Description:

Taking the recent publication of the transnational, multilingual, and interdisciplinary volume Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia (2022) as a point of departure, this talk navigates the transpacific return of repressed post/colonial memories in Asia and beyond. 

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is a multilingual author, translator, and scholar based in Durham, North Carolina and Seoul, South Korea. Her publications include Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan and Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire: Antinomies in the Colonial Archive. She is the Founding Director of Duke University’s Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program and a professor in the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and the Program in Cinematic Arts.

Co-sponsored with Center for International Studies East Asia Research Forum.