Friday, Feb. 6, 2004 12:00 noon, Ballantine 004 Listen to this archived broadcast. Roger Janelli (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IU) Dawnhee Yim (Dongkuk University, Seoul) "Representing Nation and Gender on the Vernacular Korean Internet: The Case of Lee Kyung-sil."

Roger Janelli and Dawnhee Yim have co-authored Ancestor Worship and Korean Society (Stanford University Press, 1972), Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate (Stanford University Press, 1983), and numerous journal articles on social relationships, cultural practices, and folklore in Korea. Dawnhee Yim, Professor of History at Dongguk University (Seoul), now serves on the International Jury for the proclamation by UNESCO of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Roger Janelli, Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University (Bloomington) is a member of the Committee on Korean Studies of the Association for Asian Studies. Their current research focuses on the vernacular Internet in Korea.