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Summer 2022

July 27, 2022
Book Manuscript Workshop with Darcie Draudt
This was a closed event.
Discussants: Harris Mylonas, GW; Kathy Moon, Wellesley University; Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University

June 20, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
COVID Outbreak in North Korea: Political Economy of the Public Health Crisis
Spring 2022

May 17, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
The First Biden-Yoon Summit: Conventional and Economic Security


May 6 – 7, 2022
GWIKS Signature Conference
Gender, Language, and Emotions in Chosŏn Korea- In Commemoration of JaHyun Kim Haboush’s Scholarship

May 4, 2022
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
The Revolutionary People of Mount Baekdu: North Korea, Third World Liberation, and the Exploration of Mountain Insurgency with Benjamin Young

April 29, 2022
GWIKS Undergraduate Research Fellows Commencement Ceremony
This was a closed event.

April 27, 2022
GWIKS 5th Anniversary and The Kim Family Celebration
April 18, 2022
SKKU-GWU Special Lecture with Patricia Goedde and Celeste Arrington
This was a closed event.
April 9, 2022
2021-2022 GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Conference
This was a closed event.
April 1, 2022
GWIKS-IU Korean Literature Essay Contest Ceremony
This was a closed event.

March 31, 2022
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
Making Migrants: Policy Community Dynamics in Immigration and Citizenship in South Korea with Darcie Draudt

March 22, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
The New Yoon Administration and US-ROK Relations: Journalists’ Views
February 25, 2022
Undergraduate Research Fellows Mini Conference
This was a closed event.

February 23, 2022
Premodern Korea Lecture Series
“Inscribing the Realm: Early Silla Written Culture Through Mokkan” with Marjorie Burge

February 9, 2022
North Korea Economic Forum, Co-sponsored by Seoul National University
“North Korea Economic Forum: Delving into Kim Jong-un’s Ten Years”

January 26, 2022
Premodern Korea Lecture Series
“Literary Fame, Manuscript Culture, and the Story of the Western Wing in Chosŏn Korea” with Ross King
January 21, 2022
Undergraduate Research Fellows 4th Workshop
This was a closed event.

Fall 2021

December 14, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s Presidential Election & US-ROK Relations (Session 2)
December 8, 2021
“The Light and Shadow of Foreign Policy Taken by Joseon During the Period of Ming and Qing Dynastic Change” with Myung-Gi Han

December 7, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s Presidential Election & US-ROK Relations (Session 1)

December 3, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows 3rd Workshop with Stephen Costello
This was a closed event.

December 3, 2021
Book Manuscript Workshop with Yewon Lee
This was a closed event.
November 18, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
“Hoping to Build Legal Stepping Stones over the River of Global Politics: Legislating the Relationship Between South and North Korea, a Road for Peace on the Korean Peninsula” with Justice Minister Park Beom Kye

November 17, 2021
Premodern Korea Lecture Series
“A Unique Relationship: Koryŏ and the Mongol Yuan Empire” with Kang Hahn Lee
November 12, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows Movie Night
This was a closed event.

October 30, 2021
The 29th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities
“The Global Enterprise of Translation: Translators, Institution, and Market For Korean Literature”

October 29, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows Second Workshop
This was a closed event.

October 28, 2021
MA Fellows Meet and Greet
This was a closed event.

October 27, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Seeds of Control: Toward a Timberline View of Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea” with David Fedman

October 22, 2021
The Untold Story of the Korean Film Industry

October 21, 2021
The Start of a Bold Journey for Peace Settlement of the Korean Peninsula with Na Kyung Won

October 19, 2021
2021 Seoul-Washington Forum
Conventional Deterrence of North Korea and U.S.-ROK Alliance

October 14-15, 2021
North Korean Economic Forum
The Third North Korea Economic Forum Annual Conference
Program for the Third Annual Conference

October 14, 2021
Co-sponsored by GWIKS, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, East Asia National Resource Center, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, and GW Sociology
Latinx Heritage Month – East Asian Diaspora in Latin America: A Transnational History

September 29, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Cooperation After the Biden-Moon Summit

September 27, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Michael Pettid
“One Woman’s Take on Life in Chosŏn Korea”

September 24, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows First Workshop
This was a closed event.

September 24, 2021
Book Manuscript Workshop with Dr. Stephanie Kim
This was a closed event.

September 23, 2021
Cohosted by the Sigur Center and GWIKS
Visiting Scholars Welcome Reception
This was a closed event.

September 3, 2021
Undergraduate Research Fellows Orientation
This was a closed event.