HYI Alumni News: Fall 2026

Son Eunsil (BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher, 2024-25) has been promoted to tenured Full Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seoul National University, and elected President of the Korean Society for Medieval Philosophy (2025-27). Beginning this fall, she will serve as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Western Classics at Seoul National University (2026-28). Her recent publications are “The Poverty of God”: The Source of Cardinal Kim Su-hwan’s Spirituality and Pastoral Ministry” in Journal of Korean Religions, Vol. 17, no. 1 (April 2026); “Martino Martini’s Qiu you pian (逑友篇, 1647): Introducing the Christian Understanding of Friendship in Early Modern China” in Religions 17 (2026), 62; 15 pp; “Thomas Aquinas on Twofold Happiness: Philosophical Ideal and Wisdom of Faith” in Journal of Western Medieval History 56 (2025), 65-99; and “Thomas Aquinas on ‘Homosexuality’: A Reassessment in Light of His Concept of Natural Law and Human Nature” in The Catholic Philosophy 44 (2025), 107-141.

In Hee Song (Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) is author of the object essay “Lotus Motifs in the Goryeo Celadon Tradition” for the exhibition catalog of “Ten Kings of Hell: The Afterlife in Medieval Korea” (Yale University Press, 2026), while she also assisted with the editing. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 11, 2026 through January 3, 2027, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with a two-day symposium linked to the exhibition titled “The Rise of the “Ten Kings of Hell” on the silk road” taking place in November 20 and 21, 2026.