Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series Co-Presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea Haejoang Cho, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University This public lecture and dialogue with the wider Toronto community will focus on the precarious youth at the Haja Center (the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture) and their survival […]

Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series Co-Presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea Haejoang Cho, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University, will be speaking as a 'native anthropologist' about her whirlwind journey experiencing South Korea's compressed modernity since the 1980's.  The discussion begins with the recent 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster in […]

THE RETURN OF KHULEKANI KHUMALO, ZOMBIE CAPTIVE: Identity, Law, and Paradoxes of Personhood in the Postcolony What might imposture tell us about personhood in ‘postcolonial’ times? About the means of producing selfhood, gender, identity, social viability? While the figure of the false double has long haunted Western ideas of personhood, imposture of various kinds has […]