[KS] Thursday, March 5 at UC Berkeley (Chang-Jin Lee): Video Screening: "Comfort Women Wanted"

[Berkeley Center for Korean Studies]

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following **colloquium*




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Video Screening: "Comfort Women Wanted"

Film - Documentary: Center for Korean Studies: Other Campus Events |
March 5 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?doe>


Featured Speaker: *Chang-Jin Lee*
<http://www.changjinlee.net/cww/index.html>, Visual Artist (New York City)

Sponsors: Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>, Department
of Ethnic Studies <http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/>


*COMFORT WOMEN WANTED*
Chang-Jin Lee, Visual Artist


The video is based on Chang-Jin Lee’s interviews in 7 countries with
Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Dutch, and Filipino "comfort women"
survivors, as well as a former Japanese soldier.

COMFORT WOMEN WANTED brings to light the memory of 200,000 young women,
known as "comfort women," who were systematically exploited as sex slaves
in Asia during World War II, and increases awareness of sexual violence
against women during wartime. The gathering of women to serve the Imperial
Japanese Army was organized on an industrial scale not seen before in
modern history.

The title is a reference to the actual text of Asian newspaper ads during
the war. When advertising failed, young women from Korea, China, Taiwan,
Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the
Netherlands were kidnapped or deceived and forced into sexual slavery. Most
were teenagers, some as young as 11 years old, and were raped between 10 to
100 soldiers a day at military rape camps, known as "comfort stations."
Girls were starved, beaten, tortured, and killed. By some estimates only
25%-30% survived the ordeal.

Historian Suzanne O'Brien has written that "the privileging of written
documents works to exclude from history...the voices of the kind of people
comfort women represent - the female, the impoverished, the colonized, the
illiterate, and the racially and ethnically oppressed. These people have
left few written records of their experiences, and therefore are denied a
place in history."

The “comfort women system” is considered the largest case of human
trafficking in the 20th century. In the 21st century, human trafficking has
surpassed drug trafficking to become the second largest business in the
world after arms dealing.

Despite growing awareness of the issue of trafficking of women and of
sexual slavery as a crime against humanity, this particular history has
gone largely unacknowledged. COMFORT WOMEN WANTED attempts to bring to
light this instance of organized violence against women, and to create a
constructive dialogue for the future by acknowledging their place in
history.

for more info:

http://www.changjinlee.net/cww/index.html


*Bio*

Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born visual artist based in New York City.

This project has been presented internationally including as Public Art
throughout New York City in Times Square, Lincoln Center, and Chelsea – in
collaboration with The NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art
Program; as well as at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York; The Incheon
Women Artists' Biennale in Korea; The Comfort Women Museum in Taiwan; 1a
Space Gallery in Hong Kong; The Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany; The State
Museum of Gulag in Russia; Spaces Gallery in Cleveland; George Mason
University Gallery in Washington DC; Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh;
and The Boston Center for the Arts.

She is a recipient of numerous awards including The New York State Council
on the Arts Grant, The Korean Ministry of Gender Equality Award, The Asian
Cultural Council Fellowship, The Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, The
Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, The Asian Women Giving Circle
Grant, The Busan Sea Art Festival Award, and The Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council's MCAF.

Her artworks have been reviewed including in The New York Times, The BBC,
Art Asia Pacific, The Huffington Post Arts & Culture, Time Out New York,
Dazed & Confused London Magazine, The Daily News, Public Art, and The
Associated Press.

She has been invited as a guest lecturer and panelist at Columbia
University, The Korea Society, The City University of New York, Emory
University, Georgia State University, The University of Southern
California, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The China Institute, and
The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation.


Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674



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*And other upcoming events....*


Polling, Public Opinion, and Political Responsiveness in Korea and Beyond

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Center
for Japanese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | March 18 | 12-1
p.m. | 180 Doe Library <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?doe>


Speaker: *Taeku Lee*, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Moderator: *T.J. Pempel*, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>
, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/>, Center
for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>, Center for
Japanese Studies (CJS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/>


"Political responsiveness" is a foundation stone of modern democracies,
entailing an expectation that governments will heed and reckon the
interests and demands of their polities with some regularity. To date the
political science study of responsiveness is largely the province of
scholars of American politics and its presence sought by matching the
timing of changes in public opinion (as measured by opinion polls) to the
timing of legislative debate and decision. In this presentation, we extend
the parameters of political responsiveness in several aspects. First, we
examine responsiveness in non-U.S. contexts, beginning with South Korea and
with focused comparison to Taiwan and Japan. Second, we examine the context
in which electoral surveys are conducted, with a critical eye toward the
contrasting uses of polling for the purposes of “manufactured publicity”
and maintaining the status quo of political elites, contra the purposes of
expanding the boundaries of the political and engendering greater
democratic contestation. Third, rather than relying on the quantitative
analysis of extant survey data, we draw primarily on an extensive set of
in-depth qualitative interviews of pollsters, journalists, scholars, and
party officials.


Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809
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