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Jun 11 2025 -

Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Taekyoon Kim

Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person lecture by Professor Taekyoon Kim (Seoul National University), entitled ''East Asia's Developmentalist Scrambling for the Global South: 'Asian Traps' of Aid Competitions and Fragmentations'.

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May 15 2025 -

Voices of Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Survivors

An in-person talk from two survivors and one second-generation survivor concerning their experiences and impacts of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.

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Apr 09 2025 -

Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Sera Park and screening

Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person film screening and lecture. The film screened will be 'Sewol: Years in the Wind' (2024, dir. Moon Jongtaek, Kim Hwantae), and the lecture will be titled '‘Everyone Has Their Own Story of Sewol’: Sewol Disaster, Ineffability, and the Affects of Activism'.

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Apr 02 2025 -

Asian Studies Seminar Series: Noga Ganany

An in-person seminar by Dr Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge), titled 'Extraordinary Lives: Illustrated Hagiographies in Ming Book Culture'.

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Mar 26 2025 -

Asian Studies Seminar Series: Ashley Thorpe

An in-person seminar by Dr Ashley Thorpe (Royal Holloway, University of London), titled 'When Japanese Noh is not in Japanese: Intercultural Noh in English, French and Spanish'. In partnership with the Japan Foundation.

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Mar 21 2025 -

Japanese Film Festival: Mochi

Join us for a free, in-person screening of the 2020 film 'Mochi' (dir. Mayumi Komatsu) that includes a short introductory lecture, and will be followed by a reception of sushi and sake.

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Mar 19 2025 -

Asian Studies Seminar Series: Kevin Gray

An in-person seminar by Dr Kevin Gray (University of Sussex), titled 'Inter-Korean Relations and the End of Peaceful Reunification: A Social Conflict Approach'.

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Mar 12 2025 -

Asian Studies Seminar Series: Helen Parker

An in-person seminar by Dr Helen Parker (University of Edinburgh), titled 'Transcending the Traditional: Developments in Contemporary Kabuki'. In partnership with the Japan Foundation.

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Mar 06 2025 -

Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: James Hoare

Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person seminar by Dr James Hoare OBE (SOAS, University of London), entitled 'Britain and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 1948-2025'.

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Feb 28 2025 -

Japanese Film Festival: Mori, The Artist's Habitat

Join us for a free, in-person screening of the 2018 film 'Mori, The Artist's Habitat' (dir. Shûichi Okita) that includes a short introductory lecture, and will be followed by a reception of sushi and sake.

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