Korea Foundation Colloquium Series 2008-2009

  

September 24, 2008
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

"T'oegye's Sowon Movement and the Rediscovery of Letter Writing"

Guest Speaker: Hwisang Cho, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

October 13, 2008
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

"Korean Buddhism in East Asian Context"

Guest Speaker: Robert Buswell, Professor; Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA

October 29, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

After Death Did Them Apart: Widows and adoption cases in colonial Korea

Guest Speaker: Sungyun Lim, Department of History, UC Berkeley

November 12, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Internet Culture and the Trouble with Direct Participation in South Korea: Conceptualizing 'Digital Populism'

Guest Speaker: Youngmi Kim, Trust Early Career Fellow/Dr., University of Edinburgh, UK

November 19, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Deliverance and Submission: Korean evangelical women and the politics of gender

Guest Speaker: Kelly Chong, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Kansas,

December 3, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

The Rise of Phonocentrism in the Korean Language and Literature

Guest Speaker: Youngmee Yu Cho, Associate Professor, Korean Language and Culture, Rutgers University

January 21, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Playing in the Colony: Gramophone and Nonsense in Colonial Seoul

Guest Speaker: Semi Oh, History of East Asia, Columbia University

January 28, 2009
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Student Unrest, Identity, and the Internal Dynamics of the Korean Colonial Classroom

Guest Speaker: Deborah Solomon, Department of History, University of Michigan

February 11, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

The Rise of a Politically Detached Korean Community in Manchuria in An Sugil's Rice Plants (1941)

Guest Speaker: Hyun-jeong Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

March 4, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Performances of Empire: Enumerative Governmentality and Imperialized Subjectivities in Late Colonial Korea

Guest Speaker: Todd Henry, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University

March 18, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Print Capitalism and the Nationalist Movement in Korea, 1890s-Early 1920s

Guest Speaker: Michael Shin, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University

April 8, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636 School of Social Work Building

Book Reading with Susan Choi, Author of "A Person of Interest"

Guest Speaker: Susan Choi, Finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize