Following his public lecture at the Humanities Center, Professor Jie-Hyun Lim will discuss the entangled memories of the Asia-Pacific War, colonialism, postwar memory, and activism. Joining him as a respondent will be Heesang Yoon, a PhD student in EALC.

Presented in collaboration with Stanford's Transpacific Studies Working Group

About the Speaker

Jie-Hyun Lim is Distinguished Professor and founder of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul. He has served as Principal Investigator of the research project Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017–2024) and Series Editor of “Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century” and “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan, and “Global Easts” at the Central European University Press. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (Columbia Univ. Press, 2025), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2024), Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022), and Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions, co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft (Palgrave, 2021). As a memory activist, he has co-curated exhibitions of “Unwelcome Neighbors,” “Naming Forced Laborers,” and others. 

This event is open to all Stanford graduate students and to others by invitation. Please note that space is limited. Contact SHC Events Manager Eric Ortiz (erortiz@stanford.edu) with any questions.