Pusan 2011

AIZEN®/PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
International Conference on Worldwide Naturalism in Literature and Film

October 6-8, 2011
Pusan, South Korea

Hosted by:

The Department of English Language Education, College of Education,
and Pusan National University Film Institute,
PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Pusan, South Korea

Photo: Pusan National University Rainbow Gate

Pusan National University Rainbow Gate

Organizers-in-Chief: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada)
Sang-Koo Kim (Pusan National University, Korea)

Organizing Committee: Il-Jae Jo (Pusan National University, Korea)
Wang Joo Lee (Film Institute, Pusan National University, Korea)
Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA)
Jeremy Worth (University of Windsor, Canada)

Assistant Organizer: Justine Huet (University of Alberta, Canada)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

8:00-9:00 AM REGISTRATION, PNU Campus, Main Administration Building, Entrance to Main Hall

9:15-9:45 AM OPENING SPEECHES, Main Administration Building, Main Hall

Presenter: Sang-Koo Kim, Professor Emeritus, Pusan National University

Il-Jae Jo, Former Chair, Department of English Language Education, College of Education, Pusan National University

Wang Joo-Lee, Director, Film Institute, Pusan National University

Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN®, University of Alberta

Tae-Heum Cho, Dean, Graduate School, Pusan National University

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Dean Tae-Heum Cho

9:45-10:00 AM BREAK

SECTION A

10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Main Administration Building, Room 302

The Reception of French Naturalist Writers in Korea
Presidents: Hyung-Sub Park and Riikka Rossi

Jaeryong Cho and Jihyun Kim (Korea University, Korea): “Première réception du naturalisme en Corée dans et par la double-traduction”

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From left: Hyung-Sub Park and Jaeryong Cho

Young-Rae Ji and Ji-Young Hwang (Korea University, Korea): “Étude de la réception de Zola en Corée à la lumière des théories littéraires de trois écrivains coréens des années 1920-1930”

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From left: Ji-Young Hwang and Young-Rae Ji

Myoung A Kwon (Dong-A University, Korea): “Obscenity, Coloniality, and Zola: Control over Manners and Customs in the Colonial Period”

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Myoung A Kwon

Joo-Kyoung Sohn, Hyo-Jeong Wi, and Hwa-In Shin (Korea University, Korea): “Réception et traduction de Daudet en Corée”

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Discussion with Audience

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

SECTION B

1:15-2:15 PM, Main Hall

American Naturalism
President: Sang-Koo Kim
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From left: Keith Newlin and Sang-Koo Kim

Guest Speaker: Keith Newlin (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA): “American Naturalism and Dramatic Adaptation”

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Keith Newlin

SECTION C

2:15-3:45 PM, Room 302

American Post-Darwinian and Neo-Naturalist Fiction
President: Je-Boon Yu
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Je-Boon Yu

Jun Young Lee (Yeungham University, Korea): “The Modern Shift of American Naturalism in the Novels of John Dos Passos: A Case of the Modernist Dissociation of the Naturalist Self”

Kyong-Soon Chang (Silla University, Korea): “Joyce Carol Oates’s American Appetites: American Hunger”

Eun Jung Park (Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea): “American Post-Darwinian Storytelling?: Johnny Mnemonic, The Matrix, and V

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Eun Jung Park

3:45-4:00 PM BREAK

SECTION D

4:00-5:30 PM, Room 302

European Neo-Naturalism
President: Julia Przybos
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From left: Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Julia Przybos

Pirjo Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Landscapes of Ennui and Decadence: Allegorical Settings in Finnish (Neo-) Naturalist Prose”

Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki, Finland): “The Humane Primitive in the Finnish Neo-Naturalist Novel”

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Riikka Rossi

Jean-Sébastien Macke (Centre Zola, ITEM-CNRS, France): “Pierre Magnan, un écrivain à la confluence de Zola et Giono”

