Project Year 5 Events
Documentary Screening – “Comfort” by Emmanuel Moonchil Park
January 13, 2023
Event Description This is the first event in a programme series connected to the exhibition of The Statue of the Girl of Peace at OCAD University by the artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung. The statue is a symbol of the flight for justice led by sur ...
Korean Canadian Studies Graduate Panel
January 12, 2023
Event Description Panel Presenters: Angie Min Ah Park (Postdoctoral Fellow, Management, U of Toronto) Identity and (A)filiation of Diasporic Koreans in Contemporary Literature and Media in Canada Gloria Cho (Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology, UBC O ...
Film Screening: Crossings
November 10, 2022
Event Description: The Kym Pruesse Speakers Series: ART CREATES CHANGE Featuring: Deann Borshay Liem Join us for the Canadian premiere of Liem’s film CROSSINGS, a documentary that follows a group of international women peacemakers who set out on a risk ...
Mourning Itaewon: Korean Diaspora Speaks
November 9, 2022
Event Description: At 6:34pm on October 29, 2022, the first of many emergency calls was made from Itaewon. None of these calls for help could stop the loss of 156 lives that night. Even though we study contemporary South Korean politics and society, w ...
Community Screening of Coming To You 너에게 가는 길 & Post-Screening Conversations
October 29, 2022
Event Description: In-person event | Open to public | Free Screening We are ready to step into your world. Nabi, a veteran firefighter, prided herself for living a successful life, until one day her child, Hankyeol, comes out to her by saying: “Mom, I ...
History, Theory and Politics: On Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis
October 28, 2022
Event Description "In this talk, I discuss how Uno’s Theory of Crisis can inform and guide the analysis of capitalism’s historical crises, and how it gives us a theoretical grasp of Marx’s Capital that emphasizes the concepts of labour-power, excess ca ...
Project Year 4 Events
Summer School: Inside North Korean Literature, Art and Film
May 27, 2022
May 16, 2022 - May 27, 2022 This summer school activity is organized and coordinated by Prof. Thomas Klassen (Public Policy, York University). The Summer School: Inside North Korean Literature, Art and Film is a unique opportunity for graduate and unde ...
Translation and Children’s Literature, Films and Animation in North and South Korea
April 22, 2022
Event Description This event will explore the literary, cultural and social implications of the exportation and importation of children’s literature, film, and animation in North and South Korea. The event is divided into the morning session and the af ...
Feminism after the 2022 Presidential Election in Korea
April 13, 2022
Event Description On March 9, 2022, candidate Yoon Seok-yeol of the People Power Party, who showed a lack of understanding of feminism and pledged to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, was elected as Korea’s 20th president. Due to his ...
The Dead-End of Third World Marxism: Park Hyunchae and Samir Amin in the Bandung Period
April 12, 2022
Event Description In 1985, Park Hyunchae, an eminent South Korean Marxist economist contributed a controversial article to a critical journal <Creation and Criticism (Changjak gwa bipyong)>, which led a most heated intellectual debate in Korean i ...
Community film screening Light for the Youth & conversation with the director Shin Su-won
April 9, 2022
SYNOPSIS Seyeon is a manager at a company called 'Human Network' and lives with her daughter Mirae. Her company manages collecting overdue credit card bills, and recently corporate has been pressuring her due to her low numbers. June, who is a commerci ...
Making Over “The Big Reveal”: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Globalizing of the South Korean “Look”
April 8, 2022
Event Description Searching the words, “South Korean Plastic Surgery” will lead to a plethora of vlogs with titles like “My Plastic Surgery Experience in Korea.” Sponsored by plastic surgery clinics or medical tourism agencies, such vlogs chronicle the ...
Project Year 3 Events
The Double-Edged Sword of Health and Safety: COVID-19 and the Policing and Exclusion of Migrant Asian Massage Workers in North America
May 21, 2021
Please register HERE in advance for this virtual event. Event Description Migrant Asian massage workers in North America first experienced the impacts of COVID-19 in the final weeks of January 2020, when business dropped drastically due to widespread x ...
