Centre of Korean Studies Events
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office
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Please note that every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained on the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot guarantee, however, that subsequent changes have not been made. Please be advised to check information relating to scheduled events by using the contact information provided.
2012
January
13/01/12
- Prospects for the DPRK’s Development in the Short to Medium Term
Andray Abrahamian
26/01/12
- The Vacillation of Culture in Neoliberal South Korea
Professor Kang Nae-hui (Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea)
February
03/02/12
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
16/02/12
- Introducing the P’yongyang project
The P’yongyang project team
24/02/12
- A 550 years old misunderstanding: The real relationship between Hunmin jeongeum (script) and the old Chinese characters
Professor Albrecht Huwe (Universität Bonn)
March
02/03/12
- Kasa as a means of communication
Professor Boudewijn Walraven
09/03/12
- Rise and Fall of the U.S. Trusteeship Plan for Korea as Peace-maintenance Scheme, 1941-1945
Dr Seung-young Kim (Sheffield)
April
13/04/12
- Past, Present and Future: The Diversity and Distinctiveness of Korean Music and Dance
The list of speakers are confirmed in the programme
Papers given at this symposium will demonstrate the diversity and distinctiveness of Korean music and dance, exploring vocal and percussion, composition and dance, and K-pop, both exploring what has been achieved and looking towards the future of Korean music in our globalized world.
13/04/12
- Music from Korea, Past and Present
The list of performers is confirmed below
14/04/12
- Song in the Lives of Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women”
Professor Joshua Pilzer (University of Toronto)
16/04/12
27/04/12
- A New Perspective on Korean Society: the Role of Descent Groups in Korea's Long History
Martina Deuchler (SOAS)
May
10/05/12
- Korean film: Years of radical change
The speakers are confirmed below
In this one day workshop organised by SOAS Centre for Korean Studies, senior scholars will critically examine some of the most important issues in Korean Cinema.
18/05/12
- On the Performative Mechanisms of Politeness in Modern Korean
Dr Myung Uhn Kim
September
29/09/12
- Korean Art: Narratives and Displays in Museum Contexts
The list of presenters is confirmed below
This workshop aims to explore the contexts and narrative structures of the ways in which Korean art has been interpreted and displayed within museum contexts in Europe, America and Korea.
October
12/10/12
- The Korean War, To the Starry Island and Spring in my Hometown
Dr Andrew David Jackson (SOAS, University of London)
19/10/12
- ‘"Heroes" in Qing China and Korea in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century
Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo University)
November
06/11/12
- State Capitalism and Development in East Asia
Jeong Seongjin (Gyeongsang National University), Lee Jeong-koo (GNU), Gareth Dale (Brunel University), Jamie Allinson (University of Westminster), Owen Miller (SOAS)
The workshop seeks to investigate the role of state capitalism in East Asian economic development, looking at commonalities across the conventional boundaries of ‘capitalist’ and ‘communist’ countries.
16/11/12
- How does the rise of moral didactic literature fit into narratives of North Korean history?
Andre Schmid (University of Toronto)
17/11/12
- British Association for Korean Studies Annual Symposium: Korea's Place in the World: Now and Twenty Years Hence
The speakers are confirmed in the programme
23/11/12
- Sino-North Korean relations in the borderland regions in the 1940s and early 1950s
Adam Cathcart (Queen's University, Belfast)
December
07/12/12
- The War Within: Motivations for Writing during the Korean War (TBC)
Jerome De Wit (Leiden University)
