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2016-2017 IKS Events

Academic Programming
 

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
IKS Lecture: Seung-kyung Kim, Indiana University, “Feminist Politics to Family Politics?: Childcare Policy Debates in South Korea”
 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
IKS Lecture: Kelly Jeong, University of California, Riverside, “Colonial Modernity in ‘A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist’”
 
OCTOBER 4, 2016
IKS Lecture: Youngna Kim, Seoul National University, “Daunting Challenges, Dynamic Changes: 20th Century Korean Art”
 
OCTOBER 11, 2016
IKS Film Screening & Discussion: “Ode to My Father” with Admiral J. Robert Lunney
 
OCTOBER 28, 2016
IKS Lecture: Eunjung Kim, Syracuse University, “Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability”
 
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
IKS Lecture: David Kang, University of Southern California, “The US Pivot and Regional Security in Northeast Asia”
 
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
IKS Lecture: David Kang, University of Southern California, “Religion and Politics in Contemporary Korea”
 
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
IKS Lecture: Jung Sup Kim, Kyunghee University, “The K-Pop Wave and the Korean Language”
 
MARCH 6, 2017
IKS Lecture: Dong-Won Kim, University of Pennsylvania, “Science Fiction in South and North Korea”
 
MARCH 28, 2017
IKS Lecture: Taedong Lee, Yonsei University, “Translocal Relations of Climate Change in East Asia”
 
MARCH 29, 2017
IKS Lecture: Esther Kim Lee, University of Maryland, “Korean Avant-Garde Theatre and Sung Rno’s Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen”
 
APRIL 3, 2017
IKS Film Screening & Discussion: “The Bacchus Lady” with E J-yong, director
 
APRIL 24, 2017
EASC/ICS/IJS/IKS Lecture: Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge, “Chinese Whispers: Transforming Chinese Texts in Japan, Korea and Vietnam”
 

Outreach
 

JUNE 26 – JULY 1, 2016
IKS Teacher Training: “Teaching East Asia: Classroom Ideas for a Dynamic Region” as part of the Faculty Course Development for International Studies Teachers’ Institute, Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University
 
DECEMBER 9, 2016
IKS Outreach: Granville High School Film Screening, Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University
 
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
IKS Outreach: Granville High School Mentoring Program, Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University