Asian Studies Seminar Series: Sang-Keun Yoo In brief Date - 18 November 2026Venue - Room LG.11, 40 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Sang-Keun Yoo (University of Cambridge)Title - The Geopolitics of Speculation: Korean Science Fiction and the Limits of Futurity About the speakerSang-Keun Yoo is Assistant Professor of Korean Popular Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and the editor of The Routledge History of Korean Science Fiction (forthcoming 2027).His scholarship has received several awards, including the Northeast Modern Language Association’s Women’s and Gender Studies Essay Award, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts’ Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, and the Walter James Miller Award. He is also the lead organiser of the Science Fiction Research Association’s 2027 Annual Conference.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Tags Asian Studies Nov 18 2026 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Sang-Keun Yoo An in-person seminar by Dr Sang-Keun Yoo (University of Cambridge), titled 'The Geopolitics of Speculation: Korean Science Fiction and the Limits of Futurity'. Room LG.11 40 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9JX Find the venue: 40 George Square This article was published on Monday 29 September 2025
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Sang-Keun Yoo In brief Date - 18 November 2026Venue - Room LG.11, 40 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Sang-Keun Yoo (University of Cambridge)Title - The Geopolitics of Speculation: Korean Science Fiction and the Limits of Futurity About the speakerSang-Keun Yoo is Assistant Professor of Korean Popular Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and the editor of The Routledge History of Korean Science Fiction (forthcoming 2027).His scholarship has received several awards, including the Northeast Modern Language Association’s Women’s and Gender Studies Essay Award, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts’ Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, and the Walter James Miller Award. He is also the lead organiser of the Science Fiction Research Association’s 2027 Annual Conference.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Tags Asian Studies Nov 18 2026 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Sang-Keun Yoo An in-person seminar by Dr Sang-Keun Yoo (University of Cambridge), titled 'The Geopolitics of Speculation: Korean Science Fiction and the Limits of Futurity'. Room LG.11 40 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9JX Find the venue: 40 George Square This article was published on Monday 29 September 2025
Nov 18 2026 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Sang-Keun Yoo An in-person seminar by Dr Sang-Keun Yoo (University of Cambridge), titled 'The Geopolitics of Speculation: Korean Science Fiction and the Limits of Futurity'.
