<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>We are pleased to invite you to talk 4 of our annual <i>Monash University Korean Studies Seminar Series</i>, made possible thanks to the <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-align:center">Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-align:center">AKS</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-align:center">-2017-OLU-2250002).</span></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Talk 4</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Prof. Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, April 30</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at 9 AM AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time!)</span></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sign up link: <a href="https://forms.gle/rZHYEWaVum3q8iB19" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/rZHYEWaVum3q8iB19</a></span></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt">Zoom links will be sent out the day prior to the talk.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"><b>Glossolalia and the Problem of Language in South Korea</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions, glossolalia is both celebrated as a supernatural gift and condemned as semiotic alchemy. In South Korea, glossolalia is practiced widely across Protestant denominations and congregations. This lecture addresses the popularity of glossolalia in South Korea, situating the practice at the intersection of numerous, often competing social forces, interwoven religious legacies, and spiritual desires that have been amplified by Christianity’s massive institutionalization. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bio:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicholas Harkness is the Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in linguistic and semiotic approaches to sociocultural analysis. His research in South Korea has resulted in publications on various topics, including voice, language, music, religion, ritual, kinship, liquor, and the city of Seoul. His first book, </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(University of California Press, 2014), was awarded the Edward Sapir Book Prize by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (Co-Winner, 2014, American Anthropological Association). Harkness's second book is titled </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Glossolalia and the Problem of Language</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (University of Chicago Press, 2021). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo68655055.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo68655055.html</span></a></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr. Adam Antoni Zulawnik</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Korean Studies<br clear="none" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px">School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics </font></font></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Monash University</font></font></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Latest publication</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">: </span></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Death to the Translator!" - A Case Study on Risk in Translation </i><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(A Zulawnik, <i>AALITRA Review, </i></font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2020).<i> </i></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><a href="https://ojs.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/article/view/1155" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://ojs.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/article/view/1155</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000"><b>Forthcoming publication</b>: </font></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000"><i>Interviews with North Korea</i></font></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n Defectors - from Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho </i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="direction:ltr;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000">(I Lim & A Zulawnik [trans],<i> Routledge, </i>2021). </font></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Interviews-with-North-Korean-Defectors-From-Kim-Shin-jo-to-Thae-Yong-ho/Il/p/book/9780367716165" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/Interviews-with-North-Korean-Defectors-From-Kim-Shin-jo-to-Thae-Yong-ho/Il/p/book/9780367716165</a></span></div></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent;margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font color="#007600" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></font><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1jYXP4ROMFj0DnbUWbaSyNJDgHX1sKrwV&revid=0Byv_NC1v7Q2zSXJ4TWtSRnhIbVc1NUhpRTA1VkJab2wrWVdvPQ" width="129" height="200" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>