(M.A.)

E-mail: chs6406[at]gmail.com 

2018 Paris 1 University, France (Cinema: practical and aesthetic, B.A.)

Research Interests: Cinema, Documentary, Transnational Cinema, Diaspora Cinema, Film Media Studies, Audio-visual Media, Critical Digital Media Research, Sociological Media research, Diaspora and Refugee.

Advisor: Kyung-Sook Boo

| About Hyeonseok Cho | I studied Cinema and Aesthetics at Paris 1 University. During my studies, I faced the Paris attacks, the European refugee crisis, and issues of race and class firsthand. I was naturally interested in how cinema and media deal with these issues and how they influence each other. After graduation, I worked in video design and production for social enterprises and fashion companies. However, during that time, social prejudices, barriers, and xenophobia in the media were reinforced and reproduced day by day. Therefore, my desire to explore the relationship between film, documentary, and digital media and diaspora, refugees, and minorities was reawakened. Therefore, I am currently studying for a Master's degree in Critical Global Studies at Sogang University.  

Gonsalves, Calvin

(M.A.)

E-mail: calvinclin26[at]gmail.com 

2021 Chittagong Independent University, Bangladesh (English, B.A.)

Research Interests: Postcolonial Studies, Partition Literature

| About Calvin Gonsalves | My Name in Calvin Gonsalves. I am a Bangladeshi. I completed my BA in English from Chittagong Independent University, Bangladesh. Now, I am pursuing my masters in Critical Global Studies at Sogang University. My research interest is Postcolonial Studies and Partition Literature. I love to watch and play basketball in my leisure.  

Kim, Aeran

E-mail: aerankim532[at]gmail.com 

2014 Kyungpook National University (Philosophy/Sociology, B.A)

Research Interests: Modern State, Nationalism and Civil Religion, North-South Korea Relations and Unification Discourse, System Theory, Cybernetics, Machines, Games 

Advisor: Jie-Hyun Lim

| About Aeran Kim | Aeran Kim received her B.A in philosophy and minored in sociology from Kyungpook National University. As an undergraduate, she founded and ran a cultural magazine for Daegu and Gyeongbuk university students called Modi. After graduating, she continued her interest in unification issues by working as a coordinator at an NGO working on North Korean refugee resettlement and social integration programs. When she realized that there was a need for content with a new perspective on the issues, she founded the publishing company 'Hilde and Sophie’. Currently, she is engaged in publishing and research activities in various fields.

Kim, Yeseul

(Ph.D)

E-mail: yeislkim[at]sogang.ac.kr

2016 Kyungpook National University (German Literature, B.A.)

2022 Kyungpook National University (German Literature, M.A.)

Research Interests: 19^th and 20^th Century German Literature and Philosophy, German Intellectual History, Diaspora Literatures, Transnational Literatures

| About Yeseul Kim | Yeseul Kim is currently a PhD Student at Critical Global Studies at Sogang University. She received her MA and BA in German Literature at Kyungpook National University. She is mainly interested in German intellectual history with an emphasis on german philosophy of language, political philosophy and diaspora literatures.

| Conference Presentations and Publications |

- 2022 “Representing Memory of TCK” (“Ethics, Evaluation and Emerging Methodologies in Digital Exhibitions and Complex Heritage”, University of Liverpool)

- 2022 “A Study on Gustav Landauer/Eine Studie zum anarchistischen Denken Gustav Landauers ” (Koreanische Gesellschaft fuer Deutsche Sprache und Literatur)

- 2022 10^th Korean-German Junior Forum (Korea Foundation, Public Diplomacy Center Ewha Womans University)

- 2021 DAAD Humboldt Uni zu Berlin 2021 Sommerkurs

Lee, Seungho

(M.A.)

E-mail: seungho942[at]gmail.com

2022 Keimyung University (International Relations, B.A.)

Research Interests: History of International Relations, International Conflict, Genocide, War Crimes, Dehumanization, Nationalism, Memory Politics

| About Seungho Lee | Seungho Lee received his B.A. in International Relations from Keimyung University. In Poland, where he went as an exchange student, he saw the contrast between the efforts of European society to remember the Holocaust and hate crimes against Asians right after the outbreak of COVID-19. Through this, he began to see that selected memory which remembers only damage, contributes repetition of atrocity. Working as a researcher at an NGO, which put efforts into resolving the “Comfort Women” issue, he engaged in various projects of research, exhibitions, etc. Based on his experience, he sees selected memory as the critical factor in the recurrence and rationalization of war crimes along with dehumanization.

