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: Kim Brandt, Columbia University Michael Denning, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” Victor Cha, Senior Adviser, and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies Jean H. Lee, Director, Hyundai […]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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Thursday, February 7, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]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 […]