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To coincide with the current exhibition at the KCC, Korean Painting and Craft Art: Creations from Tradition, there's a special lecture on 2 December.
We are delighted to invite you our special lecture, "Korean Crafts: Ancient & Modern", on 2nd of December 2008. The lecturer, Professor Pak Youngsook received PhD from Heidelberg University and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) for more than 20 years.
If you want to book your seat for this lecture, please reply to this email with your full name, number of seat(s) and your email address.
o Title: Korean Crafts: Ancient & Modern
o Date: 2008.12.2(Tues) 6:30-7:30 pm
o Venue: Multi-Purpose Hall at Korean Cultural Centre UK
...
Cambridge University is celebrating its first dedicated Korean Studies post with a new series of lectures. The Ra Jong-yil Annual Lecture Series in Korean Studies will be launched by Dr Ra Jong-yil himself, who will talk on 'The Discovery of the World - A Korean Perspective'
The lecture is to be held at 5pm on Friday 31 October 2008 at Robinson College, Cambridge.
The lecture is a public one which all are very welcome to attend and will be followed by a drinks reception that will also be open to all attending the lecture. To register, or for further information, please contact Dr John Swenson-Wright on jhs22 @ cam . ac . uk
Dr Ra will be re-running the talk at the Korean ...
Images of Korean Women
22-Sep-08
A reminder of the upcoming lecture at the KCC, Wednesday 24 September.
Lecture Title: The Image of Korean Women based on the Tale of Chunhyang
Date / Time: 24th September 2008, 18:30-19:30
Lecturer: Prof LIM Jeong Taeg (Director, Institute of Media Arts, Yonsei Univ.)
A Tale of Chunhyang:
13th Century, young Mongryong, Namwan Province's governor's son, falls in love at first sight with beautiful Chunhyang, Wolmae's daughter. Wolmae was the former governor's courtesan, and she's now retired. The former governor died before being able to keep his promise to marry Chunhyang's mother.
The two youngsters (about 15 years old) get secretly married (Chunhyang, as a courtesan's daughter, belongs to a lower social class than Mongryong). Very soon, Mongryong's father is appointed as a Minister in Seoul ...
James Scarth Gale Translation Prize
06-Jul-08
The Centre for the Study of Korea (CSK) at the University of Toronto hosts the annual James Scarth Gale translation prize for non-fiction pieces of writing on Korea. The top prize is awarded a sum of $2,500.
The objective of the prize is to promote, and make public, materials useful for teachers of undergraduate courses on modern Korea. Possible translations include academic essays, series of newspaper articles, magazine features, or original archival sources, to name just a few.
Submissions for this year's competition must be received at the CSK by September 1, 2008.
For more information see the CSK website at www.utoronto.ca/csk, where you can also find last year's winner, Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood by Kang Sangjung, translated by Robin Fletcher.
Related ...
Known to her neighbours in Kent as Kim Hogarth, Hyun-key left Korea in 1968 before she’d even learned to cook Korean food. Her CV says ‘Nationality: British’. But it’s her academic work on Korean shamanism that keeps her busy giving papers and publishing books. Jennifer Barclay met the social anthropologist in London to find out more.
I first met Dr Hyun-key Kim Hogarth, fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, at an Anglo-Korean Society gathering at the Korean Cultural Centre, and wanted to find out more about her work. So I was delighted when she agreed to come and have lunch with me at Asadal and tell me her story. She arrives in a bright pink dress and knee-high black boots, very ...
Sunset for the Sunshine Policy?
20-May-08
The inaugural Global Korea Lecture will be held on Wednesday 28 May at the KCC at 6:30pm
The lecture will be on the subject: South and North Korea : Sunset for the Sunshine Policy? and will be given by 'Britain's leading Korea watcher' Aidan Foster-Carter. Dr. Kwang Ho Chun will chair.
Aidan Foster-Carter has followed Korean Affairs since 1968, starting (embarrassingly) as a juvenile fan of Kim Il-sung. Educated at Eton, Oxford and Hull, he taught sociology at Universities in Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971-93. An early general interest in developing nations developed into a particular obsession with Korea. Since 1993 he has been a full time Korea analyst and consultant: writing, lecturing, and broadcasting for academic, business ...
