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The non-honorific register is a register level that is described as animal language, farmer language, the language of anger, but also the language of intimacy. In this talk, I will explore what I call the “non-honorific register” in Khmer (Cambodian). Time: 6 pm PST | 8 pm CST | 8 am Cambodia Time Lecture Title: 'Understanding Khmer’s Lowest “Honorific” Register: Cambodians in conversations with God, friends, and animals' Market by mobilizing model minority discourses. À-vis Asian-raced subjects, I argue that K-beauty is made legible and consumable to the US K-beauty is already mired in the neoliberalization of health discourses and its biopolitical effects.Īs the discursive construction of neoliberal aspirations is all-too-familiar in the US context vis.

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Lastly, K-beauty discourses brand skin care as self-care, a strategy which points to the ways that Moreover, the sharing of intimate memories resignifies the historical relationship with beauty terms and ingredients which are racialized in the US context. Such memories authenticate Korean Americans’ positionality as experts of Korean beauty practices, trends, and products. Secondly, I show how such discourses are frequently embedded within affective memories that invoke family, ritual, and home. I examine how such discourses rely on overdetermined notions of Koreans as arbiters of longstanding beauty traditions and secrets currently lacking in the West. Such discourses are key sites of analysis which reveal neoliberal racialized ideologies vis-à-vis shifting beauty norms. This paper focuses on K-beauty discourses, or linguistic strategies for marketing Korean beauty norms and traditions to a global audience. Korean American entrepreneurs discursively create and occupy an intermediary role in order to sell to new markets. In tackling new markets, the role of Korean Americans becomes crucial. In mainstream characterizations of K-beauty, South Korea becomes a signifier of futurity, aspirational but staunchly traditional. Technological innovation must strike a balance with the branding of authenticity, which relies greatly on packaging and advertising that make overt references to Korean tradition or history. K-beauty industry increasingly blurs the line between aesthetics, science, and medicine, but Globally, skincare practices and beauty norms are becoming increasingly influenced by and synonymous with K-beauty, a term that encompasses South Korean skin care and cosmetics. Time: 5 pm EST | 4 pm CST | 6 am Seoul Time Lecture Title: K-beauty discourses: Korean Americans, racial resignifying, and the making of ‘good’ neoliberal subjects Saraswati is also associated with anurāga, the love for and rhythm of music, which represents all emotions and feelings expressed in speech or music' (Wikipedia). The most famous feature on Saraswati is a musical instrument called a veena, represents all creative arts and sciences, and her holding it symbolizes expressing knowledge that creates harmony. In some texts, the pot of water is symbolism for soma – the drink that liberates and leads to knowledge. A pot of water represents the purifying power to separate right from wrong, the clean from the unclean, and essence from the inessential. The book she holds symbolizes the Vedas representing the universal, divine, eternal, and true knowledge as well as all forms of learning. The four hands hold items with symbolic meaning - a pustaka (book or script), a mālā (rosary, garland), a water pot and a musical instrument (vīnā). 'She is generally shown to have four arms, but sometimes just two. Her iconography is typically in white themes from dress to flowers to swan – the colour symbolizing Sattwa Guna or purity, discrimination for true knowledge, insight and wisdom' (Wikipedia). She not only embodies knowledge but also the experience of the highest reality. 'The goddess Saraswati is often depicted as a beautiful woman dressed in pure white, often seated on a white lotus, which symbolizes light, knowledge and truth. It is also a Sanskrit composite word of surasa-vati (सरसु+अति) which means 'one with plenty of water' (Wikipedia). Originally associated with the river or rivers known as Saraswati, this combination, therefore, means 'she who has ponds, lakes, and pooling water' or occasionally 'she who possesses speech'. 'Saraswati, is a Sanskrit fusion word of saras (सरस्) meaning 'pooling water', but also sometimes translated as 'speech' and vati (वती) meaning 'she who possesses'.

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