Spring 2023 East Asian Studies Speakers Series: Laura Ha Reizman

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Laura Ha Reizman, a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins, will give a talk titled "The 'Mixed Blood' Problem in Cold War South Korea."

The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed and non-mixed Korean narratives of the cold war era and reflect a postwar Korean society that grappled with concepts of citizenship, belonging, and responsibility.

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and International Studies.