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Nayoung Aimee Kwon

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

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Archives of Absence: Navigating Silenced Histories Across Japanese and American Empires · May 2025 Invited Talk Stanford University ,
Decolonizing Local/Global Archive Stories · May 2024 Keynote/Named Lecture Yonsei University, Seoul
Minor(itized) 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
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
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
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
“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
“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,
Translating Zainichi Literature · January 11, 2013 Lecture University of California--Berkeley
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
“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

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


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

Service to the Profession


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