The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that faculty members Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman will be presenting at this summer's Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia Conference, which will be held in Seoul from June 24, 2017 to June 27, 2017. Full conference details are available here. Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor … [Read more...]
Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charles R. Kim (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War … [Read more...]
April 26 Event: “Dictators and Their Secret Police:” Photos
Photographs are now available from the April 26, 2017 lecture "Dictators and Their Secret Police in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines," which featured speaker Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and author of the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge … [Read more...]
Watch Min Jin Lee Discuss Her Acclaimed New Novel “Pachinko”
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share an April 11, 2017 interview with Min Jin Lee, author of the acclaimed new novel Pachinko. During the interview, Ms. Lee discusses the experiences and research that led her to write the novel, which follows four generations of an ethnic Korean family living in Japan from 1910 to … [Read more...]
The Center for Korean Research and Columbia University Press announce a new Korean Studies Book Initiative
The Center for Korean Research and Columbia University Press announce a new Korean Studies Book Initiative The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and Columbia University Press are pleased to announce a new Korean studies book initiative. A $10,000 subvention will be awarded each year on a competitive basis to an author … [Read more...]
