Department of History

Past Event

South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Monday, 30 March 2009, 3:30 p.m.

The East Asian Studies Program and departments of International Affairs, History, and Sociology/Anthropology will co-sponsor the following presentation: “The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Korea: Uncovering the Hidden History of the Korean War”

Guest lecturers will include Dong-Choon Kim, Professor, Department of Sociology, SungKongHoe University, and Standing commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea, and Hee Kyung Sub, Ph.D., Investigator, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea.

In response to petitions to bereaved families, the South Korean National Assembly established an independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2005 to investigate charges that unarmed civilians and political prisoners were massacred before and during the Korean War. The U.S. and the current south Korean governments have been reluctant to fully acknowledge the findings of the Commission because the evidence unearthed raises doubts about the official narrative of the Korean War. The two speakers will discuss the major findings of the Commission, the investigative process with reference to specific cases, and future challenges facing the Commission’s truth and reconciliation work.

The event will be held in Albany Quadrangle Smith Hall. If you have questions, please contact Marty Hart-Landsberg, professor of economics, 503 768-7624.

Past Event

46th Annual Throckmorton Lecture: Mae Ngai

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Monday, 9 March 2009, 3:30 p.m.

Professor Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, is interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism in United States history. Her lecture is titled “The True Story of Ah Jake: Translation and Justice in late-nineteenth-century Sierra County, California.”

Ngai is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, among other awards. She has written on immigration history and policy matters for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and the Boston Review.

WHERE: Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber
COST: Free
CONTACT: Alison Walcott, Department of History, 503-768-7451

Past Event

History Lecture

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Monday, 17 March 2008, 3:30 p.m.

The History Department is proud to announce the 45th Annual Throckmorton Lecturer: Professor Richard M Eaton, one of the premier scholars of precolonial India and the history of Islam. The lecture will be March 17, 2008 at 3:30 p.m. in Council Chambers, Templeton.