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East Asian Studies September 8, 2022

Cold War Reckonings

Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

Jini Kim Watson

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the …

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Interviews with scholars of Korea about their new books.

East Asian Studies August 16, 2022

Moral Foods

The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia

Angela Ki Che Leung, Melissa L. Caldwell, and Robert Ji-Song Ku

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
The twelve chapters of Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia (U Hawai’i Press, 2020) are divided into three sections: Good Foods, Bad Foods, and Moral …
Japanese Studies August 15, 2022

Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises

Anoma Van Der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Lo

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the …
Asian Review of Books August 4, 2022

Shrimp to Whale

South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
If there’s a country that “punches above its weight”, it’s South Korea. It’s home to some of the world’s largest and most important companies, and the source of pop culture …
East Asian Studies August 2, 2022

Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader

North Korea and the Third World

Benjamin R. Young

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 22, 2022

Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority

Sara Park

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why does Japanese immigration policy have such a bad name? What are the historical origins of tight immigration policies? Where have these policies left immigrants of Korean descent, many of …
High Theory July 6, 2022

Squid Game

A Discussion with Kyung Hyun Kim

Kyung Hyun Kim

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kyung Hyun Kim talks about the Netflix series Squid Game, its economic and political contexts, and its cultural potential. He also talks about his new book, Hegemonic Mimicry, out from …
World Christianity July 5, 2022

Race for Revival

How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

Helen Jin Kim

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
In 1973, Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," held his largest ever "crusade." But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in South Korea. Why there? Race …
Poetry June 6, 2022

Glory Hole

Kim Hyun

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In this episode, co-translators Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan discuss their Korean-to-English translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Released as part of The Pride List …
Gender Studies May 18, 2022

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Hosted by Ann Choi
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era …
East Asian Studies May 17, 2022

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Lessons from East Asia

Christopher Carothers

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Political corruption remains … one of the most intriguing and challenging issues in social science research and public policy, perhaps because although it occurs in virtually all polities, its causes …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 13, 2022

The New Political Cry in South Korea?

The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea

Ju Hui Judy Han

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
The anti-feminist movement in South Korea is gaining global attention. The story has been covered by many western mainstream news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. Is …
East Asian Studies May 6, 2022

Dancing on Bones

History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea

Katie Stallard

Hosted by Ed Pulford
Present-day relations between ‘the West’ and each of China, Russia and North Korea are often fractious to say the least, yet today’s global atmosphere of menace or crisis just as …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Markus Bell

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 28, 2022

The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula

Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea

Sungmin Cho

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
South Korean presidential election ended and the conservative party candidate, Yoon Suk-yeol won the election. How will he balance the relationships between Korea and the US and China? The current …
Folklore March 25, 2022

Contemporary Korean Shamanism

From Ritual to Digital

Liora Sarfati

Hosted by Timothy Thurston
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans--who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed--are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean shamanism are …
Literary Studies March 22, 2022

The Intimacies of Conflict

Cultural Memory and the Korean War

Daniel Y. Kim

Hosted by Adhy Kim
In this episode I talk with Daniel Y. Kim, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University, about his 2020 book Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War …
On Religion March 10, 2022

On Korean Zen Buddhism

A Discussion with Anita Feng

Anita Feng

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Anita Feng (Zen Master Jeong Ji) serves as the guiding teacher at Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle, Washington. She has practiced Zen in the lineage of Zen Master Seung …
Japanese Studies February 23, 2022

Shakespeare and East Asia

Alexa Alice Joubin

Hosted by Amanda Kennell
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare's local productions and scholarship. Shakespeare & East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) addresses this …
Asian American Studies February 11, 2022

Minor Transpacific

Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

David S. Roh

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford University Press, 2021), David S. Roh brings Asian Americanist study of Korean American literature in conversation with Asian studies scholars’ …