Feminist Politics in Korea and the Korean Diaspora conversations series on Zoom

I’m excited to share that 17 guests are joining my class on Feminist Politics in Korea and the Korean Diaspora, starting next week. It’s a series of public-facing conversations with some of the most kick-ass brilliant social justice activists and inspiring filmmakers — open to the public, with registration required.

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Book cover image of Digital Lives in the Global City (2020)

New writing: “High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits” (2020)

This was one of the quickest writings I’ve done, conceived and drafted almost entirely on one night in 2015. It’s a short, creative piece, packed with dates and other kinds of digits that have become a key part of my research on protest cultures. I wanted to tie these numerical digits to the idea of “digital lives,” making sense of protests that persist over time and hang precariously on the verge of death.

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[Job] Assistant Prof in Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley

Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley is looking for “a scholar with a strong commitment to feminist, anti-racist transnational, postcolonial, and decolonial theoretical perspectives. Areas of scholarship may include but are not limited to gender and sexual violence in the context of colonialism/settler colonialism, enslavement, immigration, militarism, as well as work that discusses restorative and transformative justice.”

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[Job] History of Medicine, UCLA

UCLA History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the history of medicine. The chronological and geographical range are open but we especially welcome candidates whose work includes a transnational or global dimension, who are interested in the technological and material aspects of medical practice, broadly construed, and who think in an integrated way about the history of science, technology and medicine and their place in a history department.

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