The Banner Years: Art, Spectacle, and Politics in the Inter-Korean Marches for Reunification of the Early 1990s


  • Date: November 9th, Tuesday, 2021 12:00 – 13:00
  • Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Speaker : Douglas Gabriel (Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow)

Douglas Gabriel is a 2021–22 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, and a visiting researcher at Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC). After receiving his Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University in 2019, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the George Washington University. His primary book project explores connections between the work of state-sponsored artists in North Korea, and artists associated with the South Korean minjung (People’s) democratization movement during the late Cold War period. He has published articles on North and South Korean visual culture in Art Journal, the Journal of Korean Studies, and Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context.