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K-Masking Empire

Artist Mirae kh RHEE

in conversation with

Prof. Heijin Lee (WGSS)

What does it mean to call beauty, adoption, and mourning care—

when they so often serve as forms of state control?

Artist Mirae kh RHEE and scholar Heijin Lee reflect on over a decade of dialogue, beginning with K-Beauty and expanding into transnational adoption, digital aesthetics, and feminist critique. Featuring a screening of RHEE’s new experimental film Si j’avais quatre mères (If I Had Four Mothers), this conversation explores how care can be aestheticized, institutionalized, and weaponized, and how feminist and diasporic practices work to unmask empire’s softer surfaces.

Thursday, October 16th

3:00–5:00 pm

@Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI AT MĀNOA

Hosted by

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Co-Sponsored by

Center for Korean Studies,

American Studies, and Ethnic Studies

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.