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9/27 The North Korean Economy and Its Future: Change vs. the Status Quo

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The First North Korea Economic Forum Annual Conference

 “The North Korean Economy and Its Future:

Change vs. the Status Quo”

 

The North Korean economy went through a turbulent period since the UN Security Council imposed unprecedented sanctions targeting North Korea’s key foreign currency earning exports. In response to the changing external dynamics and internal marketization, Kim Jong-un announced a “new strategic line” putting relatively more emphasis on economic development. In this context, our first North Korea Economic Forum Conference will examine the current state of the North Korean economy and North Korea’s adaptation and coping strategies. The first session will focus on North Korea’s changing monetary system, the likelihood of North Korea’s reform and opening up, and alternatives to inter-Korean economic cooperation. The second session will discuss North Korea’s economic coping strategies and the signs of political leadership adaptation in dealing with UN sanctions and changing security dynamics. The third session will examine the role of top-down economic policies and institutional strategy and bottom-up logistics revolution.

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Schedule

09:00 a.m. – 09:15 a.m. Registration

 

09:15 a.m. – 09:45 a.m. Breakfast Reception

 

09:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.   Congratulatory Remarks 

Moderator: Jisoo M. Kim (Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies)

Reuben E. Brigety (Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University)

Jong-Il You (Dean, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)
 

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.   Session I. Current state of the North Korean economy 

Moderator: Wook Sohn (Professor and Associate Dean, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)

William Brown (Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University), “North Korea and Its Money”

Joongho Kim (Visiting Scholar, GW Institute for Korean Studies), “Demystifying the North Korean Economy: Implications for the Future Engagement”

Kevin Gray (Professor of International Relations, Center for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex), “Present and Future Trajectories of North Korean Development in Comparative Perspective”

Comments and Q&A

 

12:00 p.m. – 01:30 p.m.  Keynote Luncheon 

Keynote Speaker: Mark Lippert (Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea)

 

01:30 p.m. – 02:45 p.m.  Session II.  North Korea’s Coping Strategies and Political Adaptation 

Moderator: William Newcomb (Chair, North Korea Economic Forum at the GW Institute of Korean Studies)

Sue Mi Terry (Senior Fellow, Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies), “Assessing the Impact of Sanctions, North Korea’s Evasion Efforts, and Its Overall Strategy”

Ken Gause (Director, Adversary Analytics Program, International Affairs Group, Center for Naval Analyses), “North Korean Leadership Dynamics, Sanctions, Relief, and the Period of Diplomacy”

Comments and Q&A

02:45 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.  Coffee Break

 

03:00 p.m. – 04:15 p.m.  Session III. The Role of Economic Policies and Market Efficiency in Adaptation and Coping Strategies”

Moderator: Celeste Arrington (Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University)

Jong-Kyu Lee (Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute), “North Korea’s Economic Challenges: Focusing on the Kim Jong Un Era”

Yonho Kim (Associate Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies), “North Korea’s Logistics Revolution and a New Business Era of ‘Stay-at-Home’ Merchants”

 

Comments and Q&A

 

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9/19 Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability

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GWIKS Lecture Series
“Curative Violence:
How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability”

Photograph by Park Young Sook,
The Madwomen Project: A Flower Shakes Her (2005)
Description of image:
A woman wearing a blue shirt and navy pants is lying on a bed of pink wildflower in bloom,
with her eyes closed and a slight smile on her face.

 

Speaker
Eunjung Kim
Associate Professor, Syracuse University

Date & Time
Thursday, September 19, 2019
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Location
Room 505
Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052

Event Description

Presenting from her book, Curative Violence (2017), Kim will examine a direct link between cure and violence that appears in the representations of disability and Cold War imperialism in South Korea. She explores the notion of “folded time” in which the present disappears through the imperative of cure in the case of Hansen’s disease care. By thinking about the imperative of cure as a time machine that seeks to take us to the past and to the future by universalizing disability experiences and denying coevalness, Kim explores the possibility of inhabiting in the present with disability and illness. While calling attention to the transnational construction of disability under militarism and imperialism, Kim argues that the possibility of life with disability that is free from violence depends on the creation of a space and time where cure is understood as a negotiation rather than a necessity. In addition, Kim will introduce her work in progress on “necro-activism,” emerging in the form of persistent involvements of dead bodies and presences-other-than-human as important agents for making claims for justice.

