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Exhibits
(Co)-Humanitarian Exhibit Poster (Co)-Humanitarian
(Co)-Humanitarian used print and visual resources to illustrate the ideological and geographic divisions between South and North Korea. The exhibit also conveyed North Korea’s human rights issues.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
May 1 — Aug. 1, 2017
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Subjects
Area Studies
Korean Studies
KCCNA Exhibit Thumbnail 20 Years and After: Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA)
The Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA) was founded in 1994 with 6 member institutions, with the University of Chicago quickly joining as the 7th member in 1995. This exhibit shows a selection of the University of Chicago’s KCCNA-assigned subject books.
Locations
Regenstein Bookstacks, 5th Floor
March 1 — April 1, 2016
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Subjects
Korean Studies
Image 1 Celebrating the Poetry of Asia & the Middle East
For their inaugural joint exhibit, five area-studies librarians on the fifth floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library celebrate poetry from their own areas of expertise.
Locations
Regenstein Bookstacks, 5th Floor
May 1 — June 30, 2018
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Subjects
Korean Studies
Middle East
Southern Asia
Japanese Studies
Chinese Studies
Far East Exhibition Far East: An Exhibition of Resources in the University of Chicago Library
The exhibit represents the breadth of the Library's East Asian holdings, which have developed with the University and the Center for East Asian Studies since the Center's beginnings at the University in the 1930s.
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1973
Subjects
East Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Shanghai Jews Thumbnail The Shanghai Jews
This three-case exhibit is part of an event series exploring the experience of many thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai during World War II.
Locations
Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room
Jan. 15 — March 30, 2019
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Subjects
East Asian Studies
Jewish Studies
Stamp depicting rhododendron Understanding North Korea through Stamps
The East Asian Collection acquired more than 2,000 North Korean stamps this year, each of which has been digitized and accompanied by in-depth data to form the first digital collection of its kind developed by any library worldwide.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
Sept. 23 — Feb. 12, 2020
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Subjects
East Asian Studies