episteme issue 6 is presented as a forum, organized in response to Atlanta Spa Shooting and seeks to understand the racial-historical and geopolitical roots of anti-Asian racism and the shortfalls of the liberalist response to it.
YOU LEAD ME DOWN TO THE OCEAN
Artist Tada Hengsapkul and curator Thanavi Chotpradit explore the underwater afterlives of the Cold War.
paideia issue 1: learning from “comfort women”
This inaugural issue of paideia is structured around questions of experience, memory, and the historian’s burden to evaluate evidence and take social responsibility as elicited by Miki Dezaki’s 2018 documentary film Shusenjo.
Sigrid Schmalzer, Beholding Yuan Longping in the Light of Recent Chinese History
The death last month of renowned Chinese rice geneticist Yuan Longping offered an opportunity for US media to say something positive about China and science: the story of the humble...
Jeongmin Kim, What can we learn about anti-Asian racism and gender violence from the history of US militarism and overseas base workers?
On October 19th, 1951, 23-old Korean woman Lee Yong Soon landed in Seattle. [1] This Mrs. Blue Morgan, as she was known in America, was featured in the media as...
First Looks: Notes on COVID-19
“First Looks” is a forum that captures the sense of an “unsettled” pandemic interregnum to ask: can the irresolution, the waiting, the vanishing certitudes of the interregnum be productive?
special issue: critical reflections on "comfort women" 75 years on
august 2020
june 2021
Artist Tada Hengsapkul and curator Thanavi Chotpradit explore the underwater afterlives of the Cold War.
Tani Barlow, Katsuya Hirano, Suzy Kim, Lan Li
Rijuta Vallishayee
Skyler Ewing, Pauline Huff, Ari Forsyth, Allen Sellers, Tessa Schreiber
First Looks: Notes on COVID-19
“First Looks” is a forum that captures the sense of an “unsettled” pandemic interregnum to ask: can the irresolution, the waiting, the vanishing certitudes of the interregnum be productive?
First Look as Future Look: The Documentary and the Predictive in Wuhan Diary
Michael Berry examines Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary, a crucial text that documented the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China via an online...
Frontline Intelligence: Healthcare Workers of COVID-19
Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the “frontline intelligence” of healthcare workers who recorded or reported their qualitative perceptions during the early days...
special issue: critical reflections on "comfort women" 75 years on
fall 2020
Nothing About Us Without Us: Recalling the strong voices of “comfort women” survivors
On May 9, 2020, Japanese Military “Comfort Woman” survivor Lee Yong-soo held a press conference to criticize the Korean Council...
Faces of Korean Women in Two Mass Movements
Two mass movements gained explosive momentum in South Korea during the 2010s. One was the popularization of “comfort women” activism,...
Comfort
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
