Documenting the "Comfort Women": Film Screening & Poetry Reading

March 22, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Mānoa Campus, ART AUDITORIUM (ART 132)

As part of the conference "Empires in Motion" (3/21-3/23) this will event explore the fraught discourse and contemporary representations of the “comfort women,” a euphemism for the sex slaves of the Japanese empire. It will begin with a screening of Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (2018), a documentary by Miki Dezaki. The film will be followed by a poetry reading by Emily Jungmin Yoon, the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (2018). The event will conclude with a Q&A with the filmmaker and poet in attendance. For more information and registration, visit https://empiresinmotion.com/ This special event is sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, the Department of History, and the Department of Asian Studies.


Event Sponsor
East Asian Languages and Literatures, CKS, CJS, Asian Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Andre Haag, (808) 956-8940, andreh@hawaii.edu,

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