Former Standing Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ROK, Kim Dong-Choon and
Professor Janice C.H. Kim, Dept. of History, York University – Oct. 22, 2014
In July 2014, Professor Janice C.H. Kim, along with the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), received a grant from the Korea Foundation to support the Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twenty-First Century lecture series.
This speaker series explores the layers of Korean identity in the twenty-first century. Select scholars will illustrate significance of historical events such as Japanese colonization, peninsular division, occupation, fratricidal war, and the different paths to modernity in the North and the South, in conjunction to the migration of Koreans to Japan, Russia, China, the US. Just as important, more recent issues of migration to Canada, as well as transnational adoption, civilizing missions, and the future of ‘identities’ inside and outside of Korea will be topics of lively discussion.
Lectures in the Series
Venues to Heaven’ in a Heartless World: Colleges and Churches in South Korea in the 1950s
Dong-choon Kim, Sung Kong Hoe University, Seoul
Wednesday, 22 October 2014 | 3pm to 4:30pm | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower | York University
The Rise and Fall of Class in South Korea
Hagen Koo, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Tuesday, 11 November 2014 | 3pm to 4:30pm | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower | York University
Travel, Faith, and Mobility: a Postcolonial Geography of Korean/American Evangelical Christian Missions
Ju Hui Judy Han, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Thursday, 26 February 2015 (TBC)
In/Appropriate Affects: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Trouble with Diasporic Kinship
Eleana J. Kim, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, 19 March 2015 (TBC)
The series is generously supported by The Korea Foundation, the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation and the York Cetnre for Asian Research. It is organized by Professor Janice C.H. Kim (Department of History).
For information about YCAR and YCAR events, view their website at http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/