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Wednesday | 06:00 PM | Transnational Migration and Religious Conversion among North Korean Refugees in Comparative Perspectives Dr. Jung Jin-Hoen, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Koreastudien This presentation examines North Korean refugee-migrants' religious encounters throughout their transnational migrations by way of China to South Korea, North America, and Europe in comparative perspectives. It investigates how some of them become voluntarily or involuntarily converted to evangelical Christianity, and ordained as professional missionaries, while others become indifferent, critical to, or disenchanted from the religion in the contexts of both divided nation and their new host societies. Their conversion to Christianity is often depicted as a signifier of a sacred triumph over the "evil" socialist North in evangelical political discourses. Such evangelical churches and missionary networks have provided secret shelters, broker-missionaries, and the "Underground railways" in China and Southeast Asian countries to South Korea and other western countries. Address Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) 010.00.06 Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Organizer Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Organizer https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Contact Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Lecture Series „East Asia Today”': Wednesday 08th May 2019, 06:00 PM Transnational Migration and Religious Conversion among North Korean Refugees in Comparative Perspectives Dr. Jung Jin-Hoen, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Koreastudien Wednesday 22nd May 2019, 06:00 PM Memory and Commemoration of 'Comfort Women' in Post-war South Korea Prof. Dr. Yonson Ahn, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Ostasiatische Philologien Wednesday 29th May 2019, 06:00 PM Framing Europe - eine Analyse der Europa-Beiträge in den offiziellen und den sozialen Medien Chinas Dr. Zhu Yi, Universität Heidelberg Wednesday 19th June 2019, 06:00 PM Deliberation in Japan angesichts der Herausforderungen der repräsentativen Demokratie Dr. Momoyo Hüstebeck, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies Thursday 27th June 2019, 06:00 PM Reformbedarf! Warum liegt Südkoreas Verfassung im Dornröschenschlaf? Prof. Dr. Hannes Mosler, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Koreastudien Wednesday 10th July 2019, 06:00 PM Chinesische Top-Manager: Karrierewege, Einstellungen, Führungsstil Liu Yuanyuan, Universität Heidelberg, Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie Thursday 11th July 2019, 06:15 PM A Cultural Critique of Hate Gazes on North Korea Prof. Dr. Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University, Asia Center |