SO YEON LEEM POSTAL ADDRESS: Le Centre International d accueil et d échanges des Récollets, Studio n 210 150 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, 75010 Paris, France EMAIL: syleemsy@gmail.com TEL: +33 6 98 35 53 52 EDUCATION 2005 2012 Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies Dissertation Title: A Network of Things, Bodies, and Knowledges in Plastic Surgery Practices Supervisor: Prof. Sungook Hong 2002 2004 M.A. in Museum Science Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Thesis Title: Reconceptualising Environmental Exhibits: Postmodern Critique of Exhibits in American Natural History Museums Supervisor: Prof. Yun-Shun Susie Chung 1996 2001 B.S. in Biological Science PUBLICATIONS Books Leem, S. Y. (2014) Living as a Cyborg in the Age of Science and Technology, Seoul: Thinking Power Publisher. [in Korean] Lee, Y. J., Leem, S. Y., Chang, H. W., Kim, Y. H., Cho, S. N., & Joo, I. W. (2012) Ramenology, Seoul: mediabus. [in Korean] Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Leem, S. Y. From Westernization to Globalization: Plastic Surgery Discourses and Practices in South Korea Cultural Anthropology (manuscript under preparation) Leem, S. Y. The Anxious Production of Beauty: Surgical Anxieties, Unruly Bodies and Invisible Cares at a Plastic Surgery Clinic, Social Studies of Science (under revision for resubmission). Leem, S. Y. Making a Plastic Surgery Nation: Media Discourse of Plastic Surgery in South Korea, 1960 2009, East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal (under revision for publication). Ha, D., Lee, K., & Leem, S. Y. (2015) From Representational Evidences to Ontological Evidences: Three Fieldwork Cases, Cross-Cultural Studies 21(1): 133-171. [in Korean] Leem, S. Y., Ha, D., & Lee, K. (2013a) Objections as Ethnographic Devices: Three Illustrations from Fieldwork, Korean Cultural Anthropology 46(3): 63 104. [in Korean] Lee, K., Leem, S. Y., & Ha, D. (2013b) Studying Up as an Experimentation with Ethnographic Research: Three Fieldwork Cases, Korean Cultural Anthropology 46(2): 3-44. [in Korean] Leem, S. Y. (2011a) Techno-scientific Way of Thinking on Women s Technoscientific Practices: From Barad s Agential Realistic Perspectives, Korean Journal of Science & Technology Studies 11(2): 97 119. [in Korean] Leem, S. Y. (2011b) Body-Images and Visualisation Technologies in the Field of Plastic Surgery: Making Scientific Objects, Making Scientific Disciplines, Korean Journal of Science & Technology Studies 11(1): 89 121. [in Korean] 1
Leem, S. Y. & Park, J. H. (2008) Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology: Feminist Commentaries on the Hwang Affair, East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal 2(1): 9 26. Leem, S. Y. & Hong, S. (2005) New Changes and Tasks of the Science Museum: Focusing on its Relation to PUS. Korean Journal of Science & Technology Studies 5(2): 97 127. [in Korean] Book Chapter Leem, S. Y. Gangnam Style: Plastic Surgery Boom and Hyper-Modern Beauty in South Korea, in Cosmetic Futures: Plastic Surgery in a Globalized World (Duke University Press) edited by Edmond, Alex and Taylor-Alexander, Samuel (manuscript under preparation) Book Reviews & Popular Articles Leem, S. Y. (2013) My Beauty is Different from Their Beauty, Sisa Journal: Weekly News Magazine 1238: 46-47. [in Korean] Leem, S. Y. (2012a) The Future for Hybrids is Already Here But Review of Petites leçons de sociologie des sciences by Latour, B. posted to Pressian.com available from http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=68342 [in Korean] Leem, S. Y. (2012b) Machine Critiques as Cultural Practices of STS Review of Pegasus 10000 miles by Lee, YJ, Korean Journal of Science & Technology Studies 11(2): 97 119. [in Korean] GRANTS & AWARDS 2015 Travel Award for the 5 th Feminist Theory Workshop Duke University, USA 2014 present Fernand Braudel International Fellowship for Experienced Researchers Fondation 2014 Principle Investigator Research Grant from Korean National Institute for Bioethics Policy, Seoul, South Korea The Biopolitics of Plastic Surgery and the Bioethics for the Medicalized Society 2014 Bursary for BSA Medical Sociology Early Career Researcher Summer Event ` The British Sociological Association, UK 2012 2013 Principle Investigator Project Grant from Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, South Korea Science Performance: Ramen Ensemble 2011 Principle Investigator Research Grant from Science and Technology Policy Institute, Seoul, South Korea The Innovation of Scientific Culture by Sci-Art Exhibitions 2007 Bo-Jung Kim Scholarship for PhD Dissertation Research Program in History and Philosophy of Science Seoul National University, South Korea 2007 Travel Grant for Society of the History of Technology 50 th Annual Meeting The Society for the History of Technology, USA 2007 2008 BK (Brain Korea) Scholarship Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, South Korea 2
