Nordic Baltic Korean Studies Days 2024

The principal motivation of the course is to enable students with an interest in Korean Studies to meet and study alongside their peers in order to develop a pan-Nordic-Baltic network and sense of community.

Students gain time with Korean Studies research and teaching faculty from other institutes helping to diversify their regular curriculum and learning opportunities. For teachers, it is similarly a chance to collaborate with their colleagues and students.

The Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days is a co-taught course organized between Korean Studies faculty of Nordic (and newly) Baltic institutions including the universities of Helsinki, Turku, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim), Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas), and The University of Latvia. It is generously funded by Nordplus that supports educational cooperation throughout Nordic and Baltic states. We've have previously run N(B)KSD in 2019, 2021 (online), and 2022. This will be the fourth Nordic, and first Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days!

Programme

See programme for open talks. Workshops and trainings require registration. 

Monday 4 March

Copenhagen: 12:45
Seoul: 20:45

Martin Gehlmann (Ruhr University Bochum): Student Life during Chosŏn Times

Tuesday 5 March

Copenhagen: 09:15
Seoul: 17:15

Vladimir Tikhonov (University of Oslo): Book talk The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945 

Copenhagen: 12:45
Seoul: 20:45

Soo Ryon Yoon (Sungkonghoe University): Korean Performance through the Inter-Asia Lens: Introduction

Wednesday 6 March

Copenhagen: 09:15
Seoul: 17:15

Younghan Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies): Book talk Global Sports Fandom in South Korea 

Copenhagen: 12:45
Seoul: 20:45

 Se-Mi Oh (University of Michigan): Book talk City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism

Thursday 7 March

Copenhagen: 09:15
Seoul: 17:15

Olga Fedorenko (Seoul National University): Book talk Flowers of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads 

Copenhagen: 12:45
Seoul: 20:45

CedarBough Saeji (Pusan National University): Dressing Up in the Korean Past: An Analysis of Hanbok Wearing as Play Informed by Popular Culture

Friday 8 March

Copenhagen: 09:15
Seoul: 17:15

Sonja Häussler (University of Stockholm): Intellectuals Campaigning in Sweden for the Recognition of the DPRK

Copenhagen: 12:45
Seoul: 20:45

Gabriel Jonsson (University of Stockholm): Book talk Human Rights and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea

See full programme

Contact of local organizer: Barbara Wall

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