Events
Conference Archive
2018
World Affairs Council of Seattle – North Korea: What Now?
Fri, Dec 14 at 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
1201 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
After months of escalating tension between the United States and North Korea, President Trump and Kim Jong-Un held a historic meeting in Singapore, where they signed a joint statement pledging to establish new relations between the two countries, build lasting peace and work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. But how real are these goals? Can diplomacy work with North Korea? Join the World Affairs Council for a lunch discussion with Ambassador Joseph Yun, former United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan, on what to expect in the U.S.-North Korea relationship, the future of North Korean denuclearization plan, and achieving peace on Korean Peninsula.
This event is sponsored by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea.
About the Speaker
Ambassador Joseph Yun is senior adviser to the Asia Program at the United States Institute of Peace. As former US Special Representative for North Korea Policy, he is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on relations with North Korea, as well as on broader US-East Asian policy. His 33-year diplomatic career has been marked by his commitment to face-to-face engagement as the best avenue for resolving conflict and advancing cross-border cooperation.
Ambassador Yun previously served as the Special Representative for North Korea Policy from October 2016 to May 2018. He played an instrumental role in reopening the “New York channel,” a direct communication line with officials from Pyongyang. During this time, he concurrently held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Korea and Japan, responsible for all aspects of bilateral relations with the two treaty allies. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and led efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Myanmar.
His previous assignments also included Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asian Affairs, Counselor for Political Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Economic Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, as well as earlier assignments in South Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and France. Ambassador Yun is the recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Service Award, four Superior Honors Awards, and nine Foreign Service Performance Awards from the U.S. State Department.
Ambassador Yun holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Wales. He speaks Korean, Indonesian and French. He is married to Dr. Melanie Billings-Yun. They have one son, Matthew.
The Boeing Company is an underwriting sponsor of all World Affairs Council Community Programs.
2017
2016
2015
“Serialization in Asia” Conference, May 22-23, 2015
Room 337 Husky Union Building (HUB), University of Washington
Organizer: Heekyoung Cho (UW)
Presenters: Heekyoung Cho (UW), Chris Hamm (UW), Bohyeong Kim (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Miriam Kingsberg (University of Colorado), Uliana Kobyakova (Keimyung University, Korea), Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University), Ted Mack (UW), Suyoung Son (Cornell University), and Bonnie Tilland (UW)
Discussants: Yomi Braester (UW), Jeffrey Knight (UW), Vicente Rafael (UW), and Cynthia Steele (UW)
K-Manhwa, March 28- April 1, 2015
2014
Presentation: “Regional Dynamics in NE Asia and the Future of US – S. Korea Relations”
Panel discussion and Q&A
Korea Peninsula Forum 2014: Northeast Asian Regional Dynamics
Wednesday November 12, 2014
6:00-7:30 PM
Kane Hall – Walker-Ames Room
Speaker: Christopher Hill
For the first ground-breaking event for the Korean Peninsula Forum, Center for Korea Studies invites Christopher Robert Hill, the former United States ambassador to the Republic of Korea and currently the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, to give a public presentation. The Korea Peninsula Forum aims at enhancing the understanding and visibility of issues related to the Korean peninsula in the Northwest America and beyond. The Forum is proposed and sponsored by the Center for Korea Studies at University of Washington and will be supported by Korea Foundation.
“Serial Publication in Asia” (Workshop)
April 19, 2014
Organizer: Heekyoung Cho (UW, Korean Literature)
Participants:
Jennifer Dubrow (UW, Urdu Literature)
Chris Hamm (UW, Modern Chinese Literature)
Suyoung Son (University of Colorado-Boulder, Premodern Chinese Literature)
Korea-Vietnam Workshop
March 21, 2014
Participants:
Clark Sorensen (UW)
Andrea Arai (UW)
Judith Henchy (UW)
Christoph Giebel (UW)
Charles Armstrong (Columbia)
Laurel Kendall (Columbia)
Peter Zinoman (UC Berkeley)
2013
“The Politics of Honorable Death and Martyrdom in Korean History” (Workshop)
June 8-9, 2013
Co-organizers: Hwasook Nam (UW) and Jungwon Kim (Columbia University)
Participants:
Jungwon Kim (Columbia, History)
Ho Kim (Kyungin University of Education, History)
Franklin Rausch (Land University, History)
Amanda Swain (UW, History)
Jung Hwan Cheon (Sungkyunkwan University, Cultural studies)
Discussants:
Seung Hee Jeon (Harvard, Comparative literature)
Heekyoung Cho (UW, Literature)
2012
“Spaces of Possibility”
Korea and Japan: In, Between, and Beyond the Nation
September 21-23, 2012
Organizers: Andrea G. Arai (UW), Clark Sorensen (UW)
Working group:
Clark Sorensen (UW), Andrea Arai (UW), Tom Looser (NYU), Chris Nelson (UNC-Chapel Hill), Rob Oppenheim (UTexas), Janet Poole (UToronto)
Other Participants:
Franz Prichara (UCLA), Heekyoung Cho (UW), Hong Sukjong (Cornell U.), Jinsoo An (UC Berkeley), Kyounglae Kang (U. Rochester), Robert Winstanly-chesters (U. Leeds, UK)
Discussants:
Nancy Albelmann (U Illinois), Marilyn Ivy (Columbia), Ken Oshima (UW), Harry Harootunian (NYU Emeritus)
“Spaces of Possibility” is a working conference on contemporary Korea and Japan that seeks to closely consider new kinds of cultural and social spaces that have begun to apepar in teh wake of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s. For this conference we have encouraged a new model of collaborative research. Indeed, formulating a new methodology for collaborative research across disciplines, areas, national times, and spaces is an equally important goal of this conference. By visiting both new and old locations in the company of colleagues in the course of researching our papers, we aim to explore the unfamiliarity of the familiar, and bring this explroation into our conference papers. It is in this interaction between our working group members, as well as between the different times and spaces of Korea and Japan in which we hope to discover new possibilities for our research just as we explore the new possibilities emergent in these sites.
