Soju: A Global History
Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju’s origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia.
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Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States
Prof. Edward T. Chang will present on University of California, Riverside’s traveling exhibition to preserve and share the history of America’s first Koreatown — Pachappa Camp — a community of Korean migrant workers in Riverside who contributed to the city’s citrus development.
1.5 Generation Working-Class Korean American Community College Students and the Fragile Sense of Social Belonging
This study by Dr. Sujung Kim interrogates working-class Korean immigrant students’ sense of social belonging and their strategies to advocate their social membership, focusing on working-class 1.5 generation Korean American students at Station Community College (SCC), a public community college in Chicago. This study proposes that these working-class Korean immigrant community college students’ navigation of their belonging is shaped by the dialectical mechanisms between various macro- and micro-level of political-economic, social, cultural and educational components.
Nong: Playing Korean Wind Instruments
Musician and distinguished solist gamin will discuss and demonstrate traditional Korean music and wind instruments: the piri—a double reed instrument similar to the oboe; the taepyeonso (a double-reed horn); and saenghwang (a type of mouth organ).
Found in Korea (Documentary)
This co-sponsored screening of the documentary Found in Korea (Running Time: 74 minutes) is part of the 2019 Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY).
Contentious Solidarities: Navigating Racialization and Alliance-Building in Korean American Immigrant Rights Work
Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with Korean American immigrant rights organizers, and the Black and Latinx organizers with which they attempt to build solidarity, this presentation explores how the aforementioned tensions unfold in activists’ daily interactions as they attempt to build an interracial solidarity movement at a moment of intensified anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy-making.