Date: April 4, 2024
Time: 3:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Joowon Park, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Asian Studies Program, Skidmore College
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 412
How do militarization and a continuum of violence impact resettled North Koreans' pathways to belonging in South Korea? In this talk, Park draws on his recently published book, Belonging in a House Divided (University of California Press, 2023), to chronicle the everyday lives of resettled North Koreans and their experiences with violence, postwar citizenship, and ethnic boundary making. He asks readers to consider why North Korean resettlement in South Korea is a difficult process, despite a shared goal of reunification and the absence of a language barrier.