The IUN East Asian Studies Gateway and the IU Bloomington East Asian Studies Center jointly sponsor four public lectures on East Asian pop culture via Zoom in fall 2023. Information and Zoom links of the lectures are as follows.
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On Saturday Oct. 21 , Professor Yusue Kuwahara from Northern Kentucky University will speak on Japanese pop culture between 10-11:30 am central time. The talk will be 45 minutes followed by a Q&A session.
Dr. Yusue Kuwahara is a Professor of Communication and an expert in the field of popular culture studies. She is the founder and Director of the Popular Culture Studies Program at Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Kuwahara’s ongoing research focuses on the U.S. influence on postwar Japanese society and culture. In recent years her research interest has expanded to East Asian popular culture. She is the author/editor of The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context and “Japanese Culture and Popular Consciousness: Disney’s The Lion King vs. Tezuka’s Jungle Emperor” among others. Dr. Kuwahara is also the editor of the Palgrave East Asian Popular Culture Series.
The link to the Zoom talk is https://iu.zoom.us/j/84111853271. All are welcome to attend the talk.
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On Wednesday, Nov. 8, Professor Gyu Tag Lee will give a lecture on Korean popular culture and its influence on American pop culture, followed by Q&A from the audience, between 6-7: 30 pm central time .
Professor Lee has been teaching at George Mason University Korea since 2014. He is an expert in popular music, media studies, globalization of culture, and especially, K-Pop. He has been writing books and articles about K-Pop, popular music, and Hallyu for a number of on- and off-line media, and is a committee member of Korean Music Awards. He has been interviewed by CNN, New York Times, NPR Radio, Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, Netflix’s documentary Explained, EBS’s public lecture Class e, Joong-Ang Ilbo, Chosun Ilbo, KBS, MBC, SBS, YTN, among others.
The link to the Zoom talk is https://iu.zoom.us/j/88545587495.
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On Saturday, Dec. 2, Mr. Brendan Dowling will talk about the American and Korean influences on Chinese Hip-Hop at 9-10:30 am via Zoom. The Zoom link is here: https://iu.zoom.us/j/83702246468.
Brendan Dowling is a PhD student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures with interests in Chinese and linguistics. He is an advocate of the implementation of hip-hop pedagogical methods in K-16 Chinese language and culture classrooms. He was 1 of 3 teaching assistants on campus last year who won a campus-wide ‘Classroom Innovation’ award, and this past summer he led a 3-day pedagogy workshop on Chinese Hip Hop. Brendan also promotes Chinese language literacy through community outreach efforts at Madison Public Libraries and local schools. He has lectured not only Chinese language classes at the University of Wisconsin but also created and taught a brand-new humanities course that explored Chinese Hip Hop culture and music.
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On Monday, Dec. 4, between 6-7:30 pm Central Time (7-8:30 pm Eastern Time), Hip Hop scholar and singer Jamel Mims will be talking about Hip Hop in China and the US, and his personal experience doing Hip Hop in China. The Zoom link to the meeting is https://iu.zoom.us/j/81896873960.
Jamel Mims is a rapper, multimedia artist, and educator based in New York City. A Fulbright Scholar who studied hip-hop in Beijing, he is also known as the African-American Mandarin language hip-hop artist, MC Tingbudong. His work concerns the historical and contemporary cultural connections between Black America and China, social movements, memory, and augmented/virtual/hyperreality.
All talks will be recorded and posted on the “Past Events” page of the IUN East Asian Gateway website.
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