Inner Asian history; cross-cultural contacts between China, the Muslim world and Europe; the Mongol empire and its legacy; Khitans and Qara Khitai; history of traditional China; history of the medieval Middle East; world history; mobility; migrations; nomadism; conversion; ethnicity and identity; collective memory; military history; historiography.
2000 - Ph.D: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation entitled “China, Nomads and Islam: The Qara Khitai (Western Liao) Dynasty (1124-1218)”. Awarded Summa Cum Laude.
1993 - M.A.: Inner Asian Studies under Individual Studies for M.A. program, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
1989 - B.A.: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department, East Asian Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
1995-96 Special student affiliated to the committee of Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University.
1991-92 Non-degree studies in Shandong University , PRC.
Summer 1993 - Russian Language course in Moscow University, Russia.
Summer 1990 - Classical Chinese course in Middlebury College's Chinese Summer School, Vermont, USA.
Positions held
2014 - Professor, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Dept. of Asian Studies
2006-2014 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Dept. of Asian Studies
2002-2006 - Lecturer, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Dept. Of East-Asian Studies, Faculty of Humanities; Inner Asian history
2005 - Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies and Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2002-2005 - Lecturer, Dept. of East Asian Studies and Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2001-02 - Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA.
2000-01 - Dr-Instructor, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Dept. Of East-Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2-8/2000 - Fellow and group Co-organizer, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1998-2000, 1996-8; 1992-5 - Instructor (a-c), Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Dept. Of East-Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Awards and Fellowships
2014 - Fellow, The Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities
2014 - The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science
2012 -ERC Starting Grant 312397 :"Mobility Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia" (2013-2017)
2012 - ISF grant 602/12 for the project; "Central Asia under Mongol Rule: Rulers, Subjects and Emigrants of the Chaghdaid Khanate."
2007 - The Landau Prize for Research and Sciences (history of East Asia and its cultures)
2006-9 - The Michael Bruno Prize, Rothschild Foundation (Middle Eastern Studies) {frozen 2007-2011 for personal reasons}
2006 - ISF grant for workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University: Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change.
2004-5 - The Yoram Ben-Porat Presidential Prize for Excelling Young Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalen.
2004-7 - Grant no. 818\03 of the Israel Academy of Sciences, for the project: "The Steppe People after the Mongol Conquests: Changes of Ethnicity and Identity: The Khitan Case."
2003/4-2006 - Alon fellowship for new lecturers, Council for Higher Education in Israel
2002-3 - Golda Meir Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2001-2 - Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.
2001-2 - Fulbright grant for Post-doc studies.
2001 - Kennedy-Leigh Prize for Ph.D dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2-8/2000 - Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Co-organizer of a Research Group entitled “The Interaction of Nomadic Rulers with Sedentary Peoples: Turco-Mongolian Nomads in China and in the Middle East (1000-1500AD)”.
1996-98, 1994-95 The Rotenstreich's scholarship for writing a Ph.d dissertation, Council for Higher Education in Israel
1995-96 Rothschild fellowship
1995-96 Fulbright grant for graduate student
1994 A Rothschild Foundation's grant for translating and editing a manuscript for publication.
1993 Scholarship for Russian language summer course in Moscow University, Russian Studies Department.
1993 The Wolf Foundation's Scholarship for M.A. studies, Faculty of Humanities.
1991-92 Scholarship for one-year studies in the PRC, Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1991 The Rector's Award for M.A. student, Hebrew University
1990 Scholarship for participation in Middlebury College's Chinese summer-school, East Asian Studies department.
1990 The East-Asian department's award for excelling M.A. student.
1990 The Wolf Foundation's scholarship for M.A. studies, Faculty of Humanities.
1989-91 Two-years excellence scholarship for M.A. studies, Faculty of Humanities.
1989 The Dean's award, Faculty of Humanities
1988 The Dora Shikman's award for excellence in Chinese Studies, East-Asian Department.
1987 The Rector's award for B.A. student, Hebrew University
Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. 2015. X+338 pp, Hawaii University Press ("New Perspectives on the Global Past" series), Honolulu.
Michal Biran, "Introduction: Nomadic Culture." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Honolulu, Hawaii University Press, 2015, 1-9.
Michal Biran, "Introduction: Nomadic Culture." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Honolulu, Hawaii University Press, 2015, 1-9.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-c. "Qarakhanid Eastern Trade: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads in the 11th-12th centuries," in Jan Bemmann, ed. Empires, Cities, Nomads, Farmers. Forthcoming in Bonn Contribution to Asian Archaeology , 2014, 34 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-d. "Violence and Non-Violent Means in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave, ed. Violence in Islamic Thought ,vol.2,EdinburghUniversityPress.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-d. "Violence and Non-Violent Means in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave, ed. Violence in Islamic Thought , vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-d. "Violence and Non-Violent Means in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave, ed. Violence in Islamic Thought , vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-f. "Scholarship and Science under the Qara Khitai (1124-1218), in D. O. Morgan and S. Edwards, eds. The Idea of Iran: From the Seljuqs to the Mongols. London: Tauris, forthcoming.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-g. "The Non-Han Dynasties," in M. Szonyi, ed. The Blackwell Companion of Chinese History. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming
Articles in Collections
Michal Biran. "Qarakhanid Eastern Trade: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads in the 11th-12th centuries," in Jan Bemmann, ed. Empires, Cities, Nomads, Farmers. Forthcoming in Bonn Contribution to Asian Archaeology , 2014.
Michal Biran. "Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanids Circle of Musicians," in Bruno DeNicola, ed. The Mongols in the Iddle Easst. Forthcoming in Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Michal Biran. "Central Asia from the Conquest of Chinggis Khan to the Rise of Tamerlane: The Ögodeied and Chaghadaid Realms." In Peter B. Golden, Nicola Di Cosmo and Allan Frank, eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 46-66.
