Date: January 15, 2021

Time: 8:45AM to 10:00 AM KST

Please direct any questions to Liz Cho at liz.cho@kis.or.kr, KIS Principal of Teaching & Learning. Registration is FREE for EARCOS member school teachers. For non-EARCOS member school teachers, the cost is $100.00 USD per person.

The Making of Lecturer Josephine Kim

by Lory Hough, Harvard Ed. Magazine

Session description:

Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests swept across the United States and reverberated throughout the world after (what is described as) the modern-day lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Thousands of advocates in Seoul, London, Sydney, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Tokyo, and other cities took to the streets in solidarity, marking the largest mass movement for racial justice in history. However, this global response begs the question of "what personal relevance does Black Lives Matter (and more broadly, racial justice) have on international spheres in Korea and the world; after all, isn't BLM a direct response to an isolated, U.S.-centric reality?" This session will present historical and contextual considerations that will inform the positionality of international constituents in Korea (and beyond) and whether their engagement with BLM ought to be one of altruistic allyship or one that reflects personal and institutional culpability.