[KS] The 64th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 64th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, November 14th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Stark. The discussant is Sojin Park, Lecturer, Yonsei University. The title of his talk is "'Old' and 'New' Poverty in Korea - Imagined Communities."  The abstract of his paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract:
            My paper is a reflection on “communities” of the ‘Poor’ during two periods in recent Korean history – the era of rapid urbanization from the 1960s to 1980s and in post-1997 financial crisis Korea. Drawing upon interviews, participant-observation, and textual analysis conducted in a former shantytown (taldongne), in a “shantytown museum,” and with members of an online group for the unemployed, I explore the ways that community among the poor was and is imagined, built, and sustained. 
            
             
             
            
        
    


 

Biography: 
Jeffrey Stark is a Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his M.A. in Anthropology and Asia-Pacific Studies. He is currently a Korea Foundation Fellow and a Visiting Researcher,


Yonsei

University , Institute for Social Development Studies.  He is also the recipient of University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Travel Award.  Stark’s research interests include Modern Korean society, culture, and history (late Choson Dynasty to present), social exclusion and inclusion, cities (urbanism, urban space, urban life), and nationalism and cultural identity / Korean diaspora.
 

 
 
 
 


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