Seminar Programme
The Centre of Korean Studies seminar series regularly presents current research on Korea, with a focus on European scholarship. Since the academic year 2005/06, the Centre has been able to hold these seminars on a weekly basis due to support from the ELP programme (as major contributor in 2005/06), and the SOAS-AKS Institution Project (as major contributor from 2006/07 onwards).
The seminars are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office
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Aurélien Laroulandie (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS])
1 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Martyrs and Murderers: The Korean Police Prepare for War, 1946-1950
Konrad Lawson (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute)
25 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Korean Cannibalism: Production of Transgression in a Climate of Social Ills
Dr Se-Woong Koo (Center for Korean Studies) École des Hautes Études
18 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
The War Within: Motivations for Writing during the Korean War (TBC)
Jerome De Wit (Leiden University)
7 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Sino-North Korean relations in the borderland regions in the 1940s and early 1950s
Adam Cathcart (Queen's University, Belfast)
23 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
How does the rise of moral didactic literature fit into narratives of North Korean history?
Andre Schmid (University of Toronto)
16 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
‘"Heroes" in Qing China and Korea in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century
Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo University)
19 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
The Korean War, To the Starry Island and Spring in my Hometown
Dr Andrew David Jackson (SOAS, University of London)
12 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
On the Performative Mechanisms of Politeness in Modern Korean
Dr Myung Uhn Kim
18 May 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
A New Perspective on Korean Society: the Role of Descent Groups in Korea's Long History
Martina Deuchler (SOAS)
27 April 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Daham Chong
16 April 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, L67, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Rise and Fall of the U.S. Trusteeship Plan for Korea as Peace-maintenance Scheme, 1941-1945
Dr Seung-young Kim (Sheffield)
9 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kasa as a means of communication
Professor Boudewijn Walraven
2 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Albrecht Huwe (Universität Bonn)
24 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Introducing the P’yongyang project
The P’yongyang project team
16 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G2, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Heritage Sites in South Korea: Memorializing the Mythical Founders of the Ancient States
Dr Codruta Cuc
3 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Vacillation of Culture in Neoliberal South Korea
Professor Kang Nae-hui (Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea)
26 January 2012, 21/22 Russell Square, T102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Prospects for the DPRK’s Development in the Short to Medium Term
Andray Abrahamian
13 January 2012, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Eunjeung Lee (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
This seminar has been cancelled.
9 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A New Deal: comic story representations of food issues in post-famine North Korea
Martin Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
25 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Folk Painting (Minhwa) -Case Study of Choson Chaekkado cum Chaekkori
Youngsook Pak
18 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Torn Between Two Lovers: The Task and Risk of Translating Korean Classical Literature into English
Hye-Joon Yoon (Yonsei University/SOAS)
28 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Publicising Colonies: ‘Korea’ and ‘Koreans’ in NIPPON
Naoko Shimazu (University of London)
21 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Maritime Customs and Chinese Imperialism in the 1880s: A New Look at Korea's 'Chinese Decade.'
Professor Wayne Patterson (St Norbert College, Wisconsin)
11 October 2011, 21/22 Russell Square, T102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Censoring the Mind and Hand: Competing Literary Orthodoxies in Eighteenth-Century Korea
Dr Gregory N. Evon (Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies, The University of New South Wales)
8 September 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
War and its Aftermath in North Korea: Images from the 1950s
Chris Springer (Author of North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction)
13 May 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Print and visual accounts of colonial Korea in pre-Second World War British reference works
Dr Susan House Wade (Independent author and lecturer)
6 May 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Millenarianism and the Pursuit of World Peace
Dr Lucas Pokorny (Aberdeen University)
18 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Pragmatially-motivated Syntax: the case of Korean
Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford)
11 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Introducing the P’yongyang project
Nicholas Young and Matthew Reichel
7 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G2, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A crucial factor in the creation of a nation: The forgetting of the Vietnam War in South Korea
Dr Remo Breuker (Leiden University)
The seminar has been cancelled.
4 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Crossroads and Junctions in Creative Spaces - Unresolved Treasures
Andrea Hector-Watkins (University of Westminster)
This event has been cancelled.
