[KS] Hawaii's Archives of the Korean Diaspora (Conference Oct 30~31)

[Edward Chang]

I am interested in attending upcoming conference in Mongolia next year. How
can I join your organization? Please let me know. Thank you.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 3:19 PM Cheehyung Harrison Kim <cheehyungkim at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> *The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is
> delighted to be organizing the following meaningful conference*
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> *Hawaii's Archives of the Korean Diaspora*
> *Plantation Labor, Korea's Independence, POW Internment, Kalama Valley
> Protests, and Comfort Women Records*
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> Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 9:40am to 4:30pm
> Thursday, October 31, 2024, 9:30am to 12:30pm
> Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
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>    - *A joint conference* with South Korea's leading archival agency, the *National
>    Institute of Korean History 국사편찬위원회.*
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>    - This conference is an outcome of a *two-year long planning and
>    research* on numerous archives at the University of Hawai‘i, including
>    the *Hamilton Library*, the *Center for Korean Studies*, and the *Center
>    for Oral History*, as well as the *Japanese Cultural Center *and the *Hawai‘i
>    State Archives*.
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>    - Highlights include the Korean diaspora’s involvement in *Korea’s
>    independence movement*, the tragic experience of the *Honouliuli
>    Internment Camp*, the everyday life of *plantation labor,* and the *solidarity
>    activities in the Kalama Valley Protests* of early 1970s. The
>    conference is to feature *“comfort women” documents* as well.
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>    - *Research on the Korean diaspora* in Hawai‘i and elsewhere in the
>    world is at a crucial and *necessary point of going* *beyond the topic
>    of identity and cultural preservation toward the domains of change,
>    resistance, and solidarity*—how the Korean people all over the world
>    resisted oppression and forged solidarity with local peoples.
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>    - In Hawai‘i, for instance, *Koreans actively participated in the
>    Kalama Valley Protests of early 1970*s, carrying out resistance
>    against reckless development and standing alongside other groups to *fight
>    for the rights and justice of Hawaiians and local residents.*
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>    - All inquiries to C. Harrison Kim (UH History) chk7 at hawaii.edu
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> [image: Poster Archives Conference CKS NIKH Oct 2024.jpg]
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