EVENT DESCRIPTION In recent decades, quite a few scholars have noted how scholarship on race and racialization has remained limited in Asian studies because of the deep-seated disciplinary divide between area studies and ethnic studies. Building on these discussions focusing on divisions in the American academy, this talk turns to the ways that certain conventions […]
SPEAKER KIM HONG-MO Kim Hong-mo is a cartoon artist living in Jeju Island, South Korea. He will talk about his new cartoon book, The Hall (Changbi, 2021), drawn based on the story of Kim Dong-su who is known as a hero who rescued passengers during the Sewol Ferry Disaster but suffered severe trauma. He published […]
Panelists Grace Kangmeehae Lee, President, KMH Future Financial Planning Inc. and Co-Founder, Citadel Property Management Group (1st gen) Harry Kim, Project Coordinator, City of Toronto (1.5 gen) Jean Kim, Co-Founder, LYP Program Inc. (1.5 gen) Henna Choi, Lawyer, Karoly Law (2nd gen) Edward Jang, YorkU Schulich Undergraduate Student (2nd gen) With moderator, Hannah Sung Award-winning […]
Event organized by Jesook Song (Anthropology, University of Toronto), Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, University of Toronto) and Laam Hae (Politics, York University) SPEAKER BYUNG-HO CHUNG Emeritus Professor, Hanyang University “Smile Broadly!” is the title of a dynamic performance by children in the Arirang Festival. The scene symbolically shows the culture that can command a smile to […]
This event is chaired by Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, U of T) SPEAKER 1 Juliet Schor, “Interrogating the Uberization Narrative: Heterogeneity in the Platform Labor Force” Abstract: The dominant narrative in the platform literature is Uberization—a large, predatory platform that eliminates competitors, progressively squeezes and exploits workers, and uses technology to enact algorithmic control. In this […]
This event is chaired by Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, U of T) SPEAKER 1 Julie Chen, “Wrestling with the platforms in China: precarious participation and glimmer of alternative self-organizing” Abstract: The number of platform-based workers in China is estimated to exceed 84 million in 2020—that is, about 10% of the national work force. The magnitude […]