Under the auspices of the AKS Core University Program Project "Transcoding as Cultural and Social Practice", a joint colloquium by students and members of the Korean Studies institutes of Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco, Paris), and Charles University Prague (CUP) was held at Ruhr-University Bochum on October 21st and 22nd. The colloquium, directed by Prof. Marion Eggert (RUB), Prof. Eun-Jeung Lee (FUB), Prof. Daeyeol Kim (Inalco) and Prof. Vladimir Glomb (CUP), thus brought together M.A.-students and PhD-candidates from different countries and universities and offered them the valuable opportunity to present their latest research, discuss their current or upcoming projects and theses, and enter into academic exchange with other graduate students from Korean Studies institutes involved in the research consortium. Topics presented during the two-day colloquium were related to modern fields of research such as the study of copyright-laws in North Korea, Western narratives in 21st century Korean fiction, or the concept of “home” (hyangt’o) in South Korean movies from the 1960s and 1970s, but they also circled around premodern areas of study such as the transformation of Confucian Academies (sowŏn) during the early Chosŏn dynasty, biographies of rebels in the History of the Koryŏ dynasty (Koryŏ sa), or the influence of Middle Korean on the dialect/language of Cheju Island. Joint colloquia will be held regularly over the course of the research-project.

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Discussants: 

Prof. Dr. Dong-No Kim
Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee
Prof. Dr. Hyun Mee Kim
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hannes B. Mosler
Dr. Hee Kyoung Chang

Presenters:

Jiyeon Lee (Yonsei)
Janek Kaftan (FUB)
Da Young Chung (Yonsei)
Suhyeon Lee (Yonsei)
Francis Yoon (FUB)
Narae Jin (Yonsei)
Gabriel Dae-in Lux (FUB)
Seung Ju Yun (Yonsei)
Olteun Kim (FUB)

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"Higher Education in Germany and East Asia"

Discussants:

Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeun Lee
Prof. Dr. Kaori Hayashi
Prof. Dr. Yujin Yaguchi
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hannes B. Mosler
Dr. Hye Young Kim
Dr. Misook Lee 

Presenters:

Jihye Han (FUB), Yuri Handa (Tokyo), Olteun Kim (FUB), Qili Li (Tokyo), Marcin Minakata (Tokyo), Yuriya Nakagawa (Tokyo), Keigo Nishimura (Tokyo), Elisabeth Suh (FUB), Natsuki Takamura (Tokyo)

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Discussants:

Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee
Prof. Dr. Marion Eggert
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hannes B. Mosler
Dr. Florian Pölking 
Dr. Thorsten Traulsen
Dr. Dennis Würthner

Presenters:

Gwendolyn Domning (FUB)
Jannis Franzen (RUB)
Janek Kaftan (FUB)
Elsa Küppers (RUB)
Gabriel Dae-in Lux (FUB)
Quynh Giang Pham (FUB)
Na-Rhee Scherfling  

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