Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a talk with: Elizabeth Thurbon, Deputy Head of School (Research), Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations / International Political Economy at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales Moderated by: Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor, AMEC/EALAC, Barnard … [Read more...]
The Center for Korean Research Publishes Fall 2017 Issue of The Journal of Korean Studies
The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.2. Guest edited by Professor Steven Chung of Princeton University and Professor Hyun Seon Park of Yonsei University, the Fall 2017 thematic issue, “The Cold War in Korean Cinemas,” offers seven articles … [Read more...]
WEAI Congratulates Theodore Hughes on his Promotion to Full Professor
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute warmly congratulates faculty member Theodore Hughes on his promotion to Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Professor Hughes is the Director of The Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, which, under his leadership, has … [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...]
“Refusing Exile from Kinship? Married Homosexual Men (‘Bats’) and the Queering of the South Korean Family”
Center for Korean Research Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies “Refusing Exile from Kinship? Married Homosexual Men (“Bats”) and the Queering of the South Korean Family” RESCHEDULED TO FEB. 16 FROM FEB. 9 John Song Pae Cho, Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College Moderated by Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the … [Read more...]