| Conference Presentations and Publications |

- 2022 Advisory committee member for “Compiling Project of Japanese Military Comfort Women Survivor Ok-ju Kim’s Oral Statement” of Korea Chongshindae’s Insitute

E-mail: leamiddell[at]gmail.com

2021 Leipzig University (History, B.A.)

2022 London School of Economics (Global Economic History, M. Sc.)

2023 Leipzig University (Global Studies, M.A.)

Research Interests: 19th and 20 th century, history of (economic) colonialism, divided nations, history of knowledge production and geographical societies

| About Lea Middell | Right after high school, I started studying history at Leipzig and Sheffield University. After accomplishing my B.A. in (European) history, I turned my interest towards transnational and global history hence why I chose to continue my studies with an M.A. in global studies with a strong focus on historical globalization processes. This M.A. programme funded under the Erasmus Mundus scheme of the European Commission allowed me to study at two European Universities, the LSE and Ghent University which further strengthened my interest in doing my own research in the field of global history, specialising in the examination of divided nations and their possible unification processes by looking at the cases of Germany, Korea and Ireland. 

Song, Gayoon

(M.A.)

E-mail: songmoon.yoon[at]gmail.com

2022 Sogang University (Art&Technology, B.A.)

Research Interests: Media Literacy, Memory Activism on Wikipedia, Web Novels

| About Gayoon Song | Gayoon Song received her B.A. in Art&Technology from Sogang University. By her experiences, she is interested in Media Literacy and now her research focuses on micro-historical online archives and knowledge production/distribution of minorities.

Woo, Seunghoon

(Ph.D)

E-mail: swoo.africa[at]gmail.com

2014 Hanyang University (Political Science and Diplomacy, B.A.)

2016 University of Bradford (African Peace and Conflict Studies, M.A.)

Research Interests: Critical Development Studies, Decolonising/Africanizing Development Studies, The Ecosystem of Korean international Development Cooperation, Elections and Democracy in Africa, History of Eastern and Southern Africa, Nationalism and Peace

| About Seunghoon Woo | Seunghoon Woo is an experienced development practitioner and a PhD student in Critical Global Studies at Sogang University. He graduated from Hanyang University with a BA in Political Science and earned his MA in African Peace and Conflict Studies from University of Bradford. His MA dissertation examined the challenges and opportunities for democratic consolidation in Tanzania from the perspective of the opposition parties. He has engaged in numerous development projects in Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and the Philippines for their design, operation and evaluation. He is currently interested in critical development studies, decolonizing (or Africanizing) development studies, and the ecosystem of Korean international development cooperation.

| Conference Presentations and Publications |

- Africa for Tomorrow, Hilde and Sophie Publishing, 2022 [in Korean]

- "Study of the working conditions and sustainable activism of development practitioners in their 20s and 30s in Korean civil society" (co-present), 2020 KAIDEC Annual Winter Conference, South Korea [in Korean]

Yang, Junghee

(Ph.D)

E-mail: yangjunghee547[at]naver.com

2019 Sogang University (Communication, Chinese Culture, B.A.)

2016 Sogang University (Chinese Culture, M.A.)

Research Interests: Overseas Chinese, Generation Studies, Identity Politics, Stereotypes and Representation, Nationalism

Advisor: Sang-Hyun Kim 

| About Junghee Yang | I completed M.A. in the Department of Chinese Culture this year. I studied the complex politics surrounding the names which shape sociopolitical realities of Chinese migrants in Korea, focusing on the binary categorization of Old and New Hwagyo. The conclusion I reached through my M.A. thesis has motivated me to pursue further investigation in Generation Studies, particularly focusing on the declining interest and attachment to national or ethnic identities among young generations as a global phenomenon influenced by the spread of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism.

| Thesis | Politics of Naming: Overseas Chinese in South Korea

| Conference Presentations and Publications |

- 2023 ‘11th Conference of the Young Scholars Group of the German Association for the Asian Studies (DGA)’ Presenter 

- 2022 E-pub: '정서 이방인'과 대면하는 '공공지식인'의 위치성 (김유리・양정희), <공공인문학 이니셔티브: 공공과 인문학에 대한 다면적 논의> 

- 2021 ‘Global Workshop on Teaching NS-Forced Labour with Digital Tools,’ Presenter: A Virtual Exhibition on Forced Labour, ‘Naming the Nameless’