[Hybrid Lecture]

Korean War: Public Memory & Post-Cold War Perspectives

SPEAKER: Henry Em(임흥순)

DATE: Tuesday. July 26, 2022. 7:30PM (Seoul)
ADMISSION (Online & In-person): Free for Members; W10,000 for Non-members

* If you would like to attend online Zoom, please RSVP by clicking HERE by Monday (July 25). We will email you with the link on Tuesday.
* To attend in-person, RSVP is not required.

Abstract:
Official narratives about the Korean War “guard” their publics against dissonant memories and dangerous scholarship. As official narratives are continually repeated, they define the horizon of loyal citizenship. Thus, to acquire a critical understanding of the origins and the character of the Korean War requires considerable intellectual, political, and emotional investment. This lecture provides a glimpse into scholarship that take steps in that direction.

Speaker:
Henry Em (임흥순) is associate professor of Korean history at Yonsei University Underwood International College. He was born in Seoul, grew up in Chicago, and received his BA, MA, and PhD (History, 1995) from the University of Chicago. From 1995 to 2013, he was assistant professor at UCLA and University of Michigan, and associate professor at NYU. He began teaching at Yonsei in 2013. His recent publications include “North Korea as Neighbor: Critical Scholarship on North Korea,” Korea Journal, 61:3 (autumn, 2021), and “Christianity, the Cold War, and the Construction of the Republic of Korea,” Korea Journal, 60:4 (winter, 2020). His book, The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea, was published by Duke University Press in 2013.