Tuesday, June 7 |11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Virtual 

The Philadelphia Peace Plaza Committee (PPPC) is an Asian American and female-driven project to build a monument in Philadelphia that commemorates the victims of sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII. This session will begin with a film screening of “The World After You Spoke,” an August 2021 performance event supported by The Korean Council and presented in memory of Kim Hak-soon, the first Korean "Comfort Woman", euphemistic word for prostitute in Japanese, survivor to break the silence through her public testimony on August 14, 1991.  During this virtual panel discussion after the film screening, panelists will discuss the film as well as PPPC’s efforts to construct Philadelphia Peace Plaza at 805 S. Front Street in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia to commemorate the victims of sexual slavery and to call to end sexual violence and trafficking.

Panelists: Shinjoo Cho, Chair of PPPC; Jim Curry, Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Yolanda Wisher, former Poet Laureate of Philadelphia

Moderator: Dr. Michelle Myers

Check out the rest of our Global Studies Summit events for the month of June.