A lecture by Sienna Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College. Sienna Craig is a professor of cultural anthropology at Dartmouth College, invested in understanding the multiple ways that so-called 'traditional' medical systems interact with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships … Read more
Despite its name, the 60-year-old Korean Demilitarized Zone has more than one million soldiers facing off across the four-km-wide area and an equal number of landmines within it. Enduring national division makes the DMZ a naturalized feature and yet created … Read more
Younmi Kim (Art History, Yale University) will present a talk on Buddhist imagery, stemming from her academic work on symbolic rituals, in which an architectural space serves as a non-human agent; the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art; … Read more
Speaker: Prof. Namhee Lee (UCLA, Modern Korean History) Many South Korean blockbuster films released in the 1990s and 2000s probe the "public memory" at the heart of South Korean national identity. This talk will focus on the ways in which … Read more
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