{"id":943,"date":"2017-10-30T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languages.oberlin.edu\/blogs\/liase\/?page_id=943"},"modified":"2021-03-15T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:02:15","slug":"seminar-on-korean-peninsula-environment-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cilc.oberlin.edu\/liase\/event\/2017\/10\/30\/seminar-on-korean-peninsula-environment-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 30th &#8217;17 Seminar on Korean Peninsula, Environment &#038; Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/cilc.oberlin.edu\/liase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Albert-Park-cropped-portrait-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park\" class=\"wp-image-1616\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Park will lead a workshop about environmental issues on the Korean peninsula, and current research on Korea &amp; sustainability. Park is co-director of the LIASE EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges, which aims at \u201ctraining active practitioners of change who develop sustainable and socially just policy-relevant solutions to environmental challenges in Asia.\u201d His publications include <em>Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea<\/em> (2015, University of Hawai&#8217;i Press). Registration required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:00 to 1:00, Peters 129<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSocial Renewal Through the Rural: Agricultural Cooperatives in South Korea as a Critique of Capitalism\u201d<br>Speaker: Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Light lunch will be provided. To help us plan for food, please email by Oct 27 12:00 noon <a href=\"mailto:ann.sherif@oberlin.edu\">ann.sherif@oberlin.edu<\/a>. Or you are welcome to bring your own lunch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sponsored by LIASE, EAS, Environmental Studies. The lecture is free and open to Oberlin College students, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Park\u2019s lecture focuses on agricultural cooperatives and the meanings of progress on the Korean peninsula from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century to the present. He will also comment on the environmental conditions and agriculture in North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSeminar on Korea, Environment &amp; Sustainability\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, October 30, 2017, 5:00-7:00&nbsp; pm. &nbsp;<strong>Registration required. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dinner provided.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Park will lead a workshop for faculty about environmental issues on the Korean peninsula, and cutting edge research on Korea, war, &amp; sustainability. Upper-class students in relevant majors are also encouraged to participate (registration required: ann.sherif@oberlin.edu).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; sustainability. 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