A New Outlook to the Atrocities: Comfort Women and What Remains
Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21
Online via Zoom
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The theme of our conference invites much needed interdisciplinary conversations on the atrocities that occurred against comfort women, with the broad aim to enrich our understanding of victimhood/victim identity, perpetrators-justice relations, the past, present, and future of memory, and what remains of the challenge in refuting historic mischaracterizations about the case. Our panel of speakers reflect diverse disciplinary perspectives on comfort women from scholars in sociology, memory studies, international relations/global affairs, history, literary studies, music, and gender and women’s studies.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Friday, May 20, 2022
6:30-10 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time); 7:30-11 a.m. (Korea Time)
Session 1 -- Comfort Women Memory and Voices: the Past, Present, and Beyond
Associate Professor and Director, School of Public and International Affairs
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law
- “The Power of Korean 'Comfort Women’s' Testimonies”
Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
- “New Genres, New Audiences: Retelling the Story of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery”
Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities
Associate Professor of English
- “A Comparison of the Perception and Policy of the South Korean and North Korean Regimes on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery”
Hyesuk Kang
Professor
- “Keeping the memory of comfort women alive: How social media can be used to preserve the memory of comfort women and educate future generations”
Lauren Seward, M.A. '21
Saturday, May 21, 2022
8-11:30 a.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time); 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. (Korea Time)
Session 2 -- Centering the Victim and What Remains
Mikyoung Kim
- “Reconfiguring Activist-Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Remapping Encounters between Colonial Women”
Professor, Department of Sociology
- "Song, Speech, and the Work of Listening to 'Comfort Women' Survivors"
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music
Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Study of Korea
- "Kut as Political Disobedience, Healing, and Resilience"
Associate Professor, Department of History
- “Tracing the Footsteps of Victimized Korean Women in Different Time Periods”
Lecturer
- “What about the children? The children’s side of the argument on comfort women”
Associate Professor and Director, School of Public and International Affairs
