Hosted by Yale sociologist Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and professor of ethnicity, race, and migration in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Wonseok Lee, a postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) at Yale’s Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, the gathering featured scholars studying K-pop’s production, sound, and fans as well as established figures from within the K-pop industry, who offered insights into how the music is made and how the idols are trained.
In October, Ph.D. Student and European Studies Council Graduate Fellow John Hoffmeyer attended the conference “Romanticism in Music: Poland in its European Context” in Warsaw, Poland. There, he presented a paper entitled “Palimpsest Dialectics: The Poetics of Translation in Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39.”
