<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Please join us online or in person for
a talk by Professor Kornel Chang on his new book <i style="">A Fractured Liberation:
Korea Under US Occupation</i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Speaker: </b>Kornel Chang, Professor of History and
Chair of the History Department, Rutgers University-Newark</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Moderator: </b>Kyu Dong Lee, Ph.D Student, Department
of History, Columbia University</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Professor Chang will deliver a talk on
his new book <i>A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under US Occupation </i>on
<b>Thursday November 6, 2025 at 4pm</b>.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">With the collapse of the Japanese
Empire in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes and dreams that
had been bottled up for nearly forty years. Drawing from his new book, <i>A Fractured
Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation</i> (Belknap/Harvard, 2025),
Kornel Chang discusses how liberation was experienced across southern Korea\u2014by
leaders, activists, peasants, workers, and women\u2014and how U.S. occupation
authorities reshaped and narrowed those possibilities. While American military
officials often prioritized stability and anti-communism, Korean and American
reformers pushed competing agendas of democratization and reform. Their stories
reveal the contingency of this moment and the roads not taken, reminding us
that division and war were not inevitable.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Kornel Chang</b> is Professor and Chair of the History
Department at Rutgers University-Newark. His writings focus on the history of
U.S. immigration and foreign relations, particularly with East Asia. His newest
book, <i>A Fractured Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation</i>
(Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2025) is a narrative history of southern
Korea in the aftermath of World War II, when the collapse of the Japanese
Empire ushered in an extraordinary moment of promise and possibility that
ultimately ended in tragedy. It has been shortlisted for the 2025 Cundill
History Prize, awarded the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award, and
named one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This event is hosted by the
Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.<br>
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<b>Registration:</b></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">To attend this event <b>in-person</b>,
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong><i><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)">PLEASE NOTE: </span></i></strong><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)">For non-Columbia
guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus </span></em><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><i><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)">24 hours prior to
the event.</span></i></strong><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)"> After registering you will receive an email with a
QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name
must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th
Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. </span></em><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><i><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)">Please register
using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM on
Wednesday, November 5 for campus access.</span></i></strong><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)"></span></font></p>
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code before or on the day of the event.</span></em><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:14.65pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Contact Information</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Junho Peter Yoon</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><a href="mailto:jy3070@columbia.edu"><span style="color:rgb(44,107,172)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">jy3070@columbia.edu</font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hope to see you there.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ruth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ruth Barraclough (she/her/hers)</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Korea Foundation Associate Professor of the Social Sciences</font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of History<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Columbia University</font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Director, <a href="https://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Korean Research</a> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Weatherhead East Asian Institute</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Faculty Director, <a href="https://worldhistory.columbia.edu" target="_blank">MA/MSc in International and World History</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Office: 913 </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">International Affairs Building * </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">420 West 118th St * </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">New York NY 10027</span></div></div></div></div></div>