The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the eighth annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Awardee is Dr. David Krolikoski, assistant professor at the University of Hawai’i. In his lecture Dr. Krolikoski examines The Silence of Love (Nim ŭi ch’immuk, 1926), the acclaimed collection of eighty-eight poems by Han Yong-un (1879-1944), a Buddhist monk and public intellectual. Although the book is commonly celebrated as a metaphor for colonial subjugation, Dr. Krolikoski complicates this established reading to argue that its artistic significance lies in Han’s paradigm-shifting use of colonial poetry as a medium of communal expression during a time of national crisis.
The lecture explores how Han uses fiction and symbols to collapse the boundary between private and public address, transmuting the individual voice of his poetic speaker into a platform for a community. Dr. Krolikoski also contextualizes The Silence of Love within the history of the translation of foreign poetic forms into Korea during the 1920s, with a focus on how Han incorporated elements from the lyric and prose poem into his verse. Dr. Emily Jungmin Yoon, author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) and assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, will serve as moderator.
2024 Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture
The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea
David Krolikoski
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 6 PM (EST)
The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
About the Speaker:
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David Krolikoski is assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He specializes in modern Korean poetry, colonial literature, and translation. Krolikoski’s scholarship has appeared in Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, Japanese Language and Literature, The Routledge Companion of Korean Literature, Hyŏndae sihak, and Sima, and his translations of Korean literature have been published by The Margins and Chicago Review, among other outlets. His first book manuscript, titled Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea, is forthcoming from the University of Hawaiʻi Press. Dr. Krolikoski holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. |
About the Moderator:
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Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). Her first poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018) was a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. Yoon works as the poetry editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and as an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Yoon holds a PhD in East Asian Language and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. |
About the Award:
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The Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Award was established in 2017 through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Philp Sherman and family. Its primary goal is to encourage U.S. thought leadership on Korea among a new generation. The annual award competition opens in early spring and the lecture is hosted in-person at the Society and streamed virtually in the fall of each year. The award is presented across disciplines to emerging thought leaders from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds working in the U.S. Click here for further information on the application process.
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