Past colloquium
How Does America’s Culture of Overwork Impact Women and Men in the Workplace?
Colloquium in Jun. 2017 Cha, Youngjoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Indiana Univ., Bloomington, U.S.)
Past colloquium
‘Blindly Coming up to Seoul’: Gender and Discourse on the Immigrants to Seoul
Colloquium in Apr. 2017 Park, Jeongmi (HK Research Professor, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang Univ., South Korea) This research analyzes how the discourse of ‘Blindly Coming up to Seoul’, which was popular from the late 1950s to the early 1980s in South Korea, helped reproduce gender Read more…
Past colloquium
An Analysis of the Employment Retention Effects of Maternity Protection System in the Unemployment Insurance
Colloquium in Mar. 2017 Lee, Sungkyun (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Ulsan, South Korea) Based on the unemployment insurance database of Korea Employment Information Service, this research analyzes how unemployment insurance maternity protection system affects women workers’ employment retention.
Past colloquium
Gendered Bodies at Service Work & Genderizing Labor
Colloquium in Feb. 2017 Gendered Bodies at Service Work: Studies on the Luxury Hotel Staff Members’ Aesthetic Labor Shim, Seonhui (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) Through the qualitative studies, this research analyzes women service workers’ gendered labor. Genderizing Labor: Case Studies on Read more…