10/27/2023 | The 31st Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

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“Competing Voices: Protests and Political Activism in Korea”

Friday, October 27, 2023

02:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT

Hybrid Event

In Person,

1957 E. St. NW, Lindner Family Commons (Room 602), Washington, DC, 20052

Virtual via Zoom

Event Description

South Korea has a history of demonstrations and protests that continue in the democratic era. From student protests to labor strikes to more recent #MeToo demonstrations, waves of contentious politics have reshaped the political landscape and protest itself in Korea. They have popularized tactics like the candlelight demonstration and organizational forms, such as national solidarity infrastructures. At the same time, extreme protest tactics persist and depend on material and emotional support from activist communities. Korean contentious politics is also engaging with transnational advocacy and the Korean diaspora, including through counter-mobilization. And new issues and competing knowledge claims are spurring mobilization. This year’s Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities will examine the competing voices and shifting practices of protest cultures in South Korea.

Topics and Speakers

“Democracy and Protest (and Labor) in Korea”: Yoonkyung Lee, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
“The Everyday Life of Protest: Care, Reflexivity and Solidarity”: Jennifer Jihye Chun, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Labor Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
“Queer Throughlines and Political Ties”: Ju Hui Judy Han, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles
“Contested Knowledge, Polarized Korea, and Transnational Controversy over the Long-Term Release of Fukushima’s Irradiated Wastewater into the Pacific Ocean”: Nan Kim, Associate Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Program (PDF)

Background

11/05/2022 | The 30th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

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“Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway“

Saturday, November 5, 2022

09:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

Hybrid Event

In Person,

1957 E. St. NW, Harry Harding Auditorium, Washington, DC, 20052

Virtual via Zoom

Event Description

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway, on view at the GWU Museum and The Textile Museum from August 19 through December 22, 2022, this colloquium will examine Korean clothing as an evolving expression of national identity, socio-economic transformation, and aesthetic sensibilities since the late nineteenth century. The papers will roughly follow the exhibition’s chronology, which begins with textiles sent by the Joseon government to the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair) in 1893—Korea’s first formal presentation of its material culture on the world stage—and concludes with present-day runway and street fashions.

Join us for a morning session of presentations at the Elliott School of International Affairs and an afternoon session at the museum exploring the exhibition.

Program (PDF)

Background

The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities Series at the George Washington University provides a forum for academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature, thought and religious systems in the context of East Asia and the world. The colloquium series is made possible by an endowment established by the estate of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993), one of Korea’s most honored writers, to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and commitment to education. The 30th Hahn Moo- Sook Colloquium is organized by the GW Institute for Korean Studies, the George Washington University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the George Washington University Museum & Textile Museum, and is cosponsored by the Korea Foundation.

10/30/2021 | The 29th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

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Presented by the George Washington University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Institute for Korean Studies.

The Global Enterprise of Translation:

Translators, Institution, and Market For Korean Literature

Saturday, October 30, 2021

9:00 AM – 12:00 AM EDT | 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM KST

Zoom Event

See the Event Program (PDF)

This year’s colloquium focuses on the translators who have impacted and broadened the scope of Korean literature. What began as an academic enterprise for pedagogical purposes, Korean literature in translation is now a global enterprise reaching audiences beyond the classroom from across the world. In addition to the South Korean government’s establishment of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), publishers, literary agencies, and translators themselves from all over the world have developed their own methods of marketing Korean fiction. However, the growth of global awareness of Korean literature has also reinforced hierarchies and inequities in the literary field in South Korea and abroad, ignoring the diversity and inclusivity of literary production within the country. This year’s colloquium will address these problems and hear from translators and scholars on ways to improve the global enterprise of translating Korean literature.

Registered guests will receive a confirmation email with details for joining the Zoom event.

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

The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

The 29th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium is organized by the George Washington University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, co-organized by the GW Institute for Korean Studies and co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation.

