Center for Korean Research Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies "The Enigmatic Legend of Feminized Men: A Sociocultural History of a Scholar-Bureaucrat Family in Gyeonggi Province" Shimpei Cole Ota, American Museum of Natural History/National Institutes for the Humanities & Graduate University for Advanced Studies Moderated by Jungwon Kim, Columbia … [Read more...]
“The Emergence of Commercial Economy, Local Administration, and Townsmen in Mid- Eighteenth Century P’yŏngyang”
Center for Korean Research "The Emergence of Commercial Economy, Local Administration, and Townsmen in Mid- Eighteenth Century P'yŏngyang" Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University Moderated by Jungwon Kim, Columbia University 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Co-sponsored by The Korea Foundation and the Department of … [Read more...]
“Buddhist Writers in Colonial Korea: Rethinking Korean Literature, Religion and History”
Center for Korean Research "Buddhist Writers in Colonial Korea: Rethinking Korean Literature, Religion and History" Jungshim Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Janet Poole, University of Toronto Theodore Hughes, Columbia University 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only - open only to … [Read more...]
“International Tourism” Film Screening
Center for Korean Research "International Tourism" Film Screening Screening Followed by Discussion with: Aline Caillet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Columbia University Steve Erickson, New York University Theodore Hughes, Columbia University 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Columbia University Maison Française Buell Hall Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Francaise, … [Read more...]
Robert S. Boynton Discusses His New Book About North Korea’s Abduction Project
Robert S. Boynton, an associate professor of journalism at New York University and director of NYU's Literary Reportage concentration, has published the new book The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from … [Read more...]
