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X-WR-CALNAME:Rethinking Korea Lecture Series: Dr. Yoon Sun Yang
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yoon Sun Yang of Boston University visits Northeastern Univ
 ersity to give a lecture titled "Minor Cosmopolitanism: Korean-Language Tr
 anspacific Genre Fiction During the Interwar Period."\n\n \n\nThe Korean p
 eninsula exerts an outsized influence on almost every facet of the world t
 oday. South Korea has emerged as one of the largest economies in the world
 \, whose exports include everything from advanced technologies to popular 
 culture. North Korea remains an authoritarian regime\, whose efforts to ch
 allenge its international isolation threatens to ignite a global conflict.
  The peninsula is thus a critical engine of the global economy and a volat
 ile flashpoint of geopolitical tensions. It is too important to be overloo
 ked\, let alone ignored.\n\nThis series\, Rethinking Korea: New Perspectiv
 es on a Critical Region\, invites distinguished scholars of culture\, tran
 snational history\, environment\, and international relations to offer nov
 el perspectives on Korea while situating its complex place within global d
 evelopments. We invite speakers to share their work that will not only she
 d light on the internal dynamics and rich history of Korea but also explor
 e the complex relationship between this critical region and the larger wor
 ld.\n\n \n\nThe first lecture in the series will feature Dr. Yoon Sun Yang
 . Dr. Yang is Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature and o
 f Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Her book Fr
 om Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Ea
 rly Colonial Korea(Cambridge: Harvard University Press\, Asia Center\, 201
 7) won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies
  in 2020. She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Lit
 erature (2020). Her second book project tentatively titled “Transpacific
  Palimpsests: Early Twentieth-Century Korean Migrant Literature between Tw
 o Empires” has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities
  Summer Fellowship and a Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowshi
 p.\n\n \n\nDr. Yang's talk will be titled\, "Minor Cosmopolitanism: Kor
 ean-Language Transpacific Genre Fiction During the Interwar Period."\n\n \
 n\nThe speakers series is made possible by the South Korea Initiative Fund
 \, which is dedicated to helping establish an institutional commitment to 
 Korean Studies at Northeastern\, offering financial support to students st
 udying or working in Korea\, and educating the community about important i
 ssues regarding Korea in the world.
GEO:42.335552;-71.088226
LOCATION:Renaissance_Park\, 909
SUMMARY:Rethinking Korea Lecture Series: Dr. Yoon Sun Yang
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 e_series_yoon_sun_yang
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