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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Korea Research Centre of WA & Discipline of Asian Studies</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Online Seminar Event,
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">October 9
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Between theodicy and ressentiment: “Han” in minjung theology
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(Dr</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<b>Sam Han)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">You are invited to join online
<b>October 9 (Friday)</b> Asian Studies & Korea Research Centre Seminar, at which
<b>Dr Sam Han</b> will be presenting his work on</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Between theodicy and ressentiment: “Han” in minjung theology.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> Abstract and Zoom link below and attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Following calls in recent critical debates in English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of
<i>han</i> (often translated as “resentment”), this presentation argues for its reconsideration from the vantage point of minjung theology, a theological perspective that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, which has been dubbed the Korean-version of “liberation
theology.” Like its Latin American counterpart, minjung theology understood itself in explicitly political terms, seeking to reinvigorate debates around the question of theodicy—the problem of suffering vis-à-vis the existence of a divine being or order. In
connecting the concept of han to theodicy, minjung theology, this presentation argues, offers an opening towards a redirection from han’s dominant understanding within academic discourse and public culture as a special and unique racial essence of Korean people.
Moreover, by putting minjung theology in conversation with contemporary political theory, in particular the work of Wendy Brown and Lauren Berlant, this presentation hopes to bring minjung theology to the attention of critical theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dr Sam Han</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, UWA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The seminar will be held on <b>Friday 9 October, 11am-12:00pm (Australian Western Standard Time)</b>, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To join click</span> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">
<a href="https://uwa.zoom.us/j/85214715324?pwd=TjJ2WnpFbUNyTW5qT3lmMWY3bXpxQT09">https://uwa.zoom.us/j/85214715324?pwd=TjJ2WnpFbUNyTW5qT3lmMWY3bXpxQT09</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Password: 599753<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For inquires: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#27348B">Dr Nicola Fraschini<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#27348B">Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#27348B">Korean Studies major coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4C4C4E">School of Social Sciences, Asian Studies</span><span style="color:#27348B"> • </span><span style="color:#4C4C4E"> M257, Perth WA 6009 Australia
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#27348B">T </span></b><span style="color:#4C4C4E">+61 8 6488 3963</span><span style="color:#27348B"> • </span><span style="color:#4C4C4E">
</span><b><span style="color:#27348B">E </span></b><span style="color:#4C4C4E"><a href="mailto:nicola.fraschini@uwa.edu.au">nicola.fraschini@uwa.edu.au</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4C4C4E"><a href="https://www.uwa.edu.au/able/research/Korea-Research-Centre-of-Western-Australia">Korea Research Centre of Western Australia</a>
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