Understanding the U.S./North Korea Crisis: A Pop Up Panel featuring Barbara Demick of the LA Times


 Humanities Center     May 31 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HG 1010

Join the Forum for the Academy and the Public for a wide-ranging discussion of the U.S./North Korea crisis, with Barbara Demick of the LA Times joining local speakers via SKYPE. Co-hosted by UCI's Center for Critical Korean Studies, this event will be moderated by historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom and feature Kyung Kim, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and director of the Center for Critical Korean Studies, and David Fedman, assistant professor of Japanese and Korean history.

Our special guest, Barbara Demick, is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (winner of the BBC's Samuel Johnson Prize). She has written about Asia for both the Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. 

Free and open to the public.