[KS] AAS Korea panels announcements

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Many thanks to Hyung Il Pai for this.

For those of us not going to San Francisco
(be sure to wear some flowers in your hair),
this guide to what's going on is very useful too.
AAS surely offers a unique cornucopia.

That said, the dominant flavours are changing.
I was at Chicago last year (sort of: I had the flu),
and formed the same impression that I got from
reading this packed programme of Koreana too.

Namely: Cultural studies rules! Which is fine. Yet 
unless memory plays tricks, back in the 1980s AAS 
Korean sessions used to offer a more balanced menu.

Isn't it odd, and sad, that in 2006 there are hardly any 
panels on the mainstream politics or economics of 
contemporary Korea? Were it not for independent
scholars and ASCK, this would look even thinner.
(Pity about ASCK/ISKS clash on Sat. evening, by the way.)

But maybe I misunderstand the US conference scene.
Do Korean politics and economics now have their own
separate circuits? (Anything policy-related is of course
quite well-served in Washington, if not elsewhere.)

And since we must all now earn our crust in a capitalist
marketplace, one does wonder about supply and demand.
Can all you bright young things, dizzy with postcolonialism,
count on getting jobs? There are so many of you!

As Scott McKenzie (whom I've already quoted)
put it almost 40 years ago:

"All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation
With a new explanation..."

Indeed. Have a great conference, y'all.

cheers
Aidan


AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University 

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In a message dated 31/03/2006 20:15:31 GMT Standard Time, 
hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu writes:


> Subj:[KS] AAS Korea panels announcements 
> Date:31/03/2006 20:15:31 GMT Standard Time
> From:hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> Reply-to:Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> To:koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Koreanists,I am writing to inform you all that the Korea related panels 
> ( A record of 40 this year) at the S.F. AAS annual meeting (April 6-9) as 
> well as CKS (Committee on Korean Studies) meetings, KF receptions etc. are all 
> now all up on  on our CKS site at :
> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea2
> I want to thank our web designers Joe and Sue for all their help in making 
> such neat time-tables printable for everyone. I will be giving a short 
> presentation on our CKS website and ask for comments and suggestions at our general 
> meeting. Please come and feel free to make recommendations. 
> 
> 
> Hyung Il Pai
> 
> Associate Professor
> 
> East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,
> 
> HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106
> 
> Fax: 805) 893-3011, Phone: 805) 893-2245
> 
> Email: Hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> 
> Dept. Web-site -http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/
> 
> 
> 
> =

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