In celebration of our Korean Cinema NOW Film Series Finale 'Ode to My Father' and with the generous support of the Korea Foundation, please join us before the screening for a special lecture by Michael Robinson.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Professor Robinson completed his AB degree at the University of Michigan in 1968 and after a stint in the Peace Corps in South Korea (1968-71) entered graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle where he received his Ph.D. in East Asian History in 1979. He began his teaching career in the Department of History at the University of Southern California in 1980. In 1995 he joined the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Indiana University where he continues to teach and research. He teaches a wide variety of courses on his specialty, modern Korean history, as well as survey courses on East Asia and other specialized topics. His work focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea with an emphasis on Korea’s colonial period. He has written extensively on Korean nationalist ideology formation, journalism history, and colonial popular culture. Among his best known works are: Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1988); (1999); Korea’s Twentieth Century Odyssey: a Short History (2007); and a new text, Modern East Asia: an Integrated History, (2011)

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Free | Open to the public