Syllabus
February 27 2024
North Korea’s efforts to deepen relations with Central- Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s (lecturer: Marek Handerek; Jagiellonian University in Cracow)
March 5
Korean Cold War history based on the West German and East German archives
(lecturer: Seong Sang-hwan; Seoul National University)
March 12
North Korean activities in the Middle East and North Africa (lecturer: Balazs Szalontai; Korea University)
March 19
The construction of the Seoul-Pusan expressway and the militarism / Cold War dimensions of urbanization and infrastructure in South Korea
(lecturer: Russell Burge; Indiana University Bloomington)
March 26
Korean War - Stalin's Calculus: Soviet aims, strategies, and tactics before and during the war (lecturer: Vladimir Tikhonov; University of Oslo)
(lecturer: Vladimir Tikhonov; University of Oslo)
April 2
Beyond States: How non-state actors shaped North Korea-Latin America relations during the Cold War
(lecturer: Camilo Aguirre Torrini; University of Sussex)
April 9
Czechoslovak-North Korean relations within the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission: Which path to follow?
(lecturer: Zuzana Hritzová; Institute of Oriental Studies of the SAS, P.R.I.)
April 16
Exporting Culture: Ch’oe Sŭnghŭi tours
(lecturer: Miriam Löwensteinová; Charles University)
April 23
How to Represent the enemy during the civil war? The cultural depiction of the North and South Korean other during the Korean war (1950-1953)
(lecturer: Jerôme de Wit; University of Vienna)
April 30
The United States, South Korea, and Inter-Korean Relations
(lecturer: Bernd Schaeffer; Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C.)
May 7
North Korean critique of the Soviet Academy of Sciences works on Korean history
(lecturer: Vladimír Glomb; Freie University Berlin)
May 14
The Korean war in Chinese, Czechoslovak, and Soviet visual propaganda: unison and polyphony (lecturer: Mariia Guleva; Charles University)
May 21
The Sacralization of political authority in North Korea (lecturer: Diana Yuksel, Bucharest University)
Annotation
This online course aims to impart a profound understanding of the complex history of the Cold War with a specific focus on the Korean Peninsula’s perspective. Furthermore, considering the contemporary geopolitical landscape, often likened to a second Cold War, there exists an urgent need to explore the dynamics of the Cold War from a transnational viewpoint.
Therefore, the course will also focus on transnational connections between the Korean peninsula and European nations during the Cold War. The course consists of 13 lectures, each by a different lecturer, and is aimed at bachelor and master students with basic knowledge of modern Korean history.