<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> members,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I would like to invite you to register for the forthcoming talk at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><i>Monash University <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> Research Hub (MUKSRH)</i></b> has been holding seminars on various topics related to <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span>, and our series for this year has a number of interesting talks.  </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The second talk is going to be held next Thursday (AEST) as an online seminar. Please see the details below:</font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Monash University <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> Research Hub (MURSRH) </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is proud to present: </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><i><font size="4">"K-pop fandom in Mexico: Transnational performances of race and gender"</font></i></b><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">by <span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Dr. J</b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(30,30,30);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>oyhanna Yoo Garza</b> (</span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f454c36e-7fff-3f2e-a8df-7bb0f45cb5f5"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">postdoctoral fellow at </span></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c7e8576b-7fff-b20b-07f6-02c4f69a3567"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Harvard University</span></span><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></font></p><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-97ffc13c-7fff-40f1-5b7d-4a8ccd529ce3"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><b><u>28th April Thursday 11am (AEST)</u></b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><b><u><br></u></b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><b><u><br></u></b></font></span></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#1e1e1e" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Abstract </b></span></font></p></span><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-32232aca-7fff-bb8b-2c95-91da2faf8bf4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Racialized performances within a mediatized transnational frame, are frequently prone to circulation in contexts not original to their production, as well as uptake from disparate, perhaps even unintended, publics. Such performances warrant an analysis that explores the tensions and uneven processes inherent to such exchange. Within the now-globalized genre of K-pop, the subgenre of K-pop dance cover features groups which recreate the dance choreography of K-pop bands. These dance cover groups frequently engage in cross-gender and cross-racial performance. In this talk, I examine the racialized gendered performances of such K-pop fans in the Mexican context who also participate in digital K-pop fandoms. More specifically, I show how they use linguistic and embodied forms which index Korean hegemonic femininity and how such performances are taken up amid converging interpretive frames.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rather than read such practices as determined by the consumerist influence of K-pop, I argue that their performances constitute socioculturally-specific contestations of personhood and power. Based on face-to-face and digital ethnography of K-pop fans in Mexico, I present a multimodal semiotic analysis of fans’ mediatized performances. In so doing, I elucidate how such performers tap into transnational, multilingual fandom networks to perform appropriate fan identities and to assert their own queer, aspirational cosmopolitan desires through digital recognition.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,30,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Bio</b></span></p></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3c284ebe-7fff-4ea1-d29f-4e5c0d0fc835"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza is a sociocultural linguist who examines language, race, and gender from an ethnographic lens, particularly in mediatized contexts. She is currently a College Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and completed her PhD in Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. Her research takes a semiotic approach to the study of language with a focus on transnational Korean popular culture and its consumption in Mexico and the US. Joy has a secondary research interest in Asian American racialization in contexts of higher education and is especially passionate about student-centered teaching, mentorship, and student advocacy. </span></p></span></font><div style="text-align:left"><img src="cid:ii_l23dwyzh0" alt="image.png" width="301" height="167"></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Please register here!<br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-6631e186-7fff-e522-ad11-8aa5930db63c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u style=""><font color="#0b5394"><a href="https://forms.gle/j2kohn2ZdE9CMEib7">https://forms.gle/j2kohn2ZdE9CMEib7</a></font></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Registration closes on <b><u>2</u></b><b style=""><u>6th April (next Tuesday/AEST)</u></b>.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Best regards,</p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><font size="4">Soyeon Kim</font></i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>PhD candidate/ Teaching associate </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) research </span>assistant  </div><div>School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics</div><div>Monash University</div><div>Clayton, Victoria, 3800</div><div>Australia</div><div><br></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:Soyeon.Kim@monash.edu" target="_blank">Soyeon.Kim@monash.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><h1 lang="en" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:0.008em;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:400">"</span><i>Swearing Granny Restaurants: An International Perspective on Rudeness in Korean</i><span style="font-weight:400">"</span></font></h1></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0b5394"><u><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90761-7_9" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90761-7_9</a></u></font><br></div></div></div></div></div>