<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear list members, please note the forthcoming Korean Studies talk held at Deakin University in collaboration with Monash University Korean Studies. Everyone welcome. Best Andy</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp4f3337a6MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr
Stephen Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington)</span></b></p>

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<p class="ydp4f3337a6MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘Celebrities, Netizens and Nationalism
in East Asia’</span></p>

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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date: 11 July 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></div>

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campus, Deakin University</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></div>

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<p class="ydp4f3337a6MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On August 14, 2016, Liberation Day
in South Korea, American born Tiffany of K-pop icons Girls’ Generation uploaded
a picture to her Instagram account that paid tribute to the group’s concert the
previous night: applying a filter available in the social media platform, she
added the locale “Tokyo, Japan” to caption the photo in a font style that
recalled Japan’s rising sun flag. Netizen reaction was swift and harsh in
condemning the “ignorant” action of the star, and her gaffe ultimately led to
her dismissal from a popular Korean TV show. Tiffany, however, was far from the
first star to be attacked for the display, almost always unwitting, of another
nation’s symbols in East Asia’s highly sensitive internet environment. In this
talk, Epstein will address such incidents in order to underline how nationalism
intersects with the process of increasing mediatisation, personalisation and
commodification of celebrity as well as media consumption, democratised fan
production and evolving relations between fans and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">celebrities.</span></p></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>