International Symposium “Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond” Roundtable Discussion Thursday, February 28 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Faculty House Conference Friday, March 1 – Saturday, March 2, 2019 7:00AM – 6:00PM Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto Bernstein Screening Room Evening Screenings: … [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...]
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alyssa M. Park (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Juhn Ahn’s “Buddhas and Ancestors”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea, published by the University of Washington Press and included in its Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies series. The book's author is Juhn Ahn, an Associate Professor … [Read more...]
