Sung Eun Kim

‘Freedom Is Not Free from Colonialism’: Korean Augmentees as Necropolitical Labor in the Korean War - Workshop for Korean Historians in North America II · October 3, 2025 - October 4, 2025 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of California, Los Angeles

Rear Bases and Repatriated Soldiers: Zainichi as KATUSA, South Korea and Japan under Pax Americana - East Asia–North America Peace Workshop (Panelist) · September 18, 2025 International Meeting or Conference George Washington University

Queering ‘Freedom’s Frontier’: Korean Augmentees and Racialized Masculinity across Korean/Vietnam War - Intimate Militarization: Biopolitical Technologies of War Across Asias/Pacific/Americas (Panelist) · April 17, 2025 - April 19, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

Author Meets Critics: Discussion of Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism by Seungsook Moon (Panelist) · March 13, 2025 - March 16, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio

Toward a Feminist History of Cold War Korea (Panel Discussant) · March 13, 2025 - March 16, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio

Genealogy of the ‘Gook’: From Anti-Asian Racism to Solidarity across U.S. Empire (Panelist) - Ending the Korean War Symposium · February 6, 2025 - February 7, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Yale University

Second Skin: The Anticommunism of Tattoos, Uniforms, and Disease in the Korean War (Panelist) - Ending the Korean War Symposium · February 6, 2025 - February 7, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Yale University

Choices in Limiting Births: Eugenics, National Strength, and Animalistic Behavior (Discussant for Na Sil Heo, University of South Carolina) - Workshop for Korean Historians in North America · September 20, 2024 - September 21, 2024 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium George Washington University, Washington, DC

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