Classics in the Browning Directed by Eom Yu-naWith Yoo Hae-jin, Yoon Kye-sang, Jo Hyun-do Not Rated, 135 minutesIn Korean with English subtitles The perfect film to celebrate Hangeul Day. This historical drama with comedic flourishes is set in 1940s Korea during its period of Japanese occupation when the Korean language itself was demoted and outlawed. A chance encounter between the illiterate Pan-soo (Yoo Hae-jin) and a representative of the Korean Language Society (Yoon Kye-sang) brings together an unlikely partnership working to publish a Korean language dictionary in defiance of the law. GET TICKETS *Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. **Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries.

The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies presents the 2019 Korean film Mal-Mo-E (The Secret Mission), celebrating the 579th Hangul Day (Korean Alphabet Day), as part of Korea Week and the film series Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema. Hayun Cho, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, will moderate the Q&A session after the film. About the Film Imprisoned several times during the 1940s, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, Kim Pan-Soo does not know how to read or write Korean Hangul or any other language. The Imperial Japanese government bans the teaching of Korean in the schools. He meets a representative of the Korean Language Society and joins forces to publish a dictionary of the Korean language. The story is a fictional treatment of both the work of the Korean Language Society and the 1942 Korean Language Society Incident, when Japanese authorities arrested members for allegedly supporting the independence movement. 135 minutes | PG-13 RatingDirected by Yuna EomKorean and Japanese with English subtitles Hayun Cho, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, will lead the discussion and Q&A after Mal Mo E. Tickets Tickets are $4-7 for the general public and are free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. Contact the box office at 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Sponsors Korea Week, sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and part of the film series Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema. Sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Amit Prasad is an associate professor in the School of History & Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in global, transnational, and postcolonial sociology and history of science, technology, and medicine. His research focuses on the history of the present — in particular, how history of colonialism continues to impact present day norms, values, and practices. His goal has been to excavate the complex and often contradictory entanglements of colonial tropes, ideologies, etc. with emergent knowledges and practices of science, technology, and medicine. Prasad also explores the visual culture of medicine, in particular its shift with the emergence of technologies such as MRI, issues of priority and invention, and scientific misinformation . He has also published on biopolitics of overseas drug trials and medical transcription and engaged with the role of history of science in films. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Institute of Indian Studies, among others and he has published in a number of journals, including Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology & Human Values, Theory, Culture, and Society, Cultural Geographies, Technology & Culture. His first book, Imperial Technoscience: Entangled Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India (MIT Press, 2014), through a study of connected histories of MRI in the US, the UK, and India, investigated how the invention, industrial production, as well as cultures of MRI were entangled within colonial, West-centric, and Orientalist discourses. His second book, Science Studies Meets Colonialism (Polity, 2022), investigates how colonial tropes, norms, ideologies, etc. continue to animate the present, including in the fields of history of science and science and technology studies (STS). Drawing on an ethnographic study of a stem cell clinic, he is writing his third book that is tentatively titled Miracle or Science: Scientific Uncertainty, Contested Ethics, and Global Melange in a Stem Cell Laboratory. He is an editor of the journal Science, Technology and Society (Sage). He is also an avid collector of Indian art - medieval miniatures and modern and contemporary paintings and etchings. He is particularly interested in postcolonial cosmopolitanism of Indian art/artists. Prasad's lecture is sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group and Health, Humanities and Society, Reilly Center for Science Technology and Values.Lunch Provided — Please Bring Beverages In support of the Liu Institute’s growing commitment to sustainability, we will no longer be offering drinks at our public lectures and panels. We encourage audience members to bring their water bottles or to drink from nearby water fountains.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons on select home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Reception and book signing to follow! For the weekend of the NC State game, we welcome Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive. Introduction by Paul Blaschko, director, Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society; assistant teaching professor of philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theology and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.Elizabeth Oldfield is the author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, exploring how we can build spiritual core strength for an unstable age. She is also the host of The Sacred podcast, interviewing those who shape our common life about their deepest values. She is an experienced broadcaster, writer and lecturer on themes related to public ethics, spirituality, wisdom and our common life, including on the BBC and in The Times, FT, The Economist, Prospect, and UnHerd, among others. For ten years she was director of Theos, the UK’s leading religion and society think tank, building a healthy and human team culture alongside a commitment to excellence. She is the chair of the board of directors of Larger Us, an organization working to help change-makers bridge divides rather than deepening them.

Join in at the St. Joseph County Public Library (Main Street Branch) Story House for a family-friendly Korean bookmark-making activity to celebrate Korea Week 2025. Celebrate Korean Alphabet Day by creating a beautiful bookmark with Korean characters. Ages 5 to 11 are welcome.Join professors from the University of Notre Dame's Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies to learn about the unique Korean alphabet, called Hangul, and create a beautiful bookmark with Korean letters. The Korean alphabet was created by King Sejong the Great and his scholars in 1443. King Sejong wanted Hangul to be easily understood in order to increase literacy, and Hangul is considered revolutionary because it is so easy to learn. The development of Hangul was such an important tool for democracy that Hangul Day is celebrated on October 9 each year.About the Series Korea Week 2025 is co-hosted with Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and Korean Cultural Center, Washington, D.C. This week is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and the St. Joseph County Public Library. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Thad DunningRobson Professor in Political ScienceUniversity of California, Berkeley A vast literature highlights the political, social, and economic consequences of slavery. Yet previous research — particularly in political science and particularly in work on Latin America — appears to have missed important channels through which the regulation of slavery contributed crucially to state-building. In this research in progress, Dunning argues that the regulation of slavery in imperial Brazil contributed to the construction of a bureaucracy that was autonomous in many ways of slaveholder interests and propose the hypothesis that this was driven by imperatives of political survival. He then empirically examine two main vehicles through which an autonomous state was built: responses to lawsuits for freedom brought on behalf of enslaved persons and appeals for protection in the carceral system. The argument and supporting evidence may contribute new comparative insights to the understanding of state-building in the Americas.Thad Dunning is the Robson Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and director of the Center on the Politics of Development. His research centers on comparative politics, political economy, and quantitative methods, with a regional focus on Latin America, Africa, and India. For more information, visit the event page. Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute at the Keough School of Global Affairs.