Event Description: Abstract: What is the relationship between grief and politics? What does a performative history of Korean democracy look like? This talk centers on discussing the 1980 Gwangju Uprising by spotlighting the May Mothers as one of the most important figures in the history of advancing democracy in South Korea. Turned into one of […]
Event Description: KWWK conference is to celebrate the accomplishments of the Korea in the World and the World in Korea Project. For the past five years, this project has made an invaluable contribution to building Korean studies at York University and spearheading Korean studies in Eastern Canada. Korean Office for Research and Education was established […]
Event Description: Abstract: This talk will be based on my book which asks how protest movements have become the prominent mode of democratic representation in South Korea, making Koreans so good at protesting in post-authoritarian decades (1987-2017), in contrast to political parties in the National Assembly that have lagged behind in partisan representation and accountability. […]
Event Description: The conference aims to offer Marxist perspectives on studying Korean capitalism, while exploring its contribution to the debates on Marxist theories. Leading Marxist scholars in Korea will comprehend the characteristics of Korean capitalism in terms of its industrial and financial forms, the commodification of labour power, social formation, state politics, and the debate […]
Event Description: ABSTRACT: Decolonization is spreading across academia, but it’s happening at different rates in different disciplines in different countries. I shall be focusing on sociology, but the arguments may apply to neighboring disciplines. Our discipline is in flux, posing the question as to what to do with our peculiar canon. I consider four alternatives: […]
Event Description Speaker | Namhee Lee Namhee Lee is Professor of modern Korean history and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her publications include The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2007), The South Korean Democratization Movement: A Sourcebook (co-edited with […]