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

SECTION E

10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Main Administration Building, Room 304

From Naturalism to Modernity, West to East
President: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt

Hélène Poiré (Université Laval, Canada): “Zola et Yi In-Jik: Pionniers de la modernité”

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Hélène Poiré

Ki-Hwan Yu (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea): “Le Roman expérimental et le manifeste naturaliste de Corée – Émile Zola et Yeom Sang-Seob”

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From left: Ki-Hwan Yu and Carolyn-Snipes Hoyt

Lisa Ng (Mount Royal University, Canada): “The Family by Shimazaki Toson: The Migration of Les Rougon-Macquart to Japan?”

Mélanie Giraud (Kenyon College, USA): “Les Rougon-Macquart by Emile Zola and Three Generations by Yom Sang-Seop: Two Families, Two Empires”

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Mélanie Giraud

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

SECTION F

2:15-3:45 PM, Room 304

Special Panel: Re-Semanticizing Hispanic Naturalism
Organizer and President: Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante

Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante (Utah State University, USA): “Eugenio Cambaceres, Lucrecia Martel and Argentine Naturalism’s DNA”

Marcos Campillo-Fenoll (West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA): “‘A girl must, a man may if he chooses’: Between Morality and Social Environment in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Eugenio Cambaceres’ En La Sangre”

Tania Carrasquillo Hernández (University of Iowa, USA): “La charca and the Consecration of the Puerto Rican Subaltern”

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From left: Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, and Marcos Campillo-Fenoll

3:45-4:00 PM BREAK

SECTION G

4:00-5:30 PM, Room 304

Special Panel: Aspects of Naturalism in Contemporary Korean Cinema
Organizer and President: Anna Gural-Migdal
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From left: Justine Huet and Anna Gural-Migdal

Romain Chareyron (The University of Kansas, USA): “Naturalisme et porosité des genres filmiques dans Madeo (Mother, Bong Joon-Ho, 2010)”

Justine Huet (University of Alberta, Canada): “Pouvoir et corps sans organes dans The Housemaid de Sang-Soo Im”

Ana Oancea (Columbia University, USA): “Matters of Life and Death: Thirst as an Adaptation of Thérèse Raquin”

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Ana Oancea

7:00 PM PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S BANQUET WITH A CONCERT OF TRADITIONAL KOREAN STRING INSTRUMENTS
Hyowon Hall, Sangnam International House

Welcoming Speech:
Changsoo Kim, Dean, Office of International Affairs, Pusan National University

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Dean Changsoo Kim

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Concert of Traditional Korean Music

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

SECTION H

8:45 AM-10:15 AM, Room 302

Representational Techniques in the Rougon-Macquart
President: Hélène Poiré

Francis Lacoste (Institut Supérieur des langues de Gabès, Tunisie): “Flaubert et L’Assommoir”

Jeremy Worth (University of Windsor, Canada): “Documenting the Impasses of Existence under the French Second Empire: Paradigmatic Resonances and Deterministic Irony in Zola’s Fiction”

Anna Bondarenco (State University of Moldova, Moldova): “L’action et son agent rapportés à l’événement dans Germinal”

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From left: Anna Bondarenco, Jeremy Worth, and Francis Lacoste

10:15-10:30 AM BREAK

SECTION I

10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Room 302

Cultural Studies Approaches to the Zolian Text
President: Marie-Sophie Armstrong

Chantal Morel (Institut français du Royaume-Uni, England): “Les migrations dans l’œuvre d’Émile Zola”

Andrea Gogrof-Voorhees (Western Washington University, USA): “Public and Private Hygiene in Emile Zola’s La Curée”

Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA):”The Victorious ‘Other’ in La Débâcle by Emile Zola”

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Andrea Gogrof-Voorhees

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

SECTION J

1:15-2:15 PM, Main Hall

Defining Naturalism
President: Chantal Morel
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Chantal Morel

Guest Speaker: Alain Pagès (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “Comment définir le naturalisme?”

