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SUMMARY:Saturday University | Representations of Transnational Adoptees in Contempo
 rary Korean Dramas
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Saturday University\, a monthly lecture series featuring experts
  from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our vi
 siting scholars\, authors\, artists\, and thought leaders delve into new th
 emes each season. Tickets include gallery access.\nAlways Already Ours:  Re
 presentations of Transnational Adoptees in Contemporary Korean Dramas\nKira
  Donnell\nThis presentation examines the emerging trend in contemporary Sou
 th Korean television of incorporating transnational Korean adoptee characte
 rs into its narratives. Once marginalized\, adoptees are now depicted as sy
 mbols of South Korea's global success\, revising transnational adoption his
 tory to position them as always already integral to the nation's identity. 
 With the global rise of the Korean Wave\, or Hallyu\, Korean dramas increas
 ingly feature adoptee characters as cosmopolitan and accomplished. However\
 , beneath these portrayals lies an ongoing state of unbelonging\, revealing
  deeper tensions in their representation within South Korea's national narr
 ative.\nKira Donnell is a transnational\, transracial Korean adoptee schola
 r\, educator\, and advocate. Her research focuses on Korean adoptees as ind
 ividuals with agency and the development of an individual and collective Ko
 rean adoptee identity particularly as expressed through analysis of cultura
 l productions. Dr. Donnell is a Lecturer Faculty member in the Asian Americ
 an Studies department at San Francisco State University.
LOCATION:Seattle Asian Art Museum\, 1400 E Prospect St\, Seattle\, WA 98112
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