Upcoming Event: Mending Gaps in Understanding of History, Memory, and Legal Process in East Asia

The California International law Center cordially invites you to join us for our upcoming event with Consul General Dong-man Han (Republic of Korea) and Professors Steven Nam and Kyu-Hyun Kim. The event will be taken place at UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). We truly appreciate if you could circulate this announcement to your colleagues and students.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Mending Gaps in Understanding of History, Memory, and Legal Process in East Asia
Panelists: Consul General Dong-man Han (Republic of Korea), Steven Nam (Visiting Professor of Law), Kyu-Hyun Kim (Associate Professor of History)

12:00 PM - 3:30 PM | King Hall Rm. 2320 | Lunch 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in 2nd Fl. Faculty Lounge
Space is limited, please RSVP to ssnam@ucdavis.edu

Please join Professors Steven Nam (Law),  Kyu-Hyun Kim (History), and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, led by Consul General Dong-man Han, for an afternoon of exploring resolutions to the stalemate of memory politics and history issues in East Asia. 

Consul General Dong-man Han
Dongman Han has been serving as Consul General of the Republic of Korea since May 2013. Prior to his post in San Francisco, he served as the Director-General of the International Economic Affairs Bureau of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has authored several books, includingThe Next 10 Years, offering an insightful analysis of the future of Korea on the international stage. Consul General Han graduated from Yonsei University in Korea and Pantheon Sorbonne University in France.

Steven Nam
Steven Nam is Visiting Professor of Law at King Hall. His academic interests span and combine transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific, corporate accountability and human rights, the U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral relationship, and liberalism & foreign policy. Before coming to Davis, he was at Jones Day and the Columbia Global Policy Initiative.

Kyu-Hyun Kim
Kyu-Hyun Kim is Associate Professor of History at UC Davis. His research focuses on early modern and modern Japanese history, colonial modernity in East Asia, modern Korean history, Japanese popular culture, Japanese and Korean cinema. He received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1997.

Sponsored by the Republic of Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the California International Law Center

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