Past activities

• 9 Apr. 2026, 14:30-16:00

  Women in Pak Kyongni's Early Literature of the 1950s

  Talk by Cristina Bahón Arnaiz, Ph.D., assistant professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (Center for East Asian Studies), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• 1 Dec. 2025, 10:30-12:00

  Future heritage, nostalgia and everydayness in South Korea

  Lecture by Elmer Veldkamp, University Lecturer Korean Studies, Leiden University.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 10:30-12:00

  Born into Rank? Status and Social Mobility in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910)

  Lecture by Jing Hu (State Library of Berlin)

• 4 Nov. 2025, 10:30-12:00

  Stone Fighting, Violence and Culture in Korea, East Asia and the World

  Talk by Felix Siegmund, professor of Premodern Korean Philology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

• 25 June - 26 June 2025

  Final Conference of TEMPTING TUNES: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative in Korean Culture

  Two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the rich intersections of sound and narrative in Korean cultural history.

• 16 May 2025, 14:00

  Condensed Rhythms: Power, Place, and the Spatial Imaginary in Korean Hip-hop

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Amos Zaki Talcott Farooqi.