Monday, April 10, 2023 2:10 – 3:30 PM ET Speaker: Hyun Suk Park, Assistant Professor of Premodern Korean Literature and Culture, Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UCLA Moderator: Jungwon Kim, King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies, EALAC, Columbia University A 45-50-minute talk followed by Q and A. Professor Hyun Suk Park will discuss the courtesan … [Read more...]
Reading and Discussion The Translator Is Present: A Personal History of Erasure Anton Hur, writer and translator Wednesday, April 12, 2023 7:30 – 9:00 PM ET 501 Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Anton Hur was born in Stockholm and currently resides in Seoul. He is a writer and the celebrated translator of Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, Sang Young … [Read more...]
Book Talk Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan – A Book Talk by Maya Stiller Maya Stiller, Associate Professor of Korean Art History & Visual Culture in the Art History Department at the University of Kansas Moderated by Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia … [Read more...]
Book Talk Factual Fiction Versus Autobiography The Korean Diaspora and Creative Writing’s Potential to Go Beyond Family Stories in The Evening Hero Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Undergraduate Creative Writing & Writer in Residence, Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race (CSER), Columbia University Moderated by Kim Brandt, Academic Director, MA in Regional … [Read more...]