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Research Institute Milestones

2017
  • JanOpened Research Institute of Humanities, Professor Park In-chan appointed as first director
  • May Science Technology Humanities Research Team: Selected for the National Research Foundation's new research support for <A Study on the Visual Image in Composition of Robotic Science Technology Knowledge: Focusing on Robot Experiment Research of Japan and USA in The 1970s and 80s> Signed MOU with Yongsan-gu Office Signed MOU with the Seoul Office of Education Namsan Library Signed MOU with the Kim Koo Museum & Library Signed MOU with the Korea Bang Jung-hwan Foundation Signed MOU with Yongsan-gu Culture Center Signed MOU with the Municipal Center for Senior Welfare of Yongsan
  • JunAcademic conference to commemorate the founding of the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities: "At the Front Lines of Humanities: Challenges and Tasks for the Future"
  • Jul Yongsan Local Humanities Research Team: Selected for the 2017 humanities city project <Living Together in Patterns Engraved in the Ground, Humanities City Yongsan> Newly established the Yongsan Local Humanities Center Selected for the National Research Foundation’s veteran researcher support for <Critical Research on the ‘Western’ Reenactment of Ang Lee Films and Decolonialism> Selected for the National Research Foundation’s veteran researcher support for <Post-human Ethical Consciousness Vision in the Age of AI> Selected for the National Research Foundation’s academic future generation support (academic professor) for <Study on Discourse Marker Usage Mode and Discourse Abilities per English Level of Korean Learners> Selected for the National Research Foundation’s academic future generation support (post-doctorate domestic training) for <Recomposition of Urban Space and Memory and the Politics of Images - Focusing on Shanghai>
  • Nov Transnational Humanities Research Team: Selected for the National Research Foundation’s general joint research for <Subversive Body, Alienated Culture - Pedigree of Korean and Japanese Physical Alienation Narrative> Selected for the National Research Foundation’s general joint research for <Transnational Korean Women’s History: Korean Emigrant Women and Transnational Experiences>
  • Dec 2nd Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference: “Transnationalism and Space-Existence”
2018
  • JanDirector Park In-chan holds position as chair of the Humanities Committee
  • Feb Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities first edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’ Korea-Japan Academic Society 96th international academic conference co-hosted by Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities: “Interdisciplinary Japanese Research in the Age of Information” Signed MOU with Culture Tank Signed MOU with Sunlin Internet High School Signed MOU with the children’s art museum Hello Museum
  • May Selected for the National Research Foundation’s narrative publication for <Japanese SF Novels and Post-Human> Selected by Ministry of Education for <Study on Plans to Realize Free High School Education>
  • Jun 3rd Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference: “No Country for the Elderly - Humanities for Aging” Selected for the Korea Education Development Institute for <Provincial Education Finances Grants Standards Improvement Plans>
  • Jul Selected for the National Research Foundation’s academic future generation support (post-doctorate domestic training) for <Research on Plans to Utilize Projects for Summarization Using Cooperative Learning and Colleague Revision> Selected for the National Research Foundation’s academic future generation support (post-doctorate domestic training) for <Queer Berlin - Research on the Queer Culture of Berlin during the Weimar Republic found in Klaus Mann’s ‘Pious Dance’ and Christopher Isherwood’s ‘The Berlin Stories’>
  • Aug Selected for the National Research Foundation’s veteran researcher support for <Topographical Map of Borders and Contact> Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities second edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’
  • Oct 4th Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference: "Korean-Japanese Leprosy Narrative and the Empire’s Minority" Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Joint Research Team Academic Conference: “Transnational Korean Women’s History: Hybridity and Multi-layers of Emigrant Women”
  • Dec Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities International Academic Conference (co-hosted with the English Language and Literature Association of Korea): “Encounters with the Posthuman: Materiality, Vitality, Narrativity” Held humanities promotion workshop
2019
  • JanDirector Park In-chan holds position as chair of the Humanities Committee
  • FebSookmyung Research Institute of Humanities third edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’
  • Apr Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities - General Joint Research Symposium: “Things Seen through the Korean-Japanese LGBT Narrative” Yongsan Culture Center ‘Neighborhood Healing Sketch Platform Construction’ project Signed MOU with Incheon Viewer Media Center
  • Jun 5th Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference: “Ethics Meets Non-human” Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities publication of ‘Yongstan Life History Seen by the Ground’ Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities - <Consensus Project for the Media Marginalized> project with the Incheon Viewer Media Center
  • Jul Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Transnational Korean Women’s History Team Academic Conference (co-hosted with the Yanbian University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science): “Women’s Menstruation: Experience, Memory, Traces"
