<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Jinsook Kim for a discussion on the ways in which digital media have become a key battlefield in the intense cultural and political conflict between feminists and misogynists that has been playing out in South Korea since 2013. Dr. Kim will show how new modes of feminist activism on and offline have contested the pervasive misogyny in the country by increasing public interest in gender issues and extending the reach of feminism. Focusing on the concept of “sticky activism,” Dr. Kim argues that these efforts have contributed to the formation of feminist counterpublics that have served to articulate gendered discontent with misogynistic culture and society and to challenge deep-seated gender violence in the country.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">STICKY ACTIVISM: ONLINE MISOGYNY AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH KOREA</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242);margin-left:40px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Thursday, December 7, 5:15-6:30 pm PT, Online, Zoom Webinar</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242);margin-left:40px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Jinsook Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242);margin-left:40px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">University of Pennsylvania</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Jinsook Kim</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in Media Studies from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include digital media, online hate culture, and social and political activism in the context of contemporary South Korea. Her work on topics in global digital media culture ranging from feminist activism to sports and nationalism has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals including </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">and</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> Communication, Culture & Critique</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">. She is currently working on her first book project, tentatively titled </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Anti-Hate Activism in South Korea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.38;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Free and open to the public. <a href="https://www.usfca.edu/event/2021-12-07-1715/feminist-movement-south-korea" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(50,153,186)">Registration required</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.38;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:bord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