Seung Hwan Ryu

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Seung Hwan Ryu is a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His research discusses international cooperation between North Korea and Tanzania during the Cold War, examining how they practiced the idea of self-reliance in food production and agricultural development. He holds a BA in History and Economics from Sogang University, South Korea, and an MA in Global Studies from the University of Vienna and Leipzig University. His article “Between Second and Third World: North Korean Use of “Imagined Affinity” in the Socialist Globalization Project with Regard to Tanzania,” was recently published in the global history journal Comparativ (2023).

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Presentation(s):

• Traversing Food and Agriculture in and between Africa and Asia

  Wednesday, June 11, 2025
  15:00 - 16:45 GMT

• Self-reliance as a Transnational Practice: Agricultural Cooperation Between North Korea and African Countries During the Cold War

  Wednesday, June 11, 2025
  15:00 - 16:45 GMT