2018-2019 Fulbright Forum Series
The Fulbright Forums serve as periodic gatherings for the Fulbright family at large, including past and present grantees and friends of the Korean-American Educational Commission (KAEC).
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Forum - November 16, 2018 - Kaomi Goetz
Adapted: Korean Adoptees Living in Korea and Beyond
Kaomi Goetz
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Kaomi Goetz
Forum - December 15, 2017 - Paul Swann
Professionalism and Precarity: Education for the Korean Culture Industries
Paul Swann
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Paul Swann
Forum - November 17, 2017 - Douglas Gabriel
Street Kids: Representing Revolt across North and South Korea (1980-1994)
Douglas Gabriel
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Douglas Gabriel
Forum - October 13, 2017 - Jacob Reidhead
Eroding Patronage: Effects of Political Reform on Intra-party
Management and Inter-party Organization in South Korea and Taiwan
Jacob Reidhead
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Management and Inter-party Organization in South Korea and Taiwan
Jacob Reidhead
Fulbright Forum - April 28, 2017 - Kendra Van Nyhuis
Rocking the Difference: Intercultural Acts of Music Making in South Korea
Kendra Van Nyhuis
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Kendra Van Nyhuis
Fulbright Forum - April 7, 2017 - Meredith Shaw
Cultural Policies and Regime Longevity in 20th Century Korea
Meredith Shaw
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Meredith Shaw
Forum - January 20, 2017 - Katelyn Hemmeke
This project collects and examines adoptee oral histories, consciously privileging the voices of adoptees in an adoption discourse that tends to silence them. Oral history provides adoptees with a medium to reject narrow, stereotypical renditions of adoption stories and construct their own complex narratives of real, lived experiences. In these oral histories, adoptees relate their personal experiences with the twists and turns of the birth family search process, their motivations for searching, and (for those who have reunited) the many ups and downs of birth family reunion.
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