The Institute for Korean Studies welcomed Professor Travis Workman on Friday, September 22 as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium Series. Professor Workman’s talk, “Melodrama and Moods in Cold War Korean Films,” discussed how raw effects can be provoked by melodrama and how emotions produced in film can be used in nation-building and state politics. The talk was followed by an engaging discussion with members of the Indiana University community.
Travis Workman is a professor within the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and is the chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. His new book, Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas, will be available later this month.
Please join us on October 22 for the next event in our Colloquium Series as Professor George Kallender of Syracuse University gives his talk “Violence Unleashed, Violence Restrained: War, Animals, and the Hunt in Premodern Korea.”
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Noah Placzek
Program Assistant, Institute for Korean Studies
Graduate Student in East Asian Studies
Indiana University Bloomington