Speaker

Eunjung Kim, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Eunjung Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University. Her book, Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disabiity, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (Duke University Press, 2017) received Alison Piepmeier Award from the National Women’s Studies Association and the James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Her work also appeared in several journals and anthologies, such as GLQ, Disability & Society, Sexualities, Catalyst, Intersectionality and Beyond, Against Health, and Asexualities.

 

Moderator

JisooModerator: Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies
Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies at GW. She received her Ph.D. in Korean History from Columbia University. She is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on two book projects titled Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in Chosŏn Korea and Sexual Desire and Gendered Subjects: Decriminalization of Adultery Law in Korean History.

 

Communications Access Realtime Translation (CART) service will be provided
Light refreshments will be served
This event is on the record and open to the public
Please RSVP online at https://go.gwu.edu/gwiks919
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9/13 Women’s Art and Culture: Korea and the U.S.

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Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. presents:
“Women’s Art and Culture: Korea and the U.S.”
Symposium and reception  

WHEN:  Friday, September 13 at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE:  Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. (2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW)

SPEAKERS: 

-Suknam Yun, Artist
-Jisoo M. Kim, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies, the George Washington University
-Hyeonjoo Kim, Art Historian, and Associate Professor, Chugye University for the Arts (Korea)
-Robyn Asleson, Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
 
The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Women’s Art and Culture: Korea and the U.S., a symposium exploring the intersection of women, art, and society in and between these two distinct but intertwined countries, featuring four distinguished speakers. This program looks at the cultural heritage of feminism and feminist art, its widespread social impact, and shared ideas among artists and activists both past and present. The program will take place Friday, September 13 starting at 6:00 p.m. at the Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. 
 
For the symposium’s first session, pioneering Korean feminist artist Suknam Yun will introduce her philosophy, decades-long career, and artwork, including her work Mother III currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Yun’s groundbreaking work has often focused on fundamental but at times overlooked issues of maternal instinct and the strength of women both past and present, elevating her to a unique status comparable to Korea’s leading female historical figures. 
 
The second session presents a broad spectrum of women’s experiences in art and society, comparing and contrasting those in Korea and the United States historically. Jisoo M. Kim, Director of the George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies and Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures, will discuss a brief history of women in Korea, focusing on the Joseon Dynasty period (1392-1910) in which women actively engaged in the court system to protect their interests legally. Hyeonjoo Kim, Art Historian and Associate Professor at Chugye University for the Arts located in Korea, will share a brief history of Korean feminist art and the various generations that have emerged since the 1980s. Robyn Asleson, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, will introduce the critical role of women in 20th-century American art, focusing on their transformative influence. 
 
Women’s Art and Culture: Korea and the U.S., is presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Institute for Korean Studies at the George Washington University. 
 
Admission to the event on Friday, September 13 at 6:00 p.m. is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
 
About the Speakers

 

Suknam Yun, born in Manchuria in 1939, has worked assiduously as a representative Korean feminist artist for the past 40 years. Never having the chance to earn a proper art education until well into her forties, Yun went on to found October Gathering (1985-86), a group that addressed major problems facing Korean women. Since starting her career as an artist, Yun has relentlessly subverted the dominant cultural values by shining a spotlight on aspects of femininity often ignored and regarded as useless by society. She continuously focuses on maternal love and strength, the unstable identity of women, and women’s histories. Over time, Yun has gradually moved away from anthropocentric perspectives and begun to propose the possibility of symbiosis between human beings and all other living creatures, naturally setting her on a path toward ecological feminism and pacifism. Yun was the first woman artist to receive the Lee Joong Sup Award. Actively participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions, she was invited to the Venice Biennale Special Exhibition for Korean Contemporary Art (1995), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1996), the Taipei Biennial (1998), Biennale of Sydney (2000), and Gwangju Biennale (2014). Her works are part of public collections at major art institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), Tate Modern (UK), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Japan), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), and Queensland Art Gallery (Australia).
 

