BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Asian Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Asian Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231102T1344Z-1698932685.4027-EO-61556-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260711T005937Z CREATED:20231031T221319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T224854Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T174500 SUMMARY: Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature DESCRIPTION: In 2022\, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) and Seoul Selection Publishing facilitated the English-language translation s of four important literary works by prominent Zainichi (lit. “residing in Japan\; resident) Korean authors: Kim Sŏk-pŏm’s Death of a Crow\, translat ed by Christina Yi\; Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’aryŏng and Other Stories\, transla ted by Cindi Textor and Lee […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In 2022\, the Literature Translation Insti tute of Korea (LTI) and Seoul Selection Publishing facilitated the English- language translations of four important literary works by prominent Zainich i (lit. “residing in Japan\; resident) Korean authors: Kim Sŏk-pŏm’s De ath of a Crow\, translated by Christina Yi\; Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’a ryŏng and Other Stories\, translated by Cindi Textor and Lee Soo Mi\; Kim Tal-su’s The Trial of Pak Tal and Other Stories\, translated b y Christopher D. Scott\; and Yang Seok-il’s Blood and Bones\, tran slated by Adhy Kim.

This symposium will bring together the translator s of these works to collectively consider the state of the field and future directions for Zainichi literary studies. It will conclude with a book tal k by Cindi Textor on her forthcoming monograph\, Intersectional Incoher ence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility (University o f California Press).

Supported by funding from the Department of Asia n Studies at UBC\, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea\, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

 

Date : Saturday\, December 9

Time: 2:00pm – 5:45 pm

Venue: In-person in Room 604 @ UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) and online.

Reserva tion required:

For in-person registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtric s.com/jfe/form/SV_9n58S9XTg8tiZvw

For Zoom participation: https://u bc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r6V7DeLdQCCt9AanoFFZpA

 

Schedule:

2:00pm – 3:45pm: Roundtable discussion with t ranslators\, moderated by Andre Haag

3:45pm – 4:00pm: Coffee break

4:00pm – 5:30pm: Keynote talk by Cindi Textor on Intersectional Inc oherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility

5:3 0pm – 5:45pm: Concluding remarks by Christina Yi

 

Part icipants:

Andre Haag is an assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Hawai‘i– Mānoa. He received his PhD in Japanese literature from Stanford University. Haag’s research explores how the insecurities and terrors of colonialism a ttendant to the annexation of Korea and internalization of the “Korea Probl em” were inscribed within the literature\, culture\, and vocabularies that circulated within the Japanese imperial metropole. Haag is completing a boo k manuscript on this topic titled “Fear and Loathing in Imperial Japan: Col onial Integration\, Insurgency\, and the Cultures of Korean Peril.” He is t he co-editor\, along with Christina Yi and Catherine Ryu\, of the volume Passing\, Posing\, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in the Japan’s East Asian Empire (University of Hawaii Press\, 2023).

 

Adhy Kim is a lecturer in History & Literat ure at Harvard University. His research interests are in Asian/American lit erature and culture from the twentieth century to the present\, with a focu s on Korea\, Japan\, and their diasporas. Starting in Fall 2024\, he will j oin the Literatures in English department at Cornell University as assistan t professor.

 

Christopher Scott teaches Japanese\, Japanese cultural studies\, and translation studies at T he Nueva School\, an independent school in San Mateo\, California. He recei ved his PhD from Stanford University\, with a doctoral dissertation entitle d “Invisible Men: The Zainichi Korean Presence in Postwar Japanese Culture.” From 2006-2012\, he was an assistant professor of Japanese at Ma calester College in St. Paul\, Minnesota. In addition to Kim Tal-su’s T he Trial of Pak Tal and Other Stories (Seoul Selection\, 2022)\, his o ther published translations from Japanese include: Kim Sa-ryang’s “Into the Light” (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2010)\, Levy Hideo’s A Room Wher e the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (Columbia University Press\ , 2011)\, and Shu Ejima’s Quick Draw (Vertical\, 2014).

 

Cindi Textor is Assistant Professor in th e Department of World Languages and Cultures at University of Utah. Her wor k on incoherence\, illegibility\, and intersectionality in Korean- and Japa nese-language fiction has appeared in positions: asia critique\, < em>Journal of Korean Studies\, and other venues. Her monograph\, I ntersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibili ty\, is forthcoming from University of California Press. She is also t he translator of Kim Sŏkpŏm’s The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost (Columbia University Press\, 2010) and Lee Yangji’s Yuhi (in N abi Taryŏng and Other Stories\, Seoul Selection\, 2022).

 

Christina Yi is Associate Professor of M odern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first monograph\, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Polit ics in Modern Japan and Korea\, was published by Columbia University P ress in 2018. She was also the co-editor for a special feature on Zainichi Korean literature and film for Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture 12 (2019) as well as the edited volume Passing\, Posing\, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empi re (with Andre Haag and Catherine Ryu\, 2023).

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