Speaker
Dr. Yeong-ae Yamashita is Professor of Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Language and Literature at Bunkyo University in Japan. She is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University. She is the author of Between Nationalisms: The “Comfort Women” Issue and Feminism (Iwanami Shoten, 2022) and Women’s Korean Wave: Reading Korean Dramas (Iwanami Shoten, 2013) published in Japanese.
Prof. Yamashita received her PhD in International Relations from Ritsumeikan University in Japan. She received her MA in Women’s Studies from Ewha Womans University in South Korea. She stayed in Korea for 10 years and participated in the “Comfort Women” Reparation Movement. She received her BA and MA in International Relations from Tsuda University and BFA in Oil Painting from Tama Art University in Japan. Her father is a first-generation zainichi Korean and her mother is Japanese.
Moderator
Dr. Suzy Kim is Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University. Her latest book is Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell UP, 2023). As a public scholar, she has been an advocate for social justice and peace in Korea.
This event is co-sponsored by Global Asias: A School of Arts and Sciences Initiative and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.