Greetings,

SNU Contemporary Korean Studies is hosting a colloquium featuring a lecture and discussion with Professor Valérie Gelézeau.

Title: (Back to the) Future Fieldwork – Tapsa and Haptic Methods in Contemporary Korean Studies
Speaker: Valérie Gelézeau (Research Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)
Date & Time: Friday, May 9, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Seoul National University, IBK Communication Center (Building 64), Room 501
Language: English

Professor Gelézeau is one of the leading researchers on Korean society in France. Her doctoral dissertation on Seoul’s apartment complexes was published as a book in 2003, earning the prestigious Garnier Award from the French Geographical Society that same year.

Short Bio

Valérie Gelézeau is a cultural geographer and Koreanologist, professor at EHESS, Paris, France. She has authored Doing Fieldwork in North Korea (2021, with Joinau), De-bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy (2013, with De Ceuster and Delissen), and Seoul a Megapolis (2011). Her book Ap’at’ŭ Konghwaguk (The Republic of Apartments, Humanitas, 2007) was recognized as a "recommended reference in the social sciences" by the South Korean Ministry of Culture.

She recently led a research project on North Korean cities: https://citynkor.hypotheses.org/
Her contributions have been widely acknowledged, including the France-Korea Cultural Prize (2008) and CNRS Bronze Medal (2005). From 2019 to 2024, she served as the director of the Centre for Studies of China, Korea, and Japan at EHESS.
More information: https://cv.hal.science/valerie-gelezeau

We encourage all those interested to join this event!

Contact

Assistant: Jung Yong-rae (jyongr422@snu.ac.kr)

Looking forward to your participation!