Korea
Please join us for a conversation with Professor Victor D. Cha, moderated by Nuno P. Monteiro, Director of International Security Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Professor Victor D. Cha holds the D.S. Song-KF Professorship in Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University. In 2009, he was also named as Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He left the White House in 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the White House, he...
One Sky is an attempt to deliver a message that we live under and share one sky no matter how different our individual beliefs may be or what political borders have been created. Musicians of Korea, Japan, China, Iran and the USA will collaborate to create a new piece in pursuit of world peace. The performance will be followed by a Q&A dialogue between audience and performers about their musical experiences. One Sky is organized by the Wesleyan University Music Department, the College of East Asian Studies, and Yale University Council on East Asia Studies. Supported by the Allbritton...
Directed by Jung Henin & Laurent Boileau (GKIDS, 2012, 74 min. DCP) This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. Sepia-toned animated vignettes – some humorous and some poetic – track Jung from the day he first meets his new blond siblings, through elementary school, and into his teenage years, when his emerging sense of identity begins to create fissures at home and ignite the...
Please join the Council on East Asian Studies in celebrating the Lunar New Year. Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu by February 1, 2018.
Come learn about participating in the 2018 Japan-America & Korea-America Student Conferences. Alumni from both programs will present on their experiences and answer your questions! Students of all academic disciplines and levels are encouraged to attend. For more information: Poster
Lunch will be served. “The principle of all things, is that they all have good and bad fortune Storing things when they are cheap, and selling them when they are expensive, that is the way to make great profits.” ———Sim Wŏn’gwŏn, 1880. “Buy low, sell high”: this advice would be readily recognizable to any contemporary Wall Street trader, yet the quote above is taken from the diary of a nineteenth-century Korean farmer living through a period of immense political, economic, and social upheaval. This talk explores the background to Sim Wŏn’gwŏn’s economic logic and its application in his daily...
Registration by October 1st is required AGENDA 9:00 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome Remarks Welcome remarks by Ambassador Rosemary A. DiCarlo, President of National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. 10:10 - 10:50 Keynote Speech and Q&A: U.S. Role In East Asia Keynote Speech by Ambassador Daniel R. Russel, Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence at Asia Society Policy Institute. He served until March 2017 as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
Come enjoy the festivities as the Council on East Asian Studies kicks off the fall term and please join us in welcoming our new students, postdocs, and visiting scholars! RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu by 09/04/17
By arrangement with faculty and with approval of the DGS.
Directed reading and research on a topic approved by the DGS and advised by a faculty member (by arrangement) with expertise or specialized competence in the chosen field. Readings and research are done in preparation for the required master’s thesis.
The 38th parallel of latitude was chosen in 1945 by the USA and USSR as a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula. Under this divided occupation, Korea rapidly developed two ideologically different regimes, a socialist state in the North and a liberal state in the South. Their conflict culminated in the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. This talk will introduce stories of Northern Koreans who crossed the 38th parallel between 1945 and 1950. Why did they leave North Korea under the revolution, and what did they do in South Korea? By answering...
This talk concerns the dynamic colonial history of the construction of the Chogye Temple, the spiritual and administrative headquarters of modern Korean Buddhism. After centuries of decline under the restrictive Neo-Confucian Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910), in the early twentieth century Korean Buddhist monastics sought to revitalize Korean Buddhism by modernizing their tradition. Establishing a powerful temple in the capital city of Seoul would symbolize Korean Buddhism’s modernity, restore Korean Buddhism’s centrality to the state and society, and create a controlling body to unify and govern...
What is North Korea’s response to allegations about its rights abuses? Did the UN Commission of Inquiry Report of 2014 – which identified the North Korean state as responsible at the highest level for crimes against humanity – provoke any change in the way the state engages rights? To answer these questions, my talk draws on a huge corpus of web-scrapped data, both video and print, from North Korea’s online media to examine domestic coverage of rights and international engagement on the topic. In this talk, I take you on a journey into the heady landscape of North Korea’s response to the UN...
Lunch will be provided. In the early 1970s, second-generation “Zainichi” Koreans in Japan—many of whom, in contrast to their parents, had little or no Korean language ability—were starting to outnumber the first generation. At this time, Zainichi authors debated the ethical and psychological implications of writing in Japanese. At stake was the question of whether these authors could maintain a specifically Korean identity if that identity could be expressed only in the Japanese language. Kim Sŏkpŏm (1925- ) was a particularly active participant in this debate, writing numerous essays on the...
The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that a second workshop series of “Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S.” will be held at the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) this Spring. Librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. will be invited to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. at the workshops. You will have the rare opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the...
The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that a second workshop series of “Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S.” will be held at the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) this Spring. Librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. will be invited to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. at the workshops. You will have the rare opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the...
The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that a second workshop series of “Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S.” will be held at the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) this Spring. Librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. will be invited to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. at the workshops. You will have the rare opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the...
The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that a second workshop series of “Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S.” will be held at the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) this Spring. Librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. will be invited to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. at the workshops. You will have the rare opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the...
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