Upcoming Events and Announcements
Korean Studies University Seminar Announcement - Korean Studies University Seminar The Korean Studies Seminar is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together scholars, artists, and professionals working on Korea-related subjects from a wide variety of disciplines: history, literature, art history, visual and media studies, architecture, religion, sociology, anthropology, music, and performance studies. The seminar discusses current research and issues in the study […]
October 8, 2019 Citizen Newspaper Advertisements in Contemporary South Korea: Analogue Protest Media in the Age of the Internet - CKR Colloquium Citizen Newspaper Advertisements in Contemporary South Korea: Analogue Protest Media in the Age of the Internet Olga Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Seoul National University Moderated by Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and Director of The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University. Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:00 PM – 5:30 […]
October 16, 2019 gamin Performance - CKR Special Event A special performance by gamin, piri and taepyeongso soloist Followed by Q & A with Hye Eun CHoi, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 gamin is one of the most celebrated piri, taepyeongso (Korean traditional oboe family)and saengwhang (ancient wind-blow instrument) performers in Korea […]
November 7, 2019 Juhn Ahn Book Talk - CKR Colloquium Book Talk with Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan Author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018) Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Abstract: Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to […]
November 8, 2019 Buddhism Workshop - CKR Workshop Buddhism Workshop – Title TBD Juhn Ahn, University of Michigan Hwansoo Kim, Yale University Seong Uk Kim, Columbia University Jin Y. Park, American University Tuesday, November 8, 2019 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Co-sponsored by The Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul Korea; the Department of East Asian […]
McJimsey Student Paper Award Recipient Announcement - CKR congratulates Ariella Napoli, McJimsey Student Paper Award recipient, on her paper, “Plurality within Singularity: Choson Korea’s Neo-Confucian Framework,” published in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. Napoli will be attending the 2019 ASIANetwork 27th Annual Conference to present her work. Napoli is a Junior at Barnard College in the […]
CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners - 2019 CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners This year’s Center for Korean Research Manhae Prize for Korean Language winners are Clarissa Macias(Barnard College) and Haejin Park (Columbia College). Clarissa is a graduating senior majoring in East Asian Studies with a concentration in Modern Korean History. Due to the generosity of Barnard and Columbia, Clarissa had […]
External Events
Adapted Podcast: Korean-American Adoptees Who Resettle in Korea - Check out this podcast series by Kaomi Goetz, an American journalist living in Korea, a Fulbright US Senior Scholar 2016-17, and a Columbia University School of Journalism graduate. ADAPTED is a podcast that explores the experiences of Korean-American adoptees who repatriate or resettle in Korea. Since the 1950s, an estimated 200,000 children have been adopted internationally […]