Korean Studies University Seminar Book Talk Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art Fluidity and Fragmentation Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology; Jung-Ah Woo, Associate […]
The upcoming workshop, “CHALLENGING THE ‘NORMAL’ IN COLD WAR SOUTH KOREA AND
JAPAN,” considers the intersections of postcolonial sentiment, Cold War capitalism, and cross-border travel in the wake of Japanese imperialism and US military occupation. By examining the circulation of bodies, goods, and ideas across national, regional, and other types of spatial boundaries, the three papers seek new ways of understanding the normative configurations of sexual practice, corporeal embodiment, and gender performance that helped sustain a superficially stable, yet deeply fractured, Cold War order in Northeast Asia.
Speaker: Francisca Cho, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Georgetown University Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Il Hwan and Soonja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean Culture and Religion, Columbia University Kim […]
Korea Under the US Occupation War, Refugees, and the Imperial Shift, 1945-1948 Yumi Moon, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University Wednesday, March 23, 2022 1:00–2:15 PM ET Registration not required. […]
Repertoires of Redemption Migration, Asylum and Religion in the Era of Involuntary Immobility Jaeeun Kim, University of Michigan Registration not required. Jaeeun Kim is the Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of […]