Colloquium Featuring: Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto This talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship, capitalist profit-making, and violence. In particular, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan, South Korea in 2009, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Inventing Modern Sound Culture The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)”
CKR Manuscript Workshop Featuring: 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 Choi's manuscript, tentatively titled “Inventing Modern Sound Culture The Transnational Recording … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea”
Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” A Book Discussion with Christina Yi Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 403 Kent Hall Lounge Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center, … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961”
A Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at … [Read more...]
Thurs. Feb. 7th Book Talk hosted by CKR: “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961”
Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Visit WEAI's book series page for more about the book, found here. Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building 918 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian … [Read more...]
