Project Year 5 Events
Performing Democracy in the Graveyard: The Gwangju Uprising, Mangwoldong Cemetery, and South Korea’s Affective Space for Democracy
March 3, 2023
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 m ...
Korea in the World and the World in Korea Project Conference: 5 years of Accomplishments
February 10, 2023
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 an ...
Book Talk: Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in Korea
February 3, 2023
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) ...
2023 KORE Conference: Korean Capitalism and Marxism
January 28, 2023
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 ca ...
A talk by Michael Burawoy, “Decolonizing the Canon: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois
January 27, 2023
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. ...
Book Talk: Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
January 20, 2023
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 ...
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
Urbanized Interface: The Power of Artistic and Creative Practices Transforming Cities in Mainland China
February 7, 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019 | 4:00 PM | ACW 005, York University The dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China have transformed the position and the potential for innovative artistic and creative practice ...
The Emergence of a New Wave of Feminism? Gangnam Femicide, Misogyny, and Feminist Movements in South Korea.
February 7, 2019
Thursday, 7 February 2019 | 2:30pm to 5:30pm | Room 802, South Ross Building, Keele Campus In this talk, Na-Young Lee analyzed women’s collective reaction to the misogynous killing in South Korea, highlighting the significance of women’s passionate asp ...
KORE Inaugural Conference: Old Problems, New Ideas
February 1, 2019
Keynote Address Korean Studies: A Global Perspective Moderator and Interpretation: Laam Hae (Politics) Speaker: Byung-ook Ahn (President, The Academy of Korean Studies) Panel 1 The World from the Standpoint of Asia Moderator: Ann Kim (sociology) Speak ...
Big Trees Grow Slow
November 28, 2018
Wednesday, 28 November 2018 | 2:30pm to 4:30pm | ACE 004, York University Jean Yoon began her career at a time when systemic racism in the performing arts in Canada was endemic and unquestioned. There was no straight path, just obstacles, and closed do ...
Community at Large: Contemporary Korean Art talking about Communities
November 15, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018 | 12 PM- 2PM | 857 Kaneff Tower, York University In this talk, Jieun Rhee will introduce three contemporary South Korean artists/art collectives in South Korea—Okin Collective, Mixrice, and Siren eunyoung Jung—whose art acti ...
Mingle to Communicate and Mingle to Become Friends (같이 놀아야 소통하고 같이 놀아야 친구가 되죠)
November 13, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | 1152A Vari Hall, York University In this talk, Mahub Lee discussed his cultural project, initiated to bring together Koreans and immigrants through art, music, and film, not limited by national boundari ...