ISD16: Critical Korean and Korean Diaspora Studies

Collaborative Goals

1. To challenge historical legacies of Asian and Korean Studies by centering questions of power through postcolonial, decolonial, ecocritical, feminist, anti-racist, and other critical approaches.
2. To create space for the critical study of Korea and its diasporas that can generate ideas for new courses, new concentrations within existing majors, and new centers of academic study.
3. To build a network of critical humanists, who can address important historical and contemporary issues in the two Koreas and its diasporas.
4. To generate a productive site of scholarly work in critical Korean Studies that positions Central New York as one of the major centers of this work in the world.
5. To build a diverse body of interdisciplinary theory that centers indigenous Korean knowledge systems and syncretically joins the existing scholarship in order to open new pathways of trans-Pacific research.