Korean Studies Program and the Asian Studies Program Presents

The DMZ as Technologized Soundscape: K-Pop & Other Sonic Entanglements in the Demilitarized Zone

How does sound cross the heavily militarized Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), blurring boundaries between human and machine, presence and absence, and friend and enemy? This talk explores the DMZ as a technologically mediated soundscape where political ideologies, militarized masculinities, and national identities are projected and contested. Focusing on sonic encounters such as K-pop broadcasts, it examines how sound and technology shape human experiences across one of the world's most fortified borders.

Joowon Park is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Skidmore College. He is the author of Belonging in a House Divided (University of California Press) and is currently working on K-pop in the DMZ and Other Transborder Crossings, a book exploring cultural and political exchanges across the Korean border.

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Time: 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Preston Theater

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