Michal Biran, "The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire." In Johan P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock, eds. Eurasian Transformations Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances. 23pp. 2004, E. J. Brill, Leiden and Boston.
Michal Biran. ”True To Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai did not Convert to Islam," In Reuven Amitai and
Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005: 175-169.
Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. "Introduction." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005, 1-13.
Michal Biran. "Ilak-khanids (or Qarakhanids)." In Encyclopedia Iranica, vol. XII, 621-28. 8pp. 2005, Columbia University Press, New York.
Michal Biran. "Between China and Islam: The Administration of the Qara Khitai Empire." In David Sneath, ed. Imperial Statecrafts: Political Forms and Techniques of Governance in Inner Asia C6th- C20th. Bellingham, WA: Western Washington University Press, 2006: 63-84.
Michal Biran. "The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Khitans of China." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Forthcoming in Hawaii University Press. 25pp.
Michal Biran. "Introduction: Nomadic Culture." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Forthcoming in Hawaii University Press. 15pp.
Michal Biran. "Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370)." In David Durand-Guedy, ed. Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life in Iran and the Neighboring Countries. Forthcoming in Leiden: Brill.35pp.
Michal Biran. "The Mongols and the Inter-Civilizational Exchange. " In Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry Wiesner-Hanks , eds. The Cambridge History of the World: Vol. 5 Forthcoming in Cambridge University Press. 28 +12 pp.
Michal Biran, 2003. “The Impact of the Mongol Conquests on the Steppe Peoples’ Collective Identities,” The Van Leer’s Arena for Public Discourse 7: 90-99 (in Hebrew).
Michal Biran, 2012. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34)," in A. Layish, ed. Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform in Islam: Essays in Memory of Nehemiya Levzion. Jerusalem: The Van-Leer Institution and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 (Hebrew, extended version of no. 23 below).
Michal Biran. "Tang Foreign Relations," forthcoming in Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Tradional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, Vol. 2, 22 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming:: "From Chinggis Khan to Qubilai Khan: The United Mongol Empire (1206-1260)," in Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Tradional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, Vol. 3, 28 pp.
Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Shorter Publications:
Michal Biran, 2000. Review of Charles Melville’s The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran. Iranian Studies, 33/1-2: 245-6.
Michal Biran, 2001. "China, Nomads and Islam: The Qara Khitai (Western Liao) Dynasty, 1124-1218: Dissertation Abstract. Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 31: 363-5.
Michal Biran, 2002. Review of Matthew S. Gordon’s The Breaking of a Thousand Swords. A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra. International History Review, 24/2: 389-91.
Michal Biran, 2003 [2004]. Review of Thomas T. Allsen’s Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123.2: 446-7.
Michal Biran, Review of George Lane's Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 30 (2005).
Michal Biran, 2006a. "Genghis Khan." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 1: 280-82.
Michal Biran, 2006b. "Silk Roads." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2: 745-9.
Michal Biran, 2006c. "Tamerlane." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2:796-8.
Michal Biran, 2007 [2012]. Review of Linda Komaroff (ed). Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden: Brill, 2006), MESA bulletin, 41.2 :204-205.
Michal Biran, 2008. Review of Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Itinerario: International Journal on European Expansion and Global interaction. 32: 146-148.
Michal Biran, 2009a. "Jochi," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 1-2.
Michal Biran, 2009b. "Jovayni, Shams al-Din," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 71-74.
Michal Biran, 2009c. Review of Istvan Vasary's Cumans and Tatars.Canada Slavonic Papers, 51/2: 352-3. \
Michal Biran, 2009d. Review of Anne F. Broadbridge. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol World.Journal of Central Eurasian Studies, 1: 111-15.
Michal Biran. 2010. Studies on the Mongol Empire from the Perspective of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (1989-2009). " Perspectives and Research Trends on the Conquest Dynasties in Foreign Scholarship (Seoul),2: 149-64 [Published in Korean].
Michal Biran, 2011. Review of David M. Robinson, Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71/2: 370-77.
Michal Biran, 2013. Review of Timothy May's 'The Mongol Conquests in World History' The Journal of Asian Studies, 72, 465-467. doi:10.1017/S0021911813000260.
Michal Biran, 2013. "Transoxania." In Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone et. al. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, 360-361.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-a "Chapar b. Ḳaydū", Enciclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
Michal Biran, 2015d. "Baraq, Chaghatayid Khan," Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, part2-2015, pp. 42-44.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-k, "Chaghatay Khan, son of Chinggis Khan," Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition. 6 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-l, "Chinggisids," Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition. 10 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-m. "Karakhanid Khanate," Encyclopedia of Empires. 5 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-n. "Kara Khitan Khanate," Encyclopedia of Empires, 5 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-o. "Mongolian Studies in Israel", Encyclopedia of World Mongolian Studies, 15pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-p. "Ilkhanid Empire," Encyclopedia of Empires. 16 pp.
Michal Biran, forthcoming-q. Review of Lange, Christian and Songül Mecit, eds. The Seljuqs: Politics, Society and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Mediterranean History Review 2015.
Papers Read in Conferences
Michal Biran "Sinicization outside of China? - The Case of the Western Liao (Qara Khitai) 1124-1218.” Paper read in the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 1999.
Michal Biran. “Conquerors and Conquered in the Army: Auxiliary Forces in Pre-Mongol and Mongol Central Asia.” Paper read at the weekly seminar of the Research Group “The Interaction of Nomadic Rulers with Sedentary People: Turco-Mongolian Nomads in China and the Middle East”, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, May 2000.
Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao).” Paper read at the conference “Euroasian Nomads and the Outside World,” Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, June 2000.
Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Multi-Culturalism under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao) 1124-1218.” Paper read at the 7th European Conference of Central Asian Studies, Vienna, September 27-30, 2000.
Michal Biran. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-1334).” Paper read at the 2nd conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Madison, WI, October 11-14, 2001.
Michal Biran. “The Chaghadaid Mongols and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-1334).” Lecture, the Institute for Advanced Study Islamic Seminar, Princeton NJ, November 28, 2001.
Michal Biran. “Muslims, Mongols and Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquest.” Lecture, the East Asian Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, February 12, 2002.
Michal Biran.“Why did not the Qara Khitai (1124-1218) convert to Islam?” Lecture, the Historical Studies Colloquia, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, March 4, 2002.
Michal Biran. “The Mongols in Central Asia and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan,” Paper read at The Mongolia Society 41st Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 4-6, 2002
Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations under the Qara Khitai.” Invited lecture, the Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, May 1st 2002.
Michal Biran. “Mongols, Turks and Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquests.” Paper read at the workshop “The Age of Nomadic Power,” Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, July 12-13, 2002.
Michal Biran. “Mongols, Muslims or Chinese: Khitan States after the Mongol Conquest.” Paper read at the International Conference of Mongol-Yuan Studies, Nanjing University, PR China, August 12-14, 2002.
Michal Biran. “Mongols, Turks and Chinese: Khitans in China after the Mongol Conquest.” Paper read at the 2nd conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, January 20, 2003.
Michal Biran. “Eurasian Transformations 10th-13th centuries: The Mongol Case.” Paper read at the workshop “Eurasian Transformations 11th –13th centuries: An Ecumenical Renaissance?” Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala June 26-27, 2003.
Michal Biran. "From the Accursed to the Revered Father: Chinggis Khan in the Muslim World (13th-14th Centuries)." Paper Read at the 4th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Harvard University, Cambridge MA, October 2-5, 2003.
Michal Biran. "From Mongols to Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquests." Paper read at the International Symposium on Nomadic and Sedentary People in Past and Present,Universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig, Wittenberg, Germany, November 27 -29 , 2003.
Michal Biran."Chinggis Khan in China: From Barbarian Conqueror to National Hero." Paper read in the 3rd Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, Haifa, February 1-2 , 2004.
Michal Biran. "Between China and Islam: The Administration of the Qara Khitai Empire." Paper read at the " Symposium on Inner Asian Statecrafts and Technologies of Governance, The Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge UK, March 18-19, 2004.
Michal Biran. "Turkishness and Islam among the Qara Khitai (12th-16th centuries)." Paper Read at the 2nd International Congress of Turkish Civilizations, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan October 4-7, 2004.
Michal Biran. "The Position of the Ruler in Central Asia." In the Roundtable "The Position of the Ruler in Asia" at the 4th annual Israeli Conference for Asian Studies, May 29-30, 2005.
Michal Biran. "Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)." Paper read at the 6th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Boston University, MA, USA, September 29- October 2, 2005.
Michal Biran. "The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Khitans in China." Paper read at the international research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, "Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change", Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies, HU, June 5-8 2006.
Michal Biran. "Mongol Diet: From Mice and Dogs to Gourmet Fusion Cuisine." Paper read at the 5th Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, Tel Aviv, June 11-12 2006.
"Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)." Paper read at the Second International Conference of Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe, Jászberény, Hungary, May 24–26, 2007.
"Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Khanate (1260-1370)." Paper read at the conference "The Middle Ages Now," Bar Ilan University, March 27, 2008.
"The Non-Existant Corpus of the Chaghadaid Khanate." Paper read at the conference Les correspondances diplomatiques dans l’Orient musulman (XIe-XVIIe s.) Istanbul, April 9-10, 2008.
"Intellectuals and the State in Central Asia." In the roundtable: Intellectuals, State and Society in Asia" in the 7th annual Israeli conference for Asian Studies, Jerusalem, May 21-22, 2008.
"Migrations, Religious and Ethnic Changes in the Wake of the Mongol Empire." Paper read at the 18th Meeting of World History Association, London, June 25-28, 2008.
"Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia." Paper read at the conference: Turco-Mongolian Rulers, Cities and City-life in Iran and the neighboring Countries; Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, Japan September 12-13 2009.
“Chinggis Khan in China and the Muslim World: Between Hero and Anti-Hero.” Paper read at the Joint conference of the Hebrew University and the National University of Mongolia From Mongol Empire to Modern Mongolia, National University of Mongolia,Ulaan Baatar, August 13, 2010.
"Khitan Migrations in Inner Asia." Paper read at the international conference "Conquest, Migration and Cultural Exchanges in Central Eurasia," Seoul, 3 December 2010.
"The Mongol Empire in World History." In the International Workshop"The Cambridge History of the World Volume 5," Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies, HU, February 6-8, 2011.
"Who Counted Kin and How: Warrior Groups, State Regimes and Social Boundaries in Central, East and South Asia, ca. 1200-1850ce," Chair and discussant in Joint Conference of the Association of Asian Studies and International Convention of Asia Scholars, Honolulu, Hawaii March 31-April 3, 2011.
"The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad 1258-2008." Paper read at the 10th Annual Israeli Conference for Asian Studies, Jerusalem, May 24-26, 2011.
"Qarakhanid Eastern Trade: The Silk Roads in the 11th-12th Centuries." Paper read at the international conference The Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millenium AD: Empires, Cities, Nomads, Farmers, Bonn, February 9-11.2012.
"Migrations in the Mongol Empire: Types and Some Consequences." Paper read at the Sino-Israeli Workshop: New Perspectives on Pre-Modern Chinese History. Jerusalem March 11-12, 2012.
