Event Archive 2010-2011
November 2010
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Center for Korean Research Colloquium:
“The (Dis)ability of Representation: Korean Literature and Film during the Pacific War”
Moon Im Baek, Associate Professor, Dept. of Korean Language & Literature, Yonsei University
October 2010
Friday, October 22
Brown Bag Lecture: “North Korea, The Next Generation: Implications of the DPRK Party Delegates’ Conference”
Jeong-Ho Roh, Director, Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
School of the Arts, Theatre Program Columbia Stages thesis production:
“Wine and cheese and a pre-show conversation: Translation and Adaptation of Walkabout Yeolha”
Written by Samshik Pai, Directed by Kon Yi (SOA Directing ’11),
Speakers: Walter Byongsok Chon (Yale School of Drama, DFA Candidate) and Kyoung Park (SOA Playwriting ’12)
September 2010
Monday, Sept. 13, 2010
Center for Korean Research Colloquium: “Family and Domesticity Across the Cold War Divide: North Korea in the 1950s”
“Rethinking Cold War Culture”
Heonik Kwon, Professor of Anthropology, the London School of Economics
Center for Korean Research Regional Seminar/The Korea Society Conference:
“The Korean War Today”
Steven Hugh Lee, University of British Columbia
Stephen Noerper, The Korea Society
Ambassador Charles Kartman
Heonik Kwon, London School of Economics
The Honorable Jin-Ha Hwang, Korean National Assembly
Gordon Flake, Mansfield Foundation
Alexandre Ilitchev, United Nations
Samuel Kim, Columbia University
The Honorable Young-Mok Kim, Korean Consulate General
May 2010
Sponsored by Pacific Freeze, co-sponsored by Center for Korean Research
“Military Spending in Asia – Reports from Japan, South Korea, and the United States”
Discussion led by PSPD (South Korea), Peace Network (South Korea), Peace Boat (Japan), and the Institute for Policy Studies (US)
April 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
“Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Army: Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism During WWII”
Takashi Fujitani, Professor, Dept. of History, University of California, San Diego
Korean Studies Regional Seminar 2010
“Regionalizing and Globalizing Korea: Assessing the First Two Years of the Lee Myung-bak Administration”
Presenters:
“Korean Diplomacy between the US, Japan, and China”
Cheolhee Park, Seoul National University
“The Korean Economy in a Time of Regional Integration and Global Crisis” Doowon Lee, Yonsei University
“South Korea’s Globalizations”
Sun-chul Kim, Barnard College
March 2010
“Shamans Nostalgias and the IMF – South Korean Popular Religion in Motion”
Laurel Kendall, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University /
Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History
Co-sponsored by Korean Studies Group and Center for Korean Research:
“The Korean War in Children’s Literature of North and South Korea”
Dafna Zur, PhD Candidate, Modern Korean Literature
University of British Columbia
January 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Co-sponsored by Center for Korean Research, Columbia University Bhutan Studies Initiative, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures: “The Korean Wave in Bhutan: A Preliminary Research Report”
Dawa Lhamo, Head of the English language program at the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies, Royal University of Bhutan
December 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
DMZ Coalition Conference:
“KOREA’S DMZ -ASSESSING THE PRESENT PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE”
Dr. K. C. Kim, Chair of the DMZ Forum Board of Directors; Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Saleem H. Ali, Secretary of the DMZ Forum Board of Directors; Professor of Environmental Planning and Asian Studies, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont
Wednesday, December 1st 2010
Center for Korean Research Special Lecture:
“Perspectives on Political and Economic Dynamism in Northeast Asia- Challenges of China and North Korea.”
Ambassador Young-Mok Kim
Consul General of Republic of Korea to New York