Upcoming Events!
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Talk on The Voices of Heaven, a book on Korea
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Showing many images of families and the Korean War, Maija discusses her autobiographical novel/love story set in Korea. She relates how the stories of six-hundred-plus-year patriarchal tradition portrayed in the book relates to the realities of today’s S. Korea, the high-tech world economic power. The power of the patriarchal values still operating today is evident in many social issues, particularly in the population imbalance and gender inequality areas. Her TEDx Talk capsulizes this view. http://youtu.be/GFD-6JFLF5A -
Reading/PPT Presentation, River Lights Bookstore, Dubuque, IA
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Showing many images of families and the Korean War, Maija discusses her autobiographical novel/love story set in Korea. She relates how the stories of six-hundred-plus-year patriarchal tradition portrayed in the book relates to the realities of today’s S. Korea, the high-tech world economic power. The power of the values still operating today are evident in many social issues, particularly in the population imbalance and gender inequality areas. Her TEDx Talk capsulizes this view. http://youtu.be/GFD-6JFLF5A -
Talk/Power Point Presentation on Korean Comfort Women
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Sharing many images of former comfort women (Korean and women from a dozen other countries), Maija will describe their lives before, during, and after WWII and address core issues. Why and how did they become comfort women, most of them aged 12-19? 70% of the estimated 50,000-300,000 comfort women were Koreans. What happened to them after the war? What are the prospects of reaching a resolution between Korea and Japan surrounding the comfort women issue? (Photo: “Being Transported” is artwork by Soon-Duk Kim, a former Korean comfort woman. From The Painting Edition of Japanese Military Sexual Slaves, The Museum of Comfort Women, 2004, Seoul, Korea) (with permission from Mr. Ahn Shin-kwon, the Museum director)
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Reading at St. Louis Public Library, Carpenter branch
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A reading from both The Voices of Heaven (novel) and Long Walks on Short Days (poems).
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4/17/14, SUNY/Stony Brook
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Reading/presentation: “Values and Identity of Korean Women–Past and Present”
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4/11/14 Riverfront Reading, The Writers Place
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Reading, poems from Long Walks on Short Days, and passages from The Voices of Heaven
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2014 Kansas City Public Library Reading
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A reading/interview for the “New Letters on the Air” radio program hosted by Angela Elam on the novel, The Voices of Heaven, in front of an audience at Kansas City Public Library.
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2014 Reading, Lawrence, KS
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2014 Reading of poems from Long Walks on Short Days and an excerpt from a novel about Korea, The Voices of Heaven.
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2013 U.S. State Department Presentation
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Reading/Presentation sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea.
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Reading Presentation at KU
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contact: Susan Henderson, Program Assistant, Center for East Asian Studies, 785-864-1457
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2013 Reading at KU
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12/21/2015, Seattle, Power Point on Comfort Women of WWII
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This talk will be covered by KOAM TV. Not open to the public, but those wishing to be invited, please contact Maija.
#WWII #sexslaves #japan
Maija’s TEDx Talk, 2/22/14: http://youtu.be/GFD-6JFLF5A
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April 7, 2016 poetry and prose reading on son preference and Comfort Women
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4/7/16, 6:00 p.m., Inklings Bookstore, 1101 W. Main, Blue Springs (816-224-9082).
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4/13/2016, 7 p.m., Power Point Presentation on Comfort Women of WWII
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4/13/2016, Reception: 6:30 p.m.: Presentation: 7:00 p.m., Plymouth Language Program, 925 Vermont St., Lawrence, KS 66044 (785-766-0928).
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“Comfort Women of World War II,” a power point presentation
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3/21/2017, 11 a.m., Union 108, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS