for Christine, especially

but looks interesting all around:



Writer and educator Jackie J. Kim will speak on "Finding Treasures:
Recording the Lives of First Generation Korean Women in Japan" on Thursday,
January 26, from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m., at the Center for Biographical
Research, Henke 325, 1800 East-West Road, on the UH Manoa
Campus. Admission is free.

After graduating from UH-Mänoa with a B.A. in journalism, Jackie J. Kim
joined the JET program, spending three years in Niigata, in northern Japan,
where she also became immersed in the local Korean community. Over the next
several years, while earning an M.A. from Sophia University and working as
a researcher at the University of Tokyo and in Yanji, China, her interest,
involvement, and work in that community deepened. A resulting collection of
ten extensive interviews, _Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation
Korean Women in Japan,_ was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2005.

Writer and educator Jackie J. Kim¹s current work, _Songs of Redemption,_
traces the history of the women in her family from the coming of Christian
missionaries to Korea in the late nineteenth century, through the Japanese
colonial experience, the Korean War, and subsequent immigration to the
United States.

This presentation is part of the Brownbag Biography Seminar Series. For
more information about parking, or other Center events, contact the Center
for Biographical Research at 956-3774 or biograph@hawaii.edu. The Center
for Biographical Research Brown Bag Biography
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