[KS] GW: 7th Hahn Moo Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

[Robert C. Provine]

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Subject: GW: 7th Hahn Moo Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities.
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:11:32 -0400
From: kimrenau <kimrenau at gwu.edu>
To: Korean-Studies List <korean-studies at iic.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the 7th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the
Korean 
Humanities at The George Washington University, on Saturday, October 21,
2000, 
from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The meeting takes place at the Academic
Center 
(Rome Hall 459), 22nd and I Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  The topic is 
"Christianity in Korea."

Don Baker of the University of British Columbia and Chai-sik Chung of
Boston 
University School of Theology will speak on Christianity, the most
recent 
transforming force in Korea, which first appeared on the Korean
peninsula a 
little more than two centuries ago.  The long-term impact of
Christianity is 
still being assessed.  Baker will argue that Christianity is partially 
responsible for the separation of church and state which is essential
for the 
growth of a civil society.  Chung will discuss the crisis in values the
people 
of Korea face after a century of rapid political, social, and economic
change, 
which he believes Christianity in Korea must do more to resolve.  Bonnie
Oh of 
Georgetown University and Harry Yeide of The George Washington
University will 
deliver commentaries following the lectures.  The program is preceded by 
coffee and pastry and followed by a Korean buffet lunch.  It is free and
open 
to the public, but reservations are required.  For more information,
visit our 
website

http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/special.

Hope to see many of you there.

Richard R. Grinker [rgrink at gwu.edu] and Young-Key Kim-Renaud 
[kimrenau at gwu.edu],
Conveners