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**To participate, please send your registration information to fellowship@aks.ac.kr by Tuesday, June 9, 5:00 PM (KST).**

The Academy of Korean Studies is pleased to announce the 196th AKS Colloquium, which will be held online via Zoom on Thursday, June 11, at 1:30 PM (KST).

Organized as part of the AKS Fellowship Program, the AKS Colloquium provides a platform for international scholars conducting Korean studies research in Korea to present their work and engage in academic exchange. This session will feature presentations by the 2026 AKS Fellowship recipients, who will share the outcomes of their ongoing research. We warmly invite your interest and participation.

Presentation Details

Okyang Chae-Duporge (최옥경), Bordeaux Montaigne University

• From Illusion to Reality: The Representation of Objects and the Still-Life Turn in Late Nineteenth-Century Chaekgeori of Joseon
• 허상에서 현실로: 19세기 말 조선 책거리의 기물 재현과 정물화적 전환

Nayoung Kwon (권나영), University of Oregon

• Processing Social Hierarchy and Syntax: Insights from Korean Honorific Agreement into Human Sentence Processing and Transformer Language Models
• 사회적 위계와 통사 정보 처리: 한국어 존대 구문으로 진단하는 인간의 언어 처리와 트랜스포머 언어 모델의 문법 습득

Yuko Nagasawa (나가사와 유코), Waseda University

• Witnessing History in North Korea: Japanese and German Perspectives under Colonial Rule, Division, and the Korean War (1909–1954)
• 한반도 북부지역 거주 일본인과 독일인이 본 식민지배, 분단, 그리고 한국전쟁(1909–1954)

Jisoo M. Kim (김지수), George Washington University

• Desiring Intimacy: Monogamy, Concubinage, and Illicit Sex in Chosŏn Korea
• 성적 욕망: 조선시대 일부일처, 축첩, 그리고 성범죄

A discussion and Q&A session will follow the presentations.

To participate, please send your registration information to fellowship@aks.ac.kr by Tuesday, June 9, 5:00 PM (KST).

Contact: Center for International Affairs,

AKSEmail: fellowship@aks.ac.kr