Please save the date for a Zoom lecture by Dr. Jihoon Kim, titled “Activism & Post activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2021” on Wednesday, May 25, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm (PDT).
This presentation will provide an overview of documentary films from Korea addressing activism and protest from Dr. Kim’s latest monograph—the first academic book in English on South Korean non-fiction film and video practices.
This event is sponsored by EAC, EALCS, Carsey-Wolf Center, and Film and Media Studies.
Please join us for “Western-style Confectionary and Colonial Taiwan: Conglomerates, Settler Colonialism, and Tropical Agriculture” with Lillian Tsay (Brown University).
4:30-5:30 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 19, 2022.
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/2p863s22
Meeting ID: 816 8978 5230
Passcode: 500745
Please contact Kanda Polatis at kpolatis@ucsb.edu if you have any questions.
In his lecture, Prof. Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. He’ll emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men to the success of Chinese silent cinema.
Tuesday, May 10, 3:30 – 5:30 PM, SSMS 2135
In a discussion for graduate students, Professor Pickowicz asks the questions, “What can be learned from oral histories that cannot be learned from other sources? What is unique about oral histories?” Pickowicz will show clips of several oral histories he filmed in China in the 1980s and 1990s and talk about both the pleasure and pain associated with the filming of oral histories.
Monday, May 9, 12 – 3 PM, HSSB 4041
Read The Current’s article on Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature highlighting Professor Howard Chiang (UCD) in conversation with Professor Hangping Xu (UCSB) here at this link: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020614/windows-queer-world
