Events
We aim to envision, empower, and enrich decolonial scholarly and pedagogical practices in Korean studies at the nexus of the U.S. empire and postcolonial Korea. For the 2023-24 academic year, we offered a series of mentoring workshops for early-stage Korean studies scholars, focusing on issues such as navigating and contesting hegemonic whiteness, ethnonationalism, methodological nationalism, and heteronormativity and cisnormativity within Korean studies.
For the 2024-25 academic year, we plan to offer a series of professionalization workshops to democratize the “hidden curriculum” in Korean studies regarding publications, networking, and the job market. Additionally, we will host panels and roundtables on the critical positionality of Korea, the Korean diaspora, and Korean studies in addressing urgent historical and contemporary issues. Lastly, we are running an early-career scholars’ happy hour to build communities of care and solidarity.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bridging Korean & Korean American Studies (Feb 21)
Please join us for our first DKSC workshop of 2025 “Bridging Korean and Korean American Studies”! Where does Korean American Studies fit alongside different disciplines? Is it a branch of Korean Studies’ initiatives to globalize and transnationalize the field? In this workshop, we invite three interdisciplinary scholars working within and between Korean Studies and Korean…
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