On Wednesday, April 12, Young Min Moon, professor in the Department of Art, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, will deliver the talk “The Aftereffects of War in Contemporary Korean Art,” as part of the UMass Amherst 2022-23 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in the Great Hall in Old Chapel at 4 p.m.

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Over the past century, the Korean Peninsula has seen a succession of violent ruptures, and it remains a flashpoint for the world’s superpowers. The peninsula is still gripped by Cold War geopolitics, long after the fall of the Communist bloc. In the aftermath of the Korean War, South Korea was built on androcentric nation building, anti-communism, and a relentless drive for industrialization. In the period of compressed development from the poverty-stricken 1950s to the global success of today, countless lives have been lost to the state apparatus—lives whose memories must be contextualized in the history and politics of the Cold War.

Find all the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Lectures on the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series website.