Event Archive Fall 2020- Spring 2021
Whose Island? | July 1 - CKR ONLINE Discussion Whose Islands? A Discussion with the Editors and Contributors to The Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute:South Korea, Japan and the Search for a Peaceful Solution Paul Huth, University of Maryland Sunwoong Kim, University of […]
Ksenia Chizhova | May 14 - CKR ONLINE Book Talk Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University Moderated by Jungwon Kim, Columbia University Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00 […]
Queering the Straits Workshop | April 30- May 1 - Workshop Series QUEERING THE STRAITS: UNRULY SUBJECTS ACROSS MODERN KOREAN AND JAPANESE STUDIES VIRTUAL Workshop SERIES Series Two “CROSS-STRAIT CULTURES: PERFORMANCE, MEDIA, AND HISTORY’ Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1, […]
Hwisang Cho | April 23 - Korean Studies University Seminar will be online via Zoom. Book Talk Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea Hwisang Cho, Emory University Moderated by Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University Friday, April 23, 2021 […]
Yoon Joo Hwang | April 12 - CKR ONLINE Lecture and Performance “Yun Isang’s Monolog für Fagott (1983/84) and the Power of A Hybrid Musical Language to Transcend Political and Social Hegemony,” with a performance of Isang Yun’s Monolog für Fagott […]
Pil Ho Kim | April 8 - Korean Studies University Seminar will be online via Zoom. Gangnam: Global/polarization of South Korea’s Dreamland (Ch. 3, “Two Lakes in Chamsil: Ecology, Class, Disaster,” and Ch. 5, “Place Maketh Man: […]
Si Nae Park | April 1 - CKR ONLINE Book Talk Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Script Si Nae Park, Harvard University Moderated by Jungwon Kim, Columbia University Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:00 PM […]
Prima Facie: “Comfort Women” | March 29 - Virtual Panel Discussion Prima Facie: “Comfort Women,” North Korean Defectors, and Testimony as Evidence Alexis Dudden, University of Conneticut Sandra Fahy, Sophia University Jeong-Ho Roh, Columbia Law School Monday, March […]
Monica Kim | March 19 - CKR Book Talk and Korean Studies University Seminar “The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room” Monica Kim, New York University Friday, March 19, 2021 4:00 PM – 5:30 […]
Sohl Lee | March 5 - Korean Studies University Seminar will be online via Zoom. Reimagining Democracy: The Minjung Art Movement and the Birth of Korean Contemporary Art Sohl Lee, Stony Brook University Friday, March 5, […]
New Developments | March 4 - New Developments in Inter-Korean Relations Thursday, March 4, 2021 12 PM EST RSVP here Woodrow Wilson Center director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy […] Wartime Legacies | February 22 - Virtual Panel Discussion Wartime Legacies: Korean, Japanese and U.S. Perspectives on Recent Court Cases on the “Comfort Women” Atsuko Kanehara, Japanese Society of International Law, Sophia University Terence Roehrig, U.S. […]
George Kallander | February 22 - CKR Book Talk “The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea” George Kallander, Syracuse University Moderated by Jungwon Kim, Columbia University Monday, February 22 2:00PM – 4:00PM Registration required. […]
Queering the Straits Workshop | February 19-20 - 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, […]
13th KLA Workshop | February 5 - Literature Workshop 13th Korean Literature Association VIRTUAL Workshop Friday, February 5, 2021 *Open only to graduate students and faculty To register, please email jk2857@columbia.edu with your affiliation Program 10:00 AM […]
NK’s Eighth Party Congress | January 26 - North Korea’s Eighth Party Congress with Robert Carlin and Glyn Ford Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00 PM EST Live Webcast RSVP here North Korea senior analysts Robert Carlin and Glyn Ford […]
New Paths or Same Direction? | December 16 - Panel Discussion Live Web-stream “New Paths or Same Direction? The Prospect for Human Rights and Accountability in North Korea” Dr. Sandara Fahy, Sophia University, Tokyo Dr. Stephen Haggard, University of California, San […]
Dongsei Kim | October 9 - Korean Studies University Seminar in the fall of 2020 will be online via Zoom. “Visceral Borders: Spatial Implications of Bordering Practices in the Korean Peninsula” Dongsei Kim, New York Institute of […]
Korean War at 70 | September 24 - Panel Discussion LIVE WEBCAST The Korean War at 70: Legacies of the “Forgotten War” Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut Terence Roehrig, U.S. Naval War College Jeong-Ho Roh, Center for Korean […]
Immanuel Kim | September 11 - Korean Studies University Seminar in the fall of 2020 will go virtual. “Day in a Life of North Koreans: Understanding the Literary and Filmic Culture” Immanuel Kim, George Washington University […]
David Kang & Stephen Noerper | September 10 - Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Korea Colloquium on Contemporary Korean Affairs LIVE WEBINAR US – Korea Relations: Defining the Alliance Anew David Kang, University of Southern California Stephen Noerper, The Korea Society […]
2020 Visiting Scholar - 2020 Visiting Scholar This year we welcome back So-Rim Lee as our Visiting Scholar; she was CKR’s 2018 AKS Postdoctoral Fellow. So-Rim’s research investigates the intersections of embodiment, everyday performance, […]
2020 CKR AKS Postdoc - 2020 CKR AKS Postdoctoral Fellow This year we welcome the Center for Korean Research/Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Kyung Yoon “Becky” Bae. Keung Yoon “Becky” Bae is a PhD […]