Spring 2018
May 2, 2018
Co-sponsoring Sigur Center for Asian Studies: 23rd Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture
“Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations”
April 27, 2018
Soh Jaipil Circle Seventh Talk: Joongho Kim, “Economic Engagement with North Korea – Opportunities and Challenges”
April 23, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Taekyoon Kim, “Advocacy for South Korea’s International Development: Escape from Developmentalism and the Asianization of Nordic Development Aid”
April 20-21, 2018
2018 GWIKS Signature Conference
“The Evolution of Rights in Korea”
April 11, 2018
Soh Jaipil Circle Sixth Talk
Angela Kim, “International Legal Issues for a Unified Korea: Protection of Third Party Rights Under Pre-Existing Bilateral Treaties”
April 5, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Dafna Zur, “Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea”
March 28, 2018
Co-sponsoring PISA’s (Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia) Conference
“Beyond the Nuclear Issue in North Korea”
March 19, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Cho Hong Je, “North Korea Missile Launch: Past, Present, and Future”
March 8, 2018
Co-sponsoring GW THiNK
International Women’s Day Featuring Testimonies of North Korean Women
March 8, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Charlotte Horlyck, “Charles Lang Freer and the Collecting of Korean Art in the Early 20th Century”
February 22, 2018
Co-sponsoring Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia Event with Dr. Kevin Gray
“Political Economy of Reform in North Korea”
February 12, 2018
Soh Jaipil Circle Fifth Talk
Youn Kuk Jung, “The South Korean Media in the Post-Truth Era”
February 9, 2018
Soh Jaipil Circle Fourth Talk
Sergei Kurbanov, “Compiling a History of North Korea in the 21st Century: Methodology of Fact Selection and Analysis”
January 26, 2018
Co-sponsoring Kim-Renaud East Asian Humanities Lecture Series with Professor Sergei Kurbanov
“North Korean in Modernization: Economy, Politics, and Social Life”
January 24, 2018
Film Screening
“Secret State of North Korea: Explore Life Under Kim Jong-Un”
Fall 2017
December 14, 2017
Co-sponsoring WCCW (Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues)
“Spirits’ Homecoming, Unfinished Story” Film-Screening with Director Junglae Cho
December 7, 2017
Co-sponsoring Korea Foundation End-of-Year Reception
Photo: Special Guest, Ambassador Joseph Y. Yun
December 1, 2017
Soh Jaipil Circle Third Talk
Prof. Jihwan Hwang: “Can North Korea Become America’s Friend?”
November 20, 2017
Co-sponsoring “GaNaDa Flow” Performance Organized by Korean Heritage Foundation
Nanuri Dance Company & A-Cappella MTM
November 16, 2017
Co-sponsored by Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications
“Tales from the Motherland: Korea and the Power of Small”
Robert Ogburn, Visiting State Department Public Diplomacy Fellow
October 24, 2018
Lecture Series co-sponsored by Partnerships-International Strategies-Asia (PISA) and GW Institute for Korean Studies
B.G. Muhn, “North Korean Art: Transcending Ideologies”
November 10, 2017
2017 GWIKS Korean Literature Essay Award Ceremony
November 2, 2017
GWIKS Lecture Series
“Cold War Culture in Postcolonial South Korea”
Charles Kim, Associate Professor in the History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 21, 2017
The 25th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities
“The Tale of Ch’unhyang Beyond Korea: Translation, Narrative, and Performance”
October 20, 2017
The 25th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities P’ansori Performance
October 7, 2017
GWIKS Summer Travel Research Grant Recipients Presentation
August 28, 2017
Co-sponsored by Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies
“How to Handle North Korea: A Panel Discussion”