Author: DKS Collective

  • Publication Workshop (Nov 12, 2025)

    Publication Workshop (Nov 12, 2025)

    The Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective (DKSC) presents a professionalization workshop on book publication in Korean Studies on November 12 (Wed), from 3:30-5PM EST. Three scholars (Bohyeong Kim, David Krolikoski, and Jinwon Kim) will share their experiences publishing (forthcoming) monographs with different academic presses and across diverse disciplines. The panel will discuss strategies for transforming a

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  • DKSC Roundtable “Reflecting 10 Years of ‘Feminism Reboot’ in Korean Studies (Sep 26, 2025)

    DKSC Roundtable “Reflecting 10 Years of ‘Feminism Reboot’ in Korean Studies (Sep 26, 2025)

    This roundtable reflects on the ten years since Feminism Reboot (2015), a pivotal moment in feminist and queer politics, activism, and scholarship in South Korea. Using that moment as a point of departure, we will reflect on a decade of feminist and queer inquiry in Korean Studies—asking what has shifted, what has remained stagnant, and

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  • CFP: Publication Mentoring Workshop

    CFP: Publication Mentoring Workshop

    Call for Papers: DKSC Publication Mentoring Workshop DKSC is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Publication Mentoring Workshop, scheduled for June 2025. This workshop provides graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in all humanities and qualitative social science disciplines, working on a broad range of topics concerning Korea, with an opportunity to receive

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  • DKSC Film Series “When the Stones Speak” (April 11)

    DKSC Film Series “When the Stones Speak” (April 11)

    DKSC Screening [Until the Stones Speak] DKSC에서는 제주 4.3 관련 군사재판에 연루된 다섯 명의 여성 민간인 생존자들의 이야기를 담은 다큐멘터리 <돌들이 말할 때까지> (2023) 의 온라인 상영회를 개최합니다. 상영 후 영화를 연출한 김경만 감독님과의 Q&A시간이 마련될 예정입니다. 행사는 한국어로 진행됩니다. DKSC is hosting a special screening of Until the Stones Speak (2023), directed by Kim

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  • “28 Hours at Namtaeryeong: I felt ashamed of my country. But I also saw its future in these women.”

    Image Credit: IKP News Translators’ Note: From December 16 to 21, 2024, the “Jeon Bong-jun Struggle Group,” a coalition of eight agricultural and food-related organizations, drove tractors and other vehicles to Seoul from the southern regions in protest, calling for the arrest of impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol. Upon their arrival at Namtaeryeong—the border between

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