EPEL lecture, Monday, April 24

Dr. Marco Milani, from the University of Bologna, Italy, is invited through the EPEL program of the Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) to give a special lecture at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science (FSP).

Dr. Marco Milani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts – University of Bologna. He has taught at the School of East Asian Studies – University of Sheffield, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute and Lecturer at the School of International Relations – University of Southern California. He also held teaching positions at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and had been visiting research fellow at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (South Korea) and at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Netherlands). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on North and South Korea’s foreign policy, contemporary Korean history and inter-Korean relations. He is co-editor of the book on South Korea’s foreign policy titled The Korean Paradox: domestic political divide and foreign policy in South Korea (Routledge, 2019). His research interests include Korean History and Society, History and International Relations of East Asia, North and South Korean foreign and security policy, Inter-Korean relations, Contemporary Korean cultural production, Media and Communication in Korea and East Asia, etc.

Title of the lecture:  „Domestic and Foreign determinants of recent North Korea’s political development: beyond the nuclear program” 

Time: April 24, 9:00 – 11:00

Venue: Faculty of Political Studies, 8, Spiru Haret St., Room ”Mattei Dogan”.