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This course examines how music is transmitted by various factors and how its styles and meanings can change in a new context. Through various scholarly approaches, this class aims to enhance your understanding of the mobility of music and its meanings. We will examine the processes and conditions in which music is exchanged and blended and consider how such “mashups” function as cultural indicators and symbols for emergent and migrant communities. We will also examine the impact of technology on musical globalization, localization, and glocalization. In doing so, this class explores issues of...
2024 Yale University Korean Language and Studies Student Research Symposium Five-Minute Thesis (5MT) Presentations Please view a full program here Moderator & MC: Angela McClean Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies Lecturer in Sociology Symposium Program Organizer: Angela Lee-Smith
Baram — an undergraduate organization dedicated to academically supporting the North Korean community — is hosting Liberty in North Korea’s “Advocacy Fellows” to tell their personal stories of defection from North Korea. These Fellows are the next generation of North Korean leaders, storytellers, and advocates. Liberty in North Korea is a non-profit organization based in the US and South Korea working with the North Korean people to achieve their freedom. LiNK has helped over 1,300 North Korean refugees and their children escape through a modern-day underground-railroad, supporting...
The global movement of people that occurred in the aftermath of the Second World War is often evoked today. It’s used as a benchmark against which the scale and scope of the current global refugee crisis is measured. However, histories of this ‘global’ post-1945 crisis of displaced people have mainly focused on Europe, especially the aftermath of the Holocaust. This was a global war, but historical work on its aftermath for those displaced by fighting, genocidal regimes, and wartime mobilization is far less global in scope. Unlike in Europe after 1945, where, as historian Tony Judt writes, “...
In this graduate seminar, we explore cultural representations of non-normative sexualities and gender variance produced in East Asia and its diaspora and survey the scholarly field that is broadly referred to as “queer East Asian studies.” The materials in this course include primary sources such as poetry, fiction, narrative and documentary films, as well as critical writings on LGBTQ history, culture, and activism in Japan, Korea, and the Sinophone world.
This introductory course explores the art of India, China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the present. We consider major works and monuments from all four regions. Themes include the representation of nature and the body, the intersection of art with spirituality and politics, and everything from elite to consumer culture. All students welcome, including those who have no previous experience with either art history or the study of Asian art. This class makes frequent visits to Yale University Art Gallery.
An advanced language course designed to develop reading and writing skills using Web-based texts in a variety of genres. Students read texts independently and complete comprehension and vocabulary exercises through the Web. Discussions, tests, and intensive writing training in class.
Directed by Gyu-ri Byun 93 minutes Korean with English subtitles Film Screening followed by Q&A with Director Gyu-ri Byun Gyu-ri Byun’s groundbreaking Korean documentary centers on two working class mothers, Nabi and Vivian. Like many in South Korea, where there is a distinct lack of legal protections for queer communities and gay marriage remains illegal, neither women gave much thought to LGBTQ+ rights or its growing advocacy among the country’s younger generations. Therefore, their lives and perceptions were upended when their respective children come out to them — Nabi...
The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present the 5th Seong-Yawng Park GRD ‘65 and Marguerite Clark Park Memorial Lecture. The Seong-Yawng Park GRD ’65 and Marguerite Clark Park Memorial Lecture was made possible by a generous gift from the estate of the Park family. The principal objective of this gift is to foster the study of Korea at Yale by bringing recognition of the Korean peninsula and its affairs and achievements to Yale and the wider community. The lecture will take place from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, with a reception follow in the Luce Common Room on the 2nd floor. This...
Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history. Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day. A...
Sponsored by The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International Area Studies at Yale, Council on East Asian Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Council on South Asia Studies.
Directed by Yang Yong-hi 1hr 58m Tracing back mother’s very last memory, we finally become a family. On one fine day in Osaka, Yong-hi invites her Japanese fiancé to her mother’s house. When her father was alive, he never allowed her to meet a Japanese man, but her mother happily prepares the traditional chicken soup that’s only served to sons-in-law in Korea. Though shocked by the photos of KIM Il-sung on the wall, her fiancé says, “our ideologies are different but let’s enjoy the soup”. And now as a husband, he stands by them when the mother gets Alzheimer’s disease after confessing...
