Korea
In May – June 1984, North Korea’s leader Kim Il Sung took a six-week tour of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, his most extensive and high-profile visit to the region since 1956. As it turned out, Kim had reaffirmed North Korea’s solidarity with the socialist community of nations just as this community was about to collapse, which contributed significantly to North Korea’s economic crisis in the 1990s. Archives of the former communist countries in Eastern Europe opened since the end of the Cold War reveal the complex and often ambivalent relationship between North Korea and its...
Who or what produces the layers of ‘popular’ culture? How do circulations of animation and music, as well as videos and clothing styles, tie together and enable us to imagine a broader region called “Asia?” What can pop tell us about moments of cultural friction and encounter? Join us for the first Yale Anthropology Inter-Asia Colloquium event, “Pan-Asian Pop,” on Saturday afternoon, November 9th, from 12 PM to 5 PM. Featuring talks by Ashish Chadha, Ian Condry, and Tiantian Zheng, followed by a conversation with the speakers. (Image - Eva Shogoki Battles Shamshel off the coast of Kanagawa by...
THE ASIAN SOUND REVOLUTION Traditional & Innovative Virtuosi, Jin Hi Kim and Min Xiao-Fen, Perform on Ancient Asian Fretted String Instruments from Korea and China. Min Xiao-Fen (pipa, sanxian and voice) Jin Hi Kim (komungo, electric komungo and janggo) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 2:00 PM WORKSHOP A brief introduction to Chinese instruments imported to Korea, with an intro to Korean court music and a demonstration of old and new music for the Chinese pipa and Korean komungo 4:00 PM PERFORMANCE A rare opportunity to hear two of Asia’s leading artists performing ancient Asian music and the...
Please join the Council on East Asian Studies and the MacMillan Center in celebrating the inauguration of President Peter Salovey! The MacMillan Center will host an International Buffet in the Common Room. Enjoy a sampling of dishes from around the world! Room 202 will have on-going demonstrations (11:30am - 1:30pm) that are fun for all ages, such as batik, henna, and origami. Room 203 will have the various performances, including a Vietnamese fan dance, a Red Mask dance (Java), Linnunrata (a Nordic Folk Music Band), and at 11:45am, special dance demonstrations by the Phoenix Dance Troupe...
Over the last few years, LGBT-identified sub-populations in Asia have begun to experiment with globally-circulating demands for same-sex marriage. Although no country in the region has yet to legally sanction these arrangements, lost in contemporary debates, at least in South Korea, is that such couplings are neither totally new nor simply imported from an allegedly more “progressive” West. To be sure, the largely unknown histories presented in this talk, culled from understudied tabloid sources, typically paired a female-dressed “wife” and a male-dressed “husband,” rather than cisgendered...
This talk explores how public knowledge of Western things, such as the telescope and the camera obscura, took shape in late Joseon Korea, and how it was used in painting. Korean envoys to Beijing were key players in introducing and circulating Western curiosities and novelties. They brought numerous books on Europe and some of the Western scientific instruments to Korea, and laid the foundation for the rise of Western learning. Telescopes, self-sounding clocks, world maps, and books on European geometry, such as Matteo Ricci’s (1552-1610) Jihe yuanben (Elements of Geometry) of 1607, opened up...
One of the most prominent, but still understudied, aspects of Korean urbanism is the prolific and often dense array of advertising, most often consisting of billboards and neon-signs of store names and announcements hung on the exterior of commercial buildings. In this talk, Paek will focus on discussing how sign-filled environments in South Korean cities are a crucial part of everyday urban experience, where people can find new ways of being in common and making sense, which cannot be simply reduced to our general rubrics of spectacle, private consumption, or the culture industry. From its...
Come join us for the unique opportunity to gain perspective on the situation in North Korea while also enjoying an evening of great piano music! Hanppuri: Korean International Students Organization, an undergraduate student organization on campus, is hosting Professor Cheol Woong Kim for a speaker event and concert on Wednesday, September 17. Professor Kim is a North Korean refugee and pianist, who escaped North Korea for the freedom to play the music he wanted to play. In the past, he has performed at the Carnegie Hall and in front of President George W. Bush during his visit to Korea. Come...
Come enjoy the festivities as the Council on East Asian Studies kicks off the fall term! Please join us in welcoming our new students, postdocs, and visiting scholars for the 2014 - 2015 academic year! Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale...
In the first collaboration between faculty in the humanities at Yale and South Korea’s Ewha Womans University, a group of scholars from the United States, Korea, Japan and Canada will present talks on Korean art, literature and film in Korea from 1910 to 1945 on the Ewha campus in Seoul on July 11-12, 2014. Yale participants Daniel Botsman (History), Aaron Gerow (East Asian Languages & Literatures/Film Studies), Youn-mi Kim (History of Art), John Treat (East Asian Languages & Literatures), and recent Yale Ph.D. Naoki Yamamoto (Film Studies, University of California, Santa...
Ewha Womans University Attendees: Eunice Kim special adviser to Ewha President and Professor of Ewha Law School Ki-Jeong Song, Professor, Department of French Studies, Director of Ewha Institute for the Humanities Pilwha Chang, Korean Women’s Institute, “Surviving to Reconstruct; 40 years of Women’s Studies and Social Change in Korea” Eunshil Kim, Korean Women’s Institute, “The Politics of Unspeakability and the Subject of Defilement” Kyungmi Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Sense of Justice in Women’s Petitions of Joseon Dynasty” Ae-Ryung Kim, Ewha Institute...
In studies of Japanese rule in Korea, print media have been widely used to claim the existence of “colonial modernity” or the “cultural hegemony” of colonial power. However, few scholars have focused on the bilingual characteristics of the colonial society and the patterns of public communication between the two competing linguistic communities. In this talk, Yumi Moon investigates the two major daily newspapers published during the wartime period — Keijō Nippō in Japanese and Chosôn Ilbo in Korean — and analyzes the divided discourses in their coverage of Hollywood movies and of women.
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!
Greg Scarlatoiu will address the history, current state, and future prospects of the North Korean human rights situation as well as the oppressive apparatus employed to maintain the status quo in North Korea. The audience will learn about the UN Commission of Inquiry report on North Korean human rights, the applicable international legal framework and the available remedies embedded in relevant provisions. Scarlatoiu will also address the factors that contribute to the longevity of the Kim regime as well as the forces that are eroding the Kim family’s grip on power. Greg Scarlatoiu is...
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 martial arts film has not only been a central genre for many East Asian cinemas, it has been the cinematic form that has most defined those cinemas for others. Domestically, martial arts films have served to promote the nation, while on the international arena, they have been one of the primary conduits of transnational cinematic interaction, as kung-fu or samurai films have influenced films inside and outside East Asia, from The Matrix to Kill Bill. Martial arts cinema has become a crucial means for thinking through such issues as nation, ethnicity, history, East vs. West, the body,...
Historical and contemporary movements of people, goods, and cultural meanings that have defined Asia as a region. Reexamination of state-centered conceptualizations of Asia and of established boundaries in regional studies. The intersections of transregional institutions and local societies and their effects on trading empires, religious traditions, colonial encounters, and cultural fusion. Finance flows that connect East Asia and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa. The cultures of capital and market in the neoliberal and postsocialist world.
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