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<DIV><FONT size=2>YONSEI KOREAN STUDIES FORUM!<BR><BR>The Yonsei University
Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) Korean Studies Department gladly
invites you to the 15th Yonsei Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on
Thursday, October 31 (Halloween Day), 2002, 4:00PM and at Yonsei Graduate School
of International Studies Millennium Hall Room 111. <BR><BR>The topic for this
forum is "The Ajumma and Their Social Understanding: What They Say". The speaker
is Bernard Rowan (Ph.D. University of Chicago, Political Science) and he is
currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Chicago State University
where he has taught since 1993. For the abstract, please go to the bottom of
this message. <BR><BR>The presentation and the forum will be followed by dinner,
courtesy of Yonsei University, at a restaurant (TBD) just outside the gates of
Yonsei University. We hope you can join us to enjoy the presentation, the
discussion, and the dinner. Thank you for your time, consideration, and we hope
you will join us. See you<BR>at the Yonsei Korean Studies Forum!<BR><BR>Who:
Guest Speaker - Professor Bernard Rowan<BR>What: Yonsei Korean Studies
Forum<BR>When: Thursday, 31 October 2002, 4:00PM<BR>Where: Yonsei University
Graduate School of<BR>International Studies, Millennium Hall, Room 111.
<BR>Please see map of our website:<BR><A
href="http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/home.htm">http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/home.htm</A>
(then click virtual<BR>open house on the bottom right corner) <BR><BR>Warmest
Regards,<BR><BR>Hyuk-Rae Kim<BR><BR><BR>ABSTRACT:<BR><BR>The disciplines of
social science, Korean studies and womenĄŻs studies consider the women of
different countries as social agents. We examine the intersection of their
agency with variables of class, other demographics of status, nationalism, or
similar concepts. My study on ajumma is no exception.<BR><BR>In particular, I
want to develop an argument that the ajumma are a basis to chart part of the
future for Korean social democracy. They are not the only basis, but they surely
are one of the most important. In what follows, I discuss what I take to be the
implications of Korean ajumma for democratization in Korea, both in terms of
democratic thinking and public policy suggestions.<BR><BR>Most of all, since I
do not know the ajumma as a Korean would know them, I have sought to understand
what the ajumma think of themselves, of Korean society, and of the future for
Korea. And I think they have a lot to say. I have only begun to learn, but I
want to share with you what I have found thus far.<BR><BR><BR>Hyuk-Rae Kim,
Ph.D.<BR>Associate Professor and Chairperson, Korean Studies Program<BR>Graduate
School of International Studies<BR>Yonsei University<BR>Seoul, 120-749
KOREA<BR>Tel: +822-2123-4705<BR>Fax:
+822-392-3321<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>