The Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch will bold its semi-monthly lecture-meeting this Tuesday November 28th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). Free and open to all the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 http://www.raskb.com/
This one could be interesting to some of us: “Possible Selves: Differing Conceptions of Bicultural Identity” by Prof. Ruth H. Chung, Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara, currently a Fulbright Scholar at Sogang U and an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Southern California where she teaches and conducts research on cross-cultural counseling with emphasis on acculturation of Asian-American immigrant; co-editor of a forthcoming book Sacred Spaces: Religion and Spirituality in Korean America.
She will talk for an hour on this: “In the process of immigration and adaptation, multiple layers of disruption and dislocation can lead to marginality from both the host society as well as the culture of origin. This kind of liminal experience has been of interests to psychologist who attempt to understand how immigrants and cultural minorities define a sense of identity in relation to their dual cultural citizenship. In addition to the normative task of identity-definition during late adolescence as described by Erik Erikson in his theory of human development, immigrants and others who live in a multicultural society face a complicating challenge of negotiating between cultures with its accompanying conflicts in values and behavioral norms. In this presentation, we will consider the various models of bicultural identity and how they have evolved from an assimilationistic paradigm to describe differing conceptions of possible selves in constructing a new “third culture” for themselves. We will also examine how cultural identity is related to psychological indicators of individual and family well-being.”
This touches on several subjects we’ve discussed here on the Hole, so should provide some good food-for-thought. See you there…
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Although it may attract less comments on the Marmot’s blog, the RAS get togethers actually attract as many cool attendees that a Shelton Bumgarner gig does. Those not dropping acid prior to the lecture can meet the rest of us at the Starbucks next door for a latte afterward nd join in a less normative deconstruction of the pluralist connotations of post-modernist assimilation theorem regarding the self and other in the neologistic linguistic eclological environment of verbal Darwinism that is more oft discussed in more structuralist circles.
well, then… uhmmm, ok…
The lecture is open to the public, but the jargon isn’t.