SEED SEMINAR SERIES

Every year, the Project will be structured with 3 cycles of 3 seminars each (9 seminars total) with invited experts on Korea-related topics in Humanities and Social Sciences.

 SEED SEMINAR SERIES 2021

“MEDIA AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY KOREA”

 For the year 2021, the SEED Project at the University of Bologna hosted the First Cycle of Seminars on Korean Culture with invited experts:

  • Seminar 1: 2021/19/10

Invited Speaker: Dr. Moon Hee Sun (University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy)

Title: “Soft-Power Effect: The Kim Jong-un case in Contemporary Korea

  • Seminar 2: 2021/28/10

Invited Speaker: Prof. Kim Taesik (Masaryk University)

Title: "Reading Korean Media and Seeing Korean Everyday Life"

  • Seminar 3: 2021/11/11

Invited Speaker: Prof. Sarah Son, (University of Sheffield)

Title: "K-drama and the politics of screening the ‘other’ Korea".

 

SEED SEMINAR SERIES 2022

“MEDIA AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY KOREA”

 For the year 2022-2023, the SEED Project at the University of Bologna hosted the second Cycle of Seminars on Korean Culture with invited experts:

  • Seminar 1: 2022/12/06

Invited Speaker: Prof. Choi Jinhee (King's College London)

Title: “"Who to Save: Moral Uncertainty and Dilemmas in K-horror: The Priests (2015) The Cursed (2020) and Hellbound (2021)”

  • Seminar 2: 2023/05/03 

 

Invited Speaker: Prof. Park Jinhee (Lignan University)

Title: "Post-Cold War Cinema and Media in the Division of North and South Korea"