Not to be confused with the SOAS / AKS post-graduate bursary. That particular AKS is the Academy of Korean Studies. This post is about the Anglo-Korean Society's bursary, administered by BAKS. Having sorted out that little confusion, read on...
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies is offering a single £500 bursary on a competitive basis to post-graduate students.
The Anglo-Korean Society was founded in 1956 to foster friendship between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea. By providing opportunities for contacts between British nationals and Koreans residing in or visiting Britain, the Society seeks to bring together everyone in the UK who has an interest in Korean matters, and to act as a forum for ...
Harvard Online: The Two Koreas
27-Jan-08
Beginning January 31, students living anywhere in the world can examine key historical forces that have created and shaped the two Koreas before, during, and after the actual partition of the country in 1945 in a new Harvard Extension School online course, HIST E-1814 The Two Koreas.
Harvard's Carter J. Eckert, PhD, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, offers students a broad historical context in which to understand the contemporary political division on the Korean peninsula.
Topics include nascent nation-building efforts between 1876 and 1910, the impact of Japanese colonialism and the cold war, and North/South development and interaction after 1948. The course interweaves political, socioeconomic, and cultural themes within a historical framework centered on nation-building while also highlighting a number ...
In Cambridge and London this week.
First, Tuesday, 29th January, 2008 at 5pm in the Common Room, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.
The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies presents an East Asia Institute seminar:
Paradise Lost: From Chollima Speed to Slow Motion Famine How North Korea Got Where it is Today
To be given by:
Mr Paul French
Access Asia, Shanghai
From one of the worlds 20 largest economies in 1975 to an estimated two million dead from famine twenty years later and then to the worlds most isolated and little understood nuclear power. How did North Korea manage to so spectacularly mismanage its economy, manage its people, seal its borders and get the bomb? Paul French, the author ...
ANGLO-KOREAN SOCIETY
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES
The AKS and BAKS are pleased to announce the Anglo-Korean Society Post-Graduate Bursary Programme. A single £500 bursary is being offered on a competitive basis to taught and research post-graduate students. The submission date for all applications will be 1 April, 2008.
The programme will be administered by the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies on behalf of the Anglo-Korean Society.
Information about the bursary and application forms may be obtained from the Chair of the BAKS Bursary Committee, Prof. James H. Grayson, or from the BAKS website at www.baks.org.uk which will be put up shortly. Prof. Grayson's contact details are:
Prof. James H. Grayson, Chair
BAKS Bursary Committee
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 ...
The South Korean class struggle
15-Jan-08
As a conservative prepares to take over in Seoul, in London a Marxist provides some commentary on the class struggle in South Korea.
At the slightly anti-social time of 6pm on Saturday evening at Housman's bookshop near Kings Cross, Loren Goldner will speak as follows:
From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat: The Korean Working Class, 1987-2007
Saturday January 19th 2008, 6pm -- Housmans Bookshop
This talk will focus on the recent history of class struggle in Korea, from mass strikes, wage increases and radically democratic unions in the late 1980s - mid '90s to casualisation and bureaucratisation today when as many struggles take place between regular and casualized workers as against capital itself.
Similar to patterns that have been played out in Spain and ...
Fakes and curruption in art and academia
22-Jul-07
There has been a number of stories of fakes recently. Here's a brief round-up of links
1 Shin Jeong-ah.
Dongguk University Fires Bogus Professor, Korea Times, 20 July
Stroke of luck, raw talent fueled Shin's ascent, JoongAng Daily, 14 July. Some selected extracts:
Shin Jeong-ah was 23 when the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul buried her in darkness. She lay in the rubble for 24 hours before getting plucked out. Shin was one of the few survivors of the worst collapse in Korean history, which killed more than 500 people. From the day of the collapse on, Shin said she vowed to change. Instead of being shy and reclusive, she developed an aggressive, extroverted personality.
"She just tried to organize exhibitions ...