"World Conquest and Imperial Space in the Mongol Empire." Paper read at the nternational workshop Imperial Space: The Organization of Near Eastern Empires from the Second Millenium BC to the Second Millenium AD, Topoi Excellence Center, Berlin, May 3-5, 2012.
"Central Asian Diasporas in Mongol Eurasia: Formation, Interaction and Impact" Paper read at the WorldWideAsia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts conference, Leiden, 31/8-1.9.2012.
"Violence and Non-Violence in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," Paper read at the 3rd LIVIT conference on Legitimate and Ilegitimate Violence in the Islamic World, Exeter, UK, September 3-4, 2012.
"The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad Revisited: Between Violence and Restoration." Paper read at the conference: Chinggis Khan and Globalization: The 850 anniversary of Chinggis Khan's Birthday, Ulaan Baatar, November 13-15, 2012.
"The Fall and Rise of Baghdad under Mongol Rule: Between History and Memory." Paper read at the Winter Academy: Collapse, Jerusalem, December 9-15, 2012. "Scholarship and Science under the Qara Khitai (1124-1218)". Paper read at "The Idea of Iran" Symposium, SOAS, London, February 9, 2013.
"Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanid circle of Musicians". Paper read at the MEISAI conference, TAU, June 6, 2013.
Michal Biran. "The Mongol Empire as a Turning Point in World History." Paper read at the Anneliese Maier Research Award Colloquium, Frankfurt, September 25-27, 2013.
Michal Biran. "The Scholarly Map of Mongol Central Asia as Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate." Paper read at the conference Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views on Central Asia, Bonn University, January 10-11, 2014.
Michal Biran. "Libraries, Books, and Transmission of Knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad." Paper read at the conference New Approaches on the Il-Khans Ulanbataar, May 21-23, 2014.
Michal Biran. “The Eurasian Sphere as Seen from the Mongol Empire: Spatial Concepts at the Heyday of Trans-Cultural Flows.” Paper read at the 12th Israeli Conference of Asian Studies, Haifa, May 25-26, 2014.
Michal Biran. "The Mongol Middle Kingdom: New Directions in the Study of the Chaghadaid Khanate," Lecture at the International Summer School New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire. Jerusalem, July 1-4, 2014.
Michal Biran. "The Shifting Images of Chinggis Khan, 13th-21st Centuries,". Paper given at the Young Mongolists Camp, Kharkhorin, August 17, 2014.
Michal Biran, " Commerce and Trade Networks in Mongol Eurasia." Paper read at the 2nd EurasiaTrajeco Conference, Connected Histories—Trading Networks Across the Eurasian Continent: Structures, Practices, and Socio-economic Impact, Paris, November 28-29 2014.
Michal Biran. "Mobility and its Impact: The Mongol Empire as a Turning Point in World History," Lecture givenat the New Members' Presentations, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, December 23, 2014.
Michal Biran. "The Mongols Empire as a Turning Point in World History." Paper read in the workshop "New Directions in East Asian Studies,". Seoul, February 2015.
Postdoctoral Fellow, the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies.
EDUCATION
1996-1997 Tokyo Language School, Tokyo, Japanese Language Studies. 1997-2000 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bachelor Degree (with Honor) in Political Science and East Asian Area Studies. 2001-2002 Research Student, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. 2002- 2007/3 Ph. D. Candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. Ph.D. conferred in March 2007.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Political economy
Japanese politics
Cultural industry and cultural policy in Japan
Cultural production and regionalization in East and Southeast Asia
AWARDS
2007 The Sixth Iue Asia-Pacific Research Prize for best dissertation written on society and culture in Asia
2008 Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation
“Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Culture in East and Southeast Asia, 1988-2005”, Kyoto University, March 2007.
Articles in Refereed Journals
(2005) Cultural Commodities and Regionalism in East Asia, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 27 (3): 499-523.
(2008) Contesting Soft Power: Japanese Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia, International Relations of the Asia Pacific [Vol. 8 No. 1].
Chapters in Collections
(2007) When Culture Meets the Market: Japanese Popular Culture Industries and the Regionalization of East and Southeast Asia, in Middle Classes in Southeast Asia, edited by Shiraishi Takashi. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press [forthcoming].
(2008) The Politics of Images: How Popular Culture changes the way Japan’s image in East and Southeast Asia, in Culture and Political Psychology; A Societal Perspective, edited by Thalia Magioglou. France: Jaan Valsiner [forthcoming]
Other Publications
(2003) Japanese Government Support for Cultural Export, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Vol. 4.
Papers in International Conferences and Workshops
(2003) “Japanese Popular Culture and Asian Regionalization”, Paper presented in the Asian Political and International Association (APISA) First Congress, November 27-30, Singapore.
(2004) “The Flying Poke’mons Theory: Japanese Popular Culture Industries in East Asia”, Paper presented in the Core University Program Conference, organized by the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, October 7.
(2005) “The Role of Popular Culture in Young Urban East Asians’ Imagery of Japan”, Paper presented in the Cultural Typhoon 2005 Conference, Kyoto, Ritsumeikan University, July 2.
(2005) “The Expansion of Japanese Cultural Industries to Markets in East Asia”, Paper presented in the Israeli Association for Asian Studies, Jerusalem, the Hebrew University, June 30.
(2006) “Cultural Commodities and Regionalization in East Asia”, Paper Presented in the East West Center 5th International Graduate Students Conference, Hawaii University, Honolulu, February 17.
(2006) “From Soft Power to Agenda Setting: Japanese Popular Culture in East Asia”, Paper presented in the Israeli Association for Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University, June 11.
