The National Committee on North Korea (NCNK), and East-West Center in Washington are holding the fourth event in their “North Korea in the World” webinar series next week, this time looking at the North's relationship with Syria. The talk will feature Samuel Ramani, a politics and international relations tutor at the University of Oxford.
The talk starts late at 1 a.m. on July 15. Visit
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Yongchao Cheng, an associate professor at Tohoku University, will give a webinar talk on July 7 titled, "Reconstruction and Inherency: Trilateral Relationships among Japan, Korea and China after the Imjin War." The talk is part of the webinar series looking at the aftermath and legacy of the 1592-98 Imjin War.
One week later, on July 14, Barend Noordam, a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, will give a talk about “Authority and Technical Expertise: Mediating Military Knowledge of the Imjin War.”
The project has received funding from the European Research Council. Both events, held online from Barcelona, start at 9 p.m. KST.
Visit aftermath.uab.cat for more information.
The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies?is holding a listening and information session on July 13 at 9 a.m. (KST).
The purpose of the session is to gather feedback from specialists of Japan and Korea studies, and see how the council can better serve them. Visit asianstudies.org for more information.