Setting the Record Straight: Primary Sources and Evidence on “Comfort Women” Issues, hosted by UC Irvine School of Law. Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut, Hye-in Han, Researcher, Asia Peace and History Institute, Paul Hoffman, Co-director, International Human Rights Clinic, UCI School of Law, Pyoung-Keun Kang, Professor, Public International Law, Korea University School of Law, Daniel Diaz, Director, UCLA History-Geography Project, and Chungmoo Choi, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, UCI. May 20, 2021.
Holding Japan Accountable: Pursuing Justice for “Comfort Women” Survivors through the International Court of Justice, hosted by HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS), and the Korean Association of Harvard Law School (KAHLS). April 22, 2021.
The Importance of Truth: Comfort Women and Beyond, hosted by the National Coalition of Korean American Bar Associations and the International Association of Korean Lawyers. Jeannie Suk Gersen, Harvard Law School, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University, Norman Eisen, Brookings Institution. March 31, 2021.
Online-Lecture by Carol Gluck on Global Memory Culture and the “Comfort Women.” Online lecture hosted by the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University. March 18, 2021.
Fight for Justice Emergency Online Seminar: Critique of Ramseyer’s Historical Revisionism, webinar. Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Akane Onozawa, Sayaka Chatani, March 14, 2021.
Academic Responsibility in the Case of the “Comfort Women.” A roundtable discussion hosted by Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education (CARE), with Michael Chwe, Professor of Political Science, UCLA, Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut, Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota, and former chief White House ethics lawyer (2005-2007), and Peipei Qiu, Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Chair Professor of Japanese and Chinese, Vassar College. March 13, 2021.
Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on “Comfort Women” Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice. Sung Sohn, Co-founder and executive director, Education for Social Justice Foundation, Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut, Jinah Kim, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and faculty affiliate in Asian Studies, California State University, Northridge, and Kei Fischer, Chair of Ethnic Studies, Chabot College, Hayward, California. March 10, 2021.
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory, webinar at the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Kevin Blackburn, Associate Professor in History at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 6, 2021.
Wartime Legacies: Korean, Japanese and U.S. Perspectives on Recent Court Cases on the “Comfort Women,” webinar at Columbia University Center for Korean Research. Atsuko Kanehara, Japanese Society of International Law, Sophia University, Terence Roehrig, U.S. Naval War College, and Jeong-Ho Roh, Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School, February 22, 2021.
Panel Discussion and Film Screening of The Apology. A panel discussion with Todd A. Henry, Professor of History, UC San Diego, and Phyllis Kim, Executive Director of Comfort Women Action for Redress & Education (CARE), followed by the film screening of The Apology (2016), a documentary following the journeys of three former “comfort women” in South Korea, China, and the Philippines, February 19, 2021.
Debunking Japanese Denialism on the “Comfort Women” through the Grassroots Movement in the U.S., webinar hosted by the Harvard Law Asian Pacific Law Students Association on February 16, 7pm Eastern.
Imperial Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery In Occupied China, webinar at University of Connecticut. Peipei Qiu, Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Chair Professor of Vassar College. February 12, 2021.