Agenda UV

East Asian Studies Course: Learn about this region of the world with internationally renowned figures.

Location: S06, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. 

Languages: English and Spanish.

This course is free, but places are limited. Register at the following link: https://forms.gle/HoFzgn5W8HS8DiBR8

To receive a course certificate, attendance is required (80% of sessions).

PROGRAMA

13th March

Sho Konishi (University of Oxford). The History of Not: Symbiotic Modern in Japan after World War Zero.  

27th March

(in Spanish) Carles Prado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Translation and transnationality: memories of China's reform and opening up 

(in Spanish)  (  Nong Ru Cheng Lee (University of Valencia). From Political Icon to Transcultural Sign: Mao Zedong in Global Visual Culture 

17th April

(in Spanish)   Olga Pirozhenko (University of Valencia). Sakhalin Island in the destiny of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov

24th April 

Joon-kon Chung (Eurasia Foundation (From Asia))

8th May

Victoria Yang (University of Cambridge). Decentering Japan: Approaches to and from Okinawan literature  

(in Spanish)  Ester Torres-Simón (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Korean literary panorama, from webtoon to Nobel Prize

15th May March 

Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University). Technology, Indexicality, Memory: Japanese and Korean War Film Lineages as Prehistories of Current Media Loops 

Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia). Transnational Memories in Documentary Film: Haneda Sumiko’s The Japanese Settlers

22nd May 

Owen Miller (SOAS, University of London) Reconfiguring a company town in late 1950s North Korea: the role of the Deutsche Arbeitsgruppe at Hŭngnam and the problems of social reproduction

Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna). Performing Postsocialist Futurities: Chinese Theatre, Technology, and the Posthuman  

29th May

(in Spanish)  Eunsook Yang  (Complutense University of Madrid). Silk Road heritage in Korea

(in Spanish) Mario Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid). China in the Current International Order

5th June

(in Spanish) Ignacio López Sako (University of Granada). Is Japanese hard to learn? Some considerations about the relationship between language, culture and communication, and their acquisition as a foreign language

(in Spanish)  Amparo Montaner (University of Valencia) The Role of Linguistic Models in the Contrastive and Applied Study of Spanish and Japanese 

12th June

Elia dal Corso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The Ainu language through the eyes of explorers and documenters

(in Spanish)  Blai Guarné (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Identity at stake: cultural reappropriation and Japanese social visibility in Spanish urban space 

19th June

Loli Kim (University of Oxford). Interpreting Korean Popular Culture: How to Perform Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis

(in Spanish) Sonia Dueñas (University Carlos III of Madrid) Transnational Connections in Contemporary South Korean Cinema