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Alain Pagès

2:15-2:30 PM BREAK

SECTION K

2:30-4:30 PM, Room 302

Rethinking Naturalism
Presidents: Vasily Tolmatchoff and Jeremy Worth

Wang Joo Lee (Film Institute, Pusan National University, Korea): “A Phenomenological Debate on Naturalism”

Simon Kim (Korea University, Korea): “Kim Tong-In’s Manifold Naturalism”

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Simon Kim

Jin-Ho Kang (Kyungpook National University, Korea): “D.H. Lawrence and Nietzsche: Influence and Independence”

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From left, Dong Kwan Kim, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, and Jin-Ho Kang

Aida Suleymenova (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia): “Japanese and Russian Writings on Nature – Naturalism or ECO Literature”

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From left: Aida Suleymenova and Vasily Tolmatchoff

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

SECTION L

8:45 AM-10:15 AM, Room 304

Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Naturalism
President: Pirjo Lyytikäinen

Guri Ellen Barstad (University of Tromsø, Norway): “Au-dessus des forces humaines de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Ambiguïté d’une polémique sur le miracle”

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Guri Ellen Barstad

Vasily Tolmatchoff (Lomonosov State University, Russia): “Oscar Wilde as a Reader of French Naturalism”

Fredrik R. Stark (Gyeongsang National University, Korea): “Experiencing Determinism in An American Tragedy: The Significance of Birds and Birdsong”

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Fredrik R. Stark

10:15-10:30 AM BREAK

SECTION M

10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Room 304

Zola’s Visual Writing and Adaptations
President: Jean-Sébastien Macke
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Jean-Sébastien Macke

Loïc Thommeret (Oberlin College, USA): “Gervaise et la caméra: discours indirect libre et technique cinématographique dans L’Assommoir”

Diane Henneton (National Central University, Taiwan): “La Terre, hybridations”

Midori Nakamura (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “L’annonce zolienne: le roman et le cinéma”

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Midori Nakamura

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

SECTION N

2:30-4:30 PM, Room 304

The Reception of Zola in Asia
Presidents: Joo-Kyoung Sohn and Lisa Ng

Jincai Yang (Nanjing University, China): “Emile Zola’s Critical Reception in China”

Kyoko Watanabe (Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan): “La réception de Zola et son influence au Japon”

Akiko Miyagawa (University of Hiroshima, Japan): “Accueil du Travail de Zola au Japon”

Miyuki Terashima-Fukuda (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “Les avatars du naturalisme français au Japon: du roman naturaliste au roman personnel”

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From left: Akiko Miyagawa, Lisa Ng, Kyoko Watanabe, Anna Gural-Migdal, Miyuki Terashima-Fukuda, and Midori Nakamura

6:30-9:00 PM AIZEN’S TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY:

TRIBUTE TO ANNA GURAL-MIGDAL AND HER TEAM
DINNER CRUISE, Covea Cruise TIFFANY 21
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Covea Cruise Tiffany 21

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From left: Anna Gural-Migdal, Alain Pagès, Chiu-Yen Shi, and Miyuki Terashima-Fukuda

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8

SECTION O

8:00-10:30 AM, Room 302

Special Session: The Naturalist Text as Document/Documentary
President: Mihaela Marin

Christian Mbarga (St. Thomas University, Canada): “Émile Zola, figure de proue du naturalisme ou historien méconnu?”

Julia Przybos (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA): “Entre document et fiction: le cas des Sous-offs de Lucien Descaves”

Ye Young Chung (Seoul National University, Korea): “La Débâcle: un documentaire de guerre?”

Sonia Lagerwall (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): “Documentary Functions of the Visual Arts in the Rougon-Macquart Series.

