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The Miller Center | Ending the Korean War: Political Education and Permanent War | Patrick Chung

Political Education and Permanent War

The Miller Center | Ending the Korean War: Political Education and Permanent War | Patrick Chung

American Studies | Center for East Asian Studies | Center for Global Migration Studies | History | Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies | The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Thursday, April 4, 2024 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Shoemaker Building, 2102
In the eighth decade of the unending Korean War, a catastrophic war of U.S. intervention that has yet to come to an end, the Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective (EKW) has organized a series of events that explore the necessity of political education as an anti-imperialist tool against permanent war within militarized geographies that span Korea and the Pacific.  Instead of understanding the unresolved Korean War as a narrowly defined discrete event in the past specific solely to Korea and Koreans, our sessions generate scrutiny of far-reaching structural consequences across the Pacific that are seldom identified with the war itself. 

 

Please join Professors Patrick Chung, Christine Hong, Junyoung Kim, and Sung Eun Kim for a roundtable discussion on contesting the presumed geographic borders of the Korean War. How can we redefine “militarized spaces” from the 38th parallel to diasporic sites beyond the Korean peninsula? What are the multiscalar geographies of the Korean War that converge, collapse, and negotiate the imperial and the intimate, the geopolitical and the biopolitical? The session introduces the design of the EKW public syllabus and explores its uses in and beyond the classroom. 

After a light reception, a second session focusing on the intersection of scholarship and politics will follow. Members of EKW will join activists from two anti-imperialist activist organizations, ANSWER coalition and Nodutdol. The discussion will center on the praxis of political education and draw connections between the experiences of scholars, students, and activists. Register HERE.

The two sessions will help set the stage for a rally on the National Mall on April 5th. The rally takes the form of an anti-imperialist walking tour of World War II, Vietnam, MLK, and Korean War memorials. Details about the political action will be provided at the session and are available HERE.

Add to Calendar 04/04/24 4:00 PM 04/04/24 8:00 PM America/New_York The Miller Center | Ending the Korean War: Political Education and Permanent War | Patrick Chung
In the eighth decade of the unending Korean War, a catastrophic war of U.S. intervention that has yet to come to an end, the Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective (EKW) has organized a series of events that explore the necessity of political education as an anti-imperialist tool against permanent war within militarized geographies that span Korea and the Pacific.  Instead of understanding the unresolved Korean War as a narrowly defined discrete event in the past specific solely to Korea and Koreans, our sessions generate scrutiny of far-reaching structural consequences across the Pacific that are seldom identified with the war itself. 

 

Please join Professors Patrick Chung, Christine Hong, Junyoung Kim, and Sung Eun Kim for a roundtable discussion on contesting the presumed geographic borders of the Korean War. How can we redefine “militarized spaces” from the 38th parallel to diasporic sites beyond the Korean peninsula? What are the multiscalar geographies of the Korean War that converge, collapse, and negotiate the imperial and the intimate, the geopolitical and the biopolitical? The session introduces the design of the EKW public syllabus and explores its uses in and beyond the classroom. 

After a light reception, a second session focusing on the intersection of scholarship and politics will follow. Members of EKW will join activists from two anti-imperialist activist organizations, ANSWER coalition and Nodutdol. The discussion will center on the praxis of political education and draw connections between the experiences of scholars, students, and activists. Register HERE.

The two sessions will help set the stage for a rally on the National Mall on April 5th. The rally takes the form of an anti-imperialist walking tour of World War II, Vietnam, MLK, and Korean War memorials. Details about the political action will be provided at the session and are available HERE.

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