Tag Archives: Year 5

Book Talk: Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in Korea

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. […]

2023 KORE Conference: Korean Capitalism and Marxism

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 […]

A talk by Michael Burawoy, “Decolonizing the Canon: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois

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: […]

Jan 20 2023

Book Talk: Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea

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 […]