AKS Core project events posters and photos – June 2022- May 2023

Event: “A Distance Place” (Film Screening)

Date/Place: 2 October 2022, Film House

Participants: Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Collaborated event with Queer East Film Festival

Event: “Take Me Home” (Film Screening)

Date/Place: 5 October 2022, Film House

Participants: Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Collaborated event with Queer East Film Festival

Remarks: Dr Kim made opening remarks, reciting a poem ‘Ivy (담쟁이)’ written by Do Jong-Hwan.

Event: Korean Culture Day

Date/Place: 11 October 2022, Teviot Row House

Participants: Students, staff, 22 attendees

Purpose: Community building

Event: The Asian Studies Seminar Series (Film Screening)

Date/Place: 12 October 2022, Adam House Lecture Theatre

Participants: Speaker: Miki Dezaki; Students, staff, public audience (About 45 attendees)

Purpose: The first film screening co-hosted by Asian Studies and SCKS

Agenda / Theme: “Shusenjo: The main battleground of the comfort women issue”

Outcome: Film screening helped our students and ordinary audience in Edinburgh understand the most sensitive issues between Korea and Japan over diplomatic issues.

Remarks: The director Miki Dezaki won the ongoing lawsuit over this film in Japan; it was part of his legal victory tour in Europe (UK and Germany).

Event: The Yun Posun Memorial Symposium 2022: Cultural Impact and Hallyu (K-Culture)

Date/Place: 26 October 2022, Edinburgh and Seoul, via Zoom

Participants: Speakers: Dr Haekyung Um, Prof Doobo Shim; Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Symposium on cultural impacts and Hallyu

Event: SCKS Distinguished Lecture Series

Date/Place: 7 November 2022, 50 George Square

Participants: Speaker: Dr Hwajin Song; Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Lecture on village capacities and enterprises

Agenda / Theme: “Village Capacities and Village Enterprises in Rural Korea: A Case Study on Song-ra Village in the 1960s and 1970s”

Event: The Asian Studies Seminar Series (Lecture)

Date/Place: 16 November 2022, 40 George Square

Participants: Speaker: Prof Do-Hyun Han; Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Lecture

Agenda / Theme: “Homo Reciprocans in the Korean and global context”

Event: A Library Workshop on Korea and Scotland Network

Date/Place: 21 November 2022, The Main Library

Participants: Speaker: Prof Sam Oh; Students, staff (about 14 participants)

Purpose: Workshop

Agenda / Theme: “Paying Our Debts to Memory: Preserving the Archive of the Korea National Debt Redemption Movement”

Event: The Asian Studies Seminar Series (Lecture)

Date/Place: 23 November 2022, 40 George Square

Participants: Speaker: Prof Jung Lee; Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Lecture

Agenda / Theme: “Cranes, cultivating a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea: Cultured nature generating instrumentalities”

Event: SCKS Distinguished Lecture Series

Date/Place: 17 January 2023, 19 George Square

Participants: Speaker: Dr Hana Jee; Students, staff, public audience (about 20 participants)

Purpose: Lecture

Agenda / Theme: “Are Letter Shapes Arbitrary?”

Event: SCKS Distinguished Lecture Series

Date/Place: 25 January 2023, 50 George Square

Participants: Speaker: Dr Soon-ok (Jamie) Shin; Students, staff, public audience (about 10 participants)

Purpose: Lecture

Agenda / Theme: “North Korea’s Paradoxical (Anti-)Nuclearism, 1949-1976”

Event: Korean Culture Day

Date/Place: 7 February 2023, Korean BBQ

Participants: Students, staff (16 participants)

Purpose: Community building

Event: The Current Sino-American Relationship and its Global Implications

Date/Place: 22-24 February 2023, 50 George Square, Zoom (online)

Participants: Speakers: Prof. Kerry Brown, Prof. Yongjin Zhang, Prof. Shaun Breslin, Dr Andrew Chubb, Dr Kingsley Edney, Tong Zhou, Yue Yang; Students, staff, public audience

Purpose: Workshop

Outcome: Student organised workshop supported by the AKS, allowing students to discuss the theme of East Asian studies with well known scholars in the UK.