“Politics, Gender, and the Asia Critique”

• Speaker: Suzy Kim, Department of History, Rutgers University
• Speaker: Tani Barlow, Department of History, Rice University
• Discussant: Jin Jiang, Program in East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• Moderator: Minah Kang, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Please join us for a conversation with historians Suzy Kim (Among Women Across Worlds, 2023) and Tani Barlow (In the Event of Women, 2022) as they share insights on new approaches to Asia scholarship, through theoretical, philosophical, historical, and critical methods and perspectives.

As the founding editor of the positions journal, Barlow’s recent work explores how in China, the political struggle over the truth of women was vested in beliefs about biology and physiology. Meanwhile, as the current editor of positions, Kim’s recent work explores how North Korean women espoused communism and asserted themselves in unexpected spheres in the twentieth century.

This event is sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of History of Medicine, Department of History, and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.