The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History

Date: 
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Time: 
12:00PM-2:00PM
Event Location: 
342 Nau Hall

Sponsored by the UVA Department of History and GAGE.

Monica Kim is Assistant Professor in U.S. and the World History in the Department of History at New York University. Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press), is a trans-Pacific history of decolonization told through the experiences of two generations of people creating and navigating military interrogation rooms of the Korean War. She has published work in journals such as Critical Asian Studies and positions: asia critique concerning U.S. empire, war-making, and East Asia. She is also a member of the Editorial Collective for Radical History Review and is active in SHAFR. Her research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania, and the Korea Foundation. 

Sandwiches will be provided. Please RSVP to pmv3c@virginia.edu