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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, October 10, 2025 2:00 pm to 4:00 
 pm \n Munk School, 1 Devonshire Pl, 108N \n\nSpeakers \nJunyoung Verónic
 a Kim \n\nDescription: \nRegister here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/eve
 nt/transpacific-freedom-dreams-across-militarized-cartographies-korean-arg
 entine-diasporicTranspacific Freedom Dreams Across Militarized Cartographi
 es:A Korean Argentine Diasporic Viewing of Im Heung-soon’s Good Light, Go
 od AirJunyoung Verónica KimNew York UniversityOn April 30th, 1977, 14 mo
 thers sent a letter asking the military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla for t
 he whereabouts of their disappeared children and began to gather in silent
  protest in the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires. Known as the Grandmothers of
  Plaza de Mayo, and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, this spurred a mass mo
 vement that continues today. Around the same time, on May 18th, 1980, c
 itizens of Gwangju, South Korea, launched a mass resistance movement aga
 inst the dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. The South Korean military retaliat
 ed in full force resulting in the massacre and disappearance of thousands 
 of Gwangju citizens. The connections and intimacies between the overlappin
 g histories of these two cities demonstrate the ways in which Global South
  countries were violently conscripted into dirty wars against communism. D
 espite the explicit linkages, why are the histories of these two places (
 cities and nations) studied separately––divided and separated by discrete 
 disciplinary boundaries? How does insurgent memory both disrupt dominant h
 istorical national narratives and yoke together these two geographies/hist
 ories/futurities? Moreover, how does the present absence of the missing i
 n Gwangju and the desaparecidos (disappeared) in Buenos Aires haunt the ur
 ban geographies that are shaped through the ordinary violence of gentrific
 ation and urban development? Engaging in a reading of Im Heung-soon’s vide
 o installation and documentary Good Light, Good Air (2018, 2020), Junyo
 ung Verónica Kim explores the multiple vectors and scales of transpacific 
 connectivity. By adopting Eyal Weizman’s conceptualization of forensic arc
 hitecture, Kim contends that the ruins, holes, and missing parts of bot
 h the material (bodies and urban geographies) and the epistemic (archives\
 , knowledge production, disciplinary formation) demonstrate what cannot b
 e visiblized or seen otherwise. In situating the Gwangju Uprising and the 
 Argentine dirty war as part and parcel of the diasporic, this talk propos
 es that paying attention to Korean-Latin American intimacies offers a poss
 ibility of fabulating a decolonial and demilitarized world.Junyoung Veróni
 ca Kim is Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Cultures in the Depar
 tment of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her interdisciplinary res
 earch examines how settler militarism, imperialism, and racial capitalis
 m intersect in East Asia and Latin America and across hemispheric Asian Am
 erican diasporas. Her book in progress–Cacophonous Intimacies: Reorienting
  Diaspora and Race in Asia-Latin America– centers Asian diaspora(s) in Lat
 in America and reveals the intimacies between seemingly disparate historie
 s of multiple imperialisms, hemispheric American settler colonialism, an
 d postcolonial nation building in both East Asia and Latin America. Curren
 tly, she has also started working on a new monograph tentatively titled N
 uclear Diaspora: Asian-Latin American Genealogies, the Black Pacific, an
 d the Korean War, as well as co-editing a special journal issue on 'The T
 ranspacific Korean War.' She was a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/A
 merican Institute at New York University for 2024-25, and a visiting scho
 lar at the Humanities Institute at Pe\nsylvania State University for 2023-
 24. \n\nSponsors \nthe Center for the Study of Korea \n\nCategories \n Spe
 aker Series \n\nAudiences \n CommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduat
 e Students
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SUMMARY:Transpacific Freedom Dreams Across Militarized Cartographies: A Kor
 ean Argentine Diasporic Viewing of Im Heung-soon’s Good Light, Good Air
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/transpacific-freedom-dreams
 -across-militarized-cartographies-korean-argentine-diasporic
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