Closed Open: Illness, Sensation, and the Sick Body in Korean Visual Culture

Taking inspiration from Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on illness as an irreversible opening, this panel invites papers that explore the sick body as a locus of altered perception at the intersection of medical humanities and cinema.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Hyun Seon Park, George Mason U (hpark63@gmu.edu )