The history department at IC is proud to announce its annual Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Lecture on April 8.
This year's speaker is Alexis Dudden, the Sue and Eugene Mercy Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College. Her talk, entitled "A Future-Facing Past: Japan's Apologetic Technique," will be on Thursday, April 8, at 7:00 p.m. in Emerson Suite A in the Ithaca College Campus Center. This talk is free and open to the public.
Author of the forthcoming Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power, Dudden has written and spoken extensively on the political strategy and ramifications of official apologies and about the Japanese colonization of Korea in the first half of the 20th century. She has been deeply involved in the movement to gain an official Japanese apology and redress for Korean and other Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Pacific war. She was present at the December 2000 Women's International War Crimes Tribunal convened in Tokyo to hear testimony and pass judgment on legal questions related to this issue. Her report on the Tribunal, "We Came to Tell the Truth: Reflections on the Tokyo Women's Tribunal," appeared in the December 2001 issue of CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES.
Contributed by Vivian Bruce Conger
