Please join us for two lectures about Korean cinema by Professor Anthony Adler from Yonsei University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) next month.
Barking Dogs never Bark: Bong Joon Ho's Daoist Cinema
Wednesday, February 12, 12:30-13:30, McCormick Theater (HG 1070)
Story of a Stone: Suseok in Bong Joon Ho's Parasite
Wednesday, February 19, 12:30-13:30, McCormick Theater (HG 1070)
Anthony Curtis Adler has been teaching German and comparative literature as an assistant professor at Yonsei University Underwood International College since the fall of 2006, and has also held positions at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Loyola University, and Northwestern University, where he received his doctorate in 2005 for a dissertation on the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin written under the direction of Peter Fenves, Sam Weber, and Terry Pinkard. His research combines interests in German and Continental philosophy, political theory, literary theory, aesthetics, media studies, and Classical Greek and Roman literature, and is especially concerned with the philosophical and political potential of the concept of the literary. He has published articles in Continental Philosophy Review, Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, and other journals and book collections published by Fordham and Oxford University Press, and his translation, with interpretive essay, of Fichte's The Closed Commercial State will be published this April by SUNY Press. He is also working on a book-length study of Hoelderlin's "choreo-politics," and a philosophical investigation of the concept of celebrity.