Thinking out Loud: Race, Gender, and Han

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I will be speaking at Oregon State University. The lecture is free and open to the public.

“Thinking out Loud: Race, Gender, and Han”

Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim

“Our society has come a long way in terms of fighting racism and sexism, but it still has a long way to go. As our society faces suffering and pain due to racism and sexism, a Korean term, han tries to capture this suffering. Han signifies a difficult emotion and term but can best to described as ‘unjust suffering.’ All people suffer, but no one should suffer because of the color of their skin or their gender. “

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 4:00 P.M.

MU 211 Free and open to the public.

oregonstate.edu/cla/slcs/home

Accommodations for disabilities may be made by calling 541-737-2826 preferably one week in advance.

Dr. Grace Kim is a Korean American feminist theologian whose work brings together feminist, postcolonial, and Asian-American theologies.

She is author of The Grace of Sophia: A Korean North American Women’s Christology; The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other; & Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit.

[read also: A Conversation]

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim is Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University. She is the author of 4 books, Reimagining with Christian Doctrines co-edited with Jenny Daggers (Palgrave forthcoming), Colonialism, Han and the Transformative Spirit (Palgrave Pivot), The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Grace of Sophia: A Korean North American Women’s Christology (Pilgrim Press). She is a co-editor with Dr. Joseph Cheah for the Palgrave Macmillan Book Series, “Asian Christianity in Diaspora”.