<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Many thanks to Hyung Il Pai for this.<BR>
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For those of us not going to San Francisco<BR>
(be sure to wear some flowers in your hair),<BR>
this guide to what's going on is very useful too.<BR>
AAS surely offers a unique cornucopia.<BR>
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That said, the dominant flavours are changing.<BR>
I was at Chicago last year (sort of: I had the flu),<BR>
and formed the same impression that I got from<BR>
reading this packed programme of Koreana too.<BR>
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Namely: <B>Cultural studies rules!</B> Which is fine. Yet <BR>
unless memory plays tricks, back in the 1980s AAS <BR>
Korean sessions used to offer a more balanced menu.<BR>
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Isn't it odd, and sad, that in 2006 there are hardly any <BR>
panels on the mainstream politics or economics of <BR>
contemporary Korea? Were it not for independent<BR>
scholars and ASCK, this would look even thinner.<BR>
(Pity about ASCK/ISKS clash on Sat. evening, by the way.)<BR>
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But maybe I misunderstand the US conference scene.<BR>
Do Korean politics and economics now have their own<BR>
separate circuits? (Anything policy-related is of course<BR>
quite well-served in Washington, if not elsewhere.)<BR>
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And since we must all now earn our crust in a capitalist<BR>
marketplace, one does wonder about supply and demand.<BR>
Can all you bright young things, dizzy with postcolonialism,<BR>
count on getting jobs? There are so many of you!<BR>
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As Scott McKenzie (whom I've already quoted)<BR>
put it almost 40 years ago:<BR>
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"All across the nation<BR>
Such a strange vibration<BR>
People in motion<BR>
There's a whole generation<BR>
With a new explanation..."<BR>
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Indeed. Have a great conference, y'all.<BR>
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cheers<BR>
Aidan<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
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In a message dated 31/03/2006 20:15:31 GMT Standard Time, hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu writes:<BR>
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Date:31/03/2006 20:15:31 GMT Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu">hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu</A><BR>
Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
To:<A HREF="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
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Dear Koreanists,I am writing to inform you all that the Korea related panels ( A record of 40 this year) at the S.F. AAS annual meeting (April 6-9) as well as CKS (Committee on Korean Studies) meetings, KF receptions etc. are all now all up on on our CKS site at :<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea2">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea2</A><BR>
I want to thank our web designers Joe and Sue for all their help in making such neat time-tables printable for everyone. I will be giving a short presentation on our CKS website and ask for comments and suggestions at our general meeting. Please come and feel free to make recommendations. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hyung Il Pai<BR>
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Associate Professor<BR>
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East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,<BR>
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HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106<BR>
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Fax: 805) 893-3011, Phone: 805) 893-2245<BR>
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Email: <A HREF="mailto:Hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu">Hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu</A><BR>
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Dept. Web-site -http://<A HREF="http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/">www.eastasian.ucsb.edu</A>/<BR>
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