(2007) “Popular Culture and Japanese Soft Power in East and Southeast Asia”, Paper presented in the Harvard Project for Asian and International Studies, Beijing, August 19.
(2008) "A Regional Torii: the Expansion of Japanese Music and Television Companies into Hong Kong", Paper presented in the Conference on Popular Culture Flows in Northeast Asia, University of British Columbia, Institute of Asian Research, February 22.
Workshop Papers
(2004) “Isuraerujin Kara Mita Nihon -Reikishi, Bungaku, Taishobunka-” [An Israeli View of Japan: History, Literature, and Popular Culture], Michijuku Workshop No. 100, Osaka, December 6.
(2006) “An Army of Hello-Kittys: Japanese Cultural Industries in East and Southeast Asia”, Paper presented in an international workshop on Globalization and Education: Constructing New Frames of Research and Thinking, Jerusalem, Hebrew University, June 8.
(2007) “Higashi to Tonan Ajia ni okeru Nihon no Media Sangyou” [Japanaese Media Industries in East and Southeast Asia], Michijuku Workshop No. 132, Osaka, August
(2007) “Choushu: The Anatomy of a Han”, Paper presented in the Seminar “Thinking about Modern Japan”, Hagi, Japan, July 27.
(2007) “History, Culture, and the Market: Japanese Popular Culture in South Korea since the Removal of the Ban”, Paper presented at the Seminar on Japanese-Korean Relations, Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo, July 5.
2011 Ph.D. at York University: Department of Humanities. Ph.D. conferred on May 12, 2011 (Korean Literature and Film), Canada
2005 MA at York University: Department of Humanities (Korean and Japanese
Literature), Canada
2004 BA in Art History (Honour) at York University, Canada
RESEARCH INTEREST
Korean Literature: New Fiction, Detective/Mystery Fiction
Japanese Literature: Detective/Mystery Fiction
Korean diaspora in Japan
Food and Gender in Media in Korea
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2013-4 Golda Meir Fellowship Lectureship Awards, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Nominee for the Womyn’s Center Woman of the Year Award, Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA
2011 Nominee for the Best PhD Thesis of the Year Award, York University, Toronto, Canada
APPOINTMENTS
July 2013 - Present Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Oct. 2017 – Jan. 2018 Visiting Professor, Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University, Japan
Oct. 2014 - Present Research Fellow, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
Oct. 2011- Present Research Associate, York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, Canada
Sep. 2014 - Present Cultural Ambassador of Incheon City, South Korea
Aug.2012- May 2013 Luce Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA
Sep. 2011- Apr.2012 Lecturer, York University/University of Toronto, Canada
Sep. 2011- June 2012 Visiting Researcher, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
May - July 2010 Lecturer, Ontario College of Arts and Design University, Toronto, Canada
2007-2008 Visiting Researcher, Waseda University, Tokyo
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2018-9 Arts and Cultural Exchange Program, Korea Foundation, USD 30,000
2018 Research Fellowship, Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Seoul, Korea
2017 Recipient of the Window on Korea (WOK) Competition. Korean National Library. USD 60,000
2015-8 Seed Program for Korean Studies Grant for “The Promotion of education and research programs in Korean Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” (PI). The Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea USD 135,000 for three year (45,000/yr)
2015-8 Research Grant for “The Empire of Crime: Class, Race and Gender in Korean Detective Fiction, 1910s–1940s.” (PI). The Israeli Science Foundation, Israel USD 70,000 (USD 23,000/yr, 88,000 New Israeli Shekels/yr)
2014-5 Co-applied with Nissim Otmazgin, Ingyu Oh, and Gil Sung Park. Korea Foundation Research Grant, “Hallyu in the Middle East,” The Truman Institute and Institute of Hallyu Convergence Research of Korea University, South Korea USD 20,000
2014-6 Co-applied with Nissim Otmazgin and Orna Naftali. The Truman Institute Research, “Global Cities and Middle Class in East Asia,” Israel USD 10,000
2012-2013 Grant for Korean Literature Studies Overseas, The Daesan Foundation, South Korea USD 7,000
2012 Short-Term Research Travel Grant, Korea Foundation and The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC), USA USD 2,500
2012 Research Assistantship Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada CDND 5,000
2008 Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarships, Canada CDND 2,800
2006-2009 Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada CDND105,000
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book
(forthcoming, 2019) The Novel in Transition: Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
(forthcoming, May 2019) “Beyond Victims and Heroes: The 5.18 Cinema Across Gender Boundary,” Korean Studies, 34 pages.
(forthcoming, March 2019) “Gender Politics in Food Escape: Korean Masculinity in TV Cooking Shows in South Korea,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 35 pages.
“Introduction to a Special Issue Diasporic Art and Korean Identity,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 29 (Dec. 2018): 1-14.
“Making Sense of Fiction: Social and Political Functions of Serialized Fiction in The DailyNews (Maeil sinbo) in 1910s Korea.” Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 22, no. 1 (2017): 227-257.
“Against the Nihilism of Suffering and Death: Life and Works of Richard E. K. Kim.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, no. 18, March, 2016, 1-20
Jooyeon Rhee and Nissim Otmazgin, "Expanding Transnational Dialogue in Asia through Hallyu", The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 14, issue 7, no. 4, April 1, 2016.
Jooyeon Rhee, "Gendering Multiculturalism: Representation of Migrant Workers and Foreign Brides in Korean Popular Films", The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 14, Issue 7, No. 9, April 1, 2016.
“The Politics of Romance in Colonial Korea: An Investigation of a Korean Translation of the Japanese Romance Novel, The Gold Demon.” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, vol 15, no. 1 (2015): 69-87.
