The K-Future Team of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies cordially invites you to a public colloquium with Professor Suhwan Kim.

• Title: How I Learned to Stop Doing ‘Theory’ and to Love the Soviet

• Speaker: Prof. Suhwan Kim (Department of Russian, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

• Date & Time: Friday, March 28, 2025, 4:00–6:00 PM

• Venue: Room 308, Shinyang Humanities Information Hall (Bldg. 4, College of Humanities), Seoul National University

Abstract:
After receiving my Ph.D. in 2002 with a dissertation on the Russian semiotician Yuri Lotman, I spent roughly a decade living as a “researcher of theory.” I would like to share, in a deliberately personal tone—and perhaps with a touch of affect—how I came to encounter “the Soviet” as a new object of inquiry and how I struggled with the perspectives and approaches through which to engage it. In this talk, I will reflect on the trajectory of my research and its outcomes, while also offering some thoughts on my shifting interests and directions. Through this brief “personal research history,” I hope to evoke, in some measure, the transformations of the world surrounding us in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.
We warmly welcome the participation of all interested colleagues.

Contact:
Yong-rae Jung, Research Assistant
📧 jyongr422@snu.ac.kr