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The Culture, Policy and Society programming promotes cross-cultural understanding through public lectures, panel discussions, symposia and workshops that present the rich diversity of Korea and U.S.-Korea relations in historical and contemporary contexts. These programs feature authors, scholars, artists, practitioners from the nonprofit sector, politicians, business leaders and others who are willing to share with the American public their unique expertise on Korea and U.S.-Korea relations.
The focus of this project area is an in-depth exploration of the social, cultural, economic, political, historical and security dimensions of the U.S.-Korea relationship. The objective is to foster a greater awareness, appreciation and understanding of the complexity of these underlying factors, which fuels the power of imagination that is the indispensable wellspring of the capacity for empathy. While divergences of perspectives between Americans and Koreans on many fundamental issues may be inevitable, it is equally inevitable that these divergences must be brought within the realm of imagination to be channeled toward productive engagement based on mutual respect.
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Victor Cha
Author, Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
D.S. Song- Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government, Georgetown University
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sports and politics, while not the most obvious of companions, nonetheless do have a storied relationship from the first games in ancient Olympia to the most recent modern Olympic games in Beijing. Sports have become more global, now that athletes traverse oceans and continents to compete. The politics of sports also are more complicated—and more interesting. South Korea is a quintessential case of how sports can be a major channel of globalization through which political signals can be communicated both intentionally and unintentionally. The political changes that occurred in South Korea between the awarding of the Olympic Games to Seoul in 1981 and their implementation in 1988 is a case study of how—under the world's watchful eye—host nations may feel compelled to embrace the liberal values of the Olympic ideal or risk embarrassment on the world stage.
Join us as Victor Cha discusses his new book, Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia, and reveals the fascinating dynamics of sports diplomacy on the Korean peninsula and across East Asia.
About the Speaker
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Scott Snyder
Author, China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security
Director, Center for Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation
Moderated by
John Delury
Director, China Boom Project, Asia Society
Associate Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Entrenched relationships are being redefined across the Pacific, with China now South Korea’s number one trading partner and destination for foreign investment and tourism. What are the implications of this regional sea change for politics and security in East Asia?
Join us as Scott Snyder, author of China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner, 2008), discusses the transformation of the Sino-South Korean relationship since the early 1990s with John Delury, director of the China Boom Project. Snyder considers the strategic significance of recent developments in China’s relationship with both North and South Korea and also assesses the likely consequences of those developments for U.S. and Japanese influence in the region. His meticulous study lends important context to critical debates regarding China’s foreign policy, Northeast Asian security, and international relations more broadly.
Co-sponsored by the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations
About the Speakers
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In 2007 the U.S.-DPRK Scientific Engagement Consortium was established to explore collaborative science activities between the U.S. and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Collectively, the Consortium members-the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Syracuse University (SU) and The Korea Society (TKS)-have decades of extensive experience in successfully establishing and advancing international scientific collaborations, including with the DPRK. The Consortium hopes this approach will improve versatility, avoid duplication of efforts, economize the efforts of multiple institutions to remain in compliance with U.S. law and policy, and ultimately launch a coordinated effort to support future collaborations.
The Consortium was created with a workshop held at CRDF in May 2007, where fifty participants-including representatives from nine US universities-discussed shared experiences, lessons learned, successes and challenges regarding scientific collaboration with the DPRK. The workshop, funded by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, demonstrated a strong interest by a number of U.S. universities to work towards collaboration with DPRK academics in a variety of key areas of scientific exchange, including agriculture, information technology, and health.
The Consortium has since worked hard to raise awareness with the U.S. and DPRK governments about the value of science engagement in building relations-hosting several concurrent activities including discussions at the annual AAAS meetings. In 2009 the Consortium hopes to send a Nobel Laureate led delegation to the DPRK funded by the Lounsbery Foundation. This delegation will launch a dialogue regarding each country's respective science and policy infrastructure and seek to identify research areas of mutual interest.
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 A Tragicomic P'ansori of Economic Hardship
Bilingual Storysinging
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Chan E. Park
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Join us for a soulful evening of p’ansori, a traditional genre of dramatic narrative singing, as renowned artist and scholar Chan E. Park gives a unique interpretation of The Song of Hŭngbo in both English and Korean.
Based on one of Korea's most beloved folktales, The Song of Hŭngbo is a moral allegory that pits vice against virtue in the characters of two brothers whose fortunes are made and broken by a magic swallow. The Song of Hǔngbo is one of the five extant canonical narratives ( madang) of this distinctly Korean art form. Combining narration and drama for a solo vocalist, p'ansori is a unique musical genre that was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2003.
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