BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;East Asia Program pr esents \;The DMZ’s Pasts and Futures \;The DMZ\, uninhabited since the signing of the 1953 Armistice\nAgreement\, is internationally recogni zed as an ecological haven of\nbiodiversity. In fact\, every South Korean president since the 1980s has\nannounced plans to build a peace park in th e DMZ. Beginning in the 1990s\, with\nnew openings in interKorean detente\ , the DMZ was framed as both a potential\nvehicle for peace and a potentia l victim as the two Koreas pursued mutual\ncooperation and “peace and pros perity.” This talk discusses the material and\nsymbolic value of the DMZ’s ecology in the current context of climate crisis\nand political crisis.&n bsp\;Eleana KimAssociate Professor of Anthropology\, UC IrvineEleana Kim i s a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate\nProfessor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of\nCalifornia\, Irvine. Her firs t book Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean\nAdoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke University Press\, 2010)\,\nexamined the world’s longes t and largest transnational adoption program and the\nexperiences of adult adopted Koreans and their relationships to their birth\ncountry and the S outh Korean state. It received book awards from the\nAssociation for Asian Studies and the Association for Asian American Studies.\nHer second book\ , Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the\nKorean DMZ (D uke University Press\, 2022)\, is an ethnographic study of the\nSouth Kore an borderlands centered on the production of the DMZ’s ecological\nvalue.& nbsp\;Click here to registerFor more information or to request additional accommodations\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu. DTEND:20211021T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260418T144221Z DTSTART:20211021T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The DMZ’s Pasts and Futures UID:RFCALITEM639121057416055883 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program presents

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The DMZ’s Pa sts and Futures \;

The DMZ\, uninhabited since the sign ing of the 1953 Armistice\nAgreement\, is internationally recognized as an ecological haven of\nbiodiversity. In fact\, every South Korean president since the 1980s has\nannounced plans to build a peace park in the DMZ. Be ginning in the 1990s\, with\nnew openings in interKorean detente\, the DMZ was framed as both a potential\nvehicle for peace and a potential victim as the two Koreas pursued mutual\ncooperation and “peace and prosperity.” This talk discusses the material and\nsymbolic value of the DMZ’s ecology in the current context of climate crisis\nand political crisis. \;


Eleana Kim
Associate Professor of Anthro pology\, UC Irvine

Eleana Kim is a sociocultural anthropolog ist and Associate\nProfessor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of\nCalifornia\, Irvine. Her first book Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean\nAdoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke Uni versity Press\, 2010)\,\nexamined the world’s longest and largest transnat ional adoption program and the\nexperiences of adult adopted Koreans and t heir relationships to their birth\ncountry and the South Korean state. It received book awards from the\nAssociation for Asian Studies and the Assoc iation for Asian American Studies.\nHer second book\, Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the\nKorean DMZ (Duke Un iversity Press\, 2022)\, is an ethnographic study of the\nSouth Korean bor derlands centered on the production of the DMZ’s ecological\nvalue. \;


Click here to register


For more information or to req uest additional accommodations\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkar akas@syr.edu.



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