Friday, April 10
09:00 – 09:15 Greeting by Joo-yeon RHEE
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote Speech by Young-jun LEE
10:30 – 11:30 Keynote Speech by Caroline Reitz
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch Break and a walk to Creamery
13:00 – 14:15 Panel 1 Youths On Screen (Chair: Rami Ghandour, Penn State)
Girl as Monster: Girlish Sensibilities in the K-Horror Film, Whispering Corridors
Noa Ortiz, Penn State
Bleeding Monsters, Armed Youth: Violence and Youth in Korean OTT Drama Series
Chi-hyuk SONG, Sejong University
Cozy Cartographies: Gender, Place, and the Korean Cozy Mystery Turn
Jeong-won CHOI, Korea University
14:45 – 16:00 Panel 2 Others Within (Chair: Mu-yun ZHOU, Penn State)
Dangerous Proximity, Deceptive Appearance: Detective Fiction and Chinatowns in Translation
Su-jin EOM, Dartmouth College
Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)
Se-in LEE, Dongguk University
Divine Violence and Subaltern Agency: The Immigrant Woman's Resistance against Mythic Violence in Park Chan-wook’s
Decision to Leave
Kun-hoo PARK, Sungkyunkwan University
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 3 Law and Justice (Chair: Hyun-seon Park, George Mason)
Negotiating Gender and Justice: Female Transformations in When the Camellia Blooms and Love to Hate You
Sun-young YANG, The University of Arizona
Beyond the Law: Feminist Justice and Patriarchal Power in Your Throne (online)
Irene Lustrissimi, University for Foreigners of Siena
Vigilante Justice and the Crisis of Institutional Law in 2020s Korean Crime Dramas (online)
Hye-yeon AN, Sungkyunkwan University
The Woman Hero and Her True Story: Rethinking Gender Justice in Korean Crime Narratives (online)
So-hyeon PARK, Sungkyunkwan University
Saturday, April 11
09:00 – 10:30 Panel 4 Aesthetics of Violence (Chair: Sunho Ko, Penn State)
Non-Gun Violence as Law-Destroying Rage and Socio-Political Critique in New Korean Cinema
Seong-bin HWANG, Rikkyo University
Rupture as Form: Criminal Aesthetics at Play in the Writings of Bae Suah and Oyamada Hiroko
Adam DeCaulp, Penn State
Bureaucratized Violence, Gendered Precarity, and the Political Economy of Crime in The Plotters and Sacred Games (online)
Shweta Gupta, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Delhi University (DU)
Tragic Agency, Fatal Stasis: Gender and Murder in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (2022) and No Other Choice (2025)
Soon-young LEE, Bard College
10:45 – 12:00 Panel 5 Genre and Gender (Chair: Adam DeCaulp, Penn State)
Fiction for the Masses and Genre Hybridity: Kim Naesŏng’s Detective and Romance Fiction in Cold War Korea (online)
Su-yun KIM, University of Hong Kong
Rewriting L'Affiare Lerouge and the Representation of Young Women
Jin-young PARK, Sungkyunkwan University
The Dangerous World Created by Desiring Women and Prostitutes: Focusing on Female Criminals appearing in 1920s' Korean
Novels
Hye-young JUNG, Kyungpook University
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote Speech by Theodore Hughes
14:15 – 15:45 Panel 6 Motherhood and Fatherhood (Chair: Alice Tseng, Penn State)
From SF Romance to SF Motherhood: Mothering in the TV Drama When the Star Gossip (2025)
Young-a JUNG, George Mason University
Fetuses and Illegitimate Children: From Colony to Cold War, (Dis)Continuous Imagination
Do-hui PARK, Sungkyunkwan University
Superhero Daddies: Neoliberal Patriarchy in Train to Busan and Korean Disaster Movies
Ji-yoon AN, University of British Columbia
Violence as Care: The Law-Annihilating Mother in Contemporary Korean Thrillers
Woo-jeong CHOI, Yonsei University
The Interior Other: Structural Injustice and the Aesthetics of Catharsis in South Korean Female-Led Horror
In-kyu KANG, Penn State
16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable Discussion led by Inkyu KANG