Scholars@Duke
Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
na.kwon@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 209, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Artistic Works

Broken Angels

Digital Media January 1, 2006 Broken Angels TokyoPop

Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

“Embodied Cinema of Gina Kim” + “Faces of Seoul” and VR Trilogy

Duke University Rubenstein Art Center · April 11, 2025

Theorizing Colonial Cinema

John Hope Franklin Center · November 12, 2016 This international workshop brings together scholars and archivists who are seriously engaged in the films of the early twentieth century and their divided legacies and afterlives in Asia. Together we reexamine the lived and imagined experiences of modernity in these tumultuous times of transition from the colonial to the cold war eras and beyond. The gathering asks how prior articulations about film theory, history, form and content, and ideologies might be rearticulated when we put the colonial question at the center rather than the periphery of our concerns. Our distinguished keynote speakers are Zhang Zhen (NYU/NYU Shanghai) and Jane Gaines (Columbia University). Theorizing Colonial Cinema: An International Conference

Transnational North Korean Cinema Film Series and International Conference

Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill · January 23, 2013 - April 5, 2013 Transnational North Korea: Migration and Urbanization Curated by Prof. Nayoung Aimee Kwon, this film series features seven films Jan 23-April 4 and an all-day international workshop on April 5. The series and workshop consider representations of North Korea framed in broader historical and geopolitical contexts of Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific. [ Cine-East series website ] Cost: Free and Open to the Public! Sponsors: At Duke: Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Women's Studies Program, Literature, the Korea Forum, and Duke East Asia Nexus (DEAN). At UNC: the Carolina Asia Center, Center for Global Initiatives, Asian Studies, Global Cinema Minor Program, and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense.

Decolonial Aesthetics Art Exhibition

Nasher Museum of Art · January 1, 2013