Upcoming Events and Announcements
CKR Postdoctoral Fellows - 2018-19 CKR Postdoctoral Fellows So–Rim Lee is CKR-AKS Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests are in contemporary popular culture’s complex embodiments of neoliberalism through performance studies and visual culture, with a focus on modern South Korea. So–Rim also researches on beauty as a mode of neoliberal governmentality, K-pop’s transnationalism, everyday performance in the discourse of self-care, and the intersections […]
CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners - 2018 CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners This year’s Center for Korean Research Manhae Prize for Korean Language winners are Abbey Haixin Li (Columbia College) and Joshua Hansol Suh (Columbia College). Born and raised in Queens, Abbey is a native New Yorker who, ironically, still gets lost while walking around in […]
CKR Newsletter 2017-18 - We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2017 – 18 CKR annual Newsletter. It features highlights from this year’s programming, an introduction of new faculty, and a preview of the Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue. Check it out here. November 6 “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity as Lived Experience in Modern Korea” - JKS Special Issue (Vol. 25, No.2) Workshop “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity as Lived Experience in Modern Korea” 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Tuesday, November 6, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at gt2359@columbia.edu to attend as an observer. Participants: […]
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 […]
