October 16, 2025 K-Masking Empire
THE CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI AT MĀNOA JOINTLY PRESENTS:
K-Masking Empire:
Artist Mirae kh Rhee in conversation with Prof. Heijiin Lee
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
What does it mean to call beauty, adoption, and mourning care when they so often serve as forms of state control?
Artist Mirae kh RHEE and scholar Heijin Lee reflect on over a decade of dialogue, beginning with K-Beauty and expanding into transnational adoption, digital aesthetics, and feminist critique. Featuring a screening of RHEE's new experimental film Si j'avais quatre meres (If I Had Four Mothers), this conversation explores how care can be aestheticized, institutionalized, and weaponized-and how feminist and diasporic practices work to unmask empire's softer surfaces.
The event is free and open to all. For further information, including information regarding disability access, telephone the Center for Korean Studies at 808-956-7041. This event is in part supported by the Academy of Korean Studies Strategic Research Institute Program (AKS-2020-SRI-2200001).
The University of Hawai‘i is an equal opportunity institution.