BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250512T205956EDT-0184sr3viN@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250513T005956Z DESCRIPTION:Embodied Ecologies of South Korean Ecofeminism\n\nKimberly Chun g Assistant professor\, Department of East Asian Studies\, ºÚÁÏÍø Universi ty\n\nEmbodied Ecologies explores how feminism and ecology are intimately connected through an intermedial examination of South Korean contemporary literature\, media\, and art. Studies about South Korean feminism have rel ied on a humanist lens. This research brings a new focus to the conversati on by bridging the study of South Korean feminism with scholarship in the environmental humanities that incorporate posthuman\, multispecies\, and g ender transformative frameworks. These female writers and artists have des cribed the relationship between women and nature as intimate and intense\, coexisting and interacting on a small scale within an organic system. The cross-cultural study of South Korean ecofeminist cultures—its unique focu s on the materiality of the female body at a microscopic scale—will broade n the theorizations of the growing field of feminist ecocriticism and furt her expand its intersections with postcolonial ecocriticism\, environmenta l media\, and animal studies.\n\nReuniting with the Past: Unofficial Hand- Copied Novels from Socialist China\n\nZiwei Jiang\, Master’s Student\, Dep artment of East Asian Studies\, ºÚÁÏÍø\n\nDuring China’s Cultur al Revolution\, a body of hand-copied manuscripts circulated outside state -sanctioned publishing channels. These works\, commonly referred to as und erground literature\, have been analyzed through the lenses of political r esistance\, literary censorship\, and historical memory. However\, their p osition in the history of modern Chinese literature remains under-explored . Beyond their status as underground or invisible writing\, these hand-cop ied manuscripts raise broader questions about authorship\, aesthetics\, an d the politics of literary circulation in socialist China. This project ex amines how unofficial novels interacted with the Mao style\, a concept pro posed by literary critic Li Tuo. I argue that while these texts maintain a convivial relationship with the evolving artistic styles of the socialist era\, they also push the boundaries with official literature by playing w ith socialist master plots. Through case studies of hand-copied entertainm ent novels\, I explore how they juxtapose different temporalities within a single narrative at a time when Mao style endorsed forward-moving\, proto -futurist storytelling.\n DTSTART:20250228T160000Z DTEND:20250228T173000Z LOCATION:680 Sherberooke W\, room 1025 (10th floor)\, Sherbrooke 688\, CA\ , QC\, Montreal\, H3A 3R1\, 688 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:East Asian Studies Work-In-Progress Talks URL:/eas/channels/event/east-asian-studies-work-progre ss-talks-362699 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR