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2023-2024 Nam Center Video Series
4/2/24 - Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, University of Michigan
Accessing Korean Art Song: An Under Appreciated Gem
3/26/24 - Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego
Political Polarization in Korea: Prelude to Backsliding?
2/13/24 - Sang-Seok Yoon, Assistant Professor in Korean Linguistics, University of Iowa
Social Meanings of Korean Honorifics Beyond Politeness Markers
12/5/2023 - Christine Hong, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and Literature, University of California Santa Cruz
11/14/2023 - Chuyun Oh, Associate Professor, School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University
11/10 and 11/2024 - Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2023 | The Creative and Transformative Spirit of Korean Music
10/10/2023 - Sonja Kim, Associate Professor, Binghamton University
2022-2023 Nam Center Video Series
3/15/2023 - William O'Grady, Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawaii
Jejueo: Korea's Hidden Language
2/22/23 - Erica Vogel, Professor of Anthropology, Saddleback College
Migrant Conversions: Money, Religion, and Global Projects of Peruvians in South Korea
11/16/22 - Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Associate Professor of History, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Machines of the Quotidian: Architecture and Technology in Postwar North Korea
11/3-4/2022 - Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2022 | Korea Around the Table: Food, Culture, and Mobility
10/12/22 - Erik Mobrand, Korea Policy Chair, RAND Corporation
Washington’s Democracy in Asia: South Korea and the Prospects of a Global Partnership
2021-2022 Nam Center Video Series
5/3/22 - 정재찬 (Jae- Chan Jeong), Professor of Korean Language Education, Hanyang University
2020-2021 Nam Center Video Series
2/16/21 -- Jonson Porteux, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University (Japan)
Democratization and Violence in the Korean Context
11/17/20 -- Susan Hwang, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University
Singing Beyond the Ivory Gates: South Korean Song Movement in the 1980s
10/20/20 -- Mike Prentice, Lecturer in Korean Studies, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield (UK)
An Office of Reports: Overwork and Overwriting in Korean Business Life
2020-2021 Nam Center Video Series
2/16/21 -- Jonson Porteux, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University (Japan)
Democratization and Violence in the Korean Context
11/17/20 -- Susan Hwang, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University
Singing Beyond the Ivory Gates: South Korean Song Movement in the 1980s
10/20/20 -- Mike Prentice, Lecturer in Korean Studies, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield (UK)
An Office of Reports: Overwork and Overwriting in Korean Business Life
2019-2020 Nam Center Video Series
9/24/19 -- Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung, Executive Director, Association for Asian Studies
2018-2019 Nam Center Video Series
12/4/18 -- Rory Walsh, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Mahan, Baekje, and the Rise of States in South Korea
10/9/18 -- Susan Hwang, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
9/27/18 -- Albert Park, Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Revolutionary Landscapes: Ecology, Power, and Anarchism in Modern Korea
2017-2018 Nam Center Video Series
11/6/2017 -- International Insitute Round Table
A New Look at an Old Issue: Implications of North Korea's Provocations
9/27/2017 -- Jaeeun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
2016-2017 Nam Center Video Series
3/22/2017 -- Taeku Lee, Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley
Master or Servant? Public Opinion, Polling, and Democratic Responsiveness in Korea
1/25/2017 -- Joshua Van Lieu, Assistant Professor of History and Curriculum Director of the Asian Studies Program, LaGrange College
11/17/2016 -- kate-hers RHEE, Artist, Berlin, Germany
If I Can K-Pop Dance, I’ll Be a Part of Your Beauty Revolution
11/9/2016 -- Hyun Ok Park, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea
10/20/2016 -- Eun-Ju Lee, Professor, Department of Communication, Seoul National University
When User Comments Meet the News: Korean Case Studies
9/14/2016 -- Hyungki Shin, Professor of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University
2015-2016 Nam Center Video Series
3/30/2016 -- Rebecca Kim, Professor of Sociology, Frank R. Seaver Professor in Social Science, Pepperdine University
The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America
3/9/2016 -- Sahie Kang, Professor and Director, The School of Korean, Middlebury College
Planning Assessment in a Proficiency Oriented Foreign Language Program: A Backward Design
2/24/2016 -- Dredge Byung'chu Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Idols of Development: The Performance of Asian Modernity via Queer Thai K-Pop Fandom
2/10/2016 -- Kyung Deok Roh, Assistant Professor, Division of Liberal Arts and Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Yalta Conference and the Division of the Korean Peninsula
1/27/2016 -- Jeong-Woo Koo, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
Contested Diffusion of Human Rights: Evidence from the South Korean Print Media, 1990-2010
12/09/2015 -- Baek Yung Kim, Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Kwangwoon University
Making a New Metropolis in Seoul : ‘The Age of 86·88’ as a Catalyst of Gangnaminization
10/7/2015 -- Eugene Park, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Progeny of Fallen Royals: Kaesong Wang in Choson Korea
9/16/2015 -- Wonjung Min, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Asian Studies Center, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Korean Wave in Latin America: K-pop Reception and Participatory Fan Culture
8/29/2015 -- 2015 Educator Workshop
2014-2015 Nam Center Video Series
4/24/2015 -- A Conversation with South Korean Writers Lim Chul-woo and Han Kang
The Kwangju Massacre after Thirty-Five Years: The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing
2/25/2015 -- Hae Kwon Kim, Professor of Biblical Studies, Soongsil University
Disappearance of Prophetic Voice from the Korean Church and Its Disservice to Korea
10/8/2014 -- Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania and Kuentae Kim, Associate Professor of Department of Korean History at Seoul National University.
12/10/2014 -- Ji-Yeon Yuh, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.
2013-2014 Nam Center Video Series
10/25/2013 -- Charles Armstrong, KF Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Dept. of History, Columbia University
Everlasting Fraternal Friendship: North Korea and the End of Communism
2/6/2014 -- Byung-Mo Chung, Gyeongju University
The Janus of Tiger: Korean Decorative Painting, Magpie and Tiger
3/31/2014 -- Vladimir Tikhonov, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
Korean-Japanese Marriages in Colonial Korea
4/2/2014 -- Hyowon Woo, Composer-In-Residence, Incheon City Chorale
2012-2013 Nam Center Video Series
9/26/2012 -- Steven Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Avante-Garde Routes for the Korean Diaspora
10/3/2012 -- Korea Days: Ann Arbor
Panel Discussion with Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard
10/17/2012 -- Young Hoon Lee, Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University
Professional Sports Business in Korea
10/31/2012 -- Mina Shin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Film Studies and Korean Studies, Michigan State University
Imagining Racial Otherness: Multiculturalism and South(east) Asian Migrant Workers in Korean Cinema
2011-2012 Nam Center Video Series
09/28/2011 -- Daniel Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Brown University
The Korean War in Color: The Nisei and the Japanese in U.S. Media, 1950-1960
10/19/2011 -- Bruce Cumings, Professor of History, University of Chicago
Apocalypse, Amnesia--and Kim Jong Il: Why the Korean War is 'Forgotten'
10/26/2011 -- Keum Hyun Han, Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct, Art & Art History, Film Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Contemporary Korean Photography: How Artists Use a Photographic Sensibility to Produce New Knowledge
11/9/2011 -- Korea Foundation Fellows Presentation
Michael Prentice, Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology
Digital Documents, Global English and Corporate Voice in a Korean Firm
Damhee Kim, Doctoral Student, Department of Communication Studies
Media Diversity Evaluation:A Comparative Study of the U.S. and South Korea
1/11/2012 -- Daniel Herbert, Assistant Professor, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan
Feeling for History: Non-Linear Time Structures in Contemporary Korean Cinema
2/8/2012 -- Chin-Sung Chang, Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University
Reading Barbarians Hunting Screens: How the Manchus were Viewed and Visualized in Late Choson Korea
3/14/2012 -- Nam-Lin Hur, Professor, Department of Asian Studies, the University of British Columbia
Korean Tea Bowls in the World of Japanese Wabicha in Premodern Times
3/28/2012 -- Nicholas Harkness, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
A Clean Voice for an Advanced Nation: Singing in South Korean Christianity
2010-2011 Nam Center Video Series
4/14/2011 -- Karen Thornber, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Changing Environments: Ecological Devastation and Modern Korean Literature
3/23/2011 -- Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Asian American Women in Hollywood and Beyond: Race, Gender, and Representation 1986-2010
2/9/2011 -- Alice Kim, doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Department, University of California at Berkeley
Farewell at Kimpo Airport: On Postcolonial Modernity in the South Korean Popular Imagination
1/12/2011 -- Richard D. McBride II, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Uichon and the Golden Age of Koryo Buddhism
11/22/2010 -- Sa-in Kim, Poet
Sa-in Kim -- This lecture is in Korean.
11/17/2010 -- Darcy Paquet; Independent scholar/film critic
11/3/2010 -- Sun-Jae Hwang, Youngchi Chang, and Jin-Yeon Kang, Korea Foundation Graduate Fellows
10/16/2010 -- Fiction Reading by Shin Kyoung-sook and Kim Young-ha
Korean Fiction Writers Talk about Their Literature
10/6/2010 -- Rachael Joo, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Middlebury College
Politicized Publics in the Wake of the 2002 World Cup
9/29/2010 -- Chin Hong Chung, Distinguished Professor in Religious Studies, Ewha Womans University, Korea
When Life and Death Meet -- This lecture is in Korean
9/29/2010 -- Chin Hong Chung, Distinguished Professor in Religious Studies, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Topography and Meteorology: Some Preliminary Remarks for the Study of Korean Religion
9/22/2010 -- Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania
2009-2010 Nam Center Video Series
4/8/2010 -- Katharine Moon, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
The Politics of Nationalism and International Adoption in South Korea
3/21/2010 -- Korean Bboys Performance | Featuring TinoRoc, NautyOne, and BangRoc
3/21/2010 -- Korean Bboys Discussion | Featuring TinoRoc, NautyOne, and BangRoc
3/21/2010 -- Shinaboro
A Drumming Performance by the Shinaboro Drum Core
2/20/2010 -- The Art and Etiquette of Tea
A Demonstration of Korean Tea Preparation and Enjoyment
2/3/2010 -- Dong-Choon Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology at Sung Kong Hoe University in Seoul, Korea
Disquieting Traces: Crititcal Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Korea
2/3/2010 -- Dong-Choon Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology at Sung Kong Hoe University in Seoul, Korea
1/27/2010 -- Keith Howard, Associate Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Korean Kayagum Sanjo: Schools and Players
1/27/2010 -- Chan E. Park, Professor, Ohio State University
Korean Kayagum Sanjo: Schools and Players
1/27/2010 -- Jin Hi Kim, Komungo Performer and Composer
Korean Kayagum Sanjo: Schools and Players
1/27/2010 -- Keith Howard, Chan E. Park and Jin Hi Kim
1/20/2010 -- Elise Prebin, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Ash Disposal in Contemporary South Korea: Continuities and Discontinuities
12/2/2009 -- Heonik Kwon, Reader in Anthropology, London School of Economics
Why Aren't There Any War Cemeteries in North Korea?
11/18/2009 -- Deborah Solomon Joint Post-doctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University
11/11/2009 -- Shin Dong Kim, Professor, School of Communication, Hallym University
Social and Cultural Capital in the Development of Media Industry in Korea
10/14/2009 -- Edward Chang, Professor Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Korean Diaspora: History, Identity, and Community Consciousness
9/30/2009 -- Namhee Lee, Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, UCLA
Turning Past to History: Nostalgia and Redemption in the Park Chung Hee Syndrome
3/2/2009 -- Dong-Young Chung, Former Minister of Unification of South Korea, 2007 Democratic Presidential Candidate of South Korea
10/13/2008 -- Robert Buswell, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; University of California, Los Angeles
Audio Archive of Earlier Events
April 8, 2009 -- Susan Choi
A Reading of "A Person of Interest"
March 18, 2009 -- Michael Shin
Print Capitalism and the Nationalist Movement in Korea, 1890s-Early 1920s
March 04, 2009 -- Todd Henry
March 02, 2009 -- Tom Vick
Cross-Currents: The Cinemas of Japan, China and Korea
February 17, 2009 -- Juhn Y. Ahn
March 15, 2008 -- Jin Hi Kim