Spring 2019
May 20, 2019
Korea Policy Forum
With Lee Seong-hyon: “China’s Envisioning of North Korea’s Future, Inferred by the Summits between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un”
May 8, 2019
Lecture by Taeho Lee: “Audacious Imagination for Peace” (co-sponsored by KPN, PISA, and GWIKS)
May 6, 2019
Korea Policy Forum
With Andray Abrahamian: “North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths”
April 30, 2019
Lecture with Sumona Guha: “East Meets South: The Importance of South Korea – India Relations” (co-sponsored by the Sejong Society of Washington, D.C.)
April 26, 2019
2019 GWIKS Korean Humanities Workshop
April 25, 2019
The Lecture Series: Chisu Teresa Ko (co-sponsored by the Latin American & Hemispheric Studies Program): “Korean Women, Argentine Documentaries: A Look at La chica del sur (2012) and Una canción coreana (2014)”
April 20, 2019
GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Program: The First Annual Conference
April 4, 2019
Korea Policy Forum
“The Implications of Demographic Decline for South Korean National Security” with Troy Stangarone”
March 20, 2019
Panel Discussion: “Japan-South Korea Relations in Crisis: Prospects for Reconciliation and Security Cooperation in East Asia” (co-sponsored by the GWIKS and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies)
March 7, 2019
GWIKS Lecture Series
With Maya Stiller: “Paintings, Songs, and Board Games: Travels to Kŭmgangsan in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)”
February 28, 2019
The Soh Jai Pil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs
Taisuke Mibae, “The Current State of Japan-South Korea Relations”
February 15, 2019
Co-sponsored Lecture by the Sejong Society of Washington, D.C. and GW Institute for Korean Studies
Matthew Henry Kroenig, “The Iran Deal and North Korea”
February 15, 2019
Summer Study Abroad Program to Korea Information Session
February 14, 2019
The Soh Jai Pil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs
With John Merrill: “The Jeju 4.3 Incident, Korea’s ‘Dark History,’ and Its Implications for North Korea Policy”
January 31, 2019
The George Washington University Lunar New Year Celebration 2019 (Co-sponsored with the GW Confucius Institute and other institutes at the GW)
January 23, 2019
The Soh Jai Pil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs with David Kang: “North Korea in 2019: More of the same, or a historic opportunity?”
Fall 2018
December 17, 2018
A Special Concert and Lecture with Mr. Hyung Joon Won: “Building Trust Through Music Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula”
November 29, 2018
The Soh Jai Pil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs with Christy Gavitt: “Providing Humanitarian Aid in North Korea and Other Authoritarian Settings”
November 16, 2018
Korean Literature Essay Contest Award Ceremony
The Book of the Year: I’ll be right there by Kyung-Sook Shin
November 9-10, 2018
The 26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities
“Emotions, Culture, and Subjectivity in Korea”
October 31, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Eunkyung Kim, “Democratization and Gender in Postcolonial South Korea”
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”
October 12, 2018
Co-sponsored event by the Sejong Society of Washington, D.C. and GW Institute for Korean Studies
“US-ROK Alliance Restructuring”
October 10, 2018
Co-sponsored event by Korean Americans in Action and the GW Institute for Korean Studies
“Other Dimensions of the Impact of War”
September 14, 2018
Asian Studies Welcome Back Reception
The GW Institute for Korean Studies and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies invited students to our Fall 2018 Welcome Back Reception so that every student could come to meet and mingle with GW students and network with faculty and staff.
September 12, 2018
GWIKS Lecture Series
Andrew Yeo, Celeste Arrington, and Greg Scarlatoiu: “Book Talk: North Korean Human Rights and Transnational Advocacy”
September 11, 2018
The Soh Jaipil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs with Sanghyun Lee, Yong-sup Han, and Youngjun Kim: “Post Trump-Kim Summit: What is the Next Step?”
July 25, 2018
The Soh Jaipil Circle on Contemporary Korean Affairs with Cho Hyun: “Future of Korea-US Alliance: Creating Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”
