Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act - Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program Fall Symposium · October 2025 - October 2025 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Ruby Art Center

중/동아시아 제국의 과거, 현재, 미래와 재미/재일 분단 체제 - Korea University 120th Anniversary International Conference · August 2025 International Meeting or Conference Korea University RIKS, Seoul, South Korea

Archives of Absence: Navigating Silenced Histories Across Japanese and American Empires · May 2025 Invited Talk Stanford University

“Embodied Cinema of Gina Kim” + “Faces of Seoul” and VR Trilogy - “Embodied Cinema of Gina Kim” + “Faces of Seoul” and VR Trilogy · April 11, 2025 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Rubenstein Art Center

Visualizing the End(s) of Empire · April 2025 - April 2025 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, MA

Decolonizing Local/Global Archive Stories · May 2024 Keynote/Named Lecture Yonsei University South Korea, Seoul

Minor(itized) Film Aesthetics - Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond, Situations International Conference · February 2024 International Meeting or Conference London, England

Teaching Conflicts in Asia for K-12 Educators · January 2024 Keynote/Named Lecture Annual Association for Asian Studies in Asia Southeast Regional Conference, Winston Salem, NC

USIA/S Films In Asia · September 2023 Invited Talk Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH

Worlding Zainichi Cultural Studies · July 2023 Keynote/Named Lecture Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Postcolonial Vengeance: Return of the Colonial Unconscious · April 2023 Invited Talk Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Queering the Post/Colonial Cinematic Archive - Gender Studies Now Colloquium · March 2023 Invited Talk Duke University, Durham, NC

Decolonizing Film Studies and the Rise of Global Korean Cinema · February 2023 Invited Talk Vanderbilt University

Decolonizing Asian Studies? · June 2022 International Meeting or Conference University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Transpacific Pedagogy in Asian American Studies--Duke University Archives · April 2022 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian American Studies, Denver, Colorado

Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-Wook's "Agassi" - Empires in Motion International Conference · March 2022 International Meeting or Conference University of Hawaii, Manoa, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Bordercrossing Research Collaboration on Colonial and Postcolonial Cinema in East and Southeast Asia - Association for Asian Studies Conference · March 2022 International Meeting or Conference Honolulu, Hawaii

Animating and Navigating the Motion Picture Archive of the United States Information Agency · October 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Building Asian American & Diaspora Studies in the Local South · April 2021 Lecture Association for Asian American Studies, Online

Strange Bedfellows: Asian American Studies and Asian Studies in the 21st Century · January 2021 Other Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia

Japanophone Literature in the Age of Three Worlds · February 2020 Invited Talk Yale University

“Francophone vs Japanophone Literatures? A Transpacific Query on Absence” · June 2019 Invited Talk Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Fez, Morocco

“Gaming Conflicts and Cultures” - International Teaching & Learning Conference · June 2019 International Meeting or Conference Political Studies Association, Brighton, England

“Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko Goes Global: Translating “Zainichi” Between Anglophone and Japanophone Literatures" - Japanese Diaspora to the Americas: Literature, History, and Identity Conference · May 2019 International Meeting or Conference Yale University MacMillan Center

. “Figure of the Translator” · October 27, 2017 Invited Talk Department of World Literatures, Boston University

“Japanophone Literature?” · July 5, 2017 Invited Talk Wongang University South Korea

“Forgetting and Remembering Kim Saryang: Excavating Divided Literary Legacies in East Asia” - 28th AKSE Conference · April 2017 International Meeting or Conference Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Theorizing Colonial Cinema Conference - Theorizing Colonial Cinema · November 12, 2016 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance John Hope Franklin Center 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).

“Performing Interracial and Inter-Ideological Crossings in Transwar East Asia” · July 2016 International Meeting or Conference Meji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

“Performing Transwar East Asia’s Transition” · June 2016 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian Studies in Asia, Kyoto, Japan

Postcolonial Literature and Modernity in East Asia 后殖民主义与亚太文学现代性 · May 26, 2016 Invited Talk Shandong University, Shandong, China

Book talk: Intimate Empire · March 24, 2016 Invited Talk Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

“Conflicting Colonial Memories in East Asia” · March 10, 2016 Invited Talk L’école des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

“Post-Cold War?” · March 2, 2016 Invited Talk University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

“Paradox of Post-Cold War and Post-Colonial Asia Pacific: Crossing Asian Studies and American Studies” · April 2014 Keynote/Named Lecture College of William and Mary

International Film Series and Conference - Paradox of the Post-Cold War: Korean War and Beyond International Film Series and Conference · 2014 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University

Transnational North Korean Cinema Film Series and Conference - Transnational North Korean Cinema Film Series and International Conference · January 23, 2013 - April 5, 2013 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill 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.

Translating Zainichi Literature · January 11, 2013 Lecture University of California--Berkeley

Decolonial Aesthetics - Decolonial Aesthetics Art Exhibition · 2013 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nasher Museum of Art

Teaching Korean Literature in Translation · July 28, 2012 Lecture Musashi University-Tokyo, Japan

Colonial Korean Cinema in the Japanese Empire · July 14, 2012 Lecture Kyoto University--Institute of Humanities Research

Geopolitics of Collaboration: Remapping Korea after the "Manchurian Incident" · November 17, 2011 Lecture Columbia University

Imagining Imperial Communities and Consuming Colonial Collections · August 26, 2011 Lecture Seoul National University

“번역된 조우와 식민지 표상의 난제: 제국의 언어로 글쓰기 [Translated Encounters and the Conundrum of Representing the Colonized: Imperial Language Writings in Colonial Korea], · July 1, 2011 Lecture Musashi University Tokyo, Japan

Censorship and Dialogue across the Colonial Divide · April 30, 2011 Lecture Princeton University

Colonial Modernity and the Conundrum of Representation: Korean Literature in the Japanese Empire · March 4, 2011 Lecture National University of Singapore Singapore

“Fissures, Silences, Failures: Question of Agency in Colonial Cinema” · November 1, 2010 Lecture NYU Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts

“アメリカの　コリアンスタヂィス “　[State of the Field: Korean Studies in North American Universities] · July 1, 2010 Lecture Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan

“Cinematic Coproductions and the Colonial Archive” · March 1, 2010 Lecture University of Southern California

Service to the Profession

Co-Organizer, Cold War Film and Asia Conference · 2024 - 2024 Administration University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Faculty , Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism · January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement

Research Collaborator, Japanese Studies Network · 2021 Research Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan Japan

Japan

Elected Board Member · 2016 - 2019 Committee Service Association for Asian Studies—NEAC

Publications Board, Modern Language Association-MLA · 2015 - 2019 Committee Service

Secretary · 2015 - 2018 Committee Service Korean Literature Association

Executive Committee · 2013 - 2016 Committee Service Korean Literature Association

Service to Duke

Teaching and working with refugee and migrant youth, Duke Engage Koreas · 2014 - 2025 Service Learning

South Korea

Leadership & Clinical Positions

Director, Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program
Director, Andrew Mellon Games & Culture Lab
Director, Duke Engage Koreas