Korea Colloquium

2017 Apr 13

The Disenchantment of the Global: Disillusionment in South Korean ‘Fantastic’ Cinemas

4:30pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium
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Michelle Cho
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University

Michelle Cho is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and World Cinemas...

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2017 Mar 23

The Gender of Memory: Han Kang (b.1970) and Contemporary Korean Literature

4:30pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Ji-Eun Lee
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

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2016 Sep 29

Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

4:30pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Jaeeun Kim
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Chaired by Paul Y. Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Abstract
Jaeeun Kim will speak about her book, ...

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2015 Apr 16

Decentering the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

Albert L. Park, Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

Albert L. Park is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. A historian of modern Korea and East Asia, Dr. Park is the recipient of three...

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2015 Apr 02

Sounding Korea’s Hiroshima: Song and Verbal Art among Korean Radiation Sufferers

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

Joshua D. Pilzer, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. Born in Vancouver, he grew up in Nashville,...

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2014 Nov 06

The Significance of “Korean” Keyhole-shaped Tombs in the Study of Early “Korean-Japanese” Relations

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

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Dennis Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Dennis Lee received his PhD in early Korean-Japanese relations from UCLA in 2014 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Korea Institute at...

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2014 Apr 17

Return to the Orient: Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism and Aesthetic Production of “Korea” in Yi Hyo-sŏk’s Late Colonial Writings

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

Mi-Ryong Shim 
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Mi-Ryong Shim is the 2013-2014 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute. She received her B.A. in East Asian Studies and her...

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2014 Mar 13

The Luxury of Love: The “Rise of Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

John Song Pae Cho
Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

John (Song Pae) Cho is the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in the Korea Institute at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in socio-cultural...

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2013 Nov 07

Artist as Producer and Kitsch: The Ethnographic Turn in Colonial Culture

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 01238

Korea Colloquium

Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her research considers colonialism and postcolonial legacies in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Korea and Japan in the global context. Her book, Disavowing Empire: The Conundrum of Collaboration and Modernity in Korea and Japan (...

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2013 Sep 26

The Production of Everyday Life in Postwar North Korea

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 01238

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Cheehyung Kim, ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Duke University

Cheeyung Kim is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Duke University, in both the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department and the History Department. Broadly, he is interested in...

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2013 Apr 25

The Proletarian Wave: Leftist Literature in Colonial Korea 1910-1945

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

Sunyoung Park
Assistant Professor of Korean Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California

Sunyoung Park is assistant professor of Korean literature and cultural studies in...

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2012 Nov 16

Korean Ceramics in the International Nexus: the New Ceramic Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

12:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Beth McKillop
Beth McKillop is Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1992 she curated the initial installation of the Samsung Gallery of Korean Art there. Since then, she has maintained an interest in Korean...

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2012 Nov 01

Passion, Paradox and Propaganda: Exploring North Korean Art through Chosunhwa

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

B.G. Muhn, Professor, Art and Art History Department, Georgetown University

During his 25 years at Georgetown, Professor B.G. Muhn has been recognized for consistently demonstrating a devotion to teaching and inspiring his students. ...

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2012 Oct 04

Reaching for the World: Korean/American Missionary Aspirations and Evangelical Encounters

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Colloquium

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Ju Hui Judy Han, Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Ju Hui Judy Han (PhD, UC Berkeley) is Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Her research interests include...

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