<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Asian Horror Cinema and Beyond<div><br>UC Berkeley will host a symposium on October 7th and 8th (Friday and Saturday), featuring<br>contemporary works of horror cinema that explore issues of memory, desire, and media in East<br>Asian and Southeast Asian cinema. Symposium lectures and discussions will offer alternative<br>reading strategies and theoretical positions with which to assess the sprawling commercial,<br>political and aesthetic ambitions of Asian horror cinema.<br><br>Events will take place at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley (2150 Allston Way,<br>Berkeley, CA 94704). Symposium lectures, discussions and film screenings are free and open to<br>the public. All films are subtitled in English.<br><br>Organizers: Miri Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan<br>University and Dan ONeill, Associate Professor of Japanese at UC Berkeley.<br>Sponsors: UC Berkeley, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Japanese<br>Studies, Townsend Humanities Center, Berkeley Center for New Media.<br><br>Schedule of Events<br>Friday, Oct. 7<br>Location: David Brower Center, Goldman Theater<br>12:45 p.m. Welcome: Miri Nakamura and Dan ONeill<br>1:00-2:30 p.m. Panel: Memory and Horror<br>Lan Duong (UC Riverside)<br>The Ghosts of War and the Vietnamese Horror Film<br>Jinsoo An (UC Berkeley)<br>Fraught with Remembrance and Erasure: Spectral Terror in<br>Epitaph"<br>2:30-4:00 p.m. Panel: Desire and Horror<br>Arnika Fuhrmann (University of Hong Kong)<br>Tropical Malady: Queer Haunting in Contemporary Thai Cinema<br>Jonathan Hall (Pomona College)<br>The Horror of Attachment: Depopulating Recent Japanese Film<br>4:00-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break<br>4:30-6:00 p.m. Panel: Media and Horror<br>Steve Brown (University of Oregon)<br>The Sound of Horror in the Cinema of Kurosawa Kiyoshi<br>Kristen Whissel (UC Berkeley)<br>"Vital Figures: The Life and Death of Digital Creatures"<br>6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception Dinner<br>7:30-9:00 p.m. Film: Epitaph (2007) directed by Jeong Beom-sik and Jeong Sik<br><br>Saturday, Oct. 8th<br>Location: David Brower Building, Goldman Theater<br>9:30-10:00 a.m. Coffee and pastries<br>10:00-11:30 a.m. Special Session: Rethinking Horror<br>Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)<br>Cruel Cinema: Tamil New Wave Cinema**<br>Akira Lippit (University of Southern California)<br>Modes of Pleasure: Ultraviolence and Extreme Loneliness<br>11:30-1:00 Lunch<br>1:00-3:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Bliss Lim (UC Irvine)<br>Monstrous Intimacies: Aswang Fragments in Filipino Transmedia<br>3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break<br>3:15-5:30 p.m. Film: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)<br>directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul<br>5:30-7:00 p.m. Working roundtable with scholars and audience<br><br>**The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA, from 10/6-10/9) will be screening two films<br>from Cruel Cinema, a collection curated by Lalitha Gopalan and Anuj Vaidya. For details, see<br><a href="http://www.ybca.org/cruel-cinema">http://www.ybca.org/cruel-cinema</a><br></div></body></html>