September 9th, 2017 Meeting of the United Nations Association - Greater Milwaukee

UNITEDNATIONS ASSOCIATION – GREATER MILWAUKEE 

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SEPTEMBER9^th, 2017MEETING OF THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION –GREATER MILWAUKEE

Free and Open to theGeneral Public

TheSeptember meeting of the United NationsAssociation – Greater Milwaukee will be held on Saturday – September 9^th, 2017 from 10 AM – 12 Noon at Redeemer LutheranChurch (rear entrance) located at 631N. 19^th Street (corner of Wisconsin Ave. and 19^thStreet) in Milwaukee, WI.

The September 9th, 2017meeting will feature a presentation and discussion on:

“Diplomacyis the Pathway to Peace in Korea” 

Presented By 

Nan Kim,PhD – Associate Professor of History at UW-Milwaukee

&

Rev. PyungAhn“Peace” Kim – Associate Pastor at the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay,WI

•            Associate ProfessorNan Kim has conducted research in Korea on the effects of the partition ofNorth and South Korea on Korean families.
•           Rev. PyungAhn “Peace”Kim will speak on what the United Methodist Church is doing to work for nucleardisarmament and peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Associate Professor Nan Kim is the author ofthe following publications:

• “Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory.”  Routledge Handbook on Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia. Ed. Kim, Mikyoung.  Routledge, (2015).
• “Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions of Separated Families in Contemporary South Korea:  Crossing the Divide.”   Lexington, 2015.
• “Korea on the Brink:  Reading the Yŏnp’yŏng Shelling and its Aftermath.”  Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press 70.2 (2011): 337-356.

Forinformation, contact Debbie Metke: 414.881.0904(phone) or dmetke@gmail.com(e-mail)