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March 2019
116th Korea Forum: US Engagement with DPRK and Future Security Threats in East Asia
Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History, Columbia University Victor Cha, Senior Adviser, and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies Jean H. Lee, Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center Stephen Noerper, Senior Director for Policy and Education, The Korea Society Moderated by Jonathan Corrado, Associate Policy Director, The Korea Society Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Korean Graduate Students Association, CAA Korea, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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April 2019
The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto This talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship, capitalist profit-making, and violence. In particular, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan, South Korea in 2009, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the parliamentary hearings, court documents, and oral history from protesters in the aftermath of what has been called the Yongsan…
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CKR Manuscript Workshop
Inventing Modern Sound Culture: The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945) Dissertation Author, Hye Eun Choi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Discussants: Charles Armstrong, Columbia University Kim Brandt, Columbia University Michael Denning, Yale University Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London Monday, May 6, 2019 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 By RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at jk2857@columbia.edu to attend as an observer. My manuscript, tentatively titled “Inventing Modern Sound Culture: The…
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University Holiday: Administrative and Academic Offices Closed; No Classes Held
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Independence Day – University Holiday
University Holiday: Administrative and Academic Offices Closed; No Classes Held
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