<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I would like to announce an upcoming workshop at USC this week. This is a public event, but we ask that you fill out an <a href="https://forms.gle/tRphKackNsG7tnpn9" target="_blank"><b>RSVP form</b></a>. If you are in the area, please feel free to attend yourself or recommend it to anyone interested. Full program with abstracts and bio can be found <a href="https://calendar.usc.edu/event/reimagining-feminist-korean-studies-workshop"><b>here</b></a>.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><b>Reimagining Feminist Korean Studies Workshop</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Friday April 24, 2026</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Family House</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">USC Parkside Campus</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">This one-day workshop brings together emerging scholars and established voices to reimagine the epistemic foundations of Korean Studies through feminist, queer, indigenous, decolonial, and transnational frameworks. REsponding to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, intensified anti-feminist backlash in South Korea, and the persistent marginalization of feminist discourse in Anglophone Korean Studies, the workshop creates space for collaborative dialogue and methodological innovation.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">This workshop is organized by USC's Korean Studies Institute and is sponsored by the Center for Feminist Research, the East Asian Studies Center, the Center for Transpacific Studies, and the USC Libraries Korean Heritage Library.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><b>Workshop Schedule</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">9:00\u20139:15 am Welcoming Remarks by Sunyoung Park (Director, USC Korean Studies Institute)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">9:15\u20139:30 am Opening Remarks by Monica W. Cho, Soyi Kim, Anat Schwartz (Co-Editors, <i>Feminist Korean Studies</i>)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">9:30\u201310:15 am Keynote Speech by Young-Im Lee (Associate Professor of Political Science, CSU Sacramento), <b>"Taking Stock, Imagining Futures: Feminist Diagnostics for Korean Politics Research"</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">10:15\u201310:30 am Coffee Break</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">10:30\u201312:00 pm <b>Panel I. Textual & Literary Analysis of Feminist Reimaginings</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><ul><li>Kyunghee Eo (Yale), Fantasies of Plentitude: Princess Adoration in Kang Sinjae's Early Short Stories</li><li>Melina Jung (UCSD), From Ni Una Menos to South Korea's Anti-Femicide Movement: Speculative Remembrance in <i>Chicas muertas</i> and <i>Mar\u016dt'a\u016di il</i></li><li>Hayun Cho (Notre Dame), Artists and Their Intimacies in Choi Eunyoung's <i>Shoko's Smile</i></li></ul></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><i> </i>Discussant: Monica W. Cho (USC)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">12:00\u20131:00 pm Lunch Break</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">1:00\u20132:30 pm <b>Panel II. Ethnographies & Embodied Methodologies of Feminist Reimaginings</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><ul><li>Jeongin Lee (USC), (Un)quiet Feminism: Sound and Gendered Audibility in South Korea</li><li>Eunkyo Kang (Stanford), "<i>Do you know</i> 4B?": Transnational Recognition of K-Feminism and Its Predicaments</li><li>Jeongsu Shin (Cornell), "Gendered Landscapes": Colonial Epistemology and the Politics of Knowing and Seeing in Jeju Island</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> Discussant: Anat Schwartz (CSU Dominguez Hills)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">2:30\u20132:45 pm Coffee Break</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">2:45\u20134:00 pm <b>Panel III. Discourses of Media, Space, and Movement in Feminist Reimaginings</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><ul><li>Dahye Kim (Northwestern), Writing Cyborgs: Digital Hangul, Gendered Labor, and the Origins of the Information Age</li><li>Caitlyn Ja-Yun Chung (USC), Itaewon as Stage: Spatial Limitations and Transgressions of the Seoul Drag Parade</li><li>Susan Hwang (UCSB), From "March" to "Whiplash": Reimagining the Feminist <i>Kwangjang</i> through South Korea's Protest Soundscape</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> Discussant: Soyi Kim (Duke)</div></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">4:00\u20134:15 pm Coffee Break</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">4:15\u20135:45 pm <b>Panel IV. Voices of Korean Scholar-Activists \u2013 <i>bilingual & hybrid panel</i></b> (8:15\u20139:45 am KST)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><ul><li>Shin Nari (Yonsei), \ud55c\uad6d \ubb38\ud559\uc7a5\uc758 \uadf8\ub8e8\ubc0d \uc131\ud3ed\ub825\uacfc \uc800\ud56d \uc815\uce58 (Grooming Sexual Violence and Feminist Resistance in the Korean Literary Field)</li><li>Siwoo (Institute of Gender and Culture), \ub300\uccb4\ubcf5\ubb34\uc81c\ub3c4 \ub3c4\uc785 \uc774\ud6c4 \ud034\uc5b4 \ubcd1\uc5ed\uac70\ubd80\uc790\uc758 \uc704\uce58 (Beyond Recognition: Positionality of Queer Conscientious Objectors in the Era of Alternative Services)</li><li>Booyoung Park (Ewha), Making Intersectionality the Enemy: Online TERF Discourse and the Factionalization of Feminist Politics in South Korea</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> Discussant: Yoon Won Chang (Emory)</div><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">5:45\u20136:00 pm Closing Remarks</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2">------------<br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2">Monica W. Cho, PhD</font></div><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2">KF Postdoctoral Fellow</font></div><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2">USC Korean Studies Institute</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="mailto:monica.cho@uci.edu" target="_blank">mwcho1@uci.edu</a><br></span></u></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="mailto:monica.cho@uci.edu" target="_blank">mwc_766@usc.edu</a></span></u></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.monicawcho.com" target="_blank">www.monicawcho.com</a><br></span></u></span></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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