[KS] The 69th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (IMKS, Yonsei University)

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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 69th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, April 17th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Taru Salmenkari, Ph.D., Department of East Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. The title of her talk is “Images of Protest.” A description of her presentation and a brief biography 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:
            Taru Salmenkari will speak about "Images of Protest." In her presentation she will  provide an analysis of different types of protest pictures commonly seen in the Korean press and in the web pages of protest organizers within the context of Modernist and Postmodern imagery outside of Korea.
                        She will show that one common image of protest is cultivated by protesters themselves, but has also been adopted as one of the main images of protest by the Korean media. This image of united, militant protesters is the image that Korean trade unions want to show of themselves. This is essentially a natural Modernist image since it is promoted by a workers' movement that originates around the 1970s. Although it has resemblance to heroic realism, it has not only socialist but also indigenous Asian roots and instead of individual heroism it almost never presents people alone. This image is widely shared and sought after by protesters in regardless of class background.
            
            
        
    


 

Biography:   
Before pursuing her Ph.D., Salmenkari has done protest research in and has inquired into civil society patterns in Argentina. She is currently doing fieldwork for comparative civil society studies in Korea

with the Korea Foundation fellowship.

 

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