Café Columbia with Professor Theodore Hughes
Proletarian Intimacies: North Korean Literature and the "War to Liberate the Fatherland"
Monday, June 10, 2013
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Columbia Alumni Center
CKR Regional Seminar
A Limited Peace: The Korean War Armistice after Sixty Years
Keynote Address: Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Speakers: Charles Armstrong, Avram Agov, Suk-Young Kim, Susie Kim, Marilyn Young
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
9:30 AM - 4:45 PM
403 Kent Hall
Registration required.
Co-sponsored by APEC Study Center and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Philanthropy and the Korean Identity
Kim Jang Hoon
April 29, 2013
Broadway Room
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag
“Enigmatic ‘Life’ of a Pre-Postsocialist State: A Giant at Kim Jong-Il’s Funeral”
Hoon Song, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Moderated by Andrew Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Thursday, April 25, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
918 International Affairs Building
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
Global Mayors Forum
Keynote speaker - Park Wan-su of Changwon, South Korea. Mayor Park has focused on sustainability projects in Changwon, a major industrial city, including creating a public bicycle rental system, which he will discuss in his talk.
Tuesday, April 30th
4:00-5:30pm
1501 International Affairs Building
Register for the event here.
Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies
Filiality and Care: Tracing Indebtedness of Young Women's Labor Subjectivity in South Korea
Jesook Song, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Thursday, April 18, 2013
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
918 International Affairs Building
No registration required.
Common Ground Follow-up Event
Wang Nanming, art critic from China will speak on a North Korean artist S. Guojuan
A video screening by Morten Traavik "Yes, We Love This Country"
Saturday, April 6, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Gallery Ho
Registration required.
Kill Chain, Nuclear Weapons, or Regime Change? South Korean Discourses on Dealing with a Nuclear North Korea
Chung-in Moon, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University and Editor-in-chief, Global Asia
Monday, April 1, 2013
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
918 International Affairs Building
No registration required.
Common Ground: An International Symposium for Unify Korea, a Project of Contemporary Art
Charles Armstrong, Bruce Cumings, Doug Hostetter, BG Muhn, Morten Traavik, Jane Farver, Yu Yeon Kim, Gordon Knox, John L. Moore, and Heng Gil Han
March 2, 2013
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Altschul Auditorium
International Affairs Building
Please email rsvp@kafny.org to reserve a seat. Click here for the full agenda.
Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies
Intermedial Aesthetics: Photography, Sound, and Text in Early 20th Century Korean Cinematic Novel
Jina Kim, Professor, Smith College
February 21, 2013
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
403 Kent Hall
No registration required.
Leadership Change in East and Southeast Asia Program Series
CKR/KEI Policy Forum
South Korea's New President: Historic Election, Historic Challenges
Seungsook Moon, Vassar College; Katherine Moon, Wellesley College; Nicholas Hamisevicz, Director of Research and Academic Affairs, Korea Economic Institute; Charles Armstrong, Director, CKR (moderator)
January 31st, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
918 IAB
No registration required.
2012 Korean Literature Essay Contest Award Ceremony and Reception
Thursday, December 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 918
CKR/KEI Policy Forum
"Korea-Japan-US Trilateral Cooperation in an Uncertain Northeast Asia"
Jeong-Ho Roh, Columbia Law School; Junya Nishino, Keio University; and Patrick Cronin, Center for New American Security. Gerald Curtis and Jin Shin are the respondents, and Charles Armstrong is the moderator.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies
"Space and Alterity in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yi Kwangsu"
Ellie Choi, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Co-sponsored by The Donald Keene Center
"A New North Korea?"
Jean Lee, Associated Press's Korea bureau chief for Pyongyang and Seoul
Friday, October 19, 2012
"A First Glimpse of North Korea"
Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Director of the United Nations Studies Program
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
September 2012
Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies
"What is the K in K-Pop?"
John Lie, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, September 20, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
IAB 918
Professor Lie posed two questions: First, what are the sources of success of South Korean popular music? Secondly, what does it say about contemporary South Korean culture and society? You can listen to it on our Facebook page and read a review on BWOG.
