Documenting the History of Korean Christianity in Missionary Archives & Photographs

Details: Category: Gallery Talks

Missionary Children: The Roberts Daughters, Sonch'on, North Pyongan Province / ca. 1910 (Donald Clark Collection) Join us for an in-depth discussion of the value of missionary archives in the study of modern Korea. Touching on major issues in Korea's encounter with the West, Donald N. Clark, professor of history at Trinity University will discuss how missionaries' personal testimonies and photographs help us understand how Christianity became a defining force in contemporary Korea, how Koreans and Westerners formed intercultural relationships and how Korean women played a unique role in building Christian communities.

Gallery Talk

with

Donald N. Clark
Professor of History, Trinity University

950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

This Gallery Talk is in conjunction with the current exhibition in The Korea Society Gallery, Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West Through Christianity.

$10 for members and students, $15 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5.)

For more information or to register for the program, contact Heewon Kim at 212-759-7525, ext. 316, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

About the Speaker

Donald N. Clark teaches courses on China, Japan, Korea, and the history of American foreign relations. He also serves as director of Trinity's International Studies Program. The son of missionaries, a Peace Corps volunteer, a Social Science Research Council fellow, and a Fulbright scholar, his research focuses on Korea, where he has spent much of his life.

Clark earned his B.A. from Whitworth College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A short version of his doctoral dissertation is featured in the Cambridge History of China. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Korea, and Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900-1950, the co-author of two books on the history of Seoul, and the editor of several volumes on Korea including one on the 1980 democracy uprising in Kwangju.