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Cho Hae-Joang professor at Yonsei University, practicing cultural anthropologist / South Korea
The Challenges of Korea's Haja Center
10 / 9 (Thurs)16:00 - 16:45
C4 (Room141-142)

Cho (Han) Haejoang, a practicing cultural anthropologist and feminist, is a professor at Yonsei University, Seoul. Her early research focused on gender studies in Korean modern history; her current interests and research are in the area of youth culture and modernity in the global/local and post-colonial context of modern day Korea. She is the author of "Women and Men in South Korea"(1988), "Reading Texts, Reading Lives in the Postcolonial Era" 3 volumes (1992, 1994), "Children Refusing School, Society Refusing Children" (1996), "Reflexive Modernity and Feminism" (1998), and "Children Searching School, Society Searching Children" (2000) (All in Korean). She teaches: Gender and Society, Cultural Anthropology in the Globalizing World, Issues in Popular Culture, Family Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, and Graduate Seminar on Cultural Studies. Cho is the founding director of Haja center (The Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture) which is an alternative educational and cultural studio for the teenagers since 1999.

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