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
Translation and North Korean Literature, Film and Animation Conference
October 14, 2020
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (in EST) | Online Conference View PDF version of this event information (152 KB) For more information, please contact kore@yorku.ca. Short Description of the Event: Keynote Speaker Professor Young-Sun Jeon, Institute of ...
Book Launch | On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (2019, eds by Jesook Song and Laam Hae) | Audio Recording Available
September 25, 2020
Event organized by Jesook Song (Anthropology, University of Toronto) and Laam Hae (Politics, York University) Chair of the Event Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, University of Toronto) Opening Remarks Hyun Ok Park (Sociology, York University) Participa ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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, ...
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 ...