Soundouss El Kettani (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada): “Temps et vérité dans Lourdes”

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From left:Christian Mbarga and Soundouss El Kettani

10:30-10:45 AM BREAK

SECTION P

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 302

Naturalist Aspects in Asian Cinema
President: Rosemary A. Peters

Woosung Kang (Seoul National University, Korea): “Ozu Yasujiro and the Naturalism of Fantasy Still-Life”

Youngjeen Choe (Chung-Ang University, Korea): “Zen Buddhism and Nature: A Note on Why Bodhidhama Has Left for the East”

In-Young Nam ( Im Kwon Taek College of Film and Performing Arts, Dongseo University, Korea):“Indexical Desire of 'Docu-drama': Im Kwon Taek's 101st Hanji

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From left: In-Young Nam, Rosemary A. Peters, Anna Gural-Migdal, Woosung Kang, Youngjeen Choe, and Wang Joo-Lee

LUNCH 12:15-1:15 PM

SECTION Q

1:15-2:00 PM, Main Hall

The Making of the Zolian Novel
President: Christian Mbarga

Guest Speaker: Myong-Hwan Jung (Seoul National University and Korea National Academy of Sciences, Korea): “Les deux faces d’Émile Zola”

2:00-2:15 PM BREAK

SECTION R

2:15-3:45 PM, Room 302

Literary and Cinematic Intersections
President: Romain Chareyron

Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada): “Composition du cadre et montage dans Germinal de Zola et Strike de Eisenstein”

Larissa Sloutsky (The University of Western Ontario, Canada): “La mémoire creative du genre: (ré)inventer “Boule de suif” de Maupassant dans le film Pyshka de Romm (URSS, 1934) et Boule de suif de Christian Jaque (France, 1945)”

Rosemary A. Peters (Louisiana State University, USA): “Tracking Zola: Cristina Comencini’s La Bestia nel Cuore”

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Rosemary A. Peters

4:30–5:30 PM

CLOSING TOAST,
Main Administration Building, Entrance to Main Hall

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Organizing Committee with PNU Students

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8

SECTION S

8:30-10:30 AM, Room 304

Lesser-Known French and Francophone Naturalists
President: Guri Barstad

Jean Anderson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): “A Woman Naturalist? Henry Gréville (Alice Durand, née Fleury, 1842-1902)”

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Jean Anderson

Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA): “Marius Roux, un ‘petit’ naturaliste dans l’ombre de Zola”

Rod Cooke (Columbia University, USA): “Céard and Hennique’s Attack on the Free Indirect Style”

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Rod Cooke and Jeremy Worth

Sébastien Roldan (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada et Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France): “Quelle Joie de vivre dans La Course à la mort? Le narrateur pessimiste d’Édouard Rod comme réponse au Lazare Chanteau d’Émile Zola”

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Sébastien Roldan

10:30-10:45 AM BREAK

SECTION T

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 304

‘Body Work’ in the Naturalist Text
President: Simon Kim

Mihaela Marin (University of South Alabama, USA): “Concept anatomique ou métaphore? Le roman ‘respiratoire’ de Zola”

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Mihaela Marin

Chiu-Yen Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan): “La physiologie du corps dans la critique d’art d'Émile Zola”

Hyun-Soo Park (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea): “Naturalism and Sexuality: Focus on Kim, Dong-In’s Novels”

LUNCH 12:15-1:15 PM

SECTION U

2:15-3:45 PM, Room 304

Worldwide Naturalism
President: Il-Jae Jo

Haroldo Ceravolo Sereza (University of São Paulo, Brazil): “Machado de Assis and the Problem of ‘Realism-Naturalism’”

Larissa Clachar (University of Alabama, USA): “Idiosyncrasies of Naturalism in the Spanish-Speaking World”

Seongho Yoon (Hanyang University, Korea): “Can the Spy Speak?: (Dis)Placing the Grounds of Naturalism in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker”

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From left: Haroldo Ceravolo Sereza, Larissa Clachar, Seongho Yoon, and Il-Jae Jo

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL

6:30-8:15 PM, PNU Campus, Induck Hall

Low Life [Haryu Insaeng] (Kwon-Taek Im, 2004, Korea, 96 min., color, with English subtitles)

Centred on the rise and fall of a greedy young hoodlum, Choi Tae-Woong, during the country’s military dictatorship, this film is a mix of naturalism and the genre of film noir.

