EVENTS 2006-2007
April 2006
CKR LECTURE SERIES
“The Korea-U.S. FTA: Neoliberalism, Culture, and Democracy in South Korea.”
Nae-hui Kang, Professor, Chungang University, Korea [Visiting Professor, Cornell University]
Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 4:00p - 6:00p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
This talk will focus on how the recently started attempt to negotiate for a Free Trade Agreement between South Korea and the United States will bear upon the way neoliberalism dominates in South Korea. Neoliberalism has been inflicting Korean society as a dominant strategy of capital accumulation for more than two decades, but the FTA is expected to intensify the country’s neoliberalization even further. Given that the trade agreement will certainly devastate the national economy and public culture, one wonders why the Korean government that claims to be democratic pursues it so stubbornly. Is it because there is a fundamental difference between political and real social democracy? To understand this question, this talk looks into the ways in which relationships among politics, the economy, and culture are reformulated in South Korea today.
CKR LECTURE SERIES
"Korean Modernity and Mass Housing Production: Interpreting the Rise of Ap'at'ŭ since the 1950's"
Valerie Gelezeau, Marne-la-Vallée University, France, [Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, 2006]
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 4:00p - 6:00p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
March 2006
CKR LECTURE SERIES
A dialogue with the poet Kim Chi-ha
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 5:30p - 8:30p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
DONALD KEENE CENTER AND CENTER FOR KOREAN RESEARCH EVENT
Korean Influences in Japanese Culture Lecture Series
"Between Life and Death: Diaspora and Koreans in Japan"
Sonia Ryang, Associate Professor of Anthropology, John Hopkins University
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:00p - 7:30p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
CKR LECTURE SERIES
"Colonial Interiors on the Urban Periphery"
Janet Poole, New York University
Monday, February 27, 6:00p - 7:30p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON EAST ASIA
Friday, February 10 to Saturday, February 11, 2006
Columbia University in the City of New York
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DONALD KEENE CENTER AND CENTER FOR KOREAN RESEARCH EVENT
"Korean Influences in Japanese Culture" Lecture Series
The Dual Career of 'Arirang': The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit
Taylor Atkins, Associate Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6:00p - 7:30p
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University