CAPSTRANS: Affiliated Staff

CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Brian Yecies

Conference Presentations, Workshops and Special Lectures

“Hollywood's 2nd Golden Age in Korea: Cultural Hegemony Under the Stars & Stripes of the US Army Military Government, 1945–48.” Invited Guest Lecture, Yonsei University, Seoul, Dec. 2005.
“Illuminating Censorship in Colonial Korea: Lucrative Tales of Foreign Distribution & Exhibition.” Invited Speaker, Dept. of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Nov. 2005.
“Censorship Business in Colonial Korea: Profiteering From Hollywood's 1st Golden Age, 1926–36.” Invited Speaker, Censorship Symposium, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, November 2005.
“Negotiating Frontlines of Film & Culture in South Korea: Contemplating the 35 th Anniversary of the Pusan International Film Festival (?)” Invited Keynote Speaker, Seoul Rotary Club, November 2005.
“Korean Cinema in a Global Frame: International Reception of Korean Cinema.” Invited Panel Discussant, International Conference in cooperation with Korean Film Council, Yonsei Institute of Media Arts & Film Studies Association of Korea, Pu san International Film Festival #10, Oct. 2005.
“Slimy Snakes Slither Slowly Surrounding Seoul: Hollywood's Battle with S. Korea 's Screen Quota System.” Invited Speaker, Korean Studies Forum, Yonsei University, Seoul, September 2005.
“Flexing Muscular Authority: Hollywood's Strategic Pressures on Korea's Screen Quota, 1966-2005.” in the Panel: “Asian Cinema of Perseverance: Nation-States And Their Local and Global Responses to Hollywood's Hegemony”, Chaired by Brian Yecies, ICAS4, Shanghai, August 2005.
“Fatal Attractions: Hollywood's Historical Reactions to the Korean Screen Quota System.” Association for Asian Studies, Panel Paper, Chicago, March 2005.
“Spinning the American Twang: Projecting Sounds of Australian Cinema in the Age of Modernity, 1929-1933.” Talking & Listening in the Age of Modernity, Panel Paper, Australia National University, Dec. 2004.
“The Transition to Sound in Korea, 1929-1939: Negotiated Spaces Within Colonial Modernity.” Panel Paper, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 2004.
“Japanese Colonial Period in the New Korean Cinema: YMCA Baseball Team (2003, Kim Hyun Seok).” Invited Speaker, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Feb. 2004
“Arirang, Arirang!: The Transition to Sound in Korea , 1929-1939.” Colloquium Speaker, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2004.
“Australia's Film Industry Today: An Overview of the Forces that Have Shaped It.” Invited Speaker, International Visual Effects Workshop, Kyungsung University, Busan, Korea, December 2003.
“Film Policy & Film Exhibition in Colonial Korea, 1919-1939.” Invited Symposium Speaker, Aesthetics & Historical Imagination of Korean Cinema, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2003.
“Lost Memories of Korean Cinema: Film Policies Under Japanese Rule, 1926-1937.” Panel Paper, Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, Seattle, May 2003.
“Frenzy of the Audible: Local Talkie Technology in the Australian Cinema, 1924-1932.” Panel Paper, Australasian Sound Recording Association Conference--The Sound on the Film, Sydney, July 2003.
“Failures & Successes During Australi 's Coming of Sound, 1929-32.” Panel Paper, Film & History Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, Nov. 2002.
“Expanding Networks of Cultural Webs@Disney.com: Lapsurfing Disney, 1995-2001.” Workshop Presentation, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2002.
“Wiring up the American ‘Talkie War': Promoting Sound in the Australian Exhibition Market, 1924-1932.” Panel Paper, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2002.
“The Coming of Sound Technology to the Australian Film Industry, 1928-1932.” Panel Paper, Australian and New Zealand History and Film Conference, Brisbane, Australia, November 1998.
“E-Commerce in the Jungle; Amazon.com and the Over-Growth of the Internet.” Live Internet Conference, Australian Electronics Development Corporation, Canberra, Australia, November 1998.
“Something No White Man Has Ever Seen: Local Promotion of King Kong (RKO, 1933) as a Racial Spectacle.” Panel Paper, Disturbing Boundaries Conference, University of Melbourne, Nov. 1997.
“Repackaging Imagination and Magic for the Cyber-kid in all of us@Disney.com.” Panel Paper, Arizona State University West Communications Conference, May 1997.