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23
Saturday, Feb.
24
Sunday, Feb.
25
Oberlin
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Wilder Hall
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Banquet
dinner:
$5 Oberlin students
$10
non-students
Dance
Performance
Free
Saturday,
Feb. 24
9 p.m.
Warner Concert
Hall
Oberlin
Conservatory of Music
Dance
party:
$3 Oberlin students
$5
non-students
For overnight
Accommodations or more information:
Please call
Julie Kim at
440-775-5271
Media Contact:
Debbie
Pillivant
Newsservices@oberlin.edu
"REUNIFICATION: EMPOWERING THE KOREAN DIASPORA" IS THEME OF OBERLIN COLLEGE KOREAN STUDENTS' THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 14, 2001--"Reunification: Empowering the Korean Diaspora" is the theme of the third biennial Oberlin Korean Students Association conference, which will be held on the College’s campus Friday, February 23 through Sunday, February 25.
Registration begins at 4:30 p.m. in the College’s Wilder Hall , 138 W. Lorain St. followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m. in Room 115 .
The opening session will start at 8 p.m. with a film presentation of First Person Plural--A Korean Adoptee Experience to be shown in Kettering Room 11.
The Korean Traditional Performing Arts’ Association will present a free performance February 24, at 9 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, following the conference banquet. Members of the New York area Korean-American community, the group is dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding and appreciation of Korean’s artistic heritage and history.
"We bring this conference to the general Oberlin population and beyond to teach, learn, inspire, and ultimately create awareness of the Korean community," say Julie Kim and Jane Lee, co-chairs of the Oberlin Korean Students Association.
"This conference will reflect on issues encompassing modern Korea, while exploring the impact of our community on art and politics at Oberlin and abroad. We seek to actively promote the visibility of Koreans in America and emphasize our historical legacy in society."
"We can have a viable path towards reunifying our population to face the future as a cooperative, coalescent community through "Reunification: Empowering the Korean Diaspora."
The conference keynote speaker is pioneer Asian American journalist, Kyung Won Lee. The title of his address is "The Fire Next Time?"
Do Kim, president of the Korean American Democratic Committee, will address the subject. "Huey Newton and Mao Tse Tung: What Do They Have in Common ?"
The executive director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Jin Sook Lee will discuss "Challenges and Prospects Facing Immigrant Workers."
A panel discussion about "Korean and Korean-American Studies: Linking Area and Ethnic Studies" will be led by Five College Fellow of Hampshire College Lili Kim and Oberlin College assistant professor of East Asian studies Sheila Jager.
Author and Korean adoptee, Deann Borshay Liem will lead the discussion regarding the film presentation of her personal documentary, First Person Plural.
Korean American attorney John Kim and long time unification activist Paul Liem will the panel discussion "The Reunification of Korea: Personal and Political Perspectives".
Do Kim and K.W. Lee will head up the workshop entitled "The Arirant passage: A Candid Dialogue between 1st and 2nd Generation".
"Cultural Closet: Koreans in the LGBTQ Community " will be presented by Joo-Hyun Kang, executive director of the Audre Lorde Project, the nation’s only lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit and transgender people of color center for community organizing.
Media Contact: Debbie
Pillivant
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