Upcoming Events and Announcements
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 […]
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 […]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, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building 918 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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 Location: TBA Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center, and Columbia University Press 
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” 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Thursday, February 28 – Sunday, March 2, 2019 Location: TBA Participants: Korea Moonim Baek, Professor of Korean Language & Literature, Director of Institute of Media Art at Yonsei University Jaeho Kang, Associate Professor of Communication, Department […]March 8, 2019 “100 Years of Korean Popular Music” - Symposium “100 Years of Korean Popular Music” Roald Maliangkay, Australian National University Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University Moderated by So-Rim Lee, CKR -AKS Postdoctoral Fellow; Hye Eun Choi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM Friday, March 8, 2019 International Affairs Building, Room 918 The […]
May 6, 2019 Manuscript Workshop - CKR Manuscript Workshop The Making of the Korean Recording Industry: 1910 – 1945 Dissertation Author, Hye Eun Choi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Discussants: Charles Armstrong, Columbia University Kim Brandt, Columbia University Michael Denning, Yale University Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London Monday, May 6, 2019 Time: TBD International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only […]
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 […]