CHS 100 minute Talk 24-7: The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to The Journey to the West in Korea

• Date: November 25th, Monday, 2024, 17:00 – 18:40
• Online via Zoom
  

Pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem by a Central Asian Muslim in the 11th Century

• Date: November 25th, Monday, 2024, 15:30 – 17:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg.101)
  

The War in Gaza and Lebanon: Regional and Global Impact

• Date: November 27th, Wednesday, 2024, 15:30 – 17:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg.101)
  

The Reality of North Korean Defectors’ Adaptation to Life in Japan: Focusing on the trial case of the return-to-home project

• Date: November 28th, Thursday, 2024, 16:00 – 18:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
  

The Meaning of the Global South in the Era of U.S.-China Competition: Focusing on Africa

• Date: November 29th, Friday, 2024, 12:00 – 13:30
• Location: Room 611, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
  

Structure and Restructuring for Cooperation: Conference on Long-Term ODA Strategies for Central and South Asia

• Date: November 29th, Friday, 2024, 14:00 – 16:40
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
  

Book & Book Concert: China’s History and Modern Challenges

• Date: November 29th, Friday, 2024, 15:00 – 17:30
• Location: Room 240, SNUAC (Bldg.101)
  

The Indochina Wars in Retrospect: The Correlations with the Korean War and Implications for Korean Unification

• Date: December 3rd, Tuesday, 2024, 11:00 – 12:00
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
  

2024 SNUAC-Toyo GIC Co-Lecture Series 6: Migration, Refugee and Social Policy in Japan

• Date: December 3rd, Tuesday, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00
• Online via Zoom
  

Transcending Boundaries: Zhejiangcun: The Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing

• Date: December 5th, Thursday, 2024, 18:00 – 20:30
• Online via Zoom
  

The Global Journey of West African Music

• Date: December 6th, Friday, 2024, 12:00 – 13:30
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
  

[Visiting Scholars] Ilpyo Hong

Ilpyo Hong served as the Secretary General of the National Research Council on Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences under the Prime Minister. Prior to that, he worked at the Blue House(the Presidential Office), the National Assembly, independent think tanks such as Institute of the Future, the Hope Institute, and the Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute, which is affiliated with the Hankyoreh newspaper, and People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy which is known as the most influential NGO in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University’s Department of Sociology in 2006 on the topic of “Citizen Legislative Movements in the aftermath of Democratizaion of Korea,” which he published as a book. From 2006 to 2008, he was a visiting fellow at the Sigur Center at George Washington University in the United States and published a book on the US think tanks. Since then, he has continued his research on social movements and democracy, legislation and policy making, and think tanks in Korea and around the world, and has published a number of academic articles in various journals and columns and reports in newspapers. His recent research interests include the history, current status, characteristics, and strategies of “Asian think tanks,” focusing on Korea, China, Japan, and Indonesia, and he is working to establish exchanges, cooperation, and networking among them.