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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear list members,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are seeking panelists and a discussant to join our panel
proposal for AKSE conference in </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://web.uniroma1.it/akse2019/sites/default/files/allegati/29th%20AKSE%20Conference%20Sapienza%20University%20of%20Rome%202019_0.pdf"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Rome</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (April 11-14, 2019).<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our panel is provisionally titled <b>“Placing Popular Culture: The
Reconfiguration of Cultural Artifacts and Urban Space in South Korea</b>,” and
below is our abstract-in-progress: <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">This panel explores how popular
culture and urban spaces mediate each other and construct each others’ meanings
in South Korea. In the past two decades, South Korean popular culture has drawn
significant attention from scholars, yet the questions related to how those
popular-cultural phenomena spill from their media environments, gain spatial
materiality, and reconstitute South Korea’s urban landscape have remained by
and large neglected. The panel aims to examine how the spatial presence of
cultural artifacts reconfigures urban spaces into the places of historical
commemoration, tourist pilgrimage, and fandom worship. At the same time, we
consider how with such spatialization, popular cultural icons transcend their
mediated ephemerality, become tangible artifacts, accumulate histories as urban
objects, and generate their own social spaces. Drawing out specific instances
of how popular culture becomes “placed” and urban spaces “culturalized,” we
explore mechanisms and interests behind such convergences, draw out competing
claims they accommodate, and unpack their implications.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With those questions in mind, we are
mainly interested in papers related to emplaced heritization of popular
culture; spatial aspects of hero-making and celebrity-making; social spaces
created through placed popular culture, including public art and street art;
co-constitution between popular-cultural artifacts and urban experience; Hallyu
tourism and its spatial implications; conflicts over popular culture in built
environments and negotiations between concerned communities.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If interested, please send a brief
bio and (for potential panelists) a 500-word abstract to </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:fed0renk0@snu.ac.kr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">fed0renk0@snu.ac.kr</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:gpodoler@research.haifa.ac.il">gpodoler@research.haifa.ac.il</a></span></u>
by <b>July 8</b>.</span><br></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Olga Fedorenko (Seoul National
University) and Guy Podoler (University of Haifa).<span></span></span></p>

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