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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 …

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Interviews with scholars of Korea about their new books.

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’ …
General History February 2, 2022

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

Alexander Dukalskis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Making the World Safe for Dictatorship (Oxford University Press, 2021) Dr. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which …
Japanese Studies January 3, 2022

Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism

Education in the Japanese Empire

Yuka Hiruma Kishida

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Yuka Hiruma Kishida makes a fresh contribution to the recent effort to re-examine the Japanese …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 27, 2021

East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist

Kuan-Jen Chen

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
When did the Cold War in East Asia really begin? According to ADI-NIAS researcher Kuan-Jen Chen, the answer is 1945 – if we view the Cold War through a maritime …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 20, 2021

Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies

A Conversation with Myunghee Lee

Myunghee Lee

Hosted by Petra Alderman
Why did so many of South Korea’s senior citizens take to the streets between 2016 and 2019? What motivated their participation in rallies? And what do these rallies tell us …
East Asian Studies November 24, 2021

Sound of the Border

Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China

Sunhee Koo

Hosted by Ed Pulford
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu in Chinese – have long seemed …
East Asian Studies September 7, 2021

Imperial Romance

Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945

Su Yun Kim

Hosted by Ed Pulford
As in colonial situations elsewhere, Korean experiences of Japanese empire featured many attempts by the imperial authorities to regulate intimate aspects of Korean life, including intermarriage between colonizer and colonized …
Asian Review of Books September 2, 2021

North Korea: Like Nowhere Else

Two Years of Life and Photos from the World's Most Secretive State

Lindsey Miller

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
It’s a cliche to call North Korea the most isolated country in the world. Those of us living outside the country often have very little idea of what life there …
Anthropology August 24, 2021

Glossolalia and the Problem of Language

Nicholas Harkness

Hosted by Amir Lehman
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions, glossolalia is …
Gender Studies August 18, 2021

Tastes Like War

A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

Hosted by Ann Choi
The US military camptowns were established shortly after the Second World War in 1945, appropriating the Japanese comfort stations. The Korean government actively supported the creation of camptowns for its …