OCTOBER 13

America’s Forever Wars in Asia
2022-23 Writer-in-Residence Virtual Launch Event

Thursday, October 13, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

A virtual talk on US empire in Asia with 2022-23 A/P/A Institute at NYU Writer-in-Residence E. Tammy Kim in South Korea, writer Akemi Johnson in California, and journalist Jonathan de Santos in the Philippines.

Accessibility note: This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. A Zoom account, internet access, and a smartphone or computer is required. Closed captioning will be provided for all audio. If you have any access needs, please include them on the registration form, or email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu as soon as possible.

NOVEMBER 9

“Imperial Aftermaths: Refugees, Reckonings, and Resurgences.”

Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:30 p.m. 

YOUTUBE RECORDING

The panel will consider the lasting impact of 20th U.S. warfare in Asia on transpacific cultural memory and political life. It will bring together authors of recently published monographs about U.S. military and economic imperialism in Asia and the Pacific during the Cold War and its afterlives:

• Jodi Kim (UC Riverside), Settler Garrison
• Daniel Kim (Brown University), The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War
• Amanda C. Demmer (Virginia Tech), After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000

NYU professor Jini Kim Watson will moderate and we’ll host the conversation on Zoom.