Field note #2. Death and mourning at GuUi Station
I visited GuUi (Gu-Åi, pronounced as Goo-yi) Station to pay respect and took a few photos. I happened to drop… more
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Field note #1. Death on the Seoul subway
A 19-year-old worker named Kim died on the job in Seoul yesterday, a day before his birthday. He was repairing… more
In Toronto 4/15: The Politics of Aesthetics with filmmaker Heung-Soon Im
I’ll be interpreting tomorrow for artist and filmmaker Heung-Soon Lim whose documentary film Factory Complex 위로공단 (2004) won the prestigious Silver… more
March 4 talk at Binghamton University and homophobia
Here’s the poster for a talk I recently gave at Binghamton University (March 4). It was essentially the same talk I gave at UC San Diego in February, but reorganized & improved in focus and clarity. I hope, at least.… more
Lecture at UCSD on Feb 18: “How Pink Turned Red”
I returned a few days ago from giving a talk in the Program in Transnational Korean Studies at the University of California,… more
Beyond the Pickets: Comics & visual culture in telling marginalized narratives – University of Toronto
I’m looking forward to hosting writer/artist/activist Sukjong Hong this week, as she will be visiting from New York as a guest speaker in my second-year “writing geography” class at UTSC. She will also lead a workshop on the St. George campus about comics and visual culture on Tuesday, Feb 9.… more
Toronto events with Dr. Valérie Gelézeau (EHESS)
Landscapes of Power: Mass Housing at the Urban Core in South Korea Tuesday, December 8 at 3pm Professor Valérie Gelézeau Senior… more
Two new articles published
Two articles recently published. ‘Our Past, Your Future’ discusses Korean missionaries’ work in East Africa and ‘Urban megachurches and contentious religious politics in Seoul’ is about E.Land labour organizing and connections to Somang Church.… more
Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea: A Fact Sheet
Download Sewol Ferry Fact Sheet 2015 (PDF). Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea: Fact Sheet This fact sheet was researched and written… more
Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea, Journal of Korean Studies 19:2
At last, the special thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea I co-edited with Jennifer Jihye Chun has been published by the Journal of Korean Studies! “In this thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea, we broaden both our historical view and geographical reach… By featuring articles that examine the complex workings of gender and power in multiple sites and at multiple levels of analysis, this issue shows how gender is intimately bound with inequalities, not only between women and men but also in all social relations concerning class, sexuality, ethnicity, race, migration, and the nation.”… more