Event Archive Fall 2018- Spring 2019
May 6, 2019 Manuscript Workshop - CKR Manuscript Workshop Inventing Modern Sound Culture: The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945) Dissertation Author, Hye Eun Choi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Discussants: Charles Armstrong, Columbia University Kim Brandt, Columbia University Michael Denning, Yale University Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London Monday, May 6, 2019 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room […]
April 24, 2019 “The Dictatorship of Capital” - Colloquium The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Democracy of the Have-Nots in Post-Authoritarian South Korea Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto This talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship, capitalist profit-making, and violence. In particular, it […]
April 17th, 2019 Columbia KSA 2019 Culture Show - Columbia University’s Korean Student Association 38th Annual Culture Show Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM 3572 Lerner Hall 2920 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Buy your ticket at Lerner Ramps from Thursday (4/11) to Wednesday (4/17). For more information, click here. CKR is a proud sponsor of the Korean Student Association 38th […]
March 27, 2019: 116th Korea Forum: “US Engagement with DPRK and Future Security Threats in East Asia” - 116th Korea Forum “US Engagement with DPRK and Future Security Threats in East Asia” Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History, Columbia University Victor Cha, Senior Adviser, and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies Jean H. Lee, Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History […]March 8, 2019 Nam-lin Hur Talk - Colloquium “Soldiers-Turned-Laborers/Guards: Buddhist Monks in Chosŏn Korea at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century” Nam-lin Hur, The University of British Columbia Moderated by Michael Como, Columbia University 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Friday, March 8, 2019 Seminar Room 2, Faculty House Abstract: Buddhism in Late Chosŏn fared far better compared to that to the end […]
March 8, 2019 “100 Years of Korean Popular Music” - This event is a part of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary series Symposium “100 Years of Korean Popular Music” Roald Maliangkay, Australian National University Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University Moderated by So-Rim Lee, CKR -AKS Postdoctoral Fellow; Hye Eun Choi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2:30 […]
March 7, 2019 “Photography of North Korea” - Colloquium Photography of North Korea with Associated Press Lead Photographer Wong Maye-E AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E shares images of North Korea and its people, in conversation with Society senior director Stephen Noerper. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 | 6 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017 Free […]
February 28 – March 2, 2019 “Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond” - International Symposium “Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond” Roundtable Discussion 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Thursday, February 28 Faculty House 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027 Conference 7:00AM – 6:00PM Friday, March 1 – Saturday, March 2, 2019 Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto Bernstein Screening Room […]
February 21, 2019 Book Talk with Christina Yi of “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” - Book Talk “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” A Book Discussion with Christina Yi Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:00PM – 7:30PM 403 Kent Hall Lounge Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Donald Keene Center; Columbia University Press
February 7, 2019 Book Talk with Cheehyung Harrison Kim of “Heroes and Toilers” - Book Talk “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961” A Book Discussion with Cheehyung Harrison Kim Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Moderated by Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of the Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 […]
December 4 “Strategic Interests Shadowed by the Past?: Korea-Japan Relations in the 2010s” - “Strategic Interests Shadowed by the Past?: Korea-Japan Relations in the 2010s” Cheol Hee Park, Professor of Japanese studies, Seoul National University 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Tuesday, December 4 International Affairs Building, Room 918 Food and refreshments will be served. Cheol Hee Park Ph.D is a Professor of Japanese studies and international relations at the Graduate School […]
November 30 “Two Hegemonic Restructuring Projects in Diachronic Perspective: America’s Marshall Plan (1948-1951) and China’s Belt & Road Initiative (2013-)” - Conference “Two Hegemonic Restructuring Projects in Diachronic Perspective: America’s Marshall Plan (1948-1951) and China’s Belt & Road Initiative (2013-)” 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday, November 30, 2018 East Gallery, Buell Hall Speakers: Charles K. Armstrong Thomas Christensen Victoria de Grazia Xiangrong Dong Barry Eichengreen Guoqiang Li Charles Maier Andrew J. Nathan Jack Snyder Gayatri […]
November 7 “Feminism in South Korea: A Conversation with Professor Judy Han, UCLA” - Lecture “Feminism in South Korea: A Conversation with Professor Ju Hui Judy Han, UCLA” 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Wednesday, November 7, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918 Food and refreshments will be served. In light of the #MeToo movement and recent events on illegal recording incidents in South Korea, Korea Focus is organizing a moderated discussion […]
November 6 “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity as Lived Experience in Modern Korea” - JKS Special Issue (Vol. 25, No.2) Workshop “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity as Lived Experience in Modern Korea” 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Tuesday, November 6, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918* By RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at jk2857@columbia.edu to attend as an observer; […]
October 25 “Korea at a Crossroads: Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella” With US Naval War College’s Terence Roehrig - Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Korea Colloquium on Contemporary Korean Affairs Korea at a Crossroads: Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella With US Naval War College’s Terence Roehrig Moderated by Stephen Noerper, Senior Director, The Korea Society 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Thursday, October 25, 2018 The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor […]
September 21 “Korean Studies in the Global Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion” - Interdisciplinary Workshop “Korean Studies in the Global Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion” 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Friday, September 21, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at ck2816@columbia.edu to attend as an observer. Participants: Stephen Choi, Columbia University Kira Donnell, University of California, Berkeley […]
September 13 “Literature and Resistance: A Conversation with Hwang Jungeun and Song Kyung-dong” - “Literature and Resistance: A Conversation with Hwang Jungeun and Song Kyung-dong” Moderated by Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities; Director of The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Thursday, September 13, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only – open only to graduate students […]
A Center for Korean Research Book Announcement - A Center for Korean Research Book Announcement CKR is pleased to announce the publication of Cheehyung Harrison Kim’s book Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 published by Columbia University Press. This is the second book in the Center for Korean Research book series. For more information on the series, please visit: http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/ckr-cup-book-series/ Heroes […]
American Association for Teachers of Korean Names Joowon Suh the New President - We would like to extend a warm congratulations to Joowon Suh on her appointment as President of American Association for Teachers of Korean (AATK). AATK was founded in 1994 for all levels of teachers of the Korean language, culture, and literature in the United States of America. Its mission is to enhance and promote an interest […]CKR Postdoctoral Fellows - 2018-19 CKR Postdoctoral Fellows So-Rim Lee is CKR-AKS Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests are in contemporary popular culture’s complex embodiments of neoliberalism through performance studies and visual culture, with a focus on modern South Korea. So–Rim also researches on beauty as a mode of neoliberal governmentality, K-pop’s transnationalism, everyday performance in the discourse of self-care, and the intersections […]