 

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies at the George Washington University. She received her M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Korean History from Columbia University. She is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on two book projects titled Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in Chosŏn Korea and Sexual Desire and Gendered Subjects: Decriminalization of Adultery Law in Korean History.
 

 

Hyeonjoo Kim is currently an Associate Professor at Chugye University for the Arts. She received her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Art History at SUNY Buffalo and Ewha Woman’s University, respectively. Through her essay Korean/American/Women: Diasporic Identity of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Yong Soon Min (2001) and translation for The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Constance M. Lewallen, 2001), she has introduced the works and contributions of Korean American artists Yong Soon Min and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha to the Korean public through the perspective of postcolonialism. She is the main author of Pink Room, Blue Face – YUN Suknam’s Art World (2008), and published multiple essays including, Feminist Art of 1980s in Korea: ‘Let’s Burst Out’ Exhibition’ (2008), The Museum of Sexual Slavery by Japanese Military: Gendered Nationalism and Politics of Representation (2010), Controversies over the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (2012), Solidarity and Art Practice as the Social Engagement by the ‘Feminist Artists Group IPGIM’ (2016), Suknam Yun Archive and Reevaluation of Her Works (2018), and many more. She illuminates and re-evaluate the pursuits of Korean women artists, and has been doing research and critique works with interests in gender issues within art history. She was the chief researcher for “YUN Suknam, Korean Artist Digital Archives Project.”

 

Robyn Asleson is Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery. She specializes in American and British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular interest in transatlantic crosscurrents in art, the political uses of portraiture, and the relationship of the visual and performing arts. She curates the international series “Portraits of the World,” which features one significant portrait on loan from another country each year, placed in conversation with works from the Portrait Gallery collection. Other exhibition projects include Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939 (2022) and the team-curated Portraiture Now: Kinship (2021). Her essay Beyond Portraiture: New Approaches to Identity in Contemporary Korean Art will be included in the catalog for a forthcoming exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Asleson has held positions at the National Gallery of Art and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. She holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. 

9/13 GWIKS Summer Study Abroad Information Session

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2020 GWIKS Summer Study Abroad Program Information Session

Videoclip by 2019 participant, Donna Yang

 

 

From K-pop to K-beauty, rich Korean history to inter-Korean relations, Seoul is a great place to get a closer look about Korea you might hear on the news. Our 2020 Summer Study Abroad Program focuses on history, politics, and culture of the Korean Peninsula. Participating students will visit various sites that may include the following: the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the Blue House (where President of the Republic of Korea resides), the Constitutional Court of Korea, and more. This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime trip experience that you don’t want to miss!

Come to the GWIKS Summer Study Abroad Program Information Session to learn important program details!

Professor Jisoo M. Kim, the Director of the GW Institute for Korean Studies & Professor Insung Ko will give an introduction to the program. Also, the 2019 participants will share their experience, followed by a Q&A session. All GW students are welcome and the students who are interested in applying for the program are highly encouraged to attend this information session.

GWIKS Summer Study Abroad Program is open to all current undergraduate students at GW who are interested in pursuing Korean studies. Students who plan to major or minor in Korean will be given priority during the interview process.

 

Date & Time
September 13, Friday, 2019
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Venue
Suite 503, the Chung-wen Shih Conference Room
Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW, ​Washington DC, 20052

 

Light refreshments will be served. This event is open to GW students.

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9/12 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

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 Celebrate 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, the GW Confucius Institute will celebrate the 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival in the GW Confucius Institute townhouse. Guests will have the chance to taste traditional holiday treats, mooncakes, and network with others interested in China and other Asian cultures. There will be materials available for you to hear about learning Chinese language and study abroad opportunities in Asia.

Date & Time

Thursday, September 12, 2019
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Location

GW Confucius Institute, 2147 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052

Sponsored By:

The GW Confucius Institute
The GW Institute for Korean Studies
The GW Language Center
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies
The GW Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

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9/12 Next Steps in the U.S.-Korea Economic Relations

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This event is off the record and closed to media.

