[KS] Fulbright Forum September 26

[Horace H. Underwood]

FULBRIGHT FORUM!!

Fulbright in Seoul (the Korean American Educational Commission) is pleased
to invite you to attend the Fulbright Forum for September, which will be
held next Friday, September 26, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. at the Commission offices
in Mapo.

The speaker this month is Joshua D. Pilzer, Fulbright grantee to Korea and
doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.  His
talk, "Performing Survival: Episodes in the musical life of Korean survivors
of Japanese military sexual slavery," will introduce participants to his
ongoing project, begun in July of 2002, investigating these remarkable
women's musical lives.  He collects the various songs of the former sexual
slaves as a popular literature of their experience, and attempts to
understand their singing as a process of survival.  Pilzer's work is
inspired by the many music scholars who have documented the music of Jewish
holocaust survivors.  His collection efforts have resulted in a recorded
anthology of more than 400 songs.

Many of the survivors of the sexual slavery system were forced to sing for
soldiers, and  many of them brought back from the War an immense and various
collection of Japanese and Korean songs, along with songs from the parts of
the world to which they were taken.  In the presentation, Pilzer discusses
the women's performance of these songs and others as evidence of the power
of their human spirit, which suffers and endures, consoles itself, defines
itself, keeps secrets, connects that self to others, publicly and privately
expresses sorrow and strength, and remembers and forgets through song.

In addition to Pilzer's presentation, a representative of the "House of
Sharing," a museum, educational facility and rest home where eleven
survivors live, will be on hand to answer questions and provide information
about upcoming events and
about how to visit the facility.

We welcome to the September Fulbright Forum all Fulbrighters, senior
scholars, graduate students and ETAs, as well as Board Members, Fulbright
alumni, Peace Corps alumni, Korean studies scholars, foreign graduate
students, RAS members, and any other interested friends of Korea or members
of the Fulbright family.

The presentation will be followed by a buffet reception.  We hope many
friends will come to enjoy the lecture, the discussion, and the food.

Place: Fulbright Building
168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu
see maps on our website: www.fulbright.or.kr
or call Mrs. Lee: 3275-4000 for directions
Date: Friday, September 26, 2003
Time: 6:30 p.m.

See you next Friday!

Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director
Korean-American Educational Commission (Fulbright)
Seoul, Korea
hhu at fulbright.or.kr