Syllabus (Fall 2024)

Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: Writings of a Crown Princess of 18th-Century Korea
First lecture: 9:00 – 10:15, includes 15-minute discussion
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Ksenia Chizhova is Associate Professor at Princeton University. She specializes in the methodologies of literary and cultural studies to work on vernacular Korean writing and calligraphy from the 17th century to the present. Her work focuses on the study of women, gender, and family in Korea.

“Occupation, Independence, and the Korean War
Second lecture: 10:30 – 11:45, includes 15-minute discussion.

Juman Kim is Assistant Professor at Towson University. His areas of expertise include History of Political Thought, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Contemporary Political Social Theory.

Break
11:45 – 12:15

“From K-Pop to K-Politics: Culture and Politics in Modern Korea”
Third lecture: 12:15 – 1:30, includes 15-minute discussion.

Hyun-Binn Cho is Assistant Professor at the College of New Jersey. Dr. Cho teaches courses on international relations, foreign policy, international security, and security in the Asia-Pacific.