Honorable Guests

portrait of Jisoo Kim in professional attire

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 also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. 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 book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

portrait of Kwak Hyo-hwan in casual attire

Kwak Hyo Hwan is the current President of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. He has a doctoral degree from Korea University‘s Department of Korean Language and Literature. Since 2017, he has been part of the Literary Promotion Policy Committee, which was created under the Culture Ministry to consult on creating policy related to the local literary industry. He has also been the director of the Society of Korean Poets since 2012.

portrait of Young-Key Kim-Renaud in professional attire

Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor Emeritus of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs, previous chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at GW. She is also currently Senior Advisor to GW Institute for Korean Studies. She is the founder of the annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium at GW. Previously, she served as Assistant Program Director for Linguistics at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Kim-Renaud is one of the pioneers in Korean language education, research, and outreach activities in the United States, having begun to teach Korean at Berkeley as a graduate student in early 1964. Since then, she has published 13 books, numerous refereed articles, and invited book chapters on Korean linguistics, Korean literature, the Korean writing system, language and society, language and politics, cross-cultural communications, Korean women in the humanities, Korean cultural history, and current affairs. Dr. Kim-Renaud has received various awards and grants in recognition for her contributions, including a Republic of Korea Jade Order of Cultural Merit in 2006 and the Bichumi Grand Award from Samsung Life Foundation as a Woman of the Year 2008 for Public Service

Speakers

Anton Hur is a literary translator based in Seoul. He is a graduate of the Korea University College of Law and Seoul National University Graduate School and was awarded the title of Person of Distinguished Service to the State in 2002 after serving in the Korean army. His translations include Sang Young Park’s LOVE IN THE BIG CITY (Grove Atlantic), Bora Chung’s CURSED BUNNY (Honford Star), and Ocean Vuong’s NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS (Moonji).

Bruce Fulton is the inaugural occupant of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He is the co-translator, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction; general editor of the Modern Korean Fiction series published by the University of Hawai’i Press; co-author with Youngmin Kwon of What Is Korean Literature? (2020); recipient of a 2018 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature; and editor of the forthcoming Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories (2022). He is the co-recipient, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of several translation awards and grants, including the first National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work, and the first residency awarded by the Banff (Canada) International Literary Translation Centre for the translation of a work from any Asian Language. His most recent translations, with Ju-Chan Fulton, are the novels Mina by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press, 2018), The Catcher in the Loft by Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng (Codhill Press, 2019), and One Left by Kim Soom (University of Washington Press, 2020).

Jamie Chang is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation at Ewha Womans University and the Translation Academy at Literature Translation Institute Korea. She has translated The Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park and Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo.

Jenny Wang Medina is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University. Her research focuses on questions of national/global cultures, diaspora, multiculturalism, canon formation, and translation. She is currently writing a book manuscript titled Becoming K-orean: South Korea’s Quest for Cultural Distinction. The book examines South Korea’s transformation of Korean culture from a preservationist tradition to a dynamic cosmopolitan culture at the turn of the 21st century through literature, film, and television.

Sophie Bowman is a PhD student in the East Asian Studies department at the University of Toronto. Her translations include Kim Bo-Young’s “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way to You” in I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories, Djuna’s “The Second Nanny” published in Clarkesworld, Baek Heena’s picture book Magic Candies, and Looking Back Life Was Beautiful by Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina.

Sora Kim-Russell is a literary translator based in Seoul. Her recent publications include Pyun Hye-young’s The Law of Lines, Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk, and Kim Un-su’s The Plotters. She has taught literary translation at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, LTI Korea, and Ewha Womans University.

Moderator

Immanuel Kim is Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies. Prior to working at the George Washington University, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. His research is on North Korean literature and film, and he has translated a North Korean novel called Friend by Paek Nam-nyong (Columbia University Press, 2020).

The 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities: “From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots”

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On November 6th, 2020, the GW Institute of Korean Studies hosted the 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, with this year’s discussion topic, “From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.” In a time where the call for civil justice and unity is being vocalized louder than ever, GWIKs comes together with academics and experts from both the African American and Korean American communities to talk about relations and cultural exchange between both communities stemming from the infamous 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

After a brief welcome and introduction by GWIKs Director, Jisoo Kim, opening remarks were given by Caroline Laguerre-Brown, who serves as the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement here at GW. Reflecting on hearing about the Los Angeles Riots as a young woman growing up in New York, Laguerre-Brown describes her personal experiences witnessing African American and Korean American relations in her home state, noting it to be like a tinder that could alight at any moment. In a time where current events have allowed voices unheard to be expressed for the promotion of diversity and inclusion stronger than ever, Laguerre-Brown emphasizes how Academic is the perfect space to have these complex conversations in order to create spaces that embrace diversity for all from all walks of life.

