Event Archive 2020-2021
Fall 2020
September 3, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
“Security on the Korean Peninsula and the U.S.–ROK Relations”
September 22, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
“U.S.-Korea Relations in the Era of U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry”
Program for September 22 Event
Video for September 22 Event– Part I
September 18, 2020
Book Manuscript Workshop with Dr. Mike Prentice
Book Manuscript Workshop wtih Dr. Prentice Application
*This was a closed event
September 10-11, 2020
“The Korean War as Lived Experience: New Approaches to the Conflict after 70 Years.”
October 9, 2020
Life and Culture in North Korea: Discussion about the Books Titled “Friend “& “North Korean Comedy Film”
October 5, 2020
The Second North Korean Economic Forum Annual Conference (Part I): “Current Development Trends in North Korea.”
October 2, 2020
North Korea Economic Forum
Special Public Webinar “Supply and Demand of Refined Oil Product in North Korea”
October 26, 2020
GWIKS Interview Series with Wendy Cutler (ESIA BA ’79)
October 13, 2020
The 2nd North Korean Economic Forum Annual Conference (Part II) Session II: “Cutting Edge: Researching a Hard Target.”
October 12, 2020
The 2nd North Korean Economic Forum Annual Conference (Part II) Session I: “Traditional Methodology: Researching a Hard Target.”
November 6, 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”
October 30, 2020
The Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema” with Christina Klein
October 28, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
“U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Post-Abe Era”
November 16, 2020
North Korea Economic Forum
Panel Discussion: “The Pandemic’s Impact on North Korea: Leadership Dynamics, Markets and Public Health”
November 13, 2020
Book Manuscript Workshop with Dr. Sunhye Kim
Book Manuscript Workshop Application
*This was a closed event
November 10, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
“The U.S. Presidential Election and Korea: Journalists’ Views”
December 7, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
“U.S.-ROK Cooperation Between the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the New South Policy”
November 20, 2020
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“The Survival of the Chosŏn Dynasty in the Imjin War (1592-98) and the Issue of Governance”
November 19, 2020
GWIKS Interview Series with Joon Hyung Kim (CCAS MA ’90 & PhD ’97)
December 17, 2020
North Korea Economic Forum
Special Public Webinar “Assessing North Korea’s Financial ‘Reform’ Measures: Mobilizing Domestic Financial Resources amid Sanctions”
December 14, 2020
One Left: A Powerful Tale of Trauma and Endurance that Transformed a Nation’s Understanding of Korean Comfort Women
December 9, 2020
Korea Policy Forum
Virtual Roundtable Discussion “Prospects for U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Relations under the Biden Administration”
Part 1 Recording of December 9 Event
Spring 2021
January 13, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Fighting Evictions in the Speculative City: The Politics of Class and Solidarity for Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul”
February 10, 2021
ESIA Research Team Event with GWIKS Faculty Professor Richard Grinker, Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
February 10, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“How to Claim a Migrant: Koreans and Transnational History at the Border of Korea, Russia, and China“
January 25, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987“
March 11, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
“Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Scripture“
February 19, 2021
Co-Sponsored Event by NRC & GWIKS
Shakespeare and East Asia
February 18, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“State of Grace: The North Korean-Built Angkor Panorama Museum in Light of DPRK-Cambodian Cultural Relations”
March 29, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
“The Diary of 1636 and the Manchu Invasions of Korea”
March 23, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
“U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Biden Era”
March 17, 2021
Panel Discussion: Korean Soft Power Influence in Southeast Asia
April 8, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
“Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea”
April 6, 2021
Book Talk & Panel Discussion: Rights Claiming in South Korea
April 17, 2021
Third Annual GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Conference
Photos for April 17 Event
April 15, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
“How Institutions Matter in Pandemic Responses: The South Korean Case”
April 13, 2021
North Korea Economic Forum
“How North Korea is Managing its Economic Crisis”
April 26, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
“U.S.-ROK Relations: Challenges and Opportunities under the Biden Administration”
April 23, 2021
GWIKS Signature Conference: Korean Kinship, Adoption, and Diaspora
April 22, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
“Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday”
May 4, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
“Beyond Civilized and Barbarians: Understanding the Settlement of Chinese Migrants in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Chosŏn Korea”
April 28, 2021
Co-Sponsored Event by NRC, Sigur Center, Asian Studies, and GWIKS
Challenges of the Past, Present, and Future: Addressing Asian and Asian American Inclusivity in Academia, Policy, and the Media
April 27, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows Program Commencement Reception/Award Ceremony
May 21, 2021
2021 Korean Studies Workshop for Scholars in the Greater Washington Area
May 17, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia in the Biden
May 14, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
Biden’s North Korea Policy and U.S.-ROK Relations
