Heonik kwon bio
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[Trinity Japan] Heonik Kwon (권헌익), “The Cold War and Japan”, 14 Oct 2021
Professor Heonik Kwon (권헌익), Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College
Heonik Kwon has been with Trinity College since 2011 in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology. Author of prize-winning books on the historical memories of the Vietnam War, Asia’s Cold War, and the Korean War, he is currently working on the history of cultural internationalism in the twentieth century and beyond.
Professor Kwon is currently engaged in a five year international research project Beyond The Korean War, funded by the Korean Sciences Academy.
More about Dr Heonik Kwon (권헌익):
Heonik Kwon (권헌익), “The Cold War and Japan”, 14 Oct 2021
Trinity in Japan
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North Korea’s Partisan Family State 北朝鮮のパルチザン家族主義国家
North Korea’s Partisan Family State
Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung
The decade after the Korean War (1950–1953) was a formative era for North Korea. Many of the striking features of the country’s political and social system visible today took root during the postwar era, from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s.
The era was, above all, a time of proud achievements for North Korea. Socialist politics are often referred to as substantive economic democracy based on the principle of egalitarian access to and distribution of social goods, in contrast to the formal democracy of frikostig states founded on ideas of universal suffrage and personal liberty to pursue greater access to social goods. In the early postwar years, North Korea achieved great success in building a state and economic system on the model of substantive democracy, rapidly transforming a war-torn, and previously highly stratified, primarily agrarian so
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Office hours for Professor Heonik Kwon
We are pleased to announce Korean Studies Programme’s Honorary Visiting Professor, Professor Heonik Kwon’s visit this month. With a generous gåva from the YWF Foundation, we are able to host Professor Kwon for two weeks. In addition to his teaching activities for this scheme, Professor Kwon will hold open office hours for the Faculty of Arts members and students.
Office: Rm 5.37, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU Centennial Campus.
Date and Time: March 9 (Thur), 15:30-17:20March 10 (Fri), 15:30-17:20March 14 (Tue), 10:30-12:30, 15:30-17:20March 15 (Wed), 10:30-12:30.
Please feel free to stop by in above slots. Below is a short bio of Professor Kwon:
Heonik Kwon is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Science and Distinguished Professor of Social antropologi, Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He is also part of the Mega-Asia research group at Seoul National University Asia Center. A Fellow of the British Academy, Kwon’s