<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear members of the listserv,</div><div>Let me circulate the following announcements. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your attention,</div><div>Seungsook Moon</div><div><br></div><div>1. Publication of a new book:</div><div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">Seungsook Moon, Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, is the author of a forthcoming book, <i><b>Civic Activism in South Korea: the Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism</b></i>, from the Columbia University Press. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">Here is the link to the book.</span></div><div><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/civic-activism-in-south-korea/9780231211499" target="_blank">https://cup.columbia.edu/book/civic-activism-in-south-korea/9780231211499</a></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>During the next academic year, 2024-2025, I am interested in giving a talk on my new book. If you have an appropriate venue, please let me know. My email address is listed below.</div><div><br></div></font></div><div>2. Call for participants in the V Forum of the International Sociological Association, to be held in Rabat, Morocco from July 6 to July 11, 2025. </div><div>Tentative title of the panel: "Politics of Masculinities in Contemporary South Korea"</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This panel approaches masculinities not only as an aspect of individual (gender) identity, but also a dimension of gender as a social structure of inequality and lasting symbols of strength, control, mastery, and prestige. It also highlights the “performative” nature of gender as effects of what people do and therefore interactively developing, rather than what people are born with and immutably fixed, without overlooking the enduring power of gender norms and gendered institutional practices over various groups of individuals. In particular, the panel intends to illuminate how the neoliberal transformation of the world in general and of South Korea in particular for the past three decades have shaped continuities and discontinuities in multiple embodiments of masculinities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><div><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you have questions and are interested in participating in the panel, please contact me at </span><a href="mailto:semoon@vassar.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">semoon@vassar.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  by <b>6/20/2024</b>. The panel proposal is due on <b>July 1st, 2024</b>. Here is the link to the V ISA Forum of Sociology. </span></div><div><a href="https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025" target="_blank">https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Seungsook Moon, Ph.D.<div><div>Professor of Sociology</div><div>Department of Sociology</div><div>Vassar College, Box #507</div><div>124 Raymond Avenue</div><div>Poughkeepsie, NY 12604</div><div>Office Tel:  845-437-7662</div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106211022884" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106211022884</a><br></div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1892255" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1892255</a><br></div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2021.1875110" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2021.1875110</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>