DKSC Roundtable for Palestine
Oct 18 (Friday), 3PM EST (12PM PST)

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Please join us for our roundtable for Palestine as we, a collective founded upon solidarity, community, and hopes for a decolonial future, engage in conversation about our positionality and connection to the ongoing genocide as well as the possibilities of a liberated Palestine. 

For the past year, we have witnessed Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and escalating violence across the region. As scholars, educators, and organizers from Korea and the Korean diaspora, we invite Korean studies scholars and students to come together and reflect on this moment. How are we, as individuals, connected to this genocide—symbolically, materially, and affectively? How do these connections shape and reshape our work, whether in scholarship, teaching, or political organizing? What does it mean to stand in solidarity with Palestine as Korean studies scholars, educators, and organizers? How can we challenge the widespread silence within Korean studies, as well as Korean and Korean diasporic communities, and contribute to the broader global movements for justice and decolonization, all while navigating our own precarious positions as early-career, non-tenured, non-citizen, or “international” scholars? Members of the DKSC will serve as panelists to share personal reflections on these questions. We welcome all those in solidarity with Palestine to join us in this collective, critical reflection.