From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
paideia experiments with the pedagogic in written, visual, and sonic form. It engages the unthought through evocative approaches to the transmission of knowledge, to materials to be tried out, and to work designed by students.
In the Fall of 2023, Ph.D. students in East Asian Studies and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton launched the East Meets East film series. Curating films from multiple locations across disciplinary and national boundaries, East Meets East aims to interrupt compliance with the colonial knowledge system and ongoing violence against occupied subjects.
The politics and poetics of crossing borders come through beautifully in democracy activist Mun Ik-hwan’s calls for Korean reunification in his 1989 poem “Sleep Talking Which Isn’t Sleep Talking.” Its radical message continues to be relevant in light of current setbacks to inter-Korean relations and peace in the Middle East.
United Proud Women takes cues from queer politics to boost sexual minority women through knowledge systems, community networks, and transnational coalitions.
A follow-up roundtable, one year after the publication of Tani Barlow’s In the Event of Women (Duke University Press, 2022), to discuss how to reposition feminist critique historically in light of the methodology and arguments Barlow advances in her book in the spirit of voluntary and continuous action.
M.E. O’Brien discusses family abolition and her 2022 sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of The New York Commune, 2052-2072.
Fieldwork (le terrain) is not a simple act of “discovering” but rather a much more complex process, one that manifests itself over time and involves the researchers themselves.
Angela Zito reflects on her teaching repertoire and her use of Asao Inoue’s concept of labor-based grading contracts for her course, Monsters + Their Humans.
A roundtable to celebrate the publication of Tani Barlow’s In the Event of Women (Duke University Press, 2022), and to discuss how to reposition feminist critique historically in light of the methodology and arguments Barlow advances in her book.
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
Two mass movements gained explosive momentum in South Korea during the 2010s. One was the popularization of “comfort women” activism,...
On May 9, 2020, Japanese Military “Comfort Woman” survivor Lee Yong-soo held a press conference to criticize the Korean Council...
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