On Tuesday, March 3 from 5 to 6 p.m., Carleton College will present a public lecture by James F. Person, Deputy Director of the Wilson Center North Korea International Documentation Project, entitled “How Do We Know What We Think We Know About North Korea? Using Archival Records of Former Communist Allies to Challenge the Received Wisdom.” Person’s presentation will take place in Leighton Hall, Room 304.
Person is the Project Coordinator of the North Korea International Documentation Project (NKIDP) and the Deputy Director of the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. He is the editor of the NKIDP Working Paper Series and co-editor of the Cold War International History Project Bulletin and History and Public Policy Program Critical Oral History Conference Series. Person has worked as a consultant on numerous historical documentary features.
His PhD, from George Washington University, is in history with an emphasis on North Korean foreign policy. He spent over eight years living and studying in Russia and South Korea, where he conducted extensive archival research on the DPRK.
Learn more about the Woodrow Wilson Center online at www.wilsoncenter.org.
Person’s visit to Carleton College is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College Visiting Scholars Fund, the Asian Studies Walter Judd Fund, and History Department Herbert P. Lefler Lecture Fund. This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, including disability accommodations, please call (507) 222-4211. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street on the Carleton campus, and is also accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield.