2006 2007 Excellent Record Scholarship 2006 Research Support Scholarship WORK EXPERIENCE Research 2014 present Postdoctoral Fellow Chair d'anthropologie et santé mondiale, Collège d'études mondiales 2014 Visiting Research Associate Department of Sociology London School of Economics, London, UK 2013 present Associate Researcher Social Science Korea Research Project Knowledge, Power, Citizenship, and Governance in the Techno-scientific Society National Research Foundation of Korea, Seoul, South Korea 2013 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher Science Culture Research Center, Institute for Basic Science 2002 2004 Research (Curatorial) Assistant Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech, USA Teaching 2014 Guest Instructor Undergraduate Course: Sociology of Health and Medicine London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom 2013 Instructor Undergraduate Course: Science, Technology, and Society Invited Instructor New Student Orientation Program College of Natural Sciences 2013 Instructor/Course Design Undergraduate Course: New Horizons of Science, Technology and Society Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea 2012 2013 Instructor/Course Design Undergraduate Course: World of Natural Sciences Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea 2011 Course Development Undergraduate Courses: Creative Designs of Science & Culture Exhibitions Understanding of Museums and Science Exhibitions Multidisciplinary Education Program for Science & Culture Communication Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea 3
2011 Instructor/Course Design Undergraduate Course: Science, Technology and Society 2010 2011 Instructor/Course Design Undergraduate Course: Science and Technology Controversies Scientists and Engineers in the World Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea 2009 2010 Instructor/Course Design Undergraduate Course: Science, Technology and Women Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea 2007 2009 Instructor/Course Degisn Undergraduate Course: History of Science and Technology Korea Polytechnic University, Siheong, South Korea 2006 Instructor New Graduate Student Seminar Program in History and Philosophy of Science PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2014 2015 Reading Seminar Co-Organizer Fieldwork and Theory of Global Health Chair d'anthropologie et santé mondiale, Collège d'études mondiales 2012 2014 Journal Reviewer Sociology of Health and Illness Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies Korean Journal of Philosophy 2012 Co-Producer/Scripter/Performer/Public Relations Science Performance: Ramen Ensemble (March 28-29, 2012) Presented by International Art Festival Bo:m National Theater Company of Korea, Seoul, South Korea Science Show in Progress (February 18, 2012) Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea 2010 Panel Organiser Medi/c/a Dystopia?: Media Representations of Biomedical Technology in East Asia Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan 2009 Co-organizer of Korean-Japanese STS Young Scholars Workshop SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Let s Get Equipped!: Objections as Ethnographic Devices, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, August 1, 2014. Governance in the Wild: The Power of Mediators and the Biopolitics of Plastic Surgery in South Korea, British Sociologist Association Medical Sociology Early Career Researcher Event, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, June 9, 2014. Gangnam Style?: Plastic Surgery and Biopolitics in South Korea, Public Seminar, Center for Korean Studies at SOAS, London, UK, February 28, 2014. 4
Anxious Surgeons, Fragile Beauty: An Ethnography of a Plastic Surgery Clinic, Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies Conference, Jeonju, South Korea, May 2013. Doing Korean STS, STS as Performance: A Case of Ramen Ensemble, East Asian Science, Technology and Society Networks Conference, Seoul, South Korea, September 2012. From Women's Problems to Feminisation's Problems: Representation of Body-Experiences in Plastic Surgery Practices, Korean Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Daejeon, South Korea, June 2011. The Republic of Cosmetic Surgery Built on the Newspapers in Korea, 1960 2009, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, August 2010. More Cyborgs Inside a Venus Black-Box: Their Dreams, Their Despairs, Gender, Bodies, and Technology Conference, Roanoke, USA, April 2010. Coordinators in a Cosmetic Surgery Network: Against Objectification of Technology, Not of Body, 4 th East Asian STS Student Workshop, Kobe, Japan, December 2009. Cyborg Women Who Make Women Beautiful: Following Skin-Care Experts in Korea, Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Joint Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2008. Light-Touched Bodies, It s Natural!: Medical Skin Care Technologies in Korea, Society of the History of Technology 50 th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 2007. SCOLARLY AFFILIATIONS European Association of Social Anthropologists Society for Social Studies of Science East Asian Science, Technology and Society Networks Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies Korean History of Science Society Korean Association of Women s Studies REFERENCES Vinh-Kim Nguyen Charis Thompson Sungook Hong Chair/Current Postdoctoral Supervisor Chair d'anthropologie et santé mondiale Collège d'études mondiales Contact : vnguyen@msh-paris.fr Professor/Previous Postdoctoral Supervisor Department of Sociology London School of Economics, London, UK Contact: C.M.Thompson@lse.ac.uk Professor/PhD Dissertation Supervisor Program in History and Philosophy of Science, College of Natural Science Contact: comenius@snu.ac.kr 5