Center for Korean Research Event Please join us for a book talk with: Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies University of Michigan Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state … [Read more...]
Thieves, Monks, and “Artwork”: The Changing Fate of Icons at Local Monastery in Modernizing Korea
Center for Korean Research Event Please join us for a lecture with: Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor Ewha Womans University This is a University Seminars event. Open to CUID holders and Columbia affiliates. No registration required. EVENT DETAILS Friday, October 25, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:30 … [Read more...]
“Citizen Newspaper Advertisements in Contemporary South Korea: Analogue Protest Media in the Age of the Internet”
Center for Korean Research Event Olga Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Seoul National University Moderated by: Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and Director of The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University. As South Korea geared for the thirteen weeks of protests that would eventually impeach the corrupt … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea”
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: “Photography of North Korea”
Colloquium Featuring with Associated Press Lead Photographer Wong Maye-E AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E shares images of North Korea and its people, in conversation Stephen Noerper, Columbia University Adjunct Professor in Political Science and Korea Society Senior Director The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY … [Read more...]
