February 27 2024

North Korea’s efforts to deepen relations with Central- Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s (lecturer: Marek Handerek; Jagiellonian University in Cracow)

March 5

Korean Cold War history based on the West German and East German archives

(lecturer: Seong Sang-hwan; Seoul National University)

March 12

North Korean activities in the Middle East and North Africa (lecturer: Balazs Szalontai; Korea University)

March 19

The construction of the Seoul-Pusan expressway and the militarism / Cold War dimensions of urbanization and infrastructure in South Korea

(lecturer: Russell Burge; Indiana University Bloomington)

March 26

Korean War - Stalin's Calculus: Soviet aims, strategies, and tactics before and during the war (lecturer: Vladimir Tikhonov; University of Oslo)

(lecturer: Vladimir Tikhonov; University of Oslo)

April 2

Beyond States: How non-state actors shaped North Korea-Latin America relations during the Cold War

(lecturer: Camilo Aguirre Torrini; University of Sussex)

April 9

Czechoslovak-North Korean relations within the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission: Which path to follow?

(lecturer: Zuzana Hritzová; Institute of Oriental Studies of the SAS, P.R.I.)

April 16

Exporting Culture: Ch’oe Sŭnghŭi tours

(lecturer: Miriam Löwensteinová; Charles University)

April 23

How to Represent the enemy during the civil war? The cultural depiction of the North and South Korean other during the Korean war (1950-1953)

(lecturer: Jerôme de Wit; University of Vienna)

April 30

The United States, South Korea, and Inter-Korean Relations

(lecturer: Bernd Schaeffer; Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C.)

May 7

North Korean critique of the Soviet Academy of Sciences works on Korean history

(lecturer: Vladimír Glomb; Freie University Berlin)

May 14

The Korean war in Chinese, Czechoslovak, and Soviet visual propaganda: unison and polyphony (lecturer: Mariia Guleva; Charles University)

May 21

The Sacralization of political authority in North Korea (lecturer: Diana Yuksel, Bucharest University)