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Fri, 23 Oct 2026

Special Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of the film “The Handmaiden”

Special Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of the film “The Handmaiden”
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sayaka talk
Fri, 9 Oct 2026

Challenges of Writing Zainichi Korean History: Ethics, Emotions, and Politics

Sayaka Chatani is Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.
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Jinsung talk
Fri, 21 Aug 2026

Punishment in Uniform: Military Exile (ch’unggun 充軍) and the Persistence of Conventional Penal Practices in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1863–1894

Jinsung Kim, University of British Columbia

 
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Thu, 6 Aug 2026

Adventure, Pedagogy, and National Modernization Science Fiction for Young Adults in South Korea, 1960-2020

A/Prof. Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California
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ChiBeom Park
Thu, 23 Jul 2026

"공감은 동의가 아니다": 21세기에 한국어 '공감'에 대해 다시 생각하기 Sympathy Is Not Agreement: Rethinking Sympathy in the Korean Language for the Twenty-First Century

This talk will ONLY be delivered in Korean. 
Korean Literature Book Club: Caregiving Stories with Kim Yudam and Sunnie Chae
Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Korean Literature Book Club: Caregiving Stories with Kim Yudam and Sunnie Chae

Join us for our second Korean Literature Book Club of 2026.

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Yudam Talk
Fri, 27 Mar 2026

Women's Lives in Korean Literature

Join us for a literary conversation with acclaimed author Kim Yudam.
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The 1000 Anton Hurs Problem: The Failure of AI in Literary Translation
Thu, 5 Mar 2026

The 1000 Anton Hurs Problem: The Failure of AI in Literary Translation

Award-winning translator and former app-developer Anton Hur discusses the problem of AI in literary translation.
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