Upcoming Events and Announcements
CKR Newsletter Announcement - We are pleased to announce the publication of The Center for Korean Research’s 2018-19 newsletter, available in print and on the CKR website!
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 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Donald Keene Center; 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” Roundtable Discussion 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Thursday, February 28 Faculty House 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027 Conference 7:00AM – 6:00PM Friday, March 1 – Saturday, March 2, 2019 Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto Bernstein Screening Room […]
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 Society senior director Stephen Noerper. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 | 6 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017 Free […]
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 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 […]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 – 7:30 PM Friday, March 8, 2019 Seminar Room 2, Faculty House Abstract: Buddhism in Late Chosŏn fared far better compared to that to the end […]
March 27, 2019: 118th Korea Forum: KGSA-CKR - 118th Korea Forum: CKR-KGSA “Lingering Post-Reunification Security Threats in the Korean Peninsula and East Asia” Moderated by Merit Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of Professional Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs March 27, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Columbia University Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall 2920 Broadway, New York, NY […]
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 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 […]
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 […]