THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF KOREAN AND JAPANESE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP

The Global Circulation of Korean and Japanese Cultural Industries

International Research Workshop

July 19-20, 2021

Room: Jordi Arbonès, Facultat de Traducció i d’Interpretació,

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB Campus

GREGAL Research Group (UAB) & ECIPE (European Centre for International Political Economy)

Registration (free of charge) online sessions.

July 19, Monday

15:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks

• Blai Guarné, GREGAL Research Group (UAB)

• Patrick Messerlin, ECIPE & Sciences Po Paris

15:15 Global East Asian Studies: The GREGAL’s Research Project

• Blai Guarné, GREGAL Research Group (UAB)

15:30 The Missing Aspect in the Diffusion of Hallyu Contents: Understanding Why

• Foreign Companies are Interested in the Korean Drama Industry

• Jimmyn Parc, ECIPE & Seoul National University

16:15 Butaitanbou Practitioners and the Media Literacy of Otaku Tourism in Japan

• Antonio Loriguillo-López, GREGAL Research Group (UAB) & Universitat Jaume I

17:00 Fandom, Entrepreneurship, and the Globalization of Hallyu

• Nissim Otmazgin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

17:45 Fighting Hallyu with Cool: Martial Arts as a Testing Ground for Cultural and

• Creative Industries in Japan and South Korea

• Eduardo González de la Fuente, GREGAL Research Group (UAB) & CEAA (El Colegio de México)

18:30 General Discussion

July 20, Tuesday

09:30 The Role of the Governments and Companies in the Film Industry: Comparing

• Six Countries over Forty Years

• Patrick Messerlin, ECIPE & Sciences Po Paris

10:15 South Korea’s Soft Power and North Korea

• Holley LaFever, American University & ECIPE

11:00 Availability of Korean Literature in Spanish Translation: Bookstores and

• Libraries in Barcelona

• Ester Torres-Simon, GREGAL Research Group (UAB)

11:45 Coffee Break

12:15 The Origins of Japanese SF in the Nineteenth Century: The Curious Story of The Novel Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds

• Michal Daliot-Bul, The University of Haifa

13:00 The Translation of Chinese Literature and Cinema in Spain: Design and

• Potential Applications of Two Open-Access Databases

• Mireia Vargas-Urpí, TXICC Research Group (UAB)

13:30 General Discussion

14:00 Closing Notes

Organized by:

GREGAL Research Group (2017 SGR 1596) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & ECIPE (European Centre for International Political Economy).

Contact:

GlobalCirculationUAB@gmail.com