“No Country for the New Woman”: Rethinking Gender and Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea through Kim Myǒngsun.” Acta Koreana, vol 17, no. 1 (June 2014): 399-427.
On “The Value of Literature” and “What is Literature?” Azalea: Journal of Korean Culture and Literature, volume 4, Harvard University and University of Hawaii Press
(2011): 283-5.
“Arirang and the Making of Nationalistic Films in South and North Korea,” Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, vol. 1, no. 1 inaugural issue (2009): 27-43.
“Aesthetics of Disappearance: The metaphor of suicide and the politics of memory in modern Japan and Korea,” A Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, 2008-9, http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/2009/rhee.php3
“Manifestation of ‘Japanese Spirit’ in Wartime Japan: Focusing on Images of Women in Films, The New Earth and the Suicide Troops of the Watchtower,” (in English) SAI: The Journal of the International Association of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies, 2008, pp. 207-240.
Edited Journal/Volumes
(forthcoming, 2019) Jooyeon Rhee and Hong Kal (eds.) “Social Changes and Visual Culture in Contemporary Korea.” Korean Studies.
Jooyeon Rhee and Hijoo Son (eds.) “Diasporic Art and Korean Identity,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Reviews, no. 29 (December, 2018).
Jooyeon Rhee and Nissim Otmazgin, “Introduction and editing for “Expanding Transnational Dialogue in Asia Through Hallyu,” The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol. 14, Issue 7, No. 4, April 1, 2016. (Spring, 2016)
Jooyeon Rhee and Hong Kal (eds), Introduction and Descriptions of collected essays for a section, “War and Visual Culture” in the Japan Focus Reader, Japan Focus, November 2012, pp. 1-230
Chapters in Books
“Road to Kwangju [Kwangju ro kanŭn’gil],” in The Taxi Driver [t’aekssi unjŏnsa], Edited by The Association of Korean Media Culture, Seoul: Yŏn’gŭk kwa in’gan, 2018, 135-153.
“Collective Nostalgia and Anxiety in Korean Film Music: Im Kwǒnt’aek’s Use of P’ansori in Sǒp’yǒnje,” in Film Music in Minor National Cinema. Edited by Gérman Gil Guriel, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, 115-132.
“Are You My Friend or Enemy? Female Friendship at the Crossroads of Class, Race, and Gender in Sara Paretsky’s and Natsuo Kirino’s Detective Fictions,” in Out of Deadlock: Female Emancipation in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski Novels, and her Influence on Contemporary Crime Fiction, edited by Enrico Minardi and Jennifer Byron. London, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, March 2015, 101-116.
“Chasing the Monster: Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa’s Film, Death by Hanging.” Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Publishers, November 16, 2014, 153-168.
“Gender and Nation: Japanese War Propaganda Films.” Included in Korean Culture in the Late Colonial Period. Edited by Watanabe Naoki and Hwang Hoduk. Seoul: Somyǒng, 2010, 393-423.
Other Publications
Book Reviews
Yun Sun Yang. From Domestic Woman to Sensitive Young Men. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 77, no. 2. (2018), 822-823.
Aimee Nayoung Kwon. Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Acta Koreana, vol. 19, no. 1 (June 2016): 393-396.
Choi, Hyaeweol. New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2012. The Journal of Korean Studies, volume 19, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 468-472.
Choi, Min Koo. Voices of the New Woman in Colonial Korea: Generic and Linguistic Interplay in the Construction of Self-Narratives. PhD dissertation. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Dissertation Review. March 2014, 6 pp. http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/author/jooyeon-rhee
Film Reviews
“On Strokes of Fire” (dir. Im Kwǒnt’aek 2002)/ “On The Aimless Bullet” (dir. Yu Hyǒnmok 1961)/ ”On The Power of Kangwǒn Province” (dir. Hong Sangsu 1998). Directory of World Cinema: South Korea, edited by Collette Balmain. London, UK: Intellect Ltd, December 15, 2013, pp. 58-9/78-9/127-8.
Other Journals
“Two Portraits of the Children of the Empire in Kim Saryang’s “Into the Light” and Yuasa Katsue’s “Red Dates”,” Bulletin of Korean Studies, volume 33 (2018): 57-80.
“Korean Studies in the Middle East: Focusing on Israel,” Han’guk munhwa yŏn’gu, volume 33 (2018): 265-287. (in Korean)
WHITE. Written by Kenya Hara, (from Japanese to English). Tokyo: Chuokoron Shinsha, 2008, 64 pp.
*published in Japan in 2008. South Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, and German versions, all including my English text, were published in 2009.
Chapters in Books
“Red Dates” (Natsume) by Yuasa Katsue (from Japanese to English), Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, ed. Ted Goossen and Anindo Hazra, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, November 16, 2014, pp. 77-95.
“Led by the Scarlet Pleats: Robert Bresson’s L’argent.” by Hasumi Shigehiko (from Japanese to English), in a new edition of the book, Robert Bresson, edited by James Quandt. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 2011, pp. 533-545.
“Kim Saryang and Joy Kogawa,” written by Ted Goossen, (from English to Korean), Seoul: Somyǒng, in Korean Culture in the Late Colonial Period, edited by Watanabe Naoki and Hoduk Hwang. Seoul: Somyǒng, 2010, pp. 208-223.
Articles and Essays
“The Land of the Indian Ocean Literature: A Dialogue,” by J. Nalisosa Ravalitera and Lee Sukho, in Barima Literary Magazine: Towards Creative Values in the Age of Globalization. Asia-Africa-Latin America Literary Research Institute. Seoul: Kukhak charyowon, 2013, pp. 146-152.
