<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear all,</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please join us next Thursday for a <i>Korean Studies</i> <i>Distinguished Speaker</i> <i>Series</i> seminar with acclaimed poet, Youngmi Choi. This online event is hosted by the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. The seminar is free but registration is required. Please see details below.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Future of #MeToo in Asia: A Conversation with Youngmi Choi</font></b></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif">Korean Studies Distinguished Speaker Series</font></i></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><u><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thursday 5 November 2020</font></u></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><u><font face="arial, sans-serif">6PM-7PM (AEST)//4PM-5PM (KST)</font></u></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In this <i>Korean Studies Distinguished Speaker Series </i>seminar at the Asia Institute, Ms Youngmi Choi, a prominent feminist poet and leading figure in Korean literature, will speak about her work and fight against sexism in South Korea.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Choi's first collection of poems, <i>At Thirty, the Party was Over</i>, was published in 1994 and became an instant bestseller in Korea. Her experiences as a student activist protesting the military dictatorship in the 1980s informs her work, which sheds light on contemporary South Korean politics and society.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Join Dr. Jay Song, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Korean Studies at the Asia Institute, for this important conversation with Youngmi Choi. They will discuss Choi's poetry, revelations of sexual harassment, and what it means for the #MeToo movement in Korea and Asia more broadly.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This is a free event but <b>registration is required</b>. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. Please register here: <a href="https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc-%20uvqTktHdRg2SHP-jtG-%20Nm3US9GHQt2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc-%20uvqTktHdRg2SHP-jtG-%20Nm3US9GHQt2</a></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u style="color:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">About the Speaker</span></u><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">:</span><br></font><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17)">Youngmi Choi is a poet and novelist from Seoul, Korea. Her poem, <i style="">Monster </i>(</span><span lang="KO" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17)">괴물</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17)">)<i style="">,</i> ignited the #MeToo movement in Korea in 2018. Born in Seoul in 1961, Youngmi received a B.A. in Western History from Seoul National University and an M.A. in Art History from Hong-ik University. Faced with the military dictatorship of the 1980's, she joined student protests demanding democracy. As a result, she was detained and suspended from university. Her first volume of poems <i style="">At Thirty, the Party was Over</i> (1994) was recognised for her delicate but bold expressions and piercing satire on the capital and authority. She has published six poetry collections (<i style="">Treading on the Pedals of Dream, To the Pigs, Life that has yet to Arrive, Things Already Hot,</i> and <i style="">What will not come again</i>), and penned two novels (<i style="">Scars and Patterns</i>, and <i style="">The Garden of Bronze</i>). Youngmi received the Isu Literary Award for <i style="">To the Pigs</i>, and the 2018 Sex Equality Award. <br></span></font></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u><font face="arial, sans-serif">WHEN:</font></u></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thursday 5 November 2020</font></d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