Workshop/Lecture

Everyday Authoritarianism and Resistance in North Korea

Alexander Dukalskis 2018.10.11

• Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018. 16:00-17:30 • Venue: 201, Political Science & Economics Bldg., Korea University • Lecturer: Alexander Dukalskis (University College Dublin) At the Political Science Workshop in October, Professor Alexander Dukalskis of University College Dublin was invited to give a lecture on the relationship between changes in everyday life in North Korea and authoritarian resilience. On the one hand North Korea is perhaps the world’s most tightly controlling dictatorship, but on the other hand, its society has undergone important changes in the last 25 years.  Changes such as marketization, flows of information, and increasing corruption help illuminate how shifts in everyday life influence the power, if at all, of a long-lasting autocratic government. This presentation will systematically examine these specific domains of everyday life and their relationship to authoritarian resilience in North Korea. Drawing primarily on interviews with North Koreans in South Korea, the main finding is that⋯

[Workshop] Rawls’s Self-Defeat: A Formal Analysis of John Rawls’s Theory of Justice

Hun Chung 2018.06.20

  • Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 14:00-15:30 • Venue: 201, Political Science & Economics Bldg., Korea University • Presenter: Hun Chung (Korea Military Academy: KMA) In the Political Science Workshop in June, professor Hun Chung of the KMA gave a lecture on whether John Rawls’ famous “Justice as Fairness” demonstration shows victory over utilitarianism. The speaker insisted that if faithfully follows all of the assumptions that Rawls suggests, consensus representatives have no choice but to choose utilitarianism rather than differential principles. While utilitarianism meets everyone’s threshold and allows everyone to enjoy the full value of freedom and fundamental rights, the Rawls’ differential principle results in distributions that do not meet the value of social underprivileged and fundamental rights.   Download the lecture PPT

[Lecture] American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump

John J. Mearsheimer 2018.03.21

• Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:00-15:30 • Venue: 214, International Hall, Korea University • Lecturer: John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) • Organized by: Korea University Political Science & International Relations Department, Peace and Democracy Institute In a lecture titled “American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump,” Professor Mearsheimer explores US foreign policy in terms of Candidate Trump, President Trump, and “The Blob” – Democrats and Republicans with a similar foreign policy outlook -. Candidate Trump was elected, but professor insisted that Blob’s claim has prevailed in US foreign policy, at least to the present, since becoming president. He argued that Trump also did not make any major changes to its foreign policy and criticized China for failing to prevent its expansion. In the Q & A process, He expected that North Korea has little chance of giving up its nuclear program and expressed skepticism about the North⋯

[Workshop] In the Glow of the Red Star: Polish-Korean Relations in the 20th Century

Renata Czekalska 2017.12.01

• Date: Friday, December 1, 2017, 16:00-18:00 • Venue: 201, Political Science & Economics Bldg., Korea University • Presenter: Renata Czekalska (Jagiellonian University) During the Political Science Workshop in December, Professor Renata Czekalska of Jagiellonian University was invited to talk about the relationship between Poland and North Korea. The University of Jagiellonian is the second oldest in Eastern Europe with a history of more than 600 years and is the school of astronomers Copernicus and Pope John Paul II. Professor Renata Czekalska is currently serving as the head of the Department of Korean Studies at this school and has been conducting cultural studies on India and Southeast Asia. Her recent book is A Mandala of Words: Cultural Realities in the Poem of Ashok Vajpeyi (Peter Lang GmbH, 2017).     Download Lecture PPT

[Workshop] How Did They Study? Mill and Tocqueville

Byung Hoon Suh 2017.11.10

• Date: Friday, November 10, 2017 16:00-18:00 • Venue: 201, Political Science & Economics Bldg., Korea University • Presenter: Byung-Hoon Suh (Soongsil University) During the November Political Science Workshop, Professor Byung-Hoon Suh of Soongsil University gave a lecture on the academic discipline of John Stuart Mill and Alexis Tocqueville, the great thinkers of liberalism and democratic history. Professor Suh, one of Korea’s leading liberal scholars, wrote many books such as nature of freedom and utopia (1995), which deals with John Stuart Mill’s political thought,  Freedom Aesthetics: Plato and John Stewart Mill (2000) and so on. He also recently published a book titled Great Politics (2017), which introduces the ideological and practical struggle of Mill and Tocqueville.   Download Lecture PPT