The Role and Vision of the 416 Memory Archive and the 416 Memory Classroom
April 9, 2021
Friday, April 9th, 2021 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET View PDF version of this poster (232kb) This is a free event* but registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. *This event will be in Korean. Speaker: ...
Representations of Body and Sexual Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples
April 5, 2021
Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00-5:30 PM ET View PDF version of this poster (338kb). This event is organized by Hong KAL and Tammer El-Sheikh in the Department of Visual Art and Art History. Abstract: This talk discusses representations ...
Virtual Roundtable: What does the Atlanta Tragedy Mean? Korean Diaspora Speaks
March 24, 2021
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 | 6:30-8:00pm EST Roundtable Participants Michelle Cho (East Asian Studies, U of T), Hae Yeon Choo (Sociology, U of T), Laam Hae (Politics, York), Yeon Ju Heo (WIND), Ann Kim (Sociology, York), Eunjung Lee (Social ...
The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown
March 12, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021 | 3 - 4:30 pm (EST) | via Zoom In the past ten years, China has rapidly emerged as South Korea's most important economic partner. With the surge of goods and resources between the two countries, large waves of Korean migrants hav ...
South Korean Platform Labour Market and its Mismatch with Social Protection System
February 25, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EST) Korea’s platform labour market expanded considerably in a short period of time and there is also a diversity of platform labour. The purpose of this talk is to understand the operation of the Korean ...
Project Year 2 Events
The Specter of Fascism: Then and Now
March 6, 2020
The Specter of Fascism: Then and Now Friday, March 6, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 519 Kaneff Tower, York University Harry Harootunian (History, University of Chicago and Columbia University) “The New Face of Fascism in Japan: Some Reflections on the Pol ...
The History and Future of LGBTQI Movements in South Korea
February 13, 2020
The History and Future of LGBTQI Movements in South Korea Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | 519 Kaneff Tower, York University In this talk, Chaeyoon Hahn examines the history of LGBTQI movements in South Korea since the 1990s, and analy ...
The Postdevelopmental State: A Gramscian Interpretation
November 8, 2019
The Postdevelopmental State: A Gramscian Interpretation Friday, November 8, 2019 | 11:30 AM -12:30 PM | Room 120, North Ross Building, York University This talk argues that the challenges and frustrations that progressive forces have faced in trying to ...
Project Year 1 Events
2019 Annual Korean Studies Student Film Festival & Student Excellence Award
April 12, 2019
The Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) and the Korean section at Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (DLLL) are hosting 2019 Annual Korean Studies Student Film Festival on Friday, April 12th at Ross S540, the room on the ...
Workshop on The Living Past: Disaster, Trauma, and Visual Art in East Asia
March 28, 2019
This workshop brings scholars together who are working on issues around visual representations of disaster and trauma in East Asia. It seeks to contribute to an understanding of how visual media (including painting, film, photography, memorial statue, ...
“Historical Injustice in Northeast Asia: Can We Move Forward?”
March 28, 2019
March 28, 2019 | 3:00pm to 5:00pm | 519 Kaneff Tower Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford University) Keynote: “Historical Injustice in Northeast Asia: Can We Move Forward?” This talk is organized by Hong Kal (Department of Visual Art and Art History, York Universit ...
Voices from Below: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China
March 26, 2019
Tuesday, 26 March 2019 | 11:30am to 1:30pm | Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University This lecture by Meiqin Wang concerned the potential of socially engaged art as a critical and creative response to the many downsides of China’s top-down, ...
North Korean Film Screening
March 19, 2019
"Our Teacher" (Public Event) Tuesday, March 19, 2019 | 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Room M, Curtis Lecture Halls (CLH), York University “Women Soccer Stars of Songun. Korea” Monday, March 18, 2019 | 11:30 AM – 2:15 PM | Founders College 103, York University ...
Korean-Canadian Studies in a Comparative Context: Local and Global Connections
March 1, 2019
Friday, 1 March 2019 | 2pm to 6pm | Room 2101 Vari Hall | Keele Campus, York University Marking an opportune moment to explore Korean-Canadian Studies in an open, flexible, interdisciplinary, and collaborative way, this Symposium examined the fluidity ...