Korea Colloquium & Current Affairs Forum

October 7 - Colloquium
David McCann
Director, Korea Institute; Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
How Does It Float? Rhythmic Patterns in Manhae's 'Ferryboat and Traveller'

October 21 - Colloquium
Eugene Y. Park
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California - Irvine
Status Consciousness in Transition: The Social Backgrounds of Five-Guards Generals (Owijang) in Korea, 1863-1910

November 18 - Colloquium
Daniel Bouchez
Honorary Director of Research National Center for Scientific Research, France
Looking Through an old Korean Novel: Kuun mong

December 2 - Colloquium
Janet Poole
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
Detailing the Everyday in Late Colonial Korea

December 16 - Colloquium
Kyung Hyun Kim
Associate Professor of East Asian Language & Literature; Director, Film and Video Center, University of California - Irvine
Between Greenfinches and Sparrows: Interpreting Signs in "Oasis" (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)

February 3 - Colloquium
Erez Manela
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Korea at the Wilsonian Moment: The March First Movement in a Global Context

February 17 - Colloquium
Ann Choi
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
Cosmopolitan in the Colony: Kim Ok and Modern Korean Poetry

February 25 - Current Affairs Forum (Co-sponsored with the Asia Center/Modern Asia Series)
Tom Hubbard
Former Ambassador to South Korea; Senior Advisor, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Challenges on the Korean Peninsula

March 10 - Colloquium
Chong Bum Kim
Post-doctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Saints, Heretics, and Witches: Christianity in Colonial Korea

March 24 - Colloquium
Hwasook Nam
Assistant Professor Lecturer, Dept. of History, University of Utah
Acts Democratic: Uncovering the Meanings of Worker Activism in Postwar South Korea