Event Description This is the first event in a programme series connected to the exhibition of The Statue of the Girl of Peace at OCAD University by the artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung. The statue is a symbol of the flight for justice led by surviving 'comfort women' and their allies for redress from the Japanese […]
Event Description Panel Presenters: Angie Min Ah Park (Postdoctoral Fellow, Management, U of Toronto) Identity and (A)filiation of Diasporic Koreans in Contemporary Literature and Media in Canada Gloria Cho (Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology, UBC Okanagan) Korean Pastors’ Perspectives about Mental Health and the Korean-Canadian Church Discussant: Frederick Glover (KORE Postdoc) Workshop Organizers and the Faculty Advisors: Min-Jung Kwak (Associate […]
Event Description: The Kym Pruesse Speakers Series: ART CREATES CHANGE Featuring: Deann Borshay Liem Join us for the Canadian premiere of Liem’s film CROSSINGS, a documentary that follows a group of international women peacemakers who set out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to […]
Event Description: At 6:34pm on October 29, 2022, the first of many emergency calls was made from Itaewon. None of these calls for help could stop the loss of 156 lives that night. Even though we study contemporary South Korean politics and society, we struggle to find words to describe this senseless tragedy. We thus come together to […]
Event Description: In-person event | Open to public | Free Screening We are ready to step into your world. Nabi, a veteran firefighter, prided herself for living a successful life, until one day her child, Hankyeol, comes out to her by saying: “Mom, I want to get a mastectomy.” Meanwhile, Vivian, a flight attendant of 28 […]
Event Description "In this talk, I discuss how Uno’s Theory of Crisis can inform and guide the analysis of capitalism’s historical crises, and how it gives us a theoretical grasp of Marx’s Capital that emphasizes the concepts of labour-power, excess capital, and surplus populations. In this regard, Uno’s Theory of Crisis is very different from orthodox Marxist approaches to Capital. Finally, I […]