The film "Daze of Justice" is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia's killing fields, only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge. Only Daze of Justice takes us beyond the Killing Fields. The women must not only find the courage to remember their past, they also face an unexpected and agonizing predicament when they come face to face with Phang, the son of Kaing Guek Eav (Alias "Duch"), one of Pol Pot's most notorious torturers. And in the process, on the margins of the UN tribunal, the seekers become the source of Justice. The women not only generate a vocabulary for reclaiming the past but pave a path that extends the promise of redemption to future generations. (http://www.dazeofjustice.com)

After the film screening, Director MICHAEL SIV and Researcher DR. LEAKHENA NOU will discuss their work on this groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary.

This event is free and open to the public. If you need an accommodation, please contact asacc@uconn.edu or call 860-486-0830.

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, AsACC, the Human Rights Institute, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and TLC (Thai, Laotian Cambodian Student Association)

Fall 2018 Gender and History Seminar

With

Sabine Fruhstuck
Professor
East Asia Center, Director
University of California Santa Barbara

4:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Class of 1947 Room, 1st Floor

About the speaker:

Sabine Frühstück is interested in the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to the rest of the world. Her research has engaged several intellectual fields. Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017) is a cultural history of the naturalized connections between childhood and militarism. It analyzes the rules and regularities of war play, from the hills and along the rivers of 19th century rural Japan to the killing fields of 21st century cyberspace. The ethnography, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007) employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the ambivalent status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003) is a sociohistorical study of the creation, formation, and application of a “science of sex” from the late 19th through the mid-20th century.

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Shore Leave: Asian Sailors, Maritime Culture, and the Making of Greater Asian America” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Asian Nite 2019 is the annual talent showcase presented by AsACC and PAC. Please join us for one of the most entertaining shows of the year!

Tickets available at the Jorgensen Box Office - call 860-486-4226 or on-line at http://jorgensen.uconn.edu

Tickets at prior sales are $12 for Students, $15 Others and $10 children under 10. ALL tickets at the door on 3/23/18 will be $20.