To diving into the historical backdrop of the event and examine how African American and Korean American relations have evolved since, Dr. Kyeyoung Park, Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Dr. Edward Change, Professor and Founding Director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) took the audience through the events of the 1992 riots and what has changed since. Prior to the riots themselves, African American and Korean American tensions had gradually been building since the 1980s which Dr. Park attributes to the underlying racial hierarchy in American push by white culture and white nationalism.

The riots themselves broke out as a response to the murder of black ninth-grader Latasha Harlins by shopkeeper Soon Ja Du, but the underpinnings that many seem to ignore is the degree to which the mainstream media emphasized the clashing and competition against both minority groups. The competition in LA, primarily aligned with the socioeconomic inequality in the area, had both African Americans and Korean Americans feeling discriminated against and disrespected by one another. The by-product of this civil unrest to follow from the riots did however pushed Korean Americans to become more politically involved in their community and in American politics as a whole, a moment that is now known as Saigu (), or what Dr. Chang refers to as the “rebirth of Korean American Identity.”

Since the 1992 riots, efforts had been made to unify both communities and foster a welcoming space of diversity. In order to improve relations, Korean Americans made efforts to engage with and work together with the African Americans to break down those social barriers. While economic disparities are still an issue between both communities, we see both sides coming together in racial empathy and solidarity, especially now during the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). In considering what we can do for the future to learn from this, Dr. Chang emphasized the need for multicultural education and diverse leadership in politics and nonprofit organizations to continue to facilitate peaceful and unified relations between minority communities.

One the definitive examples of cultural exchange and embracement of diversity between African Americans and Koreans is through Arts. Dr. Crystal Anderson, Affiliate Professor in Korea Studies at George Mason University, walked us through how K-Pop and Korean R&B has taken cues and influence from soul, gangster rap, hip-hop, and Black R&B. Now more than ever, both communities are taking notes and listening each other through the creation music, now popularized by a worldwide audience from a diverse number of places around the world. Dr. Aku Kadogo, Chair Department of Theatre and Performing Arts from Spelman College, walked us through her experience working in theatre in South Korea with one of her colleagues and coming back to America with them in a cultural exchange of the performing art, combining the best of both experiences to create a short film that captures the heart and soul of two worlds.

In closing out of this journey, we are reminded that while there are still challenges ahead of us in these times of uncertainty, coming together in understanding lessens that uncertainty. Diversity is something that should be embraced, and we stronger together than apart.

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The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures presents:

The 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium
in the Korean Humanities
From Enmity to Empathy:
African American and Korean American Communities
Since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Friday, November 6, 2020
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Virtual Event via Zoom

Program (PDF)

Co-organized by the GW Institute for Korean Studies, and co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation, the GW Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the GW East Asia National Resource Center

Reflecting current debates on social injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, this year’s Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium will examine the ways in which race impacts Korean, Korean-American, African-American, and African diasporic communities in other countries. The discussion will start with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and reflect on how relations between the Black and Korean-American communities have evolved since then. The speakers will examine Black-Korean tensions: what it means to be Korean-American in the midst of shifting multicultural politics and race; how we can situate Asian/Korean-American experiences within the context of Black-white relations; how R&B and hip hop music have brought the two communities closer through K-pop; and how collaboration on cultural production influences both communities.

