Spotlight History
Friday, November 12, 10 AM ~ 6 PM
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Hybrid Symposium (Online and In-Person)
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Please join us for CCKS Welcome Reception.
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April 27, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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February 11, 2021
Charlotte Koh with Crystal Kim
Tuesday, October 26
All students, faculty, and staff are invited!
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December 1, 2020
The conference is held in collaboration and with support from the Asian Studies Center at Seoul National University in Korea.
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December 2, 2020
The conference is held in collaboration and with support from the Asian Studies Center at Seoul National University in Korea.
A collaboration between the Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences, the new center is funded by a five year grant from the Academy of Korean Studies and will foster interdisciplinary research, international collaboration.
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Thursday | November 12, 2020
John N. Kim (UC Riverside) with Sylvia Nam (UC Irvine)
Moderated by Joseph Jeon (Director of CCKS)
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Friday | October 30, 2020
Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress
Elizabeth Son (Northwestern University) with Tara Rodman (UCI Arts-Drama)
Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
Youjeong Oh (The University of Texas at Austin) with Jinna Kim (UCI Sociology)
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Friday | October 23, 2020
Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
Christina Klein (Boston College) with Hye Kyoung Kwon (CCKS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
Susie Woo (California State University, Fullerton) with Eleana Kim (UCI Anthropology)
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Tuesday | October 27, 2020
Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman (UCI History) with Vanessa Baker (UCI East Asian Studies)
Watch the first episode the School of Humanities' "Over Coffee: Leaders Talking Humanities" with Carol Choi! She speaks about her career, her Anteater experience and the importance of sustaining Korean Studies at UCI.
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The UCI School of Humanities interviewed Chungmoo Choi, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, about her career and experience as a woman, and the importance of sharing stories of "comfort women."
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On October 18, three hundred people - students, faculty, staff, and community members - filled Crystal Cove Auditorium. Thrilled to meet Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, many entered the room early to reserve seats and to start the conversation with others sitting next to.
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The UCI Library opened the new Korea Corner on November 30, 2016, with a ceremony supported by the Censulate General of the Repulic of Korea in Los Angeles. The UCI Library received $5,000 from The Korea Foundation to purchase new books and videos. These expanded resources for Korean Studies will en
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A delegation from the Academy of Korean Studies, a South Korean research and educational institute that provided grant funds to the Center for Critical Korean Studies, visited the Center to celebrate its launch and discussed the visions.
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