“War Propaganda and Entertainment: Korea-Japan Collaboration Films, Suicide Squad of the Watchtower (1943) and Love and Pledge (1945), and Directors, Imai Tadashi and Ch’oe In’gyu. (from Japanese to English). Written by Watanabe Naoki. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Reviews, no. 5, 2012, pp. 88-113.
“The Value of Literature” (Munhak ǔi kach’i) and “What is Literature?” (Munhak iran hao) written by Yi Kwangsu, (from Korean to English), Azalea: Journal of Korean Culture and Literature, vol 4. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, pp. 287-291/pp. 293-313.
* Invited to contribute commentaries on translations in the same volume, pp. 283-5.
RESEARCH SUPERVISOIN
Anat Haina, 2017 – current, “Gender Representation in Yi T’aejun’s Works,” MA Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tal Kaptur, 2015 – current, “Ethnic Minority Education in China: Education for Korean Chinese in Jilin Province,” MA Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Aviya Amir, 2013-2016, “From Jerusalem to Seoul via Japan: The Spread of the Jewish Talmud to Korea and Japan,” MA Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
REVIEWED FOR
The Journal of Asian Studies
The Journal of Korean Studies
Dissertation News
Acta Koreana
Cornell East Asia Series
Romanian Journal of Sociology
Journal of Culture and Convergence
INVITED SPEAKER
Nov. 2, 2018 Guest speaker, “The Empire of Crime: Criminalistic Fantasy of Modernity in Detective Fiction in Colonial,” University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct. 4., 2018 Guest speaker, “Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea,” Academy of Korean Studies
Jan. 23, 2018 Seminar, “The Detective, the Femme Fatale, and the Colony: Popular Imagination of Crimes in Colonial Korea,” Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University, Japan
Nov.10-12, 2017 Seminar, Korean Society: Focusing on Gender Relations, Teaching ‘Korea’ in Philippine Academia: Interdisciplinary Seminar-Workshop for Filipino High School Educators, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Oct. 31, 2017 Seminar, “Crime Fiction in 1930s Colonial Korea,” Dept. of Korean Literature and Language, Chungnam University, Korea
Jan. 28, 2016 Seminar, “The Language of Displacement and Memory: Focusing on Richard E.K. Kim’s The Martyred and Lost Names,” Yonsei University, Korea
Jan. 15, 2016 Guest speaker, “Religion and Philosophy in Traditional Korean Art,” Wilfrid Israel Museum, Yok’neam, Israel.
Jan. 28-9, 2015 Seminar, “The Economy of Pleasure and Survival: An Investigation of Gendered Labour in Colonial Korea,” Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
April 1, 2014 Guest speaker, “Human Rights and Zainichi in Oshima Nagisa’s Film,” Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Feb. 4/5, 2014 Honorary Lecturer, “Gender and Colonialism in Korea,” Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
Nov. 22, 2013 Honorary Speaker, “Historical Film in Korea,” Korean Film Festival in Israel
April 9, 2013 “Translating Love: Newspaper-serialized Fiction in Colonial Korea,” East Asian Studies Program Colloquia, Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA
April 9, 2012 “Riding the Korean Wave: Latest cultural trend driving Kanadians krazy for music,” interview. National Post, Canada.
Jan. 20, 2012 “Engineering Fictions: Constructions of Everyday Life in Early Modern Korean Literature, 1910-1916, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
Feb. 21, 2006 “Exhibition Organization for Emerging Curators, Cambridge Galleries, organized by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Ontario, Canada
Nov. 2005 “Introducing Modigliani,” video-taped at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, All TV, Canada
June 20, 2004 “The Art of Survival” (Inuit sculpture and graphic arts from Cape Dorset), McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
ORGANIZING ACADEMIC EVENTS
May 22, 2018 Organizer, “Science and Gender in Modern Korean Culture,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May, 21, 2018 Organizer, “Stories and Storytellings: Korean Diaspora,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 28, 2017 Co-organizer, “Public Image and Narrative-Making in Japan-Korea Relations,” The Harry S. Truman Institute of the Advancement of Peace, Israel.
May 21 – 23, 2017 Organizer, “Korean Diaspora and the Arts,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
June 21 – 23, 2016 Co-organizer, “Middle Classes in East Asia’s Global Cities: Spaces, Communities, and Lifestyles,” The Harry S. Truman Institute of the Advancement of Peace, Israel
May 24 – 26, 2016 Organizer, “Mobility, Creativity, and Collectivity: Making Sites in Contemporary Korean Visual Culture,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 17-19, 2015 Organizer, “Transnational Cultural Interactions between Korea and Japan: From Pre-modern to Colonial Period,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 13-15, 2014 Co-organizer, “Cultural Geography of Hallyu: Mapping the World through Korean Popular Culture,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nov., 2014 Organizer, “Korean Studies Day at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Apr.11-14, 2019 “Popular Imaginations of the Bad Girl: Criminalizing Women in Romance Novels in Colonial Korea,” Association of Korean Studies in Europe, Sapienza University, Italy
Mar.23-24, 2019 “An Uncanny Empire: Doppelgänger in Kim Naesŏng’s Detective Fiction in Late Colonial Korea,” The ASS Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
Dec. 1-2, 2018 “Food and Bonding in Fukazawa Ushio’s The Matchmaker,” Zainichi Koreans in the 21st Century, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Nov. 2, 2017 “Cultural Imaginations of Crime and Urban Masculinity in Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea,” Academia Koreana International Conference on Modern Korean Literature, Keimyung University, Korea
Aug. 4, 2017 “Crime Fiction in Colonial Korea: The Fantasy of Vengeance in Yi Sanghyŏp’s Neptune (Haewangsŏng), 13th Korean Language, Literature, and Culture International Conference, Yonsei University, Korea
Apr. 20 – 23, 2017 Discussant of the panel, “The Construction of Korean History on Screen,” Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE), Prague
Mar 16 – 19, 2017 Discussant of the panel, “The Contentious Meanings of “Creativity” in the Contemporary Korean Visual Culture,” Association of Asian Studies, Toronto