PROGRAM

Welcoming Remarks
3:00 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.
Jisoo M. Kim (Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies)
3:05 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Caroline Laguerre-Brown (Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, the George Washington University)

Main Session
3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Kyeyoung Park (Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
How Have Black-Korean Relations Evolved since the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest?
3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Edward Chang (Professor & Founding Director, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, University of California, Riverside)
Confronting Sa-I-Gu: Beyond Black-Korean Conflict
3:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Crystal S. Anderson (Affiliate Faculty in Korean Studies, George Mason University)
Groovy Everywhere: Korean R&B/Hip-Hop as a Site of Cultural Community
4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Aku Kadogo (Chair of Department of Theater and Performance, Spelman College)
Confluence: Where the Mississippi Meets the Han

General Discussion
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This event is on the record and open to the public.

The Hahn Moo-Sook (HMS) Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series at the George Washington University provides a forum for academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature thought and religious systems in the context of East Asia and the world. The colloquium series is made possible by an endowment established by the estate of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993), one of Korea’s most honored writers, to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and commitment to education.

For more information about the HMS Colloquium, visit here.

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11/2 The 27th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

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The 27th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

“Consuming K-Pop: Soft Power, Marketization, and Cultural Appropriation”

Korean popular culture is arguably one of South Korea’s most impactful exports, reaching a worldwide audience of devoted fans through strategic marketization. From music, film, television, sports to food, the “Korean Wave” (hallyu) has generated revenue and reshaped the topography of the global cultural landscape. This year’s Colloquium focuses on the K-Pop industry, the contemporary style of Korean pop music that has become popular in countries ranging from Indonesia and Thailand to Pakistan, Nigeria, and Chile. The speakers will examine diverse aspects of K-Pop: state-initiated efforts to employ the Korean Wave as a currency of soft power, corporate infrastructure, global fan practices that contribute to the transnational flow of popular culture, cultural appropriation, the production of idols, and the connections between K-Pop and Korean diasporic as well as other non-Korean communities.

Date & Time
Saturday, November 2, 2019
9:30 am – 4:45 pm

Location
Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213, Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW, Washington, DC 20052

Program Download (PDF)

Abstract Download (PDF)

Program Details

Keynote Speaker

Kyung Hyun Kim, University of California, Irvine

Speakers

Bora Kim, Columbia University
CedarBough Saeji, Indiana University
Crystal Anderson, George Mason University
Imelda Ibarra, US BTS Army
Robert Ku, Binghamton University – State University of New York (SUNY)
So-Rim Lee, University of Pennsylvania

Schedule

09:30 – 09:50 Breakfast Reception

Welcoming Remarks

09:50 – 10:00 Director Jisoo M. Kim, Institute for Korean Studies, the George Washington University

Keynote Speech

10:00 – 10:30 Kyung Hyun Kim, “Of Mimicry and Miguk: Opaquely Racial/Ambivalently Hegemonic K-pop”

Session I (Moderator: Immanuel Kim)

10:30 – 11:00 CedarBough Saeji, “Parasitic or Symbiotic?: The Rise of the K-pop Adjacent Industries”
11:00 – 11:30 So-Rim Lee, “Grow Stars with Z-POP DREAM”: Idols, Cryptocurrency, and Technologies of Embodiment”
11:30 – 12:00 Comments and Q&A

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Session II (Moderator: Miok D. Pak)

13:30 – 14:00 Robert Ku, “Mother Said She Didn’t Like Jajangmyeon’: Ruminating on Korean Noodles During the Age of K-pop”
14:00 – 14:30 Crystal Anderson, “From Big Mama to Mamamoo: The Reverberation of R&B Vocals in K-pop Girl Groups”
14:30 – 15:00 Comments and Q&A

15:00 – 15:15 Break

Session III (Moderator: Gregg Brazinsky)

15:15 – 15:45 Bora Kim, “Boundaries of K-pop: EXP EDITION, A Non-Korean K-pop Idol Group”
15:45 – 16:15 Imelda Ibarra, “Method to the Madness: The Global Power of ARMY”
16:15 – 16:45 General Comments

The George Washington University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the Institute for Korean Studies gratefully acknowledge our co-sponsors:

GW Sigur Center for Asian Studies
Korea Foundation
Literature Translation Institute of Korea

*Please note that K-Pop stars in any promotion materials are not attending this event.

