Organizer: The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU

Description:

A virtual talk on US empire in Asia with 2022-23 A/P/A Institute at NYU Writer-in-Residence E. Tammy Kim in South Korea, writer Akemi Johnson in California, and journalist Jonathan de Santos in the Philippines.

Speakers:

Jonathan de Santos is news editor at Philstar.com in Manila, the Philippines. He has been editing news since 2013 but has also covered the Senate, the peace process in the southern Philippines, Indigenous peoples’ issues and development-induced displacement.

Akemi Johnson is the author of Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa, which was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers labor and the workplace, arts and culture, and the Koreas. She is also a co-host of the weekly podcast Time to Say Goodbye, a contributing editor at Lux magazine, a 2022 Alicia Patterson fellow, and a fellow at Type Media Center.

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