The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures presents:
The 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium
in the Korean Humanities
From Enmity to Empathy:
African American and Korean American Communities
Since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Friday, November 6, 2020
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Virtual Event via Zoom
Program (PDF)
Co-organized by the GW Institute for Korean Studies, and co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation, the GW Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the GW East Asia National Resource Center
Reflecting current debates on social injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, this year’s Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium will examine the ways in which race impacts Korean, Korean-American, African-American, and African diasporic communities in other countries. The discussion will start with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and reflect on how relations between the Black and Korean-American communities have evolved since then. The speakers will examine Black-Korean tensions: what it means to be Korean-American in the midst of shifting multicultural politics and race; how we can situate Asian/Korean-American experiences within the context of Black-white relations; how R&B and hip hop music have brought the two communities closer through K-pop; and how collaboration on cultural production influences both communities.
PROGRAM
Welcoming Remarks
3:00 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.
Jisoo M. Kim (Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies)
3:05 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Caroline Laguerre-Brown (Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, the George Washington University)
Main Session
3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Kyeyoung Park (Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
How Have Black-Korean Relations Evolved since the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest?
3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Edward Chang (Professor & Founding Director, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, University of California, Riverside)
Confronting Sa-I-Gu: Beyond Black-Korean Conflict
3:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Crystal S. Anderson (Affiliate Faculty in Korean Studies, George Mason University)
Groovy Everywhere: Korean R&B/Hip-Hop as a Site of Cultural Community
4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Aku Kadogo (Chair of Department of Theater and Performance, Spelman College)
Confluence: Where the Mississippi Meets the Han
General Discussion
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This event is on the record and open to the public.
The Hahn Moo-Sook (HMS) Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series at the George Washington University provides a forum for academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature thought and religious systems in the context of East Asia and the world. The colloquium series is made possible by an endowment established by the estate of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993), one of Korea’s most honored writers, to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and commitment to education.
For more information about the HMS Colloquium, visit here.
