<div dir="ltr">Apologies for re-posting; links to the website and registration have been added -- PHK<div><br></div><div><a href="https://u.osu.edu/koreanresearch/">https://u.osu.edu/koreanresearch/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Korean Performance Research Program (KPRP) Student Research Workshop</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sociomusicology of K-pop: Culture of (In)visibility</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date and time:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> April 15, 2024 (Monday) 9:30am-5:30pm (Eastern Time)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Hagerty Hall 259 at The Ohio State University and online on Zoom</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Christopher Lee Korean Performance Research Program at The Ohio State University is proud to present its first Student Research Workshop on K-pop. Al</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">though many think of K-Pop as a genre performed by Korean idol dance music artists, they often overlook the ever expanding cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and musical boundaries of K-Pop. In this workshop, we will explore many interesting social and musical issues related to the culture of K-pop, such as the increasing multiethnicity of performers, the interconnection between hip-hop and K-pop, the issues of abuse, exploitation, and discrimination in the Korean entertainment industry, and the social activism of K-pop fandom.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is a hybrid in-person and online event that is open to the public. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference presenters come from two groups of students. One is a diverse group of graduate students who have a dissertation/thesis/publication project on K-pop, and the other group is graduate and undergraduate students from OSU who are currently taking a BTAA Korean e-School course on K-pop. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Korea Foundation BTAA e-School Program, and OSU’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Institute for Korean Studies, and East Asian Studies Center.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PROGRAM</span></p><div><p><br></p><p>9:30am Opening Remarks</p><p><u>9:45am Invited Graduate Student Session: Visibility and Invisibility in K-pop</u></p><p>Rita Rongyi Lin (Northwestern University) “Invisible Skin: K-pop and Vernacular Blackness in Global Circulation”<br>So Yoon Lee (University of Chicago) “Becoming a K-pop Producer: Vocational Training and Cultural Production in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry”<br>Seulbin Han (Duke University) “The Hidden Players: An Analysis of Diasporic K-Pop Consumer Groups in the U.S.”<br>Franchesca Ulloa (University of California, Berkeley) “Between Screens and Courtrooms: Following the Exclusive Contract Issues in K-Pop and How Fandoms Respond”</p><p>Discussants: Dr. Pil Ho Kim (OSU) and Dr. Ildong Joe (Academy of Korean Studies)</p><p>11:45am Coffee break</p><p><u>12:00pm Keynote Lecture: Dr. Grace Kao (Professor of Sociology, Yale University)</u></p><p>“Sunmi as ‘Heroine, Gashina, and Siren’: How a Former Member of the K-Pop Group The <em>Wonder Girls </em>Developed <em>Sunmi-Pop</em>”</p><p>1:00 pm Lunch Break</p><p><u>2:00pm OSU Undergraduate Session: From Hip-hop to K-pop</u></p><p>Laci Kuhlwein, “Bringing Hip-Hop to K-pop: How Asian-Americans Transformed the K-pop Industry”<br>Christian Williams, “K-pop in the Club: Observing the Influence of Jersey Club Music within Charting K-pop Hits”<br>Bhada Han, “Make it Loud, Your Inner Voice: Wearing the Korean Dragon Lady in Lim Kim’s ‘YELLOW’”</p><p>Discussant: Dr. Wonseok Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)</p><p>3:30pm Coffee break</p><p><u>3:40pm OSU Graduate/Undergraduate Session: The Sociology of K-pop Idols</u></p><p>Kiya Brown, Milan Caldwell, Elise Conrad, “Multiracial Idols in K-pop: The Treatment of ‘Mixed’ Idols in the K-pop Industry”<br>Carina Geissler, “K-pop Trainees: Crushed Hopes and Wasted Years: Is It Worth the Risk?”<br>Michiko Kubota, “Collecting as ‘Restoration:’ BTS RM Putting Korean Modernism Back on the Map”</p><p>Discussant: Dr. Grace Kao (Yale University)</p><p>5:10pm Closing Remarks</p></div><div><a href="https://u.osu.edu/koreanresearch/wp-admin/post.php?post=17&action=edit" title="Edit Page" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div><div>Registration: <a href="https://u.osu.edu/koreanresearch/registration/">https://u.osu.edu/koreanresearch/registration/</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:18 AM Pil Ho Kim <<a href="mailto:plateaux@gmail.com">plateaux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Korean Performance Research Program
