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European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop

by Philip Gowman on 19 March, 2010

in Events news, Language, SOAS

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A two day seminar at SOAS in April. Details as follows:
European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop
Date: 9 April 2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 10 April 2010 Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings, Room: G2
The 3rd biennial workshop of the European Association for Korean Language Education (EAKLE) will be held at SOAS. The event is [...]

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Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exile and Transversality

17 March 2010 Arts
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Further details of Friday’s seminar at SOAS:

Friday, March 19th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Aino Rinhaug, University of Oslo
Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exile and Transversality
Abstract:
In view of how the development of large-scale globalisation changes our perception of family structures, nationhood and sense of belonging, my presentation seeks to highlight a particular form of [...]

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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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A glimpse of a Confucian scholar’s intimacy

3 February 2010 Events news
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More details of this Friday’s free seminar at SOAS
Friday, February 5th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Isabelle Sancho, EHESS
“A glimpse of Confucian scholar’s intimacy: the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584)”
Abstract:
The talk will focus on the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584), one of the most outstanding Confucian scholars of the first half of Chosŏn [...]

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Han Yongun: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project

28 January 2010 Conference reports
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More details about this Friday’s seminar at SOAS
Friday, January 29th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Jung-Shim Lee, Leiden University
Han Yongun’s posthumous novel Death: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project
Abstract:
This paper will explore how a Korean monk Han Yongun produced Confucian-inspired nation-building ideas in his novel Death (Chugǔm, 1924). Han Yongun (韓龍雲, 1879-1944) is Korea’s most recognized and [...]

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A Witness to Change: Three Decades of Korea-watching

20 January 2010 Events news
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A reminder of this Friday’s talk at SOAS.
Friday, January 22nd, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Warwick Morris, Former UK Ambassador to ROK
A Witness to Change: Three Decades of Korea-watching
Abstract:
Posted in Seoul in January 1975 as the FCO’s first Korean language student, Warwick Morris was to experience the start of tremendous economic development in the Republic [...]

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Transeurasian languages: are Japanese and Korean related?

6 December 2009 Conference reports
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Darren Southcott reports from the SOAS seminar given by Dr Martine Robbeets on 20 November: “Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference”. With additional material from Peter Corbishley
Korean and the Transeurasian languages was not the title of a talk designed to bring in the crowds. But slowly SOAS room G50 filled up [...]

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Melodrama of the Modern Girl: Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu

1 December 2009 Events news
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Further details of this Friday’s talk at SOAS:
Friday, December 4th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Michael Shin, University of Cambridge
Melodrama of the Modern Girl: The Novel Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu (1924-25)
Abstract:
Yi Gwangsu’s Jaesaeng (Rebirth) was one of the most popular novels in colonial Korea during the 1920s. One reason for its popularity [...]

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US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry

25 November 2009 DPRK
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Please find below the abstract and bio for the talk at SOAS on Friday.
Friday, November 27th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Prof. Wookhee Shin, Seoul National University / SOAS
US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry
Abstract
This seminar will deal with six cases of US-North Korean talks or proposals for talk [...]

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Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference

17 November 2009 Events news
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More info about this Friday’s talk at SOAS:
Friday, November 20th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Martine Robbeets, University of Mainz
Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference
Abstract:
The term “Transeurasian” refers a group of geographically adjacent languages, stretching from Japan in the East to Lithuania in the West, that share a significant amount [...]

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“Asia! Asia!” – Stephen Epstein at SOAS

15 November 2009 Conference reports
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Stephen Epstein had a busy week last week giving lectures in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He is on a lecture tour of Europe, using the trip as an opportunity to test various chapters from his forthcoming book with a critical audience. Friday’s lecture at SOAS focused on the portrayal of some of Korea’s Asian neighbours [...]

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South Korean Popular Culture and “Asia” in the New Millennium

4 November 2009 Events news
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More detail on this Friday’s talk at SOAS:
Friday, November 6th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington
“Asia! Asia!” – South Korean Popular Culture and “Asia” in the New Millennium
Abstract:
In 2007, the number of foreign nationals in South Korea surpassed 1,000,000 for the first time: labour migration has risen substantially since [...]

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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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SOAS workshop: mutual perceptions in travel literature

3 June 2009 Events news
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News of a free study day later in June, a follow-up to SOAS’s conference two years ago.
Modern Encounters and Transitional Images of ‘The Other’
Mutual Perceptions of Chosŏn Korea and the West in Travel Literature (1700~1910)
A One-Day Workshop hosted by The Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, in collaboration with the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS
Monday, [...]

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The Great Game and Li-Ladygensky

13 May 2009 Events news
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What am I on about? Come to SOAS on Friday to find out. It looks like a particularly interesting lecture, this time in English, but note the change of venue.
Friday, May 15th, 5pm, FG08
Prof. HyunSoo Kim, SOAS / Dangook University
Title: “Interrelation between British Fleet’s Withdrawal from Port Hamilton (Kŏmundo) and the British Foreign Policy: The [...]

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