Perspectives on the Korean Peninsula during the Cold War - AKO500166

• Title: Perspectives on the Korean Peninsula during the Cold War
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Asian Studies (21-UAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 40 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: 50
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Karolína Šamánková
• Pre-requisite : AKO100014

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

This online course aims to impart a profound understanding of the complex history of the Cold War with a specific focus on the Korean Peninsula’s perspective. Furthermore, considering the contemporary geopolitical landscape, often likened to a second Cold War, there exists an urgent need to explore the dynamics of the Cold War from a transnational viewpoint. Therefore, the course will also focus on transnational connections between the Korean peninsula and European nations during the Cold War. The course consists of 13 lectures, each by a different lecturer, and is aimed at bachelor and master students with basic knowledge of modern Korean history.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

This online course aims at bachelor and master students and requires basic knowledge of modern Korean history. Each lecture will be dedicated to various historical and cultural aspects of Cold War with focus on Korean peninsula. The course will be conducted from the 27th of February until the 21st of May on ZOOM. At the end online written exam will be conducted. 

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

Písemný test minimálně na 60%, test musí být plněn souběžně na hovoru v Teams/Zoom se zapnutou kamerou nebo na počítači v učebně (bude upřesněno).

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

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)

Learning resources

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

Odkaz na online schůzku bude poslán zavčasu před začátkem kurzu všem přihlášeným. 

Entry requirements

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šamánková (15.01.2024)

Předpokládány jsou základní znalosti moderní korejské historie z kurzu Moderní dějiny Koreje