Reading Infrastructure, Thinking through Texts
“Infrastructure Humanities and Textual Studies”
The Academy of Mobility Humanities is pleased to host a domestic academic conference in collaboration with the Institute for Educational Research at Konkuk University. The conference aims to explore the future-oriented vision and expanding possibilities of infrastructure humanities.
Under the theme “Infrastructure Humanities and Textual Studies,” this conference brings together scholars from diverse fields, including architecture, literature, philosophy, and culture, to examine the possibilities of humanities-based and textual approaches to infrastructure. By reinterpreting the social meanings and cultural layers of infrastructure through texts, the conference seeks to create an interdisciplinary forum that moves beyond the boundaries of existing research.
We warmly invite your interest and participation in this academic dialogue, which opens up new humanities-based imaginations surrounding infrastructure.
Program
Opening Remarks
Inseop Shin
Director, Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk University
Keynote
“Cultural Representations of Mobility Infrastructure in Utagawa Hiroshige’s The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō”
Hyunyoung Lee
Konkuk University
Session 1: Infrastructure and Literary Imagination
“Affective Circulation and the Infrastructural Operation of Shakespeare: Rereading Catharsis in the Film Hamnet”
Johaeng Noh
Konkuk University
“The Poetics of Urban Infrastructure”
Nahyun Kim
Chungbuk National University
Chair:
Yeonhee Woo
Konkuk University
Session 2: Infrastructure, Space, and Affect
“Felt Hierarchies: Colonial Urban Infrastructure and the Spatial Production of Affect”
Jihyun Lee
Pusan National University
“Public Art as an Infrastructure for Urban Place-Making”
Miye Park
Kookmin University
Chair:
Ilman Choi
Konkuk University
Research Ethics Training and Closing Remarks
Taehee Kim
Konkuk University