm : Presentation 2
6: 00 pm – 6: 50 pm : Dinner
7: 00 pm - : Field Work and Free time
July 3, Thurs. : Wrap-up
10: 00 am. – 11: 00 am : Masterclass, Chua Beng Huat
11: 00 am – 12: 00 pm : Closing Ceremony
12: 00 pm – 1: 00 pm : Lunch
