[Uwhistory] Talk on Nov 13: "Prosaic Cosmopolitanism: South Korean College Students Go Global" (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:04:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Institute for Transnational Studies <its at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Talk on Nov 13:
     "Prosaic Cosmopolitanism: South Korean College Students Go Global"

Talk on November 13, 2006, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Denny Hall 401

"Prosaic Cosmopolitanism: South Korean College Students Go Global"

by

Nancy Abelmann
Department of Anthroplogy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


This talk will begin with the analysis of an elite college co-ed in South 
Korea: a young woman who Dr. Abelmann analyzes as emblematic of South 
Korea's aggressive globalization. Dr. Abelmann also considers 
self-development project of this young woman as one in keeping with the 
neloiberalization of selfhood. In her talk, Dr. Abelmann will make an 
attempt to at least partially unravel this confident portrait with 
evidence from later meetings with the young South Korean woman in which 
the character of her forays abroad made Dr. Abelmann questions her own 
understanding of South Korea's global and cosmopolitan desires and 
anxieties.


Nancy Abelmann is a Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, 
East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Gender & Women's Studies at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She has published books on 
social movements in contemporary South Korea (Echoes of the Past, Epics of 
Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement, University of California Press, 
1996); on women and social mobility in post-colonial South Korea (The 
Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk and Class in Contemporary South Korea, 
University of Hawai'i Press, 2003); on Korean America (Blue Dreams: Korean 
Americans and the Los Angeles Riots, with John Lie, Harvard University 
Press, 1995); and on South Korean film with Kathleen McHugh, South Korean 
Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and Nation (Wayne State University 
Press, 2005). Currently she is completing The Intimate University: College 
and the Korean American Family, based on 4 years of transnational 
ethnography on the educational trajectories of Korean American public 
college students as they articulate with the educational histories of 
their émigré parents.  She is the co-founder of the Ethnography of the 
University (EOTU), a project that has been lots of fun!


This talk is organized by the Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS), 
Global Future Programs, the Department of Anthropology, and Korean Studies 
Program, with funding from Simpson Center for the Humanities, Jackson 
School of International Studies, and the Graduate School Fund for 
Excellence and Innovation





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