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies & the East Asia National Resource Center Present:

 

Korea Policy Forum

“Next Steps in the U.S.-Korea Economic Relations”

Speaker
Wendy Cutler, ESIA BA ’79
Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 

Date & Time
Thursday, September 12, 2019
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

 

Location
Room 505
Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052

Event Description

This year, the uncertainties in the U.S.-Korea trade relations have been significantly mitigated by the implementation of the revised U.S.-Korea FTA. What are the next steps to be discussed to ensure healthy economic relations between the two allies?  In which area can the United States and Korea strengthen their economic cooperation? What are the potential implications of other trade relations in the region, including the ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations and the recent trade feud between Korea and Japan, for the U.S.-Korea economic relationship and in the context of the global value chains?

 

Speaker

Wendy Cutler (ESIA BA ’79) joined the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) as vice president in November 2015. She also serves as the managing director of the Washington D.C. Office. In these roles, she focuses on building ASPI’s presence in Washington — strengthening its outreach as a think/do tank — and on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade and investment, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Most recently she served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, working on a range of U.S. trade negotiations and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. In that capacity she was responsible for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, including the bilateral negotiations with Japan. She also was the chief negotiator to the U.S.-Korea (Korus) Free Trade Agreement. Cutler received her master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her bachelor’s degree from the George Washington University.

 

Moderator

portrait of Yonho Kim with white backgroundYonho Kim is Associate Research Professor of Practice and Associate Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies. He specializes in North Korea’s mobile telecommunications and U.S. policy towards North Korea. Kim is the author of North Korea’s Mobile Telecommunications and Private Transportation Services in the Kim Jong-un Era (2019) and Cell Phones in North Korea: Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution? (2014). His research findings were covered by various media outlets, including Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Yonhap News, and Libération. Prior to joining GWIKS, he extensively interacted with the Washington policy circle on the Korean peninsula as Senior Researcher of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Senior Reporter for Voice of America’s Korean Service, and Assistant Director of the Atlantic Council’s Program on Korea in Transition. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

[June 19, 2019] The Korean Peninsula and U.S.-ROK Alliance: Credibility, Connectivity, and Practicality

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The Korean Peninsula and U.S.-ROK Alliance: 

Credibility, Connectivity, and Practicality

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Korea Economic Institute of America

1800 K Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20006

 

 

10:00 AM

Opening Remarks

Kathleen Stephens 
President & CEO, KEI

 

10:05 AM – 12:00 PM

Session I. North Korea: Collapse Theory, Mistrust, and Creditworthiness

Moderator

Troy Stangarone 
Senior Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade, KEI

Paper

Myung-koo Kang (Professor, Baruch College, CUNY)
“Revisiting the Collapse Thesis of North Korea: The Origins and Its Evolution in the U.S. Policymaking Community”

Discussant: Victor Cha (Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, CSIS)

Paper

Rorry Daniels (Deputy Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security, National Committee on American Foreign Policy)
“Addressing Strategic Mistrust Toward North Korea in the United States Policy Community”

Discussant: Mark Fitzpatrick (Associate Fellow and Former Executive Director, IISS–Americas)

Paper

Thomas Byrne (President, The Korea Society) and Jonathan Corrado (Associate Policy Director, The Korea Society
“Making North Korea Creditworthy: What will it take for North Korea to finance its post-nuclear development?”

Discussant: William Newcomb (Fellow, Center for Advanced Defense Studies; Chair, North Korea Economic Forum)

 

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

 

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Session II.  U.S.-ROK Alliance and Inter-Korean Relations

Moderator

Yonho Kim 
Nonresident Fellow, KEI

Paper

Jooeun Kim (Research Fellow, Georgetown University)
“Credibility in the U.S.-ROK Alliance”

Discussant: Scott Snyder (Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations)

Paper

Gregg Brazinsky (Professor, George Washington University) and Joongho Kim (Visiting Scholar, George Washington University)
“Global Connectivity of Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation”

Discussant: William Brown (Non-resident Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America; Principal, Northeast Asia Economics and Intelligence Advisory, LLC)

 

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Coffee Break

 