(KPRP) Student Research Workshop</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sociomusicology
of K-pop: Culture of (In)visibility</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date and
time:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
April 15, 2024 (Monday) 9:30am-5:30pm (Eastern Time)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Hagerty Hall 259 at The Ohio State University and online on Zoom</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Christopher Lee Korean Performance Research Program at
The Ohio State University is proud to present its first Student Research
Workshop on K-pop. Al</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">though many think of K-Pop
as a genre performed by Korean idol dance music artists, they often overlook
the ever expanding cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and musical boundaries of
K-Pop. In this workshop, we will explore many interesting social and musical issues
related to the culture of K-pop, such as the increasing multiethnicity of
performers, the interconnection between hip-hop and K-pop, the issues of abuse,
exploitation, and discrimination in the Korean entertainment industry, and the social
activism of K-pop fandom. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is a hybrid in-person and online
event that is open to the public. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference
presenters come from two groups of students. One is a diverse group of graduate
students who have a dissertation/thesis/publication project on K-pop, and the
other group is graduate and undergraduate students from OSU who are currently taking
a BTAA Korean e-School course on K-pop. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference is made possible by the generous support of
the Korea Foundation BTAA e-School Program, and OSU’s Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures, Institute for Korean Studies, and East Asian Studies
Center. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PROGRAM</span></p><div>
<p><br></p><p>9:30am Opening Remarks</p>
<p><u>9:45am Invited Graduate Student Session: Visibility and Invisibility in K-pop</u></p>
<p>Rita Rongyi Lin (Northwestern University) “Invisible Skin: K-pop and Vernacular Blackness in Global Circulation”<br>
So Yoon Lee (University of Chicago) “Becoming a K-pop Producer:
Vocational Training and Cultural Production in South Korea’s Popular
Music Industry”<br>
Seulbin Han (Duke University) “The Hidden Players: An Analysis of Diasporic K-Pop Consumer Groups in the U.S.”<br>
Franchesca Ulloa (University of California, Berkeley) “Between Screens
and Courtrooms: Following the Exclusive Contract Issues in K-Pop and How
Fandoms Respond”</p>
<p>Discussants: Dr. Pil Ho Kim (OSU) and Dr. Ildong Joe (Academy of Korean Studies)</p>
<p>11:45am Coffee break</p>
<p><u>12:00pm Keynote Lecture: Dr. Grace Kao (Professor of Sociology, Yale University) </u></p>
<p>“Sunmi as ‘Heroine, Gashina, and Siren’: How a Former Member of the K-Pop Group The <em>Wonder Girls </em>Developed <em>Sunmi-Pop</em>”</p>
<p>1:00 pm Lunch Break</p>
<p><u>2:00pm OSU Undergraduate Session: From Hip-hop to K-pop</u></p>
<p>Laci Kuhlwein, “Bringing Hip-Hop to K-pop: How Asian-Americans Transformed the K-pop Industry”<br>
Christian Williams, “K-pop in the Club: Observing the Influence of Jersey Club Music within Charting K-pop Hits”<br>
Bhada Han, “Make it Loud, Your Inner Voice: Wearing the Korean Dragon Lady in Lim Kim’s ‘YELLOW’”</p>
<p>Discussant: Dr. Wonseok Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)</p>
<p>3:30pm Coffee break</p>
<p><u>3:40pm OSU Graduate/Undergraduate Session: The Sociology of K-pop Idols</u></p>
<p>Kiya Brown, Milan Caldwell, Elise Conrad, “Multiracial Idols in K-pop: The Treatment of ‘Mixed’ Idols in the K-pop Industry”<br>
Carina Geissler, “K-pop Trainees: Crushed Hopes and Wasted Years: Is It Worth the Risk?”<br>
Michiko Kubota, “Collecting as ‘Restoration:’ BTS RM Putting Korean Modernism Back on the Map”</p>
<p>Discussant: Dr. Grace Kao (Yale University)</p>
<p>5:10pm Closing Remarks</p>
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