Wednesday, April 26, 2023 1:10 – 2:25 PM ET Uris Hall Room 330 3022 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Speaker: Young A Jung, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George mason University Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, … [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...]
2021 CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners This year's Center for Korean Research Manhae Prize for Korean Language winners are Joseph Kim (Columbia College) and Maggie Moran (Barnard College). Joseph is a senior at Columbia College, studying psychology and East Asian studies. Coming into college, Joseph had high aspirations to improve his Korean in order to engage in … [Read more...]
Workshop QUEERING THE STRAITS: UNRULY SUBJECTS ACROSS MODERN KOREAN AND JAPANESE STUDIES VIRTUAL Workshop SERIES Series One "Remembering the 'Modern Boy': Gender, Empire, and Nostalgia" Friday, February 19 & Saturday, 20, 2021 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM To register, please complete this form. We are pleased to announce the first in a series of three Zoom … [Read more...]
A Center for Korean Research Publication Announcement CKR is pleased to announce the publication of Ksenia Chizhova's book Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday published by Columbia University Press. This is the fourth book in the Center for Korean Research book series. For more information on the series, please visit: … [Read more...]