The Afterlife of Division: Reconsidering the Post-Summit Reunions of Korean Families Separated between North and South

GWIKS First Lecture Series

GWIKS’s first lecture will feature Professor Nan Kim. She is an Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and specializes in divided Korea and Northeast Asia with their contemporary history, post-conflict reconciliation, historical trauma, theories of subjectivity, memory studies, and anthropology politics.  She attained her Bachelor degree at Princeton in English Language and Literature and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social/Cultural Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Nan Kim started as an Adjunct Professor at Alverno College and now works for University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She received honors from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Korea Foundation, Fulbright, Society for Economic Anthropology, Korea University, and Seoul National University. She is also the author of “Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory”, “Memory, Reconciliation and Reunions of Separated Families in Contemporary South Korea: Crossing the Divide”, and “Korea on the Brink: Reading the Yonpyong Shelling and its Aftermath”.