Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
Professor Park will lead a workshop about environmental issues on the Korean peninsula, and current research on Korea & sustainability. Park is co-director of the LIASE EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges, which aims at “training active practitioners of change who develop sustainable and socially just policy-relevant solutions to environmental challenges in Asia.” His publications include Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea (2015, University of Hawai’i Press). Registration required.
Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:00 to 1:00, Peters 129
“Social Renewal Through the Rural: Agricultural Cooperatives in South Korea as a Critique of Capitalism”
Speaker: Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
Light lunch will be provided. To help us plan for food, please email by Oct 27 12:00 noon ann.sherif@oberlin.edu. Or you are welcome to bring your own lunch!
Sponsored by LIASE, EAS, Environmental Studies. The lecture is free and open to Oberlin College students, faculty, and staff.
Professor Park’s lecture focuses on agricultural cooperatives and the meanings of progress on the Korean peninsula from the 20th century to the present. He will also comment on the environmental conditions and agriculture in North Korea.
“Seminar on Korea, Environment & Sustainability”
Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
Monday, October 30, 2017, 5:00-7:00 pm. Registration required.
Dinner provided.
Professor Park will lead a workshop for faculty about environmental issues on the Korean peninsula, and cutting edge research on Korea, war, & sustainability. Upper-class students in relevant majors are also encouraged to participate (registration required: ann.sherif@oberlin.edu).
