Media Content on IVSA 2025

Teaser Trailer Video

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IVSA 2025 Official Posters

Trailers for the films @Plenary Panel 2

Take a peek at the performance of the speakers @Plenary Panel 1

Opening Keynote Speaker's Interview

Closing Keynote Speaker's Lecture

Teaser Trailer Video

Why South Korea?

What can we expect from the venue as visual scholars and sociologists?

Here is a teaser trailer video that gives a glimpse of South Korea.

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TRAVELING TO SOUTH KOREA FOR THE 2025 IVSA CONFERENCE

Thinking about submitting to the #Suwon2025 Call for Papers? To ease any concerns that you may have regarding political and civil unrest at the location of the 2025 IVSA Conference, we'd like to point out the following:

• Traveling to South Korea is safe and has been safe even during the recent peaceful rallies.

• In Suwon specifically, you will hardly encounter such big-sized rallies you might have seen in the media, which are usually the images of Yeouido and Gwanghwamun areas in the center of Seoul.

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• The recent rallies have shown some interesting, positive aspects of Korean young protestors with their colorful and energetic protesting accessories that demonstrated their tastes formed in K-Pop fandom and peer cultures on social media.

IVSA 2025 Official Posters

Curious about the main calligraphy in the poster? Have you ever thought that it could be related to the so-called "chop suey letterform" that has a racist history in the West, especially in North America? Actually, the calligraphy in the poster has been taken from a 19th-century Korean document introducing the English alphabet, and our poster designer did some archival research to generate this one. More discussions will follow via our conference director's blog posting soon.

Trailers for the films @Plenary Panel 2

Bloodless 동두천 (2017) by Gina Kim

The first of the "Comfortless Trilogy" that traced the places of US military comfort women in South Korea's camp towns in 360° virtual reality (VR) film format, including Tearless 소요산 (2021) and Comfortless 아메리칸 타운 (2023).

You will be able to experience the entire trilogy at the conference venue.

The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin 임신한 나무와 도깨비 (2019) by KIM Dong-ryung and PARK Kyoung-tae

The longtime duo filmmakers, Kim and Park, made this ethnofiction film after years of an ethnographic relationship with a US military comfort woman, PARK In-sun.

We will show the entire film at a plenary screening session.

Take a peek at the performance of the speakers @Plenary Panel 1

Pansori artist AHN Yi-ho performs a PAN-Drama titled "Yard" to illustrate the labor conditions of shipbuilding yards. As a vocalist of traditional Korean music, pansori, he creatively relates sonic elements to other diverse sensory expressions, such as lights and shadows, senses of distance, senses of space, and bodily gestures.

[5'14" - 9'15"]

Media artist Baruch Gottlieb collaborated with Jin Ran Kim for a media facade titled Digital Dancheong at the Suwon Hwaseong Media Art Show 2021. They "implemented the digital Dancheong in a historical narrative projection mapped onto a UNESCO heritage treasure the Suwon Hwaseong fortress gate." (See detailed explanations: https://kimgottlieb.com/)

Opening Keynote Speaker's Interview

The opening keynote speaker, CHO Uhn, discussed her ethnographic film essay, Daldongne 33 UP 사당동 더하기 33, in a featured interview for the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival. The video is in Korean, but you can use YouTube's auto-translate caption function.

We will show the entire film at the opening ceremony of the conference.

Closing Keynote Speaker's Lecture

The closing keynote and the Golding Address speaker, Graeme Gilloch, gave a lecture titled "Haunts: A Eulogy to Phantasmagoria" at the Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism Symposium in March 2017.

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