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11/8/2018: North Korea after the 2018 Panmunjeom, Singapore and Pyongyang Summits: New and Unchanged

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Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lindner Commons, Room 602
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA) and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies  invite you to a lecture by Dr. Sergei Kurbanov about North Korea following the 2018 Panmunjeom, Singapore, and Pyongyang summits. Lunch will be provided and the event is free and open to the public.

This event is public and open to the media.

 

headshot of Sergei Kurbanov in professional attire

About the Speaker:

Dr. Sergei Kurbanov is a professor and the chair of the newly established Department of Korean Studies at St. Petersburg University. In 2017 – 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies. In 1997, he developed and opened the “Korean History Major” BA Program. His spheres of interest are wide, including the general history of Korea (with books published in 2002,2009 and 2018), Korean Confucianism (book in 2007), and the everyday lives of North and South Koreans in 1987 – 2000s (books in 2013 and 2017). He also wrote and compiled a biography (published in 2016) of Kim Gu, the head of the Provisional government of the Republic of Korea in China, as well as a book on the theory of historical science (book in 2016).

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