[KS] IN-EAST online guest lecture: "Memorials’ Politics: Exploring the Material Rhetoric of the Statue of Peace" (David Shim)

[Mosler, Hannes, Prof. Dr.]

This Wednesday!


Please join the IN-EAST the University of Duisburg-Essen for its Research Forum with speaker David Shim

on Wednesday, November 10, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CET - Paris, Berlin, Duisburg time) who will talk about:



“Memorials’ Politics: Exploring the Material Rhetoric of the Statue of Peace”



Dr. David Shim is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg.


[His talk] discusses the material rhetoric of the Statue of Peace built in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Installed in 2011 to commemorate so-called “comfort women”—the former sex slaves forced to work in brothels during Korea’s occupation by the Empire of Japan—, several identical-looking copies of the statue have since spread throughout the country and beyond. While many observers have noted the
symbolic politics of the sculpture, I argue for taking into account its material dimension too—with the aim of furthering our understanding of how commemorative practices are enabled by mnemonic installations.



The lecture will be held as a video conference. Please quick-register here (RSVP):

https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wrfuuupjojHdEsML2qebOU_RvVxLEtd6ID



For the whole program of this winter semester's IN-EAST Research Forum, please see here: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/events/in-east_research_forum


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