Ivo Plšek July 23 (Thu), 2026 / 18:00-19:30 Room 301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person only / No registration required Building (1号棟右側) on the site of the Harbin bioweapon facility of Unit 731/ Wikimedia Commons How has Unit 731 been portrayed on Japanese screens since 1945? Drawing on a corpus of 300 war-related screen works, this talk identifies 17 feature films, television dramas, and documentaries that have engaged directly or indirectly with the history of

June Hee Kwon July 24, 2026 (Friday)/ 17:30-19:00 Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University In person only No prior registration required Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke University Press, 2023), examines how Korean Chinese workers' collective aspiration for the "Korean Dream" emerged at the intersection of post-socialist China and post-Cold War South Korea. This book argues that this aspiration was not merely an individual des

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