2018 Institute of Body & Culture International Conference
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 (09:00-18:30)
Place: Business Administration Building 301, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Host: Institute of Body & Culture
Sponsors: The Ministry of Korean Education, Korea Research Foundation, Konkuk University
“‘Re-bodying’ the Body and the Anthropocene”
Opening Remarks (9:00-9:10)
Jonggab Kim( Director of Institute of Body and Culture, Konkuk University, Korea)
Keynote Presentation( 9:10-9:40 )
“The Body in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels”
Péter Hajdu (Neohelicon Acta Comparationis Litterarum University, Hungary)
1. “Trans-corporeality, Climate Change, and My Year of Meats”
Young-Hyun Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
2. “Age of Human, Age of Desire: The Impact of Anthropocene on the Body Narrative in The Anthropocene ”
Zhuang Peina (Sichuan University, China)
1. “An Eco-Ethical Project of Becoming a Plant: Han Kang's Vegetarian”
Myungho Lee (Kyunghee University, Korea)
2. “Body and Gender of Indigenous Communities in India“
Susan Deborah (M. E. S. College of Arts & Commerce, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, India)
3. “The Body and Artistic Beauty in Ancient Chinese Literary Theory”
Yang Qing (Sichuan University, China)
Lunch(12:20-13:20)
Keynote Presentations( 13:20-14:20)
“Ecophobia and the Gothic Body”
Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
“The Variation of Western Body Theory in China”
Cao Shunqing (Sichuan University, China)
1. “Poetry as an Ethical Agency: Muriel Rukeyser, Anthropocene, ‘The Book of the Dead’“
Eun-Gwi Chung (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)
2. “Elemental Forces and Species Questions in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”
Bonghee Oh (Kyungnam University, Korea)
1. “Homing the Transbody: An Ecocultural Reading of Transwomen in India”
Rayson Alex (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus, India)
2. “Looking Backward through the Anthropocene: Anthropogenic Dystopia in Alenxander Bogdanov’s Red Star: A Utopia and Engineer Menni”
Young Seon Won (Seoul Women's University, Korea)
3. “Living with Rats on the Garbage Earth: the Anthropocene in Korean Literature”
Ji-Yeon Im (Institute of Body and Culture, Konkuk University, Korea)
4. “Non-human Turn and Anthropogenic Body in Thomas Day’s Seven Seconds to Become an Eagle”
Ji-Yeong Yun (Institute of Body and Culture, Konkuk University, Korea)
General Discussion (17:30-18:30)