WEAI is pleased to announce that the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University has co-organized the first international workshop on "Critical Studies in Modern Korean Literature and Culture, 1945-1980: Creating the Groundwork for a Cooperative/Reciprocal System between South Korea and the United States to Promote Research on Modern Korean Literature and Culture," which … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes takes part in landmark Korean Literature workshop
Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, travelled to Seoul in July 2016 to take part in the Korea Foundation’s first-ever Korean Literature workshop for PhD students from outside of Korea. The Korean Literature workshop, held on the occasion of the … [Read more...]
Center for Korean Research Launches New Journal of Korean Studies Website
The Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that it has launched its newly redesigned Journal of Korean Studies website. Please visit the new address at http://jks.archive.weai.columbia.edu/ The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is dedicated to publishing quality articles, in all disciplines, on a broad range of topics … [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...]
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...]
