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
Racial Capitalism and the National Question in the Early People's Republic of China | Audio Recording Available
February 3, 2022
EVENT DESCRIPTION In recent decades, quite a few scholars have noted how scholarship on race and racialization has remained limited in Asian studies because of the deep-seated disciplinary divide between area studies and ethnic studies. Building on the ...
Book Talk | Hall: Story of a Survivor of the Sewol Ferry Disaster (Changbi, 2021), by Kim Hong-Mo
November 26, 2021
SPEAKER KIM HONG-MO Kim Hong-mo is a cartoon artist living in Jeju Island, South Korea. He will talk about his new cartoon book, The Hall (Changbi, 2021), drawn based on the story of Kim Dong-su who is known as a hero who rescued passengers during the ...
Banana? Fresh Off the Boat?: Self-Perceptions and Dissociating from Other Koreans
November 23, 2021
Panelists Grace Kangmeehae Lee, President, KMH Future Financial Planning Inc. and Co-Founder, Citadel Property Management Group (1st gen) Harry Kim, Project Coordinator, City of Toronto (1.5 gen) Jean Kim, Co-Founder, LYP Program Inc. (1.5 gen) Henna C ...
Suffering and Smile: Everyday Life in North Korea | Audio Recording Available
November 22, 2021
Event organized by Jesook Song (Anthropology, University of Toronto), Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, University of Toronto) and Laam Hae (Politics, York University) SPEAKER BYUNG-HO CHUNG Emeritus Professor, Hanyang University “Smile Broadly!” is the title ...
Platform Capitalism and Platform Labor: Gender, Precarity, and Resistance Part 2
October 29, 2021
This event is chaired by Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, U of T) SPEAKER 1 Juliet Schor, “Interrogating the Uberization Narrative: Heterogeneity in the Platform Labor Force” Abstract: The dominant narrative in the platform literature is Uberization—a large, ...
Platform Capitalism and Platform Labor: Gender, Precarity, and Resistance
October 8, 2021
This event is chaired by Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, U of T) SPEAKER 1 Julie Chen, “Wrestling with the platforms in China: precarious participation and glimmer of alternative self-organizing” Abstract: The number of platform-based workers in China ...
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 ...