Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 3:00PM-4:50PM | RSVP

Professors Jennifer Chun (UCLA, Asian American Studies) and Judy Han (UCLA, Gender Studies) will discuss their latest books, Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest (Stanford University Press, 2025) and Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2025). Against Abandonment is an ethnographic study of the widespread culture of protest in South Korea that examines both its significant achievements and inherent precarity. Queer Throughlines offers a rare account of the transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activist movement since the 1990s, with a specific focus on its intersections with various other social movements. 

This event is organized by the Korean Studies Institute and co-sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the East Asian Studies Center.