June 21-23, 2016 “Drinking Up Anxiety: The Relationship Between Wine Consumption and the Middle Class Consciousness in Contemporary South Korea.” Middle Classes in East Asia’s Global Cities: Spaces, Communities, and Lifestyles. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 24-26, 2016 “Feeding the Hungry Eyes: The “Mokppang” Phenomenon in South Korea.” Mobility, Creativity, and Collectivity: Making Sites in Contemporary Korean Visual Culture. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 18-19, 2016 “Screening Death and Nostalgia: The Construction of Colonial Nostalgia in the Japanese Policy Films during the Pacific War.” The 13th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel. Tel-Hai College, Israel
May 17 -19, 2015 “Two Portraits of Interracial Marriage and Family in Kim Saryang’s Into the Light and Yuasa Katsue’s Red Dates.” Transcultural Interactions between Korea and Japan, from Pre-modern to Colonial Period, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 23-5, 2015 “Richard Kim and Writing as “the Proof of Life”.” Cross-Currents International Forum, UC Berkeley, California, USA
June 20-1, 2015 “The [Im]mobility of Vengeful Masculinity in Colonial Space: Focusing On A Korean Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.” Association of Asian Studies in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
May 26, 2014 "Popularizing the Unpopular: Foreign Brides, Migrant Workers, and the Politics of Recognition in Korean Popular Culture." 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
May 14, 2014 “Politics of Film or Film Politics?”: The Cinematic Geography of Politics in Contemporary Korea.” Hallyu in the Middle East International Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 8, 2013 “Locating Home: Assessing Multiculturalism in South Korea Through Hallyu.” The “Miracle” Narrative of the Korean Cultural Industries: Perspectives from the Middle East. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
April 12, 2013 “From Arirang to Gangnam Style: Teaching Korean Literature, Film, and Pop Culture at the Crossroads of Colonialism and Nationalism.” ASIANetwork Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
Feb. 22, 2013 “Oppa Goes to Latin America: The Emergence and Development of South Korean Pop Culture.” the 12th Ohio Latin American Conference (OLAC). Springfield, Ohio, USA
Jan. 18, 2013 “Translating Emotion: Gendered Representation of Modernity in Newspaper-Serialized Fiction in 1910s Colonial Korea,”AAS Southeast Conference. Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
May 2012 “Undoing Nationalistic Historiography of Korean Film,” Film workshop at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto, Canada.
May 2012 “Chasing Monster: A Critical Analysis of Oshima Nagisa’s Death by Hanging in Human Rights Context,” International Workshop organized by Literatures and Human Rights in Asia and Asian Diaspora, Toronto, Canada
Mar. 22, 2012 “Dumas Goes to Asia: Justice and Order in East Asia Envisioned in a Korean translation of The Count of Monte Cristo, Neptune (1916-7),” AAS Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
Apr. 2, 21011 “A Korean Translation of Ozaki Koyo’s The Gold Demon,” AAS Annual Conference, Hawai’i, USA
Mar. 5, 2011 “Mencius’ Mother in Armour,” University of Toronto Graduate Conference, Toronto, Canada
July 16, 2010 “Yi Sang Conference,” Celebrating Modern Korean Literature and Culture Conference, Musashi University, Tokyo
Sep. 26, 2008 “Images of Women in Postcards in Colonial Korea,” York University International Graduate Students Conference, Toronto, Canada
Feb. 8, 2008 “Propaganda and Melodrama: representation of women in the film, The Straits of Chosŏn, and in the literature, The Chapter of Thistle,” Columbia University Graduate Students Conference, New York, USA.
June 23, 2007 “Na Un-Kyu’s Arirang and the making of a national narrative”, The Asian Studies Conference Japan, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
Mar. 30, 2007 “Na Un-Kyu’s Arirang and the making of a national narrative”, Graduate Students Conference, East Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
May 2006 “A Victorian Samurai: Nakamura Keiu and his translation of Self-Help”, Graduate Conference, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada
Mar. 2006 “Nation Imagined”, Imitation and Transgression, Graduate Conference of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
May 2005 “Virtual Suicide or Techno Sublime?” A common ground, Graduate students conference, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada
SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOPS
June 2016 Middle Classes and Global East Asian Cities, The Harry S. Truman Institute for Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nov. 2014 Soft Power and Hallyu, Korea University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2010 - 11 Colonial workshop at the Centre for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto, Canada
2010 Gender and Cultural Production, Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Canada
July, 2009 Dissertation Workshop, Centre for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, Champagne, USA
Sep., 2008 International Symposium, “Behind the Lines: Culture in Late Colonial Korea,” York Centre for Asian Research, Toronto, Canada
2007 - 8 Jinbun hyōronkai (Research Group of Humanities and Criticism Workshop), Waseda University/Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan
MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICES
Current Director, Korean Studies Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Academic Committee, Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Current Member of Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Current Member of Modern Language Association (MLA)
2009 Member of Recruitment Committee, Division of Humanities, York University
2008-2010 Member of Executive Committee, York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Canada
2006-2007 Member of Tenure and Promotion Committee, Division of Humanities, York University, Canada
Member of Executive Committee, York Centre for Asian Research
2004-2005 Representative, Graduate Students Association, York University
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Korean, native
English, native level fluency
Japanese, fluency in reading and speaking
Classical Chinese, low-intermediate level in reading
Modern Hebrew, elementary in speaking, reading and writing
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