Past Events

Over the course of the classical Chinese tradition, an extraordinarily complex set of debates developed around the art of interpretation—how to interpret the past and how to interpret texts from the past. This lecture will explore these debates concerning the theory and practice of interpretation and discuss their larger comparative implications.

This talk examines the figure of the translator/interpreter in the literature produced during the occluded years of the US occupation, both by major Korean writers and by American servicemen in Korea.

This presentation focuses on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th centuries along the eastern part of the Silk Routes.

Join us for a screening of Crossings (2021), a film documenting a group of international women peacemakers on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own unique mini bojagi with geometric patterns can either be displayed as art in a frame or used as a decorative household item.

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This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of scholarship.