Oxford lecture on Koguryo and Balhae
06-Jun-07
With apologies for the late notice, I've just heard about a lecture on Koguryo and Balhae / Parhae / Bohai at Oxford tomorrow. Details as follows:
Institute for Chinese Studies
University of Oxford
Trinity Term 2007
Seminar Series
Koguryo and Bohai in the East Asian world order
Tineke D'Haeseleer
Institute of Chinese Studies
University of Oxford
Week 7
Thursday 7th June
5 pm
Room 207,
Institute for Chinese Studies
Walton Street
All are welcome
Convenor: Joseph Benjamin Askew
Enquiries: e-mail: joseph.askew@orinst.ox.ac.uk tel: 01865-(2)80394
If any reader goes along, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
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Call for Papers: 4th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention (KSGSC) in Europe
Edinburgh, UK: 20-22 September 2007
The School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh (UK) is pleased to announce the 4th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention. The event is hosted by the University of Edinburgh (UK) and will take place on 20-22 September 2007, in parallel to the Early Career Researchers' Conference on East Asian Studies.
The conference aims to bring together graduate students in the broad field of Korean studies. The areas covered in the conference range from the arts to the social sciences.
Paper proposals are especially invited to cover one or more of the following topic areas:
International Politics, Conflict and Security
Government, Domestic Politics and Civil Society
Regionalism ...
Two free talks this Friday (16 March)
14-Mar-07
Firstly, Chatham House Korea Discussion Group:
13.15-14.30 (Lunch 12.45-13.15 - £10 charge)
Keeping the Flame of Human Rights in the Korean Peninsula: The Role of an International Human Rights NGO, Amnesty International in the Two Koreas
Speaker: Rajiv Narayan
Chair: Jim Hoare
Further details on the Chatham House website.
Secondly, SOAS Centre for Korean Studies
Room G52, 5pm
Seminar: 'Korean women's writings in the genre of Kyubang Kasa in the past and present'
Speaker: Sonja Haussler, Hamburg University
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Feminism and women artists in Korean art
24-Feb-07
Lecture 5 in Jiyoon Lee's Art & Society in Modern Korea course.
Big caveat: a very simplistic and immature summary, prepared by someone with limited knowledge or understanding of these things, of a very brief lecture covering a huge topic. Treat with extreme caution. Posted here as a "stub" (in Wiki terms) which I might build on in the future.
Before the 20th century the occupation of being a professional artist went against the Confucian concept of an ideal wife. There were female artists, but they were privileged women who were able to become accomplished artists without having to stoop to earning money from their abilities - for example Princess Jeong Myeong (Daughter of king Seonjo), Ahn Dong Jang (안동장), and one ...
Korean literature talk at SOAS
20-Feb-07
Antonetta Bruno (La Sapienza) will be talking on the theme of "Loanwords in Korean novels at the beginning of the 21st century" at SOAS on Friday afternoon 23 February, 5pm, in Room G52.
Literature boffins will know better than me what the talk is all about. I'm assuming it's nothing to do with APRs and bullet repayments. I'll try to find out if I manage to escape from work in time.
If you do decide to go, make sure you remember that it's in G52. The receptionists at SOAS never have a clue that these events are happening. So if you wander up to the front desk and say vaguely that you've come for a Korean lecture you will be met with ...
As it's Sunday, a reminder of a conference on a religious theme at York St John. If you want to go, tomorrow is your last chance to get the application in.
The International Conference on Peace and Reconciliation: In Search of a Common Identity
The Korean Peninsula and Other Contexts
15-18 August 2006
Establishing a common identity is an important part of any process of reconciliation. In the case of reconciliation between North and South Korea, this is particularly pertinent. The nature of the conference is interdisciplinary but perspectives from theology and religious studies will be particularly to the fore. Although the focus of the conference is on the Korean peninsula, relevant research on the topic of peace and reconciliation in other contexts will ...
From yesterday's Korea Times. Thanks to Aidan FC for spotting this.
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London Senate House, 20 May 2005
Conference programme and paper abstracts
"Hallyuwood: Korean Screen Culture Goes Global," featuring international speakers Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University) and Professor Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of Arts), and sponsored by Korean Air and Goldsmiths College.
Venue: Senate House.
9.30 Registration
10.00 Chris Berry (Goldsmith College, University of London): Introduction / Welcome
Chair: Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
10.30 Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Arts):
Anagram of Inter-Asian Korean Film: The Case of My Sassy Girl
Reclaiming its position between the Hollywood, Asian, and Korean cinema industries, the South Korean film industry in the post-IMF era after the 1997 financial crisis received a most unexpected but welcome gift. This was the pan-Asian success of Korean popular culture known as the ...