The Korea Public Diplomacy Association (President Kim Shin-dong, professor at Hong Kong Baptist University) and the Institute for Contemporary Cinema Studies at Hanyang University (Director Kim Cheong-gang, professor at Hanyang University) will co-host an international academic conference on the 6th under the theme "National image and film, visual media."
Four keynote speakers will take the stage: Daya Tusu, professor at Hong Kong Baptist University; Kim Hong-jun, director of the Korean Film Archive; Oyama Shinji, professor at Ritsumeikan University in Japan; and Alexander Huang, professor at the University of Paris in France.
Including them, researchers from 12 countries—Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Poland—are scheduled to present and discuss more than 50 papers.
The conference will address a wide range of topics spanning the formation of national image through film and visual media; public diplomacy via digital media; soft power and cultural and media diplomacy; films of the Cold War and post–Cold War periods; and national and transnational culture and visual media including TV and OTT.
The conference is open to the public. Inquiries: Korea Public Diplomacy Association (kapd0702@kapdnet.org), Institute for Contemporary Cinema Studies (contemporarycinemastudies@gmail.com).