The Center for Koran Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents, Korea Vision Dialogue III: The Present as History -- Critical Prospects of the Two Koreas in Global History, with Professor Jie-Hyun Lim
This Dialogue critically explores key historical issues the two Koreas are facing today, such as the ongoing problems of colonial violence, state brutality, corporate barbarity, and political gridlock that are likely to make a lasting impact on the futures of the two Koreas in terms of democracy, peace, health, and unification.
June 10, 2021 @ 11 AM - 12:30 PM HST
Please register in advance for this webinar:
https://hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iDyXEgs4SkqAnN01yqUlow
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Jie-Hyun Lim is Professor of Transnational History and Director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University in Seoul. He has written broadly on nationalism and Marxism in comparison, Polish history, transnational history, and global memory.
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Tae-Ung Baik is Director of the Center for Korean Studies and Professor Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His main research area is international human rights. Currently, he is Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
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C. Harrison Kim is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research and teaching focus on socialism, labor, industrialism, everyday life, and urbanism
in the context of East Asia and North Korea.
This presentation is supported by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2020-SRI-2200001). For further information, please contact the Center for Korean Studies at (808) 956-7041. The University of Hawai'i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.