Dec 4th @ Wellesley | A Special Panel Celebrating Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature, with Prof. Wiebke Denecke

Published on: December 3, 2024

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A Special Panel Celebrating Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature, with Prof. Wiebke Denecke at Wellesley! Come celebrate Han Kang, Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, with Prof. Wiebke Denecke at a panel at Wellesley hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Boston.

– Location: The Newhouse Center, Wellesley College
– Time & Date: December 4, 4:30-6:00 PM
* Everybody is welcome to join the reception at 4 pm!

– Program
I. Opening, Mingwei Song, Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley
II. Welcome Words, Courtney Coile, Provost, Wellesley
III. Celebratory Remarks, Jae-hui Kim, Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Boston
IV. Panel Discussion   (Moderator: Sun-Hee Lee)

  1. Wiebke Denecke (MIT): Han Kang as World Literature
  2. Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley): Resistance and Transcendence in The Vegetarian
  3. Hangyeol Park & Joanne Kim (2027 Wellesley)
  4. Yoon Sun Yang (Boston University): Defamiliarizing Kwangju Narratives: Han Kang’s Human Acts (Sonyoni onda, 2014)
  5. Q/A

V. Closing

*About Han Kang: She began her career in 1993 as a poet but has since written mainly novels and short stories. In her oeuvre, she confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose. Among her works are The Vegetarian, Human Acts and We Do Not Part.

*Transportation: You can use MIT-Wellesley Exchange Bus free of charge. For further details:

https://www.wellesley.edu/about-us/offices-departments/transportation/shuttle-bus-schedule