Korea Institute Colloquium & Current Affairs Forum 1999-2000

The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Korea Colloquium and Korea Current Affairs Forum by the Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund.

Autumn

October 21 - Colloquium
Katharine Moon
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Migrant Workers' Movement in South Korea

November 4 - Colloquium
Don Clark
Professor of History and Director of International Studies, Trinity University
In a Country Ripped by War: Korea's Western Community in the Months Following the North Korean Invasion, June-December 1950

November 18 - Colloquium
Kenneth R. Robinson
Korea Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
Trade, Piracy, and Imposter Identities: Aspects of Korean-Japanese Relations in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

December 2 - Colloquium
Wayne Patterson
Korea Institute Visiting Scholar
"We Are Opposed to Them in Everything": Koreans in Hawaii Confront the Japanese, 1903-1945

Spring

March 2 - Colloquium
Professor Chai-sik Chung
Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics,
Boston University School of Theology
Out of the Inertia of Traditionalism: Reflection on the Religious Situation of Korea

March 16 - Colloquium
Gari Ledyard
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies
Columbia University in the City of New York
Classical Chinese and the Korean Vernacular: Two Views of China in the Writings of Hong Taeyong (1731-1783)

March 23 - Colloquium
Jonathan Best
Professor of East Asian Art History
Wesleyan University
The Rectification of Anachronisms in the Samguk Sagi: Some Systematic Redatings of Early Korean History

April 6 - Colloquium
Werner Sasse
Director of Korean Studies Section
University of Hamburg
Chinese-Korean Language Contact and Traditional Grammatical Scholarship in Korea

May 4 - Colloquium
Robert Carlin
Chief, Northeast Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Horizons and Mirages: The View from Mars of US-DPRK Relations