Bruce Cumings: The Sources of North Korean Conduct
Start: Wednesday, November 15, 2017• 5:30 PM

Bruce Cumings is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, twentieth-century international history, US–East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power and The Korean War: A History are his most recent books.
Recent article: “Americans once carpet-bombed North Korea. It’s time to remember that past” (The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2017)
Cosponsored by Boston College’s Asian Studies, International Studies, History, Political Science, and by BC Peace Action and Massachusetts Peace Action
Information: Prof. Ingu Hwang, ingu.hwang@bc.edu