[KS] April Colloquia at UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies

Mon Mar 25 13:45:54 EDT 2013

The Center for Korean Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Cordially invites you to the following colloquia in April

Women for Women: Gender Bias in the 2012 Presidential Election of Korea

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | April 2 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker/Performer: Jiyoon Kim, Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/index.html> Center for Korean
Studies (CKS)

The 18th presidential election of Korea in 2012 engendered numerous subjects
to be discussed for electoral scholars. In particular, an incredible amount
of attention was paid to the fact that a female president was elected in one
of the world’s most traditional and conservative societies. Some political
pundits and scholars noted the disproportionately high support for Park
among female voters, through which they attempted to explain Park’s decisive
victory. 

This talk examines the source of the female voters’ support for President
Park Geun-hye in the 2012 presidential election. Conventionally, Korean
female voters are known to be more conservative than their male
counterparts. However, it is not yet clear whether the female support for
Park stems from the “gender affinity effect” or a pre-existing gender gap.
Using the Asan Institute’s Electoral Studies of 2012, this talk will explore
which effect prevailed and contributed more heavily to Park’s electoral
victory.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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China's Ancient History Expansionism and Korea's Response

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Institute
of East Asian Studies | April 9 | 12 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:
<http://politicaleng.inha.ac.kr/organ/member_detail.aspx?EncryptedID=1nCBBIM
0ZvcgTre47zmjfA%3d%3d> Chang-hee Nam, Professor of Political Science, Inha
University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

This talk will cover Beijing's newly raised claim that the ancient Korean
kingdoms, Koguryo and Palhae, belonged to China. This history expansionism
by China aims at generating an excuse for the country to occupy the northern
part of North Korea in the event of an internal crisis in Pyongyang. Another
reason is to amplify nationalistic pride by annexing dazzling jade
civilizations outside the Great Wall border area in an effort to divert
mounting public frustration over economic disparity and corruption in the
country.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Advertising Censorship in the Times of Freedom: Producing "Smart" Consumers
in South Korea

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | April 12 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://eas.as.nyu.edu/object/olgafedorenko.html> Olga Fedorenko,
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

This talk is about the dilemmas and effects of advertising censorship in
South Korea of the 2000s. Historically, South Korean advertising has been
subject to rigorous scrutiny, with various semi-government and
non-government agencies concerning themselves with before- and
after-the-fact advertising review. As liberal ideologies proliferated in
South Korea, advertising censors--the staff of various review boards and
public representatives called upon to rule on unprecedented cases--found
themselves in the uncomfortable position of administering unfreedom in a
time when freedom was a paramount value. I draw on participant observation
at a semi-government media censorship board and interviews with advertising
censors to explore how they navigated the contradictory demands: to protect
the unwary public by limiting advertisers' freedom, on the one hand, and, on
the other, to cultivate themselves as liberal, open-minded individuals
committed to governing others through freedom. Overall, I suggest that
advertising censorship, though ostensibly limiting advertising discourses
and curbing advertising abuses, in the end produced “smart” consumers, to
use the censors' parlance normative advertising consumers who, while open to
be stirred by advertisements, did not expect an actual realization of
advertising promises--thus granting the advertising industry a license to
exaggerate and exploit emotions to ever greater degrees. Relating this
argument to the South Korean realities of the 2000s, I suggest that “smart”
advertising consumers are none other than the cynical subjects of late
liberalism, whose hegemony has consolidated in South Korea since the
democratization of the late 1980s, and especially after the 1997 Asian Debt
Crisis. 

Bio: Olga Fedorenko is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Department
of East Asian Studies at New York University. She received her PhD from the
East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto in November 2012.
Her dissertation, entitled “Tending to the ‘Flower of Capitalism:’
Consuming, Producing and Censoring Advertising in South Korea of the 00’s,”
takes an anthropological approach to advertising-related practices in
contemporary South Korea.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Picturing Innocence: Locating the Child in Korea, 1920-1934

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | April 16 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:
<http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/cgi-bin/people/bios/Zur_dafna.php>
Dafna Zur, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford
University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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South Korea’s Latte Paradox: Inventing the Barista as a Service Professional

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | April 18 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/song.html> Jee-Eun Song, Korea
Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar,  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for
Korean Studies, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The barista profession gained its popularity in South Korea with the
entrance of transnational coffee companies like Starbucks Coffee in 1999.
Since then, the barista line of work has gained a particular meaning in
South Korea as a highly trained and specialized profession. Based on
ethnographic research and interviews with Starbucks baristas in Seoul in
2006, this talk addresses how South Koreans buy into the myth of Starbucks.
I ask, how do baristas come to understand their work as something other than
low paid flexible work? I explore the paradox of work in the
consumer-oriented production-end of the service industry in neoliberal
global economy when that work involves “coffee art.” I position the work of
baristas in the larger context of economic restructuring post Asian
financial crisis (1997-1999) in order to problematize the neoliberal logic
of capitalism that foregrounds self-reliant discourses of the individual and
the self, as opposed to ideas of social resources or welfare. The desire to
self-manage and promote the self, as is the case with the baristas, is part
of the larger phenomenon of the neoliberal economic reform led by the state
in the post-economic crisis. This talk complicates our understandings of
global products, and how neoliberal policies become implemented in everyday
cultural practices.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Collecting and Theorizing Korea in Late 19th Century American Anthropology

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | April 24 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/eastasia/faculty/rmo89> Robert
Oppenheim, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, University of Texas,
Austin

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

Korea as a research focus is commonly considered peripheral to the
development of the American discipline of anthropology in late 19th century.
In some quantitative sense, this is undoubtedly the case—far more research
effort, indeed the preponderance of (proto-) anthropological work in the
United States before 1900, was directed at Native American populations.
Nonetheless, both this presentation and the larger project of which it is a
part (on American anthropology of Korea before 1945) argue for Korea’s
significance to the formation of the discipline and as a vantage point
through which important institutional and theoretical dynamics of
anthropology in this period are revealed. These dynamics include, for
example, the entanglement of anthropology with multiple modalities of
political expansion, the interplay of forces and paradigms in the creation
of museum and exhibition displays, and the role of area within universalist
evolutionary theory.

In more concrete terms, the story of this presentation starts with the
ethnological collection of Korean materials for American museums, which can
be dated to roughly a half an hour after the signature of the first 1882
treaty between Chosôn and the United States. It passes through the first
Korean exhibit at the United States National Museum (of the Smithsonian
Institution) in 1889, and then to the relation of Korean participation in
the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to various anthropological
transactions that also took place there. Its culmination is the first “Korea
book” in American anthropology, Stewart Culin’s Korean Games of 1895—a book
that centered and marginalized Korea (and East Asia) within the U.S.
discipline in the very same stroke.

Bio: Robert Oppenheim received his PhD in anthropology from the University
of Chicago in 2003, and is currently Associate Professor in the Department
of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Kyôngju Things (University of
Michigan Press, 2008), considered technical politics, the practices of
heritage, and place-making in the South Korean historic city. Articles
related to his present book project on American anthropology and Korea,
1882-1945, have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Studies,
American Anthropologist, positions, Anthropology & Humanism, and Histories
of Anthropology Annual.

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