  • Aug Signed MOU with the Yonsei University Future Convergence Center Newly established the Regional Cooperation Center (RCC) Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities fourth edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’
  • Sep Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities “Transnational Korean Women’s History” joint research team academic forum: “Movies by Foreign Adoptees and Verbal and Nonverbal Description - Focusing on the Works of Director Ounie Lecomte”
  • Dec 6th Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference: "Beyond Borders: Possibilities of Korean-Japanese LGBT Narratives” Academic Paper Digital (partnership agreement for contents services)
2020
  • JanReappointment of Director Park In-chan
  • Feb Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities fifth edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’
  • May Selection of the National Research Foundation’s Humanities Plus Support Project for <Age of Hate, Response of Humanities> Humanities Korea Plus Support Project, appointment of Park In-chan as president
  • Aug Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities sixth edition of ‘Trans-Humanities’ 1st Colloquium: "Age of Hate, Speaking of Queers”
  • Sep Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Academic Conference (co-hosted by the Korean Society of Translators): “Paradigm Shift of the Translation and Interpretation Paradigm”
  • Oct Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities Joint Research Team Academic Symposium: "Elderly, Hate, Crossing: Senior Years Narratives and Surroundings”
  • Nov 2nd Colloquium: “Perception toward Victims: Hate and Violence” Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities special exhibit (co-hosted with Artnoid 178): “Perception toward Hate: Pause” End of the 2017 humanities city project <Living Together in Patterns Engraved in the Ground, Humanities City Yongsan> by the National Research Foundation
  • Dec 2020 Humanities Korea Plus Support Project launching academic conference: “Age of Hate, Response of Humanities”
2021
  • Feb 3rd Colloquium: “Media and Hate Speech” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 7 published
  • May 4th Colloquium: “Media Hate and Empathy Literacy”
  • Jun 2021 HK+ Annual Conference: “Hate in Korean Society: Focusing on Law and Institutions” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 8 published
  • Aug 5th Colloquium: “Genealogy of Hate Concepts”
  • Oct 6th Colloquium: “Order in Multicultural Public Spaces: Strangers and Hate” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 9 published
  • Dec HK+ Project selected for the Ministry of Education's Top 50 Achievements 2021 HK+ Annual International Conference: “Hate in the Pandemic Era: A Trans•Humanities Approach”
2022
  • Jan Established an MOU with Center for Humanities & the ARts of University of Colorado Boulder Established an MOU with Keimyung University Center for Immigration&Multiculture Established an MOU with Hallym Institute for Life and Death Studies
  • Feb Established an MOU with Konkuk University Institute of Body & Culture Established an MOU with Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, At Indiana University 7th Colloquium: “Negative Perceptions of the Elderly: Hate and Discrimination” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 10 published
  • Apr Established an MOU with Kangwon National University Humanities Institute
  • May 8th Colloquium: “Scripts of Masculinity”
  • Jun 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 11 published 2022 HK+ Annual Conference: “Hate in the Digital Era: Humanities Responses”
  • Aug 9th Colloquium: “Apologizing or Complaining: Emotions and Health of Call Center Workers During COVID•19”
  • Oct 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 12 published Established an MOU with Convergence Education Research Institute, At Korea National University of Education
  • Nov 10th Colloquium: “Who Becomes a Ghost in the Tech-Consumption Society? Politics of the Tech•Life Others” Conference: “Humanities in the Digital Era: Directions and Challenges”
  • Dec 2022 HK+ Annual International Conference: “The Spread of Hate and Counter•Discourses: An Intersectional Approach”
2023
  • Jan Established an MOU with Center for Transregional Culture and Society Nagoya University
  • Feb 11th Colloquium: “Meritocracy and Loneliness in the Digital Era” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 13 published
  • May 12th Colloquium: “From ‘Chankke’ to ‘Ttongnama’: Racism and Derogatory Terms in Modern Korea”
  • Jun 2023 HK+ Annual Conference: “Beyond Hate: The (Im)possibility of Community” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 14 published
  • Aug 13th Colloquium: “Hate, Sympathy, Discrimination, and Disability”
  • Oct 2023 Empathy Week: “Communities Together Through Empathy” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 15 published
  • Nov 14th Colloquium: “Posthumanism and Animals in an Indifferent World” Established an MOU with University of Tokyo
  • Dec 2023 HK+ Annual International Conference: “Inclusive Communities: Seeking Interdependence and Coexistence in a Time of Multiple Crises”
2024
  • Feb 15th Colloquium: “The Community of Affect” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 16 published
  • Mar Established an MOU with the Center for Medical Humanities, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • May 16th Colloquium: “Gender: The Right to a Better Debate”
  • Jun 2024 HK+ Annual Conference: “Beyond Non-Human Hate – Coexisting with Animals, Objects, and Machines in Korea” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 17 published
  • Aug 17th Colloquium: “How Are You Preparing for ‘Dementia’?”
  • Oct 2024 Empathy Week: “Beyond Cyber Hate: Towards an Empathetic and Coexisting Society” 「Transdisciplinary Humanities」 Vol. 18 published
  • Nov 18th Colloquium: “The Anthropocene and Catastrophism”
  • Dec 2024 HK+ Annual International Conference: “The Concept and Reality of Empathy for Coexistence”