[KS] Feminist Korean Studies Workshop at USC (Fri April 24, 2026)

[Monica W. Cho]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce an upcoming workshop at USC this week. This is a
public event, but we ask that you fill out an *RSVP form*
<https://forms.gle/tRphKackNsG7tnpn9>. If you are in the area, please feel
free to attend yourself or recommend it to anyone interested. Full program
with abstracts and bio can be found *here*
<https://calendar.usc.edu/event/reimagining-feminist-korean-studies-workshop>
.


*Reimagining Feminist Korean Studies Workshop*

Friday April 24, 2026
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Family House
USC Parkside Campus

This one-day workshop brings together emerging scholars and established
voices to reimagine the epistemic foundations of Korean Studies through
feminist, queer, indigenous, decolonial, and transnational frameworks.
REsponding to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, intensified
anti-feminist backlash in South Korea, and the persistent marginalization
of feminist discourse in Anglophone Korean Studies, the workshop creates
space for collaborative dialogue and methodological innovation.

This workshop is organized by USC's Korean Studies Institute and is
sponsored by the Center for Feminist Research, the East Asian Studies
Center, the Center for Transpacific Studies, and the USC Libraries Korean
Heritage Library.

*Workshop Schedule*

9:00–9:15 am   Welcoming Remarks by Sunyoung Park (Director, USC Korean
Studies Institute)
9:15–9:30 am   Opening Remarks by Monica W. Cho, Soyi Kim, Anat Schwartz
(Co-Editors, *Feminist Korean Studies*)
9:30–10:15 am   Keynote Speech by Young-Im Lee (Associate Professor of
Political Science, CSU Sacramento), *"Taking Stock, Imagining Futures:
Feminist Diagnostics for Korean Politics Research"*

10:15–10:30 am   Coffee Break

10:30–12:00 pm   *Panel I. Textual & Literary Analysis of Feminist
Reimaginings*

   - Kyunghee Eo (Yale), Fantasies of Plentitude: Princess Adoration in
   Kang Sinjae's Early Short Stories
   - Melina Jung (UCSD), From Ni Una Menos to South Korea's Anti-Femicide
   Movement: Speculative Remembrance in *Chicas muertas* and *Marŭt'aŭi il*
   - Hayun Cho (Notre Dame), Artists and Their Intimacies in Choi
   Eunyoung's *Shoko's Smile*

      Discussant: Monica W. Cho (USC)

12:00–1:00 pm   Lunch Break

1:00–2:30 pm   *Panel II. Ethnographies & Embodied Methodologies of
Feminist Reimaginings*

   - Jeongin Lee (USC), (Un)quiet Feminism: Sound and Gendered Audibility
   in South Korea
   - Eunkyo Kang (Stanford), "*Do you know* 4B?": Transnational Recognition
   of K-Feminism and Its Predicaments
   - Jeongsu Shin (Cornell), "Gendered Landscapes": Colonial Epistemology
   and the Politics of Knowing and  Seeing in Jeju Island

      Discussant: Anat Schwartz (CSU Dominguez Hills)

2:30–2:45 pm   Coffee Break

2:45–4:00 pm   *Panel III. Discourses of Media, Space, and Movement in
Feminist Reimaginings*

   - Dahye Kim (Northwestern), Writing Cyborgs: Digital Hangul, Gendered
   Labor, and the Origins of the Information Age
   - Caitlyn Ja-Yun Chung (USC), Itaewon as Stage: Spatial Limitations and
   Transgressions of the Seoul Drag Parade
   - Susan Hwang (UCSB), From "March" to "Whiplash": Reimagining the
   Feminist *Kwangjang* through South Korea's Protest Soundscape

      Discussant: Soyi Kim (Duke)

4:00–4:15 pm   Coffee Break

4:15–5:45 pm   *Panel IV. Voices of Korean Scholar-Activists – bilingual &
hybrid panel* (8:15–9:45 am KST)

   - Shin Nari (Yonsei), 한국 문학장의 그루밍 성폭력과 저항 정치 (Grooming Sexual Violence
   and Feminist Resistance in the Korean Literary Field)
   - Siwoo (Institute of Gender and Culture), 대체복무제도 도입 이후 퀴어 병역거부자의 위치
   (Beyond Recognition: Positionality of Queer Conscientious Objectors in the
   Era of Alternative Services)
   - Booyoung Park (Ewha), Making Intersectionality the Enemy: Online TERF
   Discourse and the Factionalization of Feminist Politics in South Korea

      Discussant: Yoon Won Chang (Emory)

5:45–6:00 pm   Closing Remarks



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Monica W. Cho, PhD
KF Postdoctoral Fellow
USC Korean Studies Institute

*mwcho1 at uci.edu <monica.cho at uci.edu>*
*mwc_766 at usc.edu <monica.cho at uci.edu>*

*www.monicawcho.com <http://www.monicawcho.com>*
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