Special lectures: KOREANS IN EUROPE AND IN ASIA, 18 January 2018

EARL hosted two lecturers, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chikako Shigemori Bučar and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nataša Visočnik from Department of Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nataša Visločnik held a lecture titled THE ROLE OF KOREAN WOMEN IN RELIGION. In her representation she explored the Korean patriarchal society, where the leadership was traditionally male dominated and ̶ according to Confucian ideology ̶ sexual segregation in the household was extended even to ritual performances for the gods. The paper focused on the traditional roles women have in shamanism since the Joseon dynasty and in Korean Buddhism since the 4th Century and the women role in the Protestantism, where in demand for gender equality, the church structure is changing in last years.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chikako Shigemori Bučar represented a lecture, titled DO CYONG-HO: THE FIRST KOREAN TO OBTAIN A PhD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA. This presentation focused on the Korean student as a researcher, research informant and lecturer in Europe in 1930s, who with two colleagues, doctoral students in Vienna became doctor of ethnology and they all further collaborated in establishing the Japan Institute in Vienna, today's East Asian Studies (Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften) at the University of Vienna.