The Korean War: Memory and Legacy in the North and South. Panellists include Daniel Levitsky and Michael Shin September 16, 2010

The Korean war of 1950, one of the most significant military events of the 20th century, reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the peninsula.With the North and South still officially at war, the legacy of the conflict has redefined Korean identities on either side of the demilitarised zone for the past five decades. An expert panel discusses the resonance of the war in historical memory and its manifestations in the film and visual arts of both North and South, while considering the future of this unresolved conflict and its implications for security across the region. Michael Shin is a lecturer in Korean studies at the Cambridge University Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Daniel Levitsky of London University’s School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, is a specialist in North Korean film and has led several tours to the DPRK.

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