3:00 PM – 4:40 PM

Session III. Practical Projects: DMZ and Public Health

Moderator

Kyle Ferrier
Director of Academic Affairs and Research, KEI

Paper

Young Hoon Kim (Professor, University of North Texas)
“A case of city development: Incubating Village for DMZ (Demilitarized Zone: Dream and Miracle Zone)”

Discussant: Seung-ho Lee (President, DMZ Forum)

Paper

Kee Park (Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School) and Ramon Pacheco Pardo(KF-VUB Korea Chair, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
“Injuries in the DPRK: The Looming Epidemic”

Discussant: David Hong (Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical Center)

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[June 3-5, 2019] Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II

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Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II

DLEII

 

June 3-5, 2019

Marvin Center, George Washington University

 

The first Diverse Lineages of Existentialism (DLE) conference took place in June 2014 in St. Louis. It featured a variety of panels organized by diverse scholarly societies and profiled the work, of feminist, critical race, and existentialist theorists. The conference program included many more scholars of color than is typical for academic conferences, and it was truly a memorable event. Inspired by the exciting, intellectually stimulating experience we shared at this conference, I decided to organize a second Diverse Lineages of Existentialism (DLE II) conference from June 3-5, 2019 in Washington, D.C. With 19 participating societies (over twice as many as in 2014), DLE II will showcase the cutting-edge work that feminist, critical race and continental theorists are doing to make visible the lived experience of individuals and groups who have been overlooked (or actively ignored) in traditional philosophical accounts of human existence.

 

DLE II is being co-sponsored by GWU, American University, and George Mason University and all of the regular sessions will take place on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Marvin Center. Our opening night plenary and reception are being co-sponsored the French Embassy on Monday, June 3rd in their La Maison Française auditorium. The speaker will be Achille Mbembe.

The DLE II website is https://dleii.com/ and it lists the 19 societies who are participating in this historic conference, each of whom will be sending out their own CFPs for the panels they are organizing. Two of the participating organizations, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), and North American Korean Philosophy and Race (NAKPA) should be of particular interest to faculty and students in the Institute for Korean Studies. We will also be sending out a general Call for Papers in September and we encourage GW faculty and graduate students to submit papers either to a specific society or through the general CFP. We hope to have strong GW representation at this event, which will include an invited book session on Ben Vinson’s monograph: Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico. We are excited that Ben will return to GW from his first year as Provost and Exec. Vice-President at Case Western Reserve University to be the respondent for this session!

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[May 20, 2019] Korea Policy Forum: “China’s Envisioning of North Korea’s Future, Inferred by the Summits between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un”

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies
&
the East Asia National Resource Center Present:

Korea Policy Forum

“China’s Envisioning of North Korea’s Future,
Inferred by the Summits between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un” 

Korea Policy Forum 5/20

Speaker
LEE Seong-hyon, Director, Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute

 

Date & Time
Monday, May 20, 2019, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

Venue
Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
1957 E St. NW, Washington, DC 20052

Event Description

 

During its negotiations with North Korea, Washington has urged Kim Jong-un to choose denuclearization that will allow North Korea to enjoy prosperity on par with South Korea. The U.S. helped South Korea to become a prosperous and democratic state. In the U.S. history of foreign intervention, South Korea is the most successful case of ‘democratic transition.’ Since South Korea achieved both democratic transition and economic prosperity, it has been frequently referred to as the ‘poster child’ of a successful U.S. foreign policy. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping is known as an ardent proponent of socialism and Marxism. President Xi said that the CPC’s decision to adhere to political theories of Karl Marx this March was ‘totally correct’ (Xinhua News Agency, May 4, 2018). During the second summit with Kim Jong-un in Dalian, Xi said, “both China and the DPRK are socialist countries, and their bilateral relations are of major strategic significance.” (Xinhua News Agency, May 8, 2018). Naturally, this poses the question of whether President Xi’s outlook on North Korea is compatible with that of the Trump administration. Even though both the U.S. and China desire North Korea’s denuclearization, this question needs attention as the two have different views on North Korea’s future and its political system.

