2025 Korean Diaspora Studies Conference

The 2025 Korean Diaspora Studies Conference: Borders, Boundaries, and Displacement is a unique opportunity for the Atlantic community and scholars of the Korean diaspora to gather, share knowledge and plan for the future. Speakers include international experts, scholars from universities across Canada, and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

The conference is co-organized with KORE (Korean Office for Research and Education) at York University and presented by the Department of Geography at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, NS.  This marks the first-ever Korean Studies conference in the history of higher education in Nova Scotia.

The one-day conference includes keynotes, panel discussions with global leaders in Korean Studies, and a public screening and discussion of the 2023 film Past Lives.

All conference sessions take place in Burke Theatre B at Saint Mary's. Click to see campus map.