Event Archive Fall 2018- Spring 2019
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 as 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 […]