[KS] Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, September program

[Brother Anthony]

Members of this list who are in Korea might like to attend one of the following RAS Korea events. All are welcome.



Brother Anthony

President, RAS Korea



Lectures
September 10 Boudewijn C. A. Walraven: Familiar Faces: the personal nature of shamanic paintings
September 24 Brian Myers: Red Herring: North Korea's Juche Myth
October 8 Michael Kim (Yonsei U): Imagining the Dual City in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)
October 22 Kathryn Weathersby: Why and how the Korean war was prolonged after armistice negotiations began
November 12 Robert Fouser: How the early missionaries learned Korean

(Lectures are held in the 2nd-floor Residents' Lounge of Somerset Palace, near Anguk Rotary,
 
Excursions 
Sept 14 Kiln tour, Ichon (Sue Bae)
Sept 15 Sajik Daeje & Tongin Traditional Market (Jun Shin)
Sep 21 Seonunsa, Gochang fortress (Br. Anthony)
Sept 29 Suwon (Peter Bartholomew)
Oct 5 Gongju
Oct 6 Seochon (Robert Fouser)
Oct 12-13 Jeju Island (Sue Bae)
 
Visit to the National Museum of Korea
September 25, 7pm (note the date, 4th Wed becuase of Chuseok) 
 
Reading Group
Monday, September 30, 7pm. "Footprints in the Snow" by Yi Chong-jun.
in the library of Jong-no district office just behind the American Embassy
 
Members of RAS ought by now to have received their copy of the year’s Transactions. If you have not received it please contact our office.
 
In our online bookstore  http://www.raskb.com/node/7  you can browse the many books we have for sale, or visit our office.
 
It is possible to sign up for our emailed Newsletters (domestic and overseas) through links in the Membership section of our home page http://www.raskb.com/node/9
 
For full details of all upcoming events see the RAS web page  http://www.raskb.com/ 


Special lecture announced by request
“Lifting the Fog: expert discussion of cutting-edge satelite imagery focusing on North Korea”
Daily NK is preparing an academic forum to be held at 7pm on September 16th at the British Embassy in Seoul. It will center on a talk by Curtis Melvin, of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS (Johns Hopkins Univ.) and the owner-operator of North Korea Economy Watch. He created the Google Earth North Korea resource. He will be joined by Andrei Lankov and Chris Green of Daily NK. 
Entrance free but a donation of KW 10,000 is requested. There will be a cash bar. Because of security concerns, those wishing to attend must RSVP to development at dailynk.com at the latest 24 hours before the event.




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