Korean Humanities at Stanford Lecture Series
Broad public interest in the study of Korea has increased dramatically in the last decade. The Korean Humanities Lecture Series brings speakers throughout the academic year to give public lectures on Korea-focused topics in the humanities. These lectures are free and open to the public.
Past Events
This talk will explore the juvenile aesthetics and sensibilities of sunjŏng manhwa, a girls’ comics genre that flourished between the 1980s to early 2000s in South Korea.…
In the early 1950s Japan and Korea, black markets for US troops stationed in the two countries were characterized by transactions over women’s bodies and sexuality.
Unwed mothers in South Korea have long faced ostracism and a lack of social support, which often resulted in the adoption of their children.
Rituals have long oriented Korean life.
This talk casts light on the steel manufacturing industry’s place in South Korea’s media culture from the 1960s to the present that transcends the boundary of industrialist and post-industrialist…
This talk will examine how sinsosŏl, a genre of popular vernacular fiction from early 20th century Korea, came to play a central role in defining modern Korean literature as a national…
Throughout its history, Korea has been the object of Great Power rivalry.
What happens if we tell the history of engineering backwards, that is, not from Western Europe—its current heartland—but from Choson Korea (1392–1910)—a periphery on the other end of…
William Franklin Sands was the highest-ranking foreign adviser in the Korean government in the twilight years of the Choson dynasty.
The #MeToo movement that went viral in the United States in 2017 spread globally and generated a huge response.…