UB CDS hosts Prof. Eunjung Kim, Syracuse University, "Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability."

Presenting from her recently published book, Kim will examine a direct link between cure and violence that appears in the representations of disability and Cold War imperialism in South Korea. She also explores the notion of “folded time” in which the present disappears through the imperative of cure in the case of Hansen’s disease care. While calling attention to the transnational construction of disability under militarism and imperialism, Kim argues that the possibility of life with disability that is free from violence depends on the creation of a space and time where cure is understood as a negotiation rather than a necessity.

Eunjung Kim is assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University. In addition to her book, Curative Violence (Duke University Press, 2017), her work appeared in several journals and anthologies, such as GLQ, Disability & Society, Sexualities, Intersectionality and Beyond, Against Health, and Asexualities.

This event is cosponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies, the Humanities Institute Disability Studies Research Workshop, and Asian Studies.