<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the <i>Eighth Annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture</i> awardee is<b> Dr. David Krolikoski</b>, Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai’i. His lecture is titled </span><em style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea.</span></em></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><em style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></em></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">In this lecture Dr. Krolikoski examines <em>The Silence of Love </em>(<em>Nim ŭi ch’immuk</em>, 1926), the acclaimed collection of eighty-eight poems by Han Yong-un (1879-1944). Although the book is commonly celebrated as a metaphor for colonial subjugation, Dr. Krolikoski complicates this established reading to argue that its artistic significance lies in Han’s paradigm-shifting use of colonial poetry as a medium of communal expression during a time of national crisis.<br><br>Further, he explores how Han uses fiction and symbols to collapse the boundary between private and public address, transmuting the individual voice of his poetic speaker into a platform for a community. Dr. Krolikoski also contextualizes <em>The Silence of Love</em> within the history of the translation of foreign poetic forms into Korea during the 1920s, with a focus on how Han incorporated elements from the lyric and prose poem into his verse. <b>Dr.</b> <strong>Emily Jungmin Yoon</strong>, author of <em>Find Me as the Creature I Am</em> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) and assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, will serve as moderator.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.4067px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p align="center" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0in 0in 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt"><em><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea<br></span></b></em><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 6 PM (EST)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p align="center" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0in 0in 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_bBvWMsHDdp5TrWAZy1FraWkTOfpcGJNplqUfWc4m50eURw/viewform" target="_blank"><b>Click here to attend in person.</b></a></font></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>    <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSds_luFtbbJ-1NtRBZYv3HESBtvQzq7TdkYG-TM7qupV251Mg/viewform" target="_blank">Click here to receive a viewing link.</a> </b></font></p><p style="text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0in 0in 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt">For further information about the Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Award and our 2024 awardee & moderator, click </span><b><a href="https://www.koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/item/1859-sherman-family-korea-emerging-scholar-lecture-2024" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt">here</a><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt">.</span></b></p><img src="cid:ii_m32om32x1" alt="2dc4170f-46e4-436b-ae6f-74c61e6e8271.png" width="473" height="225"><br><p style="text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0in 0in 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt"><br></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" cla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