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Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, assistant professor of art education, will share her research on Friday, March 21, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210.

Public pedagogy offers an alternative for understanding ethnic youth communities and cultures in relation to media and identity politics. In this presentation, Bae-Dimitriadis will explore the digital media play of contemporary diasporic Korean teens living in a Midwest campus town in the United States. Drawing on postcolonial notions of “hybridity,” this study highlights the ways these youths engage in ambivalent practices of both identification and dis-identification with their seemingly “authentic” Koreanness, allowing them to plan and rearticulate the (in)authenticity of the “Other” (Bhabha, 1994; Min-ha, 1989). The liminal tactics of difference opens up possibilities for rethinking alternative (de)pedagogical sites and understanding of public pedagogy, which go beyond the conventional notion of community and identity politics.