One of the more interesting-looking academic titles published last year (in November) was this one. You’ll have to wait until August this year for the more affordable paperback version, but to whet your appetite in the meanwhile there’s a useful session later this month to introduce the global audience to the book’s individual chapters. Each … [Read More]
Author: Andrew David Jackson
Selected publications by Andrew David Jackson
- The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea, Edinburgh University Press 2023
- The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2016
2021 IKSU Korean Studies Summer School
Registration is now open for UCLan’s first Korean Studies Summer School: 2021 IKSU Korean Studies Summer School Date: 28 – 30 June, 2021 Time: 9.00 AM – 4.00 PM (UK Time) Venue: Online (MS TEAMS) The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK, launched Korean Studies Summer School … [Read More]
Conference news: 5th Korean Screen Culture Conference
The 5th Korean Screen Culture Conference will be held at King College London on 3-4 June. With six sessions each containing two parallel panels there are some tough choices to be made. The provisional programme is shown below – a very full agenda indeed. Updates and further information can be found on the Kings College … [Read More]
Crime and Punishment in Chosŏn Korea
Three years ago SOAS held a conference entitled Historians, clerks and accountants: Methodological issues in the use of sources on Chosŏn History. One of the more interesting elements of that day was a consideration of court records of criminal trials and a discussion of Joseon dynasty autopsy techniques. The speaker, Kim Ho, returns this Friday … [Read More]