Events

Join us for a performance produced and created by the artist Yusuke Mori as part of the LEIMAY Constellation Series, co-presented with LEIMAY within WEAVE. Spider’s Thread is a performance, led by dancers Yusuke Mori and Alaisha Sharma, based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s well-known short story. A simple tale based on Buddhist teachings, in which a convict is given a slim passageway from eternal damnation. ... Read more

Throughout history, young people have had an irrepressible desire to study histories of struggle—or the efforts that came before them to fight for a more liberatory and just world. What is it that young people gain when they anchor themselves in truthful histories, histories that are often not taught, or are erased, by the state? ... Read more

The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the ninth annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Awardee is Dr. Peter Na, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.  In his lecture, Reframing Suicide as a Shared Social Responsibility in Korea, he casts suicide not as an individual failure or “extreme choice (극단적 ... Read more