2010
Workshop on the International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday – Saturday, November 19 – 20, 2010
Parrington Hall, Forum
University of Washington, Seattle
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November 19 Schedule
November 20 Schedule
Participants
Sponsors
Friday, November 19
9:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30-9:40 Opening Remarks
Clark Sorensen, Director, Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington
Sung-Min Woo, Northeast Asian History Foundation
9:40-12:30 Session I: Colonial Policies for Forging Korea’s Image
Chair: Hongyung Lee (UC Berkeley)
Presenter: Hak-joon Kim (The Dong-A Daily)
Title: “A Devil Appears in A Different Dress: Imperial Japan’s Deceptive Propaganda for the Rationalization of Making Korea Its Colony”
Presenter: Sang-sook Jeon (Yonsei University)
Title: “Modern Japanese International Relations and the Chosun Issue”
Presenter: Andre Schmid (University of Toronto)
Title: “Japanese Propaganda in the United States from 1905”
Presenter: Naoko Shimazu (University of London)
Title: “Publicizing Colonies: Visual Representations of ‘Korea’ and ‘Koreans’ in NIPPON”
Discussants: Kan Kimura (Kobe University), Kenneth Pyle (University of Washington), Ted Mack (University of Washington)
12:30-1:30 Commons (Catered Lunch)
1:30-4:30 Session II: Colonial Korea’s Perception of Foreign Societies
Chair: Donald Hellmann (University of Washington)
Presenter: Dong-no Kim (Yonsei University)
Title: “Korean Elites’ Perception of the World”
Presenter: Yong-chool Ha (University of Washington)
Title: “The Impact of the Colonial Situation on International Perspectives in Korea: Active Imagination, Wishful Strategies, and Passive Action”
Presenter: Yu-mi Moon (Stanford University)
Title: “American Movies and Perceptions of America in Wartime Colonial Korea: 1931-1942”
Discussants: Ihn-hwi Park (Ewah Womens’ University), Hwasook Nam (University of Washington)
Saturday, November 20
9:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30-12:30 Session III: Foreign Societies’ Perception of Colonial Korea
Chair: Anand Yang (University of Washington)
Presenter: Daeyeol Ku (Ewha Womens’ University)
Title: “British and American Perception of Korea during the Colonial Period”
Presenter: Sergey Kurbanov (St. Petersburg State University)
Title: “Russian View of Koreans and Japanese Colonization of Korea in the First Quarter of the 20th Century”
Presenter: Kezhi Sun (Fudan University)
Title: “Modern Chinese Understanding of Colonial Korea”
Discussants: Hongyung Lee (UC Berkeley), Yong-chool Ha (University of Washington), Madeline Dong (University of Washington)
12:30-2:00 Catered Lunch and Roundtable Discussion
Participants
| Woon-do Choi | NEAHF |
| Sung-min Woo | NEAHF |
| Sang-sook Jeon | Yonsei University |
| Andre Schmid | University of Toronto |
| Naoko Shimazu | University of London |
| Dong-no Kim | Yonsei University |
| Yong-chool Ha | University of Washington |
| Yu-mi Moon | Stanford University |
| Hak-joon Kim | The Dong-A Daily |
| Sergey Kurbanov | St. Petersburg State University |
| Kezhi Sun | Fudan University |
Sponsors
Organized by the University of Washington Center for Korea Studies.
Sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation and Academy of Korea Studies.
2009
North Korean Nuclear Politics:
Constructing a New Northeast Asian Order in the Twenty-First Century
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday – Friday, June 4 – 5, 2009
Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 310
University of Washington, Seattle
Conference Schedule
Participants
Sponsors
Conference Participants
Morton Abramowitz, The Century Foundation
David Bachman, University of Washington
Chaesung Chun, Seoul National University
Mel Gurtov, Portland State University
Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington
Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego
Donald Hellmann, University of Washington
Cai Jian, Fudan University
Chris Jones, University of Washington
Carol Kessler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Byong Ro Kim, Seoul National University
Chae-Han Kim, Hallym University
Samuel Kim, Columbia University
Sean Kreyling, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chae Jin Lee, Claremont McKenna College
Hong Yung Lee, University of California, Berkeley
K. A. Namkung, Senior Advisor to Governor Bill Richardson
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia
Myoung Kyu Park, Seoul National University
Scott Snyder, Council on Foreign Relations
Clark Sorensen, University of Washington
Haruki Wada, Tokyo University
Seong Ji Woo, Kyung Hee University
Anand Yang, University of Washington
Conference Sponsors
Organized by the University of Washington Center for Korea Studies and the Seoul National University Institute of Unification and Peace Studies.
Sponsored by the Academy for Korean Studies and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2008
The Literature of Liberation Space: A Conference on Korean Literature 1945-1950
October 31-November 1, 2008
Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 310
Registration
Conference Schedule
Library Exhibit and Reception
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Registration is recommended but not mandatory. To register, please email your name and affiliation to Young Sook Lim at uwcks@u.washington.edu or call (206) 543-4873.
| Conference Schedule
Thursday, October 30 |
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| 5:00-6:30 pm | Film: “용광로” (Yongkwangno / The Crucible), 1949 Allen Library Auditorium |
| Friday, October 31 | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee and Donuts |
| 9:00-11:00 am | Session I: The Discource of Liberation Space |
| On the Concept of Liberation Space Clark Sorensen, Korea Studies, University of Washington |
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| Contextualizing Korean Liberation Space in World Literature David McCann, Korean Literature, Harvard University |
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| 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 12:15-2:15 pm | Session II: New Imaginaries |
| A Journey Through Time and Across Empires: Yi T’ae-jun’s Post-Colonial Imagination Janet Poole, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto |
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| “Liberation Space” Travelogues: Dividing Korea into the Global Cold War Order Theodore Hughes, Korean Literature, Columbia University |
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| 2:15-2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:30-5:00 pm | Session III: Classical Literature in Liberation Space |
| Telling History with Literature Jiwon Shin, East Asian Languages and Culture, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Rewriting the “Real” Text: Park T’aewon’s Hong Kil-Tong Chon Leif Olsen, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
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| Searching for the “Chosŏnness:” How to Read Chong Chi-Yong’s Mountain Poems Wook-jin Jeong, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington |
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| 5:30-6:30 pm | Exhibit & Reception: UW East Asia Library Liberation Space Collection Allen Library Lobby (Exhibit) East Asia Library Reading Room (Reception) |
| Saturday, November 1 | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee and Donuts |
| 9:00-11:00 am | Session IV: (Title TBD) |
| On Writing Well in Korean: Literary Style Manuals from “Liberation Space” Ross King, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
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| Literature Written for Children in Liberation Space Dafna Zur, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
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| 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 12:15-2:15 pm | Session V: Examples from Left and Right |
| Mongnŏmi maŭl ŭi kae: Stories of Haebang konggan by Hwang Sun-wŏn Bruce Fulton, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
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| Red Love and Socialist Modernity in the Creation of North Korea Ruth Barraclough, Asian Studies, Australian National University |
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| 2:15-2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:30-4:30 pm | Session VI: Liberation Space: Its Significance for Korean Literature |
| Title TBD Peter Lee, Korean Literature, University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Title TBD Young Min Kwon, Korean Literature, Seoul National University |
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| 4:30-5:00 pm | Concluding Remarks |
In celebration of “The Literature of Liberation Space” conference, you are cordially invited to attend the opening reception of the exhibit,
Voices from Liberation Space,
on Friday, October 31, 2008, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
George Beckmann Reading Room
East Asia Library
The exhibit will be feature in the Allen Library North Lobby from October 31, 2008 – December 31, 2008.
To RSVP, please call Hyokyoung Yi at (206) 543-6603 or email eal-event@lib.washington.edu.
Sponsored by the University of Washington Center for Korea Studies,
the Academy of Korean Studies,
the University of Washington East Asia Library,
and the University of Washington Department of Asian Languages & Literature