Event Type: Film screening

Film screening: Black Box Diaries with Journalist and Documentary filmmaker SHIORI ITO in person

FILM SCREENING from 5:15 – 7:00pm & DISCUSSION SESSION with Journalist and Documentary filmmaker SHIORI ITO from 7:00 – 7:45pm   Reception: 7:45pm   Journalist SHIORI ITO, the first Japanese documentary filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award, will appear in person for a screening and discussion of her Oscar-nominated documentary memoir Black Box Diaries (2024). […]

Written by on September 22, 2025

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

This talk, organized by the Korea Institute, reconsiders the relationship between art and politics, particularly in relation to the aesthetic representation of atrocity. Focusing on the genre of Kwangju fiction, Hanscom asks what kind of remembering is adequate to the traumatic event and how the representation of such memory can avoid both a cycle of […]

Written by on September 22, 2025