<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>We are pleased to invite you to talk 5 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><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 5</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">: Assoc. Prof. Sandra Fahy (Sophia 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">Wednesday May 19</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 4:00 - 5:00 PM AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time!)</span></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Please sign up <a href="https://forms.gle/B7mZULzSDFJ2PdE86">HERE</a>.</span></font></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 (with a reminder on the day).</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" style=""><b>Reflections on 20 years of Fieldwork, Writing, and Publishing on North Korea</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This presentation shares my experience of working on the topic of North Korea from the earliest stages of my career to the present. It gives a "behind the scenes" view of the experience - the things we usually don't write or talk about - of being a non-Korean, white, woman scholar of Korea approaching the fraught topic of human rights north of the 38th parallel. It is, therefore, an ethnography of my experience. I have often felt that I should write "the book beneath the book" - by this I mean the story of what lead to my interest in Korea, what it was like to study Korean language in South Korea when my interests were in the North, and it was like to conduct the research with North Korean defectors in South Korea and Japan – survivors of the 1990s famine – for my PhD, which resulted in my book on 1990s famine </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and to a lesser extent my second book. The talk elaborates on the phenomena of working with human subjects on sensitive, traumatic topics – the impact of this on the researcher, and the informant. This talk is designed to offer students and the audience of researchers working in similar topics. My aim, in presenting my experiences of typically overlooked or under discussed aspects of the work is to normalize and represent the human in the researcher and in the research.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Biography</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sandra Fahy is a former visiting fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. She is associate professor of anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. She holds a PhD from SOAS University of London. She grew up in Canada, but has lived in South Korea and Japan for 12 years.  She is the author of </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (New York: Columbia University Press 2015) and </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Rights Abuses on the Record</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (New York: Columbia University Press 2019). She is currently working on a book titled </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">States, Lies and Video: a century of states using video to deny allegations of rights abuses.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions please email Dr Adam Zulawnik: <a href="mailto:adam.zulawnik@monash.edu">adam.zulawnik@monash.edu</a></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">See you all there!</span></font></p></div></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"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