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X-WR-CALNAME:From Chongno to It’aewŏn (via Ŭljiro): Homo-Spatiality and
  Gender Non-Conforming Wo/men in Authoritarian-Era Seoul
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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 23\, 2022 | 3:30PM - 5:00PM (PT) | FLYER |
  RSVP\n\nFrom Chongno to It’aewŏn (via Ŭljiro): Homo-Spatiality and Ge
 nder Non-Conforming Wo/men in Authoritarian-Era Seoul - Talk by Todd Henry
 \n\nBased on extensive interviews with gay men and transgender women\, thi
 s lecture traces the changing spatiality of Seoul’s queer underground in
  “hetero-authoritarian” South Korea. Todd Henry\, an associate profess
 or at the University of California\, San Diego\, examines the vital role o
 f second-run movie houses in providing anonymity for sexual encounters and
  how “salons” such as the Pagoda Theater\, the city’s most famous sa
 lon\, facilitated the emergence of other queer subcultures\, including gen
 der non-conforming “fairies” and white-oriented “potato queens.” T
 he talk will also highlight the movement of fairies from downtown Chongno 
 to It’aewŏn\, the site of a large US military camp town and the home of
  several transgender bars by the early 1980s. This journey is characterize
 d not only as a spatial move that offered fairies a gender-confirming sala
 ry in a sex-binary labor market\, but also a self-empowering one by which 
 they medically and legally transitioned into transwomen.  \n\nThis event i
 s co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center\, the Department of Gender
  and Sexuality Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cult
 ures. \n\nSpeaker Bio: \n\n\n\nTodd A. Henry (Ph.D.\, UCLA\, 2006\; Associ
 ate Professor\, UCSD\, 2009-Present) is a specialist of modern Korea with 
 a focus on the period of Japanese rule and its postcolonial afterlives. A 
 social and cultural historian interested in global forces that (re)produce
  lived spaces\, he also studies cross-border processes linking South Korea
 \, North Korea\, Japan\, and the US in the creation of “Hot War” milit
 arisms\, the transpacific practice of medical sciences\, and the embodied 
 experiences of hetero-patriarchal capitalism. Dr. Henry’s first book\, A
 ssimilating Seoul (University of California Press\, 2014\; Korean translat
 ion\, 2020)\, which won a 2020 Sejong Book Prize in History\, Geography\, 
 and Tourism\, addressed the violent but contested role of public spaces in
  colonial Korea. He has written several related articles on questions of p
 lace\, race\, and nation in colonizing and decolonizing movements on the p
 eninsula (see "publications" tab for details). Currently\, Dr. Henry is at
  work on two books (volume 1: 1950-1980\; and volume 2: 1980-1995) and a c
 o-produced documentary that center understudied\, "queer" dimensions of au
 thoritarian development in Cold War South Korea.
GEO:34.021726;-118.284382
LOCATION:Taper Hall (THH)\, 309
SUMMARY:From Chongno to It’aewŏn (via Ŭljiro): Homo-Spatiality and Gend
 er Non-Conforming Wo/men in Authoritarian-Era Seoul
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 jiro_homo-spatiality_and_gender_non-conforming_women_in_authoritarian-era_
 seoul
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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