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[November 9-10, 2018] The 26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

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The 26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

in the Korean Humanities

November 9-10, 2018

“Emotion, Culture, and Subjectivity in Korea”

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In celebrating the 100th birthday of Hahn Moo-Sook, the 26th HMS colloquium has been combined with the Signature Conference of the GW Institute for Korean Studies. The colloquium brings renowned scholars in the field of the Korean studies to focus on the theme of emotion and affect in Korean history, society, and culture. The two keynote speakers, Donald Baker and Hyaeweol Choi, will discuss the complex emotion reflected in Hahn Moo-Sook’s novels and also explain Hahn Moo-Sook’s significance in the context of women’s history and the politics of archives. The panel presentations will explore various emotions and affect covering the period from Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) to the two Koreas.

Friday, November 9, 2018, 8:20 AM – 5:00 PM

City View Room, Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E St. NW, 7^th floor, Washington, DC 20052

Honorable Guest Speakers
Ambassador Cho Yoon-je, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the U.S.
President & CEO Kathleen Stephens, Korea Economic Institute of America(Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea)
Chairman Hoagy Kim, Hahn Moo-Sook Foundation

Featured Speaker
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The George Washington University

Keynote Speakers
Donald Baker, University of British Columbia
Hyaeweol Choi, University of Iowa

Panel Presenters:

Panel I Chosŏn Korea
Jungwon Kim, Columbia University
Sixiang Wang, Stanford University

Panel II Colonial Korea
Yoon Sun Yang, Boston University
Sonja M. Kim, State University of New York, Binghamton
Dafna Zur, Stanford University

Panel III Post-Liberation Korea
Jae Won E. Chung, University of Colorado Boulder
Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
Nan Kim, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Discussants
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University
Soyoung Suh, Dartmouth College
Maria Frawley, The George Washington University
Haiyan Lee, Stanford University

Saturday, November 10, 2018, 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW, Room 602, Washington, DC 20052

Panel Presenters:

Panel IV Contemporary Korea
Sun-Chul Kim, Emory University
Hae Yeon Choo, University of Toronto
Youngmin Choe, University of Southern California
John SP Cho, Davidson College

Discussant
Jie Yang, Simon Fraser University

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The HMS Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series at GW provides a forum for academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature, thought and religious systems in the context of East Asia and the world. The Colloquium series is made possible by an endowment established by the estate of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993), one of Korea’s most honored writers, in order to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and commitment to education.

The 26th HMS Colloquium (https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/hahn-moo-sook-colloquium) is open to the public FREE OF CHARGE. However, reservations are required. For questions regarding the colloquium, please contact gwiks@gwu.edu.

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October 20, 2017

Opening Remarks by Dr. Jisoo Kim and Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud

Key-Sook Choe, Associate Professor in the Institute of Korean Studies at Yonsei University

Serk-Bae Suh, teaches Korean literature at the University of California, Irvine as Associate Professor

Sookja Cho, Assistant Professor of Korean at Arizona State University

Yumi Han, translator and lecturer in Korean at the University Paris-Sorbonne and the Korean Cultural Center in Paris

Janet Lee, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature at Keimyung University

Immanuel Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University

Q&A Pt.1

Q&A Pt.2

October 20-21, 2017 [HMS Colloquium] The 25th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

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Event Venue

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“Competing Voices: Protests and Political Activism in Korea”

Event Description

Topics and Speakers

Background

“Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway“

Event Description

Join us for a morning session of presentations at the Elliott School of International Affairs and an afternoon session at the museum exploring the exhibition.

Background

Presented by the George Washington University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Institute for Korean Studies.

The Global Enterprise of Translation:

Translators, Institution, and Market For Korean Literature

The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

Honorable Guests

Speakers

Moderator

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures presents:

The 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities Since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Virtual Event via Zoom

PROGRAM

The 27th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

“Consuming K-Pop: Soft Power, Marketization, and Cultural Appropriation”

Program Details

Keynote Speaker

Speakers

Schedule

The 26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium

in the Korean Humanities

November 9-10, 2018

“Emotion, Culture, and Subjectivity in Korea”

The 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium
in the Korean Humanities
From Enmity to Empathy:
African American and Korean American Communities
Since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Friday, November 6, 2020
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Virtual Event via Zoom