[KS] 1948 As Conjuncture, two-day hybrid conference at UCLA

[Henry Em]

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for the late notice, Namhee asked me to post this
information.
Starting on Friday, 10/23 (LA time), there will be a hybrid, two-day
Conference at UCLA.

The title is:  *1948 As Conjuncture: Revolution, Managed Decolonization,
and World-Making in Asia-Pacific  *
It will feature presentations by academics and activists.
Many of the presentations will be in English. Translators will be on hand.

For the conference program, click on the UCLA CKS link below. The Zoom link
appears below that.

Henry

*1948 As Conjuncture: Revolution, Managed Decolonization, and World-Making
in Asia-Pacific  *

Two-Day Conference at UCLA
Oct. 23-24 in Room 10383, Bunche Hall, UCLA.

This two-day conference is organized around the proposition that 1948 was a
decisive global conjuncture, a moment when revolutionary aspirations,
decolonization, imperial transitions, and the emerging Cold War converged
to shape institutions and perspectives that endure today. Developments in
the Asia-Pacific and the United States were central to the making of the
past-1945 international order. By situating these histories within a wider
global moment, the conference asks how seemingly distinct developments
might be understood as interconnected. These include political violence in
Greece, southern Korea, and the Philippines; the partitions of India,
Korea, and Palestine; military occupation in Japan and the US military
government in southern Korea; and the displacement and migration of peoples
that accompanied these upheavals. At a time when the postwar international
order faces mounting crises and shifting geopolitical alignments,
revisiting 1948 allows us to understand better the unfinished histories of
decolonization and the legacies of empire, and to reimagine emancipatory
possibilities foreclosed by partition, managed decolonization, and
competing hegemonic projects.

UCLA Center for Korean Studies:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cks/event/17831
Conference Zoom link:  https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96639862034

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*Henry Em *(임흥순 | he, him)

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