Skip to content

KPAC presents: Fred Carriere

341 Eggers Hall

Add to: Outlook, ICal, Google Calendar

Encountering the West through Christianity:The Legacy of American Missionaries in Early Modern Korea Mr. Frederick Carriere is an adjunct professor of political science and PCI senior fellow of the Korean Peninsular Affairs Center in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. From March 1994 to October 2009, he was the executive vice president of The Korea Society (TKS) in New York City. Prior to joining the staff of TKS, he resided in the Republic of Korea for over twenty years between 1969 and 1993. For several years during that period, he worked as an editorial consultant and translator (Korean to English) for the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, and as an adjunct instructor in anthropology and Asian studies for the Far Eastern Division of the University of Maryland.   This lecture will explore how American missionaries offered Koreans an alternative pathway to personal and national renewal that eventually created a deeply embedded linkage between Christianity and modernity that is one of the most distinctive aspects of Korean Christianity. The lecture will be illustrated with photographs taken by American missionaries in late 19th and early 20th century Korea. These historical images illustrate how modern institutions and values were forged in the crucible of encounters that transformed both the Americans and the Koreans who always were close collaborators in the implantation of Christianity in Korea. Refreshments will be served.

Open to

Public

Contact

Accessibility

Contact to request accommodations

Exterior of Maxwell in black and white when there was no Eggers building

We’re Turning 100!


To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.