The 2024 Situations International Conference on Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond will be jointly hosted by the Korean Cultural Centre UK, Situations, UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies, and BK21 Project. 

The conference is scheduled to take place at the Korean Cultural Centre London from February 1 to February 3, 2024.

Day 1 (Feb. 1 Thursday)

Special Lecture	Dr. Peter Paik (Yonsei U) 
Diaspora of Nightmares: Ritual Murder in Burning and Squid Game 
Special Lecture	Dr. Sunghee Pak (Yonsei U)
On Deleuze and Minor Literature	
Film Screening	A Tour Guide (2023, dir. Kwak Eun-mi) 
Special Lecture	Dr. Joseph Jeon (UC Irvine) 
Lecture on A Tour Guide


Day 2 (Feb. 2 Friday) 

Keynote Lecture 1	Dr. Junyoung Verónica Kim (U of Pittsburgh)
Thoughts on Korean Diaspora(s) from the 'Minor'	
General Session 1	Zoe Hing-Portnoff (UC Irvine) 
Migrant Documentation as Portraiture: Finding Chinese New Zealand History in the Archives.
Roxanne Tan (Yonsei U)
(Post)Dyaspora in Malaysia 

Round Table
Discussion	Revisiting Colonial Cinema
Speaker and Chair: Moonim Baek (Yonsei U)
Speakers: N. Aimee Kwon (Duke U), Takushi Odagiri (Kanazawa U) 
Discussant: Jinhee Choi (King's College London)	
Keynote Lecture 2	Dr. Chris Berry (King’s College London)
From Chongjin to Shanghai, Moscow and Almaty:  Choi Guk-In and Year of the Dragon	
General Session 2	Mangang Lee (Yonsei U)
Analysis of Foreign Workers' Representation Strategy in Zhang Ryul's Scenery 
Sara Son (UC Irvine)
Government in the Home: Female Marriage Migrants in Decision to Leave and Green Night	


Day 3 (Feb. 3 Saturday) 

Keynote Lecture 3	Dr. Jeongmee Kim (U of Lincoln)
“Special ‘K’”: Visual border crossing, soft power, and post-colonialism in contemporary K-Drama	
General Session 3	Bensalah Sihem (Yonsei U)
The Unseen Diaspora Within - Exploring the Diasporic Essence of the “Undiasporic” Experience in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Gayoung Choi (UCL) 
Crossing Borders and Cultures: A Comparative Study of North Korean Defectors’ lives in the UK and South Korea	

Recess for Lunch	12:00-1:30
General Session 4	Soo Hee Kang (U of Texas at Austin)
“In Space, There is No Up or Down”: Orbital Space as the Borderlands in Space Sweepers
Hanis Radhiah (U of Nottingham Malaysia)
Maintaining Minangkabau Identity and the Environment: An Ecocritical and Animistic Space Analysis
	Blossom Jeong (UC Irvine) 
The Meaning of Yuanxiang: Zhong Lihe’s Imagination of Community 
Lucy Fang (UC Irvine) 
From Circuit to Spiral: Capital and Disposal in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide