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Korean missionaries: Protestant churches and their global vision

by Philip Gowman on 18 March, 2010

in Events news, General academia, Religion

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News of an interesting lecture at the KCC this month:
Korean missionaries: Protestant churches and their global vision
Dr Kirsteen Kim (Theology at Leeds Trinity University College)

Date & Time: Wednesday 31st March 2010, 6.30pm
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre
Email to info@kccuk.org.uk or call +44(0)20 7004 2600 to reserve your place
Wherever you go in the world, you [...]

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Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea

9 March 2010 Events news
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This Friday’s lecture at SOAS looks like a must-see.
See you all there.
Friday, March 12th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University
Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea
Abstract:
In this talk, I will introduce my forthcoming book Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food and Eating in Twentieth Century Korea. The key [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-03-07

7 March 2010 Celebs
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Girls Generation latest album “Oh!” gets a trashing in the JoongAng Ilbo: http://bit.ly/cdKGL5 10:28 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

TchmilFan: @lklinks You can even get SNSD/Girls Gen “Oh!” on iTunes UK now! http://bit.ly/cVOel7 (Look out for the Oh! areia remix on youtube) 1:28 PM Feb 23rd via Seesmic

You thought Korea [...]

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Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Army – talk at the Senate House

23 February 2010 Events news
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The Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar is pleased to present:
Global Japan Series:
Professor Takashi Fujitani, University of California, San Diego
‘Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Amy: Some Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII’
Thursday 25 February 2010, 5:30-7pm
Room G37, South Block, Senate House Building, University of London
All welcome.

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60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue

7 February 2010 Events news
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News of an interesting half-day seminar in Cambridge:
This is an invitation to the seminar “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue” which will take place in Cambridge on Saturday the 20th of February 2010.

Ever since the Korean War Armistice in 1953, almost 200,000 Korean children have been adopted to more than [...]

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Two Korea-related talks at the Senate House

26 January 2010 Events news
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News of two upcoming Korea-related seminars in the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar hosted by the Institute of Historical Research at Senate House, University of London.
Thursday 28th January, 5.30pm
Dr Owen Miller (Cambridge / SOAS)
“The Idea of Stagnation in Korean History from Fukuda Tokuzo to the New Right”
Thursday 25 February, 5.30pm
Professor Takashi Fujitani [...]

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Predicting Change in North Korea: the Post Kim Jong-il Era

24 November 2009 DPRK
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The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the following lecture in its series of East Asian seminars.
This seminar will take place on Wednesday, November 25th in Room 7 of the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (formerly Oriental Studies), Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge from 12.30-14.00
Please note: this session is [...]

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Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites

1 November 2009 General academia
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Details of November’s Global Korea Lecture at the Cultural Centre:
Tuesday 24th November 2009, 6.30pm
Subject: Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites
Speaker: Professor James H. Grayson (School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre
According to the 2005 Korean Household and Population Census, Christians now represent nearly 30 per cent of [...]

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Autumn 2009 / Spring 2010 seminar series at SOAS

26 September 2009 Events news
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Details of the new season of free evening Korean Studies seminars at SOAS:
All seminars take place in room G50 unless marked otherwise
Friday, October 16th, 5pm
Dr. James Hoare, SOAS
The Other Korea: North Korea in pictures
Friday, October 23rd, 5pm
Jiyoung Song, Cambridge University
“Our style” human rights of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Friday, November 6th, 5pm
Dr. Stephen Epstein, [...]

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Michael Shin on Yi Kwang-su’s The Heartless

29 August 2009 Events news
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The third Global Korea lecture of 2009 will be held at the KCC on 29 September at 6:30pm. Michael Shin from Cambridge University will talk on Yi Gwangu’s The Heartless, sometimes known as Korea’s first modern novel. There will be a raffle to win the novel in an English translation.
The novel The Heartless by Yi [...]

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Calling all Seoulites in Cambridge and London

22 May 2009 General academia
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A request for help from a PhD student in Cambridge. Do help out if you can. There’s some pocket money in it for you:
안녕하세요?
Cambridge University Phonetics Lab 에서 서울말 연구를 하고 있는 박사과정 학생입니다. 간단한 듣기 실험 (한국말 소리를 듣고 질문에 대답하는 것) 도와주실 분을 찾고 있습니다. 실험은 1시간 ~ 2시간 정도가 소요 될 것으로 [...]

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Korean history lecture at Senate House

10 March 2009 Events news
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Details of a lecture on a very particular aspect of early 20th century Korean history, at the Senate House on Thursday 12 March.

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Free Study Day: Decorative Arts & Folk Customs of Korea

10 February 2009 Events news
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Details of a free day of lectures on Korean folk art and customs at SOAS and the British museum in February 2009

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Lecture – Korean Crafts: Ancient & Modern

29 November 2008 Events news
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Details of a lecture at the Korean Cultural Centre given by Professor Park Young-sook

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Inaugural Ra Jong-yil lecture in Cambridge

23 October 2008 Events news
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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 [...]

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