This event will consist of two lectures. A light reception with Korean food will follow from 6pm-7pm. Managing Frontiers, Embracing Others: Xiongnu, Nanyue, and Chaoxian in Han Dynasty’s Foreign Policy. Professor Stella Xu East Asian countries have a rich tradition of historical writing, influencing cultural traditions and national identities over time. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents from the Han dynasty (3rd century BCE-3rd century CE), serving as primary sources for early Korean history in Korea, China, and Japan. These records play a crucial...
This event will include a live Sagyŏng and lecture from Master Kim. A reception will follow from 6:00pm. Dagil Kim Kyeong-ho is a poet, calligrapher, and artist who has devoted himself to the continuation of the rare art and technique of Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) for the last 30 years. He is the author of An Introduction to Sagyŏng, the first unique publication on Sagyŏngin the modern times in Korea. He holds an M.A. in Art History from Dongguk University, and in 1997, he won the Grand Prize in the first-ever Buddhist Scripture Transcribing Contest co-organized by the Jogye...
The Second Biennial Graduate Student Sohbat-Yaji-Gathering, to be held at Yale University on January 19-20, 2024, brings together graduate students working on all areas of Asian art (for example. but not limited to Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) and their diasporas (for example, in Al-Andalus, North and East Africa, Oceana) that focus on sites, materials, and histories, and engage with new and underrepresented geographies, archives, and methodologies. We intend to connect and share their research and critically examine the structural biases, canons, and disciplinary...
Ven. Jeongmok is one of the most influential senior Buddhist Female Monks in South Korea today. Ordained in 1976, she received her BA in Zen studies and MA in social work. She went on to serve as Buddhist chaplain at Seoul National University Hospital. In 1997, she founded the Small Love Foundation, which provides financial support to families of children battling cancer. The abbess of Jeonggak Temple in Seoul, Ven. Jeongmok is especially well-known for her groundbreaking efforts in Buddhist media. In 1990, she began hosting a daily radio program with the Buddhist Broadcasting System. She...
Is monastic life relevant in contemporary society, where religion is increasingly considered less significant in our secular lives? Can we find valuable aspects of a monastic lifestyle that can be integrated into our daily lives? If so, what are these aspects, and how can we incorporate them? This seminar represents a collaborative effort to gain insight into one of the major monastic traditions: Buddhist monasticism. Throughout this seminar, we delve into various facets of Buddhist monastic life, examining its origins, historical development, monastic identity, rules and regulations,...
Although North and South Korea share a language and traditional culture, they still remain divided since 1945 and the two countries are technically at war until now. No communications between the two countries and people from both sides are not allowed to travel to either side unless both governments permit. Ironically, there was a classical movement by a U.S. Orchestral organization visiting North Korea which performed the traditional folk song “Arirang” shared by the two Koreas. In 2008, the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Lorin Maazel visited Pyongyang, North Korea and “Arirang...
This talk examines the gendered logic and contradictions in faith-based aid work in South Korea by contrasting programs for widows and orphaned children. The Korean War precipitated a humanitarian crisis in South Korea, and Protestant organizations stood on the forefront in providing emergency relief and rehabilitation aid. Of particular concern was the plight of orphans and widows. These two groups were potential threats to the long-term stability of families. Would orphaned boys and girls become ideal husband-fathers and wives-mothers? What if orphans fell into a life of crime—in particular...
This presentation examines the Cold War transformation of blood collection practices in South Korea to understand their operation at the intersection of local medical need, globalized scientific technologies, and postcolonial bio-governance. Today, voluntary blood donations account for almost all of South Korea’s medical blood reserve, but this donor culture is a relatively recent phenomenon. For decades after the Korean War, medical blood collection efforts struggled with widespread stigma against the purported dangers of donation and reservations about sharing such a personal substance with...
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