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<span lang="EN-US" style="">Please join the IN-EAST the University of Duisburg-Essen for its Research Forum with speaker David Shim </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">on Wednesday, November 10, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CET - Paris, Berlin, Duisburg time) who will talk about:</span></p>
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<b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="">“Memorials’ Politics: Exploring the Material Rhetoric of the Statue of Peace”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style=""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">Dr. David Shim is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen, and a Senior Research Fellow at the
<span style="">Käte</span> Hamburger <span style="">Kolleg</span> / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg.</span></p>
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<div>[His talk] discusses the material rhetoric of the Statue of Peace built in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, <span style="font-size: 11pt;">South Korea. Installed in 2011 to commemorate so-called “comfort women”—the former sex slaves forced </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
work in brothels during Korea’s occupation by the Empire of Japan—, several identical-looking copies </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the statue have since spread throughout the country and beyond. While many observers have noted the</span></div>
<div>symbolic politics of the sculpture, I argue for taking into account its material dimension too—with the aim <span style="font-size: 11pt;">of furthering our understanding of how commemorative practices are enabled by mnemonic installations. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">The lecture will be held as a video conference. Please quick-register here (RSVP):</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wrfuuupjojHdEsML2qebOU_RvVxLEtd6ID</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">For the whole program of this winter semester's IN-EAST Research Forum, please see here:
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