4 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The political economy of poverty in the DPRK
Professor Hazel Smith (Cranfield University)
21 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The Art of Engaging North Korea
Dr Aidan Foster-Carter (Leeds University) and Dr Kate Hext (University of the West of England)
19 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Race and Racism in Modern Korea
Dr Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo University)
29 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The New Korean Political Economy: Beyond the Models of Capitalism Debate
Dr Iain Pirie (University of Warwick)
22 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr Andreas Mueller-Lee (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
15 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Youngsoo Yook (Leiden University/Academy of Korean Studies)
14 May 2010, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exhile and Transversality
Dr Aino Rinhaug (University of Oslo)
19 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea
Dr Katarzyna Crwiertka (Leiden University)
12 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: A glimpse of Confucian scholar’s intimacy: the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584)
Dr Isabelle Sancho (EHESS)
5 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Han Yongun's posthumous novel Death: Questioning a monk's nation-building project
Jung-Shim Lee (Leiden University)
29 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: A Witness to Change: Three Decades of Korea-watching
Warwick Morris (Former UK Ambassador to ROK)
22 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Tradition or Treason? History and the Korean Constitutional Court
Professor Sang-Hie Han (Konkuk University / SOAS)
15 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Melodrama of the Modern Girl: The Novel Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu (1924-25)
Dr Michael Shin (Cambridge University)
4 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Wookhee Shin (Seoul National University / SOAS)
26 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference
Dr Martine Robbeets (University of Mainz)
20 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Asia! Asia! – South Korean Popular Culture and “Asia” in the New Millennium
Dr Stephen Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington)
6 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: "Our style" human rights of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Jiyoung Song (Cambridge University)
23 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: The Other Korea: North Korea in Pictures
Dr James Hoare (SOAS)
16 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Manipulated Memory, Forgotten Memory: The Korean War and the Vietnam War in South Korea
Professor Park, Taegyun (Seoul National University)
23 June 2009, Faber Building, FG08, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor HyunSoo Kim (SOAS / Dankook University)
15 May 2009, Faber Building, FG08, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Multicultural Education in Korea: Current State, Focus and Problems
Professor SeonMee Kim (SOAS / Sunchon National University)
8 May 2009, Faber Building, FG08, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Self-imposed poverty in Korean and Chinese allegorical tales
Professor Young KIM (SOAS / Inha University)
1 May 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, FG08 , 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr Howard Reid (West Park Pictures Ltd)
20 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar: Military Duty in Late Sixteenth-Century Choson Korea: A System for Everything but Defense?
Professor Nam-lin Hur (The University of British Columbia)
19 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, 459, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Kim Daeyeol (Inalco, Paris)
6 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Jo Elfving-Hwang (Sheffield Hallam)
6 February 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar: Inventive mind within the self-cultivating: Korean calligraphy of the Joseon Dynasty
Professor Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
30 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Nick Bonner (Filmmaker and founder of Koryo Tours)
16 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar: Contemporary Korean popular culture
Professor Kim Shin Dong (Sciences Po, Paris)
5 December 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr James Lewis (University of Oxford)
28 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: A very Korean scandal?: inconsistency in cultural explanations for 'ova donation campaign'
Choon Key Chekar (CESAGEN, Cardiff University)
14 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Older People in Advertising: UK/South Korea comparison
Dr Catherine H Yoon
31 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Transformation of State Socialism in East Asia: The case of North Korea
Professor Rüdiger Frank (University of Vienna)
17 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: On the English Translation of the classical Korean novel Kuunmong (Nine Cloud Dream)
Professor Chang Hyo-Hyun, Korea University
15 April 2008, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Democracy, Neoliberalism and the Crisis of the Korean Labour Movement
Kevin Gray (Postdoctoral Fellow, Sussex University)
7 March 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja/박노자) (Institute of East European and Oriental Studies, Oslo University)
22 February 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Cross-straits relations between Korea and Japan in the 4th century
Gina Barnes (Professorial Research Associate, SOAS)
8 February 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Paul French (Access Asia and author of North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula)
1 February 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Carl Saxer, Associate Professor, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School
31 January 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Valerie Gelezeau (EHESS)
25 January 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar: North Korea: a Regional Troublemaker or a Land of Opportunities?
Professor Leonid Petrov (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University)
5 December 2007, Vernon Square, VG06, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Andrew Lodgie (digital cinematographer and researcher)
30 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Dr Joerg Plassen (Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
23 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar: Unruly Detail: Writing, Photography and Crisis in Late Colonial Korea
Janet Poole (Visiting Scholar, Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS)
16 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Tone and intonation in Seoul and Gyeongsang Korean
Akira Utsugi (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
2 November 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: The Beginning of the Unequal Treaty System in Late-Nineteenth century Choson
Han Seunghoon (Korea University)
18 September 2007, Brunei Gallery, B111, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Korean Women's Writings in the Genre of Kyubang Kasa in the Past and Present
Sonja Haussler (Hamburg University)
16 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Jaemog Song (Osaka University of Economics and Law) and Professor Ebru Truker (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
8 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Geomancy (p'ungsu/feng shui) in Chosôn Korea
Marion Eggert (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
2 March 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Loanwords in Korean novels at the beginning of the 21st century
Antonetta Bruno (La Sapienza)
23 February 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Epigraphy of the Koryo Period: Characteristics of the Corpus and Questions for Historians
Yannick Bruneton (Section d'études coréennes, Paris 7)
19 January 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Contemporary South Korea
Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja) (University of Oslo)
12 January 2007, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Remco Breuker (Leiden University)
24 November 2006, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Nukes, missiles, and prospects for peace in the Korean Peninsula
Professor Chung-in Moon (Yonsei University)
24 October 2006, Brunei Gallery, B202, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminar: The History and Stuctural Characteristics of Korean Popular Culture
Professor Kim Changnam
5 June 2006, Brunei Gallery, B102, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Seminar: Hyang Sok-yong reading from his novel 'The Guest'
Hyang Sok-yong (author)
14 December 2005, Russell Square: College Buildings, KLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar: Culture and Society in Pre-Modern Korea
Please see below for the list of speakers
2 December 2005, , B34, Birbeck College, 10:15 AM - 10:17 AM
