Center for Korean Research International Workshop "Culture and Everyday Life in North Korea" Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University Ruth Barraclough, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University Tatiana Gabroussenko, Visiting Fellow, Australian National … [Read more...]
“Yi Kwangsu Revisited: a Buddhist Approach to Literature, Nationalism and Collaboration”
Center for Korean Research Lecture "Yi Kwangsu Revisited: a Buddhist Approach to Literature, Nationalism and Collaboration" Jungshim Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Korean Research Moderated by Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Columbia University 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs … [Read more...]
“God Pictures in Korean Contexts: the Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings”
Center for Korean Research Lecture "God Pictures in Korean Contexts: the Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings" Laurel Kendall, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History; Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration … [Read more...]
December 16 Event: “The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the December 16, 2015 event “The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko.” The event was a multidisciplinary mini-workshop exploring the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko (1920–2014), a Japanese actress, singer, and politician whose remarkably resilient career spanned multiple culture industries, ethnic identifications, and strategic … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes co-edits special issue of “The Journal of Korean Studies”
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes and Dickinson College's Jina Kim have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies entitled Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art. Published in December 2015, Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art takes up the question of what lies in between and across the large spectrum of media that includes … [Read more...]
