Thursday, September 21 (4:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, August 29 (5:30 p.m.)December 9, 2017
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12/9 | Korean Fashion from the Joseon Dynasty to Today - Lee Talbot, Minjee Kim
11/9 | International Sanctions and the Sino-North Korean Border Economy - Kevin Gray
11/4 | Jin Teok: Pioneer of Korean Fashion - Jin Teok
10/28 | Korean National Gugak Center Traditional Orchestra - Various
10/21 | Dwelling In-Between: Korean Americans in the Bay Area - Various
10/5 | If I Can K-Pop Dance, I’ll Be Part of Your Beauty Revolution - kate-hers RHEE
9/29 | South Korea's Five Year Plan for National Affairs of the Moon Administration - Jin-Pyo Kim
9/26 | Celebrating 100 Years of Modern Korean Literature - Kyung-Ran Jo, Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon
9/23 | New Traditions: Korean Culture Week Launch - Miran Lee, Kay Kang, Soo-yeon Lyuh
9/21 | Film Screening: The Bacchus Lady - E J-yong
9/16 | In-Between Places: Korean American Artists in the Bay Area - Various
9/7 | South Korean Community Activism and its Affective Promise for Solidarity - Mun Young Cho
8/29 | A Conversation with Min Seok Ahn - Min Seok Ahn
Saturday, December 9 (2:00 p.m.)
Korean Fashion from the Joseon Dynasty to Today
Lee Talbot (George Washington University Museum), Minjee Kim (independent historian)
Location: Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
Special exhibition in association with the Asian Art Museum and Couture Korea that runs from Nov. 3, 2017 – Feb. 4, 2018.
Thursday, November 9 (5:00 p.m.)
International Sanctions and the Sino-North Korean Border Economy
Kevin Gray (University of Sussex)
Location: Room 145, Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Summary: Come join us as Kevin Gray talks about the current instabilities happening in North and South Korea, both under a political and economic lens. Kevin Gray is Reader in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He has researched widely on the political economy of both North and South Korea. His current project focuses on marketization and economic development in North Korea.
Saturday, October 28 (1:00 p.m.)
Concert: Korean National Gugak Center Traditional Orchestra
Location: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsor/s: Cal Performances, Pacific Rim Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz
Schedule:
1:00-2:00 Lecture and Demonstration of Korean Traditional Instruments (Alumni House)
3:00-5:00 Concert I: Creative Traditional Orchestra New Works Concert (Zellerbach Hall)
5:30-7:30 Festival and Gilnori Parade (Lower Sproul Plaza)
8:00-10:00 Concert II: Traditional Korean Court and Folk Music (Zellerbach Hall)
Featuring:
Edmund Campion (UC Berkeley)
Shih-Hui Chen (Rice University)
George Lewis (Columbia University)
David Evan Jones (UC Santa Cruz)
Hi Kyung Kim (UC Santa Cruz)
Chinary Ung (UC San Diego)
Geon Yong Lee (composer)
Also featuring performers from the Korean National Gugak Center Traditional Orchestra.
Tickets for both concerts were available for purchase through Cal Performances.
Saturday, October 21 (2:00 p.m.)
Dwelling In-Between: Korean Americans in the Bay Area
Location: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Speakers:
Rosemarie Nahm (Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation)
Laura Kang (UC Irvine)
Myung Mi Kim (SUNY Buffalo)
Linda Inson Choy (curator)
Jung Ran Bae (artist)
Minji Sohn (artist)
In association with the Mills College Art Museum and the Asian Art Museum.
Thursday, October 5 (4:00 p.m.)
If I Can K-Pop Dance, I’ll Be Part of Your Beauty Revolution
kate-hers RHEE (artist)
Location: Room 180, Doe Library, UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsor/s: Gender and the Trans-Pacific World Program, Institute of International Studies
Summary: In this lecture, kate-hers RHEE will discuss the evolution of her politically engaged work as an artist and her dogged pursuit of cultivating creativity and playful improvisation in her artistic practice. She’ll touch on past work and influences to frame the context of her current interdisciplinary project, called Modern Beauty Ideals in the Age of Digital Technology or If I can K-Pop dance, I’ll be part of your beauty revolution. This work takes the form of photography, drawing, sculpture, video, internet art, installation, and social intervention to engage hetero-patriarchal global beauty ideals and accompanying digital technology from a transnational feminist perspective.
Bio: Kate-hers RHEE was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in a racially segregated working class suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Her interdisciplinary work reflects the complex nature of miscast identity, cultural dislocation, and gendered interactions. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she was a Graduate Studies Diversity and Jacob K. Javits fellow.
Friday, September 29 (5:00 p.m.)
South Korea's Five Year Plan for National Affairs of the Moon Administration
Jin-Pyo Kim (State Affairs Planning Advisory Committee)
Location: Alumni House, UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsor/s: Physical Education Program, Martial Arts
Summary: As tensions between South and North Korea are as contentious as ever, The South Korean State Affairs Planning Committee Chairman Jin-pyo Kim will discuss the state's five-year plan for national affairs, including the issue of military tensions between South and North Korea. During his trip to UC Berkeley, Chairman Kim will share his thoughts and answer questions that individuals might have regarding the current state of affairs.
Tuesday, September 26 (5:00 p.m.)
Celebrating 100 Years of Modern Korean Literature
Kyung-Ran Jo (author), Bruce Fulton (University of British Columbia), Youngmin Kwon (UC Berkeley)
Location: Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Co-Sponsor/s: Korean Consulate General in San Francisco
Part of San Francisco Korea Week.
Saturday, September 16 (6:00 p.m.)
In-Between Places: Korean American Artists in the Bay Area
Location: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA
Featured Artists: Jung Ran Bae, Sohyung Choi, Kay Kang, Miran Lee, Young June Lew, Nicholas Oh, Younhee Paik, Minji Sohn
In association with the Mills College Art Museum and the Asian Art Museum. Exhibition runs from Sep. 13, 2017 – Dec. 10, 2017.
Thursday, September 7 (4:00 p.m.)
Locations of Reflexivity: South Korean Community Activism and its Affective Promise for Solidarity
Mun Young Cho (Yonsei University)
Location: Room 180, Doe Library, UC Berkeley
Summary: What does “solidarity” mean to activists in moments when radical actions for resistance are on the ebb and project-based anti-poverty interventions such as aid, welfare, and care have become the dominant approaches to “the poor”? In this presentation, I explore the globalization of South Korean community activism amidst the rearrangement of the anti-poverty agenda among Asian countries, as well as the shifting political and social economy within the nation. My emphasis is on showing how South Korean activists have not so much abandoned the seemingly anachronistic slogan of “solidarity” as tried to reinterpret and revitalize it by remapping poor urban neighborhoods in Asian countries as “locations of reflexivity” (성찰의 현장). With an eye to CO (community organization) training practices coordinated by grassroots activists, I demonstrate that the prevalence of reflexivity as an ethics of solidarity indicates an affective turn in activism, in which affective dialogues for sharing social suffering outweigh a teleological mission to complete a goal.
Bio: Mun Young Cho (조문영) is an associate professor of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research focuses on poverty, labor, activism, development, and youth in China and South Korea. She is the author of the book The Specter of “The People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China (Cornell University Press, 2013), the co-author of <정치의 임계, 공공성의 모험>(2014) and <헬조선 인 앤 아웃>(2017), and the translator of <분배정치의 시대(James Ferguson, Give a Man a Fish)>(2017).