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Upcoming Events
Porous Media and Viscous Extractions
Kempf Fund Lecture by: Youngmin Choe – Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Thursday, April 20, 2023 – 3:30pm to 5:00pm EDT – Room 136, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
The Futures of Uri: Global Korean Screen Culture in Postsocialist China
Lecture by: Tian Li – Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
2023 Yale Korean Language and Studies Student Research Symposium
Symposium of Korean Studies and Korean Language research presentations by Yale undergraduate and graduate students
Friday, April 28, 2023 – 3:00pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Past Events – 2023
Comparing Gods and Things: Looking At and Beyond Korea
Park Memorial Lecture by: Laurel Kendall – Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections, American Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 101 (Auditorium), Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Diplomacy in the Imjin War (1592-1598): Chosŏn Korea’s Steadfast Performance and its Survival
Lecture by: Nam-lin Hur – Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Transpacific Resonances: Writing Self and Speaking to Others in Pahk Induk’s Life Writings
Lecture by: Jina E. Kim – Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture, University of Oregon
Monday, April 10, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room, 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
The Making of North Korean Americans in the Afterlife of Cold War Cultural Politics
Lecture by: Na-rae Kim – Assistant Professor in Residence, Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Nature and Artifice: Korean Munbangdo Painting
Lecture by: Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun – Associate Curator for Korean Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, April 6, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Who was a “Refugee”?: Returnees, Northerners, and Relief Societies in Liberated South Korea, 1945-50
Lecture by: Alyssa Park – Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Iowa
Monday, April 3, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
The Importance of K-Pop to the Sociology of Asian Americans and Music
Lecture by: Grace Kao – IBM Professor of Sociology; Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University
Monday, March 27, 2023 – 1:30pm to 3:15pm EDT – Room 207, Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
Nanjido: (Un)covering the Trash Mountains
Lecture by: Se-mi Oh – Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Michigan
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Lecture and Korean Shamanic Ritual (Gut)
Lecture by: Helena Choi Soholm – Transpersonal Psychologist and Korean Shaman
Thursday, March 9, 2023 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Liberal International Norms and Restrictive Domestic Institutions: Politics of Refugee Reception in South Korea
Lecture by: Angela McClean – Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Sociology, Yale University
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 202, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
Home Meals in Global Korea: Gendered Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism
Lecture by: Hyaeweol Choi – C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Decision to Leave Film Screening
Screening of: Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022, 139 mins). Presented by the Yale Film Society and the Yale Film Archive.
Saturday, February 25, 2023 – 7:00pm to 10:00pm EST – Room L01 (The Alice Cinema), Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
The Ancient Cultural Exchange of Korea and Eurasia
Lecture by: Myung chul Youn – Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Translation by: Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 17, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST – Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Thousands of Years of Korean History: Birth and Growth
Lecture by: Myung chul Youn – Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Translation by: Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 15, 2023 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST – Room 276, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street
Korean Program Lunar New Year (Seollal) Celebration
Friday, January 20, 2023 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm EST – Room 100, Dow Hall, 370 Temple Street
Past Events – 2022
Ham Sok Hon and an Imagination of Korean Civil Religion
Lecture by: Song-Chong Lee – Associate Professor in Religious Studies, Seoul National University
Tuesday, November 14, 2022 – 4:00pm to 6:30pm EDT – Rosenkranz Hall, Room 05, 115 Prospect Street
Public Humanities Speaker Series: Eilin Pérez
Conversation with: Eilin Pérez – Postdoctoral Associate in History, Yale University
Thursday, November 7, 2022 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm EDT – Humanities Quadrangle, Room 136, 320 York Street
30th Anniversary of Korean Language Program at Yale
Celebration of 30 years of Korean language study at Yale University
Guest speakers: Robert Ramsey, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Linguistics, University of Maryland; Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University; and Min Jin Lee, Yale College Class of 1990 and author of Pachinko
Saturday, October 8, 2022 – 9:30am to 1:30pm EDT – Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Covid-19, Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality
Coca Cola World Fund Lecture by: Ban Ki-moon – Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm EDT – Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Women and Buddhism: The Case of Kim Iryŏp
Park Memorial Lecture by: Jin Y. Park – Professor of Philosophy and Religion, American University
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm EDT – Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Digital Humanities on Korean Literature: Revisiting Yŏm Sang-sŏp through Digital Literary Approaches
Lecture by: Jae-Yon Lee – Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology; Namgi Han – Postdoctoral Fellow of Informatics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Tuesday, April 21, 2022 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm EDT – Lecture via Zoom (register here)
Making Population and Making the State: a Comparative Study of Communist China and North Korea
Lecture by: Juan Wang – Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT – Lecture via Zoom (register here)
A Journey to Freedom
Lecture by: Joseph Kim – Associate and Expert-in-Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute
Monday, April 11, 2022 – 1:30pm to 3:00pm EDT – Loria Center, Room 351, 190 York Street
Zoom talk with Lee Isaac Chung, director of Minari
Guest speaker: Lee Isaac Chung, director of Minari (2020)
Organized by Korean American Students at Yale (KASY)
Friday, March 11, 2022 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm EST – Via Zoom