Dr Kevin Cawley was recently invited as a Distinguished Scholar to give a talk on Neo-Confucian Korean Philosophy at the Research Centre for East Asian Cultures at Oxford University.

Dr Kevin Cawley, director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies would like to congratulate the 10 students from Korean Studies at UCC who participated at the 2nd Joint Korean Studies Program at the University of Bologna (UNIBO), delivering outstanding papers that impressed all the academics present. The 2-day program was fully funded by an award from the Academy of Korean Studies and hosted in Bologna by Dr Marco Milani, and co-organised by Dr Kevin Cawley, UCC. We would all like to thank Dr Mary Lou Emberti Gialloreti for all her help co-ordinating the entire program and for looking after us during our stay.

UCC students presented on several different areas but had a focus on translational issues related to Korean. Some students also looked at Korean Cinema, Korea’s role in the Vietnam War and Korean Neo-Confucian philosophy. Grazie to all the students from the University of Bologna for their interesting and engaging papers on Korea – we all learned a lot from them too. Please find the program overview below.

Joint Program in Korean Studies: UCC-UNIBO – Program Activities

Short Vacation (종착역 – literally means ‘terminus station’) by debut directors Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Hanseol is showing at the Irish Film Institute, as part of the EAFFI Discoveries strand.

review-short-vacation

CONGRATULATIONS to the amazing students from Korean Studies at UCC who participated at a 2-day joint conference with the amazing students from Università di Bologna, Italy. The conference was fully funded by an award from the Academy of Korean Studies and hosted in Bologna by Professor Marco Milani, and co-organised by Dr Kevin Cawley, UCC. 

Please find the program overview below which highlights the vast array of papers presented by the students, dealing with topics such as gender, technomorphism, feminism, religion, the Korean War, North Korea and reunification. The papers presented by the students were insightful and professional - everyone involved was extremely impressed!

On behalf of our UCC students, Dr Cawley would like to extend a huge 'Grazie' to Professor Milani for this great event, and another 'Grazie' to Dr Mary Lou Emberti Gialloreti for all her help co-ordinating things for us all in Bologna.

Joint Program UNIBO - UCC_Program of Activities.

How South Korea’s social inequality inspired Netflix’s biggest hit

Dr Kevin Cawley's entry on "Korean Confucianism" is the first entry on Korean Philosophy published for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (University of Stanford, USA)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/korean-confucianism/

The UCC Senior Lecturer talks about the meteoric rise of Korean culture, mastering the Korean language, some Korean dishes and singers that you should get to know and what, if anything, will change with how the world deals with North Korea.

https://www.buzz.ie/culture/buzz-qa-kevin-cawley-south-25718925

6th Annual NAKPA Conference, hosted by the Irish Institute of Korean Studies in the Department of Asian Studies, will take place on October 10th and 11th 2019.

Additional Award for the Irish Institute of Korean Studies