 

Speaker


LEE Seong-hyon, Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute

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LEE Seong-hyon, Ph.D., is Director, Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in Seoul. A native of Seoul, he lived in Beijing for 11 years out of his 22-year study and research career on China. Previously, he was Director, Department of Unification Strategy at the Sejong Institute. He has written extensively on the relations between the U.S., China, and Korea. He is the author of the 2019 bestseller, “The U.S.-China Competition: Who will Rule the World?” Seoul: Books Garden (ISBN: 979-11-6416-009-9) and the academic article, “Why Did We Get China Wrong? Reconsidering the Popular Narrative: China will Abandon North Korea” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, vol.25, no.1, pp. 65-93 (2016). He gave lectures and talks at Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, University of Pennsylvania, Seoul National University. He was also invited to The Shangri-La Dialogue, Boao Forum, and Salzburg Global Seminar. His comments and columns appeared at CNN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, The Korea Times, Chinese CCTV, the Straits Times, Hong Hong Phoenix TV, among others. He is a graduate from Grinnell College, Harvard University, and Tsinghua University (Ph.D. in political communication and global communication). He was the 2013-14 Pantech Fellow of Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). Currently, he is also Senior Research Fellow (non-resident) at the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies at Peking University.

 

 

 

Moderator


Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies

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Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies at GW. She received her Ph.D. in Korean History from Columbia University. She is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a new book project titled Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in Chosŏn Korea.

 

 

This event is on the record and open to the media.

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[May 8th, 2019] “Audacious Imagination for Peace – Key to the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”

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Korea Peace Network, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia,
and GW Institute for Korean Studies Present:

“Audacious Imagination for Peace – Key to the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”

 

Speaker

Lee Taeho, Chair of Policy Committee, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy

Date & Time

Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Venue

Room 505

Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University

1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20052

 

◊ Event Description

With the April 27 Inter-Korean Summit at the Panmunjeom and the June 12 North Korea-U.S. Summit in Singapore, a great shift has begun in the ceasefire and military confrontation state of the Korean Peninsula. This shift is toward a “complete denuclearization” and a “permanent peace regime” on the Korean Peninsula, and a “new relationship” among the countries concerned. The shift in political climate on the Korean Peninsula has resulted from the candlelight revolution took place in South Korea in late 2016. The candlelight revolution has shown that citizens themselves have the capacity to address social challenges in a peaceful and democratic way. The candlelight revolution has helped strengthen the diplomatic capacity of the new administration, which has been launched in accordance with the people’s wishes for peace, serving as a driving force to instigate cooperation from North Korea and the international community including the U.S. for peaceful resolution of issues on the Korean Peninsula. It is necessary to exercise new imagination in order to escape stereotypes and taboos of the confrontational Cold War era. Antagonism and disbelief, military confrontation and oppression, which have been presented under the name of realism, have caused aggravation instead of solving problems.

◊ Speaker

Lee Taeho, Chair of Policy Committee, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)

Lee Taeho joined PSPD in 1995, one of the most influential watchdog NGOs in South Korea, and served as a secretary general in 2011–2016, leading PSPD’s major activities from economic justice and civil and political rights to peace and disarmament. In particular, he has played a leading role in civil movements, mainly on the political reform, monitoring state power, promoting peace and human rights. He was also one of the main organizers of candlelight vigils for the immediate resignation of President Park Geun-hye which was held between 2016 winter and 2017 spring, as well as a truth-seeking campaign of the Sewol ferry disaster which happened in 2014.

 

◊ Moderator

Linda Yarr

Linda Yarr, Director, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia

Linda J. Yarr is Research Professor of Practice of International Affairs and Director of Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA) at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. She was the U.S. delegate to the Northeast Asia Women’s Peace Conference in Seoul in October 2010. In 2016, in cooperation with Center for Northeast Asia Studies at Liaoning University in Shenyang, China, she convened a Trilateral Dialogue on the Asia-Pacific Future, which addressed prospects for academic exchange with the DPRK. She is a member of the board of directors of Critical Asian Studies.

 

 

This event is on the record and open to the media.

This event will be streamed live at Korea Peace Network Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/koreapeacenetwork/

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