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Thirty Years of Democracy in the Republic of Korea

Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington

This panel discussion will focus on the momentous events of 1987 that culminated in the first election of a president by direct popular vote in 26 years, the role of the United States in Korea’s path to democratization, and Korea’s democracy over the past thirty years. Panelists include Yong Jick Kim, director of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul; William Stueck, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia; and Kathleen Stephens, former US ambassador to the Republic of Korea and the William J. Perry Fellow in the Korea Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford […]

José Casanova — “Early Modern Globalization through a Jesuit Prism”

Room LJ-119, First Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington

The Jesuits were arguably the first corporate group in history to think and to act globally. In the early modern era Jesuits functioned as pioneer globalizers, making substantial contributions to the growth of connectivity and global consciousness around the world. This lecture will examine the external and internal opportunity structures which made it possible for a Catholic missionary and teaching order such as the Society of Jesus to play such a prominent role as cultural brokers between East and West and North and South in the first phase of globalization. Their global “way of proceeding,” however, became so controversial that […]

George Condo

The Phillips Collection 1600 21st Street NW, Washington

Best known for his existential humor and unhinged pictorial inventions, artist George Condo discusses the 200 drawings, sketches, and “Drawing Paintings” on view in his exhibition The Way I Think, with Klaus Ottmann, Deputy Director for Curatorial and Academic Affairs at The Phillips Collection. A catalogue signing follows. $12 general admission; free for members and students. Includes special exhibition admission. Reservations recommended.