Low Life

SECTION V

8:15-9:15 PM, Induck Hall

Seminar on Low Life and Naturalism: with Director Kwon-Taek Im
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Korean Director Kwon Taek Im and Conferencegoers

Sur invitation de l’Institut Français de Corée du Sud et de l’Alliance Française de Busan,
en partenariat avec l’Ambassade de France en Corée du Sud:
Soirée française du Festival international du film de Busan (BIFF):

10:00 PM RÉCEPTION AU NOVOTEL AMBASSADOR AVEC ISABELLE HUPPERT, ACTRICE, ET SANG SOO HONG, CINÉASTE

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From left: French Actress Isabelle Huppert, Sang-Koo Kim, Alain Pagès, and Anna Gural-Migdal

12:00 AM SOIRÉE DISCOTHÈQUE AU CLUB 3 F AVEC MICHAEL CANITROT, DJ OFFICIEL DU FESTIVAL DE CANNES

Sponsors:

AIZEN®, Association Internationale Zola et le Naturalisme, University of Alberta

PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY:

College of Education
Film Institute
Graduate School
Office of International Affairs

Alliance Française de Busan

Ambassade de France en Corée du Sud

Institut Français de Corée du Sud

Greater Busan Convention and Visitors Bureau

Busan International Film Festival

Special Thanks

Tae-Heum Cho, Dean, Graduate School, Pusan National University

Changsoo Kim, Dean, Office of International Affairs, Pusan National University

Anna Gural-Migdal, Organizer-in-Chief, President of the AIZEN®

Sang-Koo Kim, Local Organizer-in-Chief

Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Organizer and Secretary-Treasurer of the AIZEN®

Il-Jae Joe and Wang Joo Lee, Local Organizers

Riikka Rossi and JeremyWorth, AIZEN® Organizers

Justine Huet, AIZEN® Assistant Organizer

City of Pusan:

Sojin Park, Convention Marketing, Greater Busan Convention and Visitors Bureau

Yong-Kwan Lee, Director, Busan International Film Festival

Sang-Hoon Kim, Reporter of Culture Department, The Busan Ilbo (Daily News)

Brandon Kim, Sales Manager, Hotel Nongshim, Busan

Jae Uk Jung, Sales Manager, Sangnam International House, Busan

Jin Yeong Kim, General Manager, The Westin Chosun Busan

David Du, Guest Service Supervisor, The Westin Chosun Busan

AIZEN®:

Ana Anubis of Ingénieuse Productions, AIZEN Graphics©

Philip Hoyt, AIZEN Web Site©

Panel Organizers:

Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta, Canada

Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Utah State University, USA

Organizations:

Aude-Emeline Loriot-Nurbianto, Directrice, Alliance Française de Busan

Jean-Sébastien Macke, Centre Zola, ITEM-CNRS, Paris

Chantal Morel, Institut Français du Royaume Uni and Emile Zola Society, London

Yong Ho Choi, Société Coréenne de Langue et Littérature Françaises

Akiko Miyagawa, Cercle de Recherches sur le Naturalisme Français, Japan

Guests:

Alain Pagès, Honored Guest, Editor-in-Chief of Les Cahiers naturalistes

Kwon-Taek Im, Honored Guest, Filmmaker

Keith Newlin, Special Guest, Editor-in-Chief of Studies in American Naturalism

Myong-Hwan Jung, Special Guest, Member of Korea National Academy of Sciences

and ...
a big thank you to Isabelle Huppert, Actress