[KS] CFP: Korean Popular Culture Workshop UC Irvine June 25-26, 2010 for Grad/Post-doc

[Hyun Seon Park]

Hello,

Could you circulate this to your graduate students who might be interested
in?
Thank you so much.

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Call for Proposals
Korean Popular Culture Workshop
UC Irvine, June 25-26  2010

Graduate students and post-docs currently researching Korean popular
culture are invited to submit proposals for the graduate forum portion of
the Korean Studies Summer Workshop 2010, to be held at UC Irvine, June
25-26, 2010. The two-day event, organized by professors Kyung Hyun Kim (UC
Irvine), Serk-Bae Suh (UC Irvine), and Youngmin Choe (USC), seeks to
provide a forum that will promote transnational exchange and dialogue
between scholars teaching and conducting research on Korean popular
culture at institutions in the United States and in South Korea. Confirmed
speakers include Professors KWON Bodrae (Dong-guk University), KIM
Chang-nam (Sungkonghoe University) LEE Dong-yeon (Korean National
University of Arts), Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champagne), CHOI Kyeong-Hee (University of Chicago), and SEO
Hyun-suk (Yonsei University).
The primary goal of the workshop format is to promote opportunities for
lively intellectual exchange.  Topics will include the following:

·      Practice of reading and teaching Korean popular culture
·      Potentiality of Korean popular culture beyond Korean studies ·     
Comparative perspectives on cultural studies
·      Interdisciplinary and transnational approaches
·      Invention of new curriculums and teaching materials
·      Intersections of the colonial, the postcolonial, and the cultural ·
     Cyber-, Physical, and subculture spaces
·      New technology and youth culture
·      Tourism and Affective Sites
·      Musicality
·      Cosmopolitanism
·      Hybrid and Mimicry
·      Post-literature cultures
·      Cultural Translations

Selected participants will have the opportunity to present their work and
get feedback.  Meals, hotel accommodations, and travel expenses will be
remunerated by the organizing committee. A brief bio and 250-word abstract
should be submitted electronically to coordinator Hyun Seon Park
(hyunsp at uci.edu) no later than April 1. Please direct inquiries to
Youngmin Choe (youngmij at usc.edu).


Sincerely,
Hyun Seon Park
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of California, Irvine






Hyun Seon Park
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of California, Irvine