Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
The GWIKS Soh Jaipil Lecture Series invites leading scholars to the George Washington University from universities around the country throughout the year to share their groundbreaking academic research in the field of Korean studies. The Lecture Series represents an essential element of the vibrant academic culture of the GW Institute for Korean Studies.
September 23, 2025
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Rebranding North Korea: Changes in Consumer Culture and Visual Media” with Immanuel Kim
February 12, 2025
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy” with Peter Moody
October 18, 2024
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy” with Joan E. Cho
September 13, 2024
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
“The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Nation Building in South Korea” with Park Jeong-Mi
April 18, 2024
“Conscripted at “Freedom’s Frontier”: Korean Augmentees, Racialized Masculinity, and U.S. Military Empire”
April 4, 2024
“North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965″
April 19, 2023
“Anointed Citizenship: Christianity and Border Crossers in Wartime South Korea“
March 27, 2023
“City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism”
October 5, 2022
“From Anti-Japan to Anti-China: South Korean’s Changing Public Sentiments and Implications for the US-ROK Alliance”
May 4, 2022
“The Revolutionary People of Mount Baekdu: North Korea, Third World Liberation, and the Exportation of Mountain Insurgency“
March 31, 2022
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
Making Migrants: Policy Community Dynamics in Immigration and Citizenship in South Korea with Darcie Draudt
February 18, 2021
“State of Grace: The North Korean-Built Angkor Panorama Museum in Light of DPRK-Cambodian Cultural Relations”
February 10, 2021
“How to Claim a Migrant: Koreans and Transnational History at the Border of Korea, Russia, and China“
January 25, 2021
“Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987“
January 13, 2021
“Fighting Evictions in the Speculative City: The Politics of Class and Solidarity for Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul”
November 20, 2020
“The Survival of the Chosŏn Dynasty in the Imjin War (1592-98) and the Issue of Governance””
October 30, 2020
“Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema”
January 22, 2020
“‘Baby Miles’: Reproductive Rights, Labor, and Ethics in the Transnational Korean Reproductive Technology Industry”
September 19, 2019
“Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability”
April 25, 2019
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)”
March 7, 2019
Maya Stiller: “Paintings, Songs, and Board Games: Travels to Kŭmgangsan in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)”
October 31, 2018
Eunkyung Kim, “Democratization and Gender in Postcolonial South Korea”
October 24, 2018
Co-sponsored by Partnerships-International Strategies-Asia (PISA) and GW Institute for Korean Studies
B.G. Muhn, “North Korean Art: Transcending Ideologies”
September 12, 2018
Andrew Yeo, Celeste Arrington, and Greg Scarlatoiu: “Book Talk: North Korean Human Rights and Transnational Advocacy”
April 23, 2018
Taekyoon Kim, “Advocacy for South Korea’s International Development: Escape from Developmentalism and the Asianization of Nordic Development Aid”
April 5, 2018
Dafna Zur, “Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea”
March 19, 2018
Cho Hong Je, “North Korea Missile Launch: Past, Present, and Future”
March 8, 2018
Charlotte Horlyck, “Charles Lang Freer and the Collecting of Korean Art in the Early 20th Century”
November 2, 2017
“Cold War Culture in Postcolonial South Korea”
Charles Kim, Associate Professor in the History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 31, 2017
Yafeng Xia, Professor of History at Long Island University, New York
“The Lowest Ebb: China’s Policy toward North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969”
January 30, 2017
Nan Kim, Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
