[Asianam] IKS event: Richard Kim on Korean Nationalism and the Korean Diaspora, February 6

[Mielecki, Kathy]

"What Does the Korean Diaspora Have to Do with Korean History?"
Dr. Richard Kim on Korean Nationalism and the Korean Diaspora

The Institute for Korean Studies, in co-sponsorship with the East Asian Studies Center, is honored to host Dr. Richard Kim for a talk entitled
"What Does the Korean Diaspora Have to Do with Korean History?"
 This talk will take place on Thursday, February 6th, from 11:45 AM-1:00 PM, in Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Ave, room 168. This presentation examines how Korean diasporic nationalism in the years between 1905 and 1945 played a foundational role in the post-WWII emergence of the separate Koreas that exist to this day. Postwar Korea is most often portrayed in terms of Cold War politics and the role of trusteeship of the United States and the Soviet Union, but Korean émigrés in the diaspora were also very much part of the overall process. The diasporic status of Korean nationalist activities profoundly affected the independence movement in its political orientation, its rhetoric, and its methods. The local contexts of the diaspora, particularly the very different political worlds in which Koreans émigrés operated, produced a variety of differing and conflicting visions of a "new Korea," which led to bitter contestations over political strategies and preferred modes of governance. These ideological and policy conflicts within the independence movement became even sharper when Korea was liberated in 1945 and were among the main causes for the inner division in the emerging Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union that led to national division in Korea. Despite the diaspora's geographical distance from the ethnic homeland, the political activities of the diaspora helped shape and determine the fate of the Korean nation-state.
Richard S. Kim is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has also published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Amerasia Journal, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, and Journal of Asian American Studies. He is currently editing ex-death row inmate Chol Soo Lee's memoir as well as working on a book-length project on Lee's ordeals with the California criminal justice system in the 1970s and early 1980s and the ensuing pan-Asian political movement that helped free him from prison.
Register by February 2 to receive lunch at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RichardKimLecture
For additional information, contact Dr. Mitchell Lerner at: lerner.26 at osu.edu<mailto:lerner.26 at osu.edu>



[The Ohio State University]
Mitchell Lerner
Associate Professor of History
Director, Institute of Korean Studies
Office of International Affairs
314 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
614-247-6839 Office
lerner.26 at osu.edu<mailto:lerner.26 at osu.edu> http://easc.osu.edu<http://http/easc.osu.edu>

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