ESJF’s Community Partnership with St. Mary’s College

On Oct. 1, during the course Women in Wartime: Memorializing Conflicts in the Pacific Rim at St. Mary’s College, Sung discussed the significance of countering sexual violence by examining the transnational efforts made by Japanese military sexual enslavement survivors and their supporters. Specifically, Sung discussed efforts to preserve “comfort women” history through education and the San Francisco memorial, Women’s Column of Strength.

This fall, ESJF is a community partner to the course Women in Wartime: Memorializing Conflicts in the Pacific Rim as a research supervisor at California’s St. Mary’s College. In this course, Sung supervises two teams working on 1) the Japanese military’s sexual slavery system in Asia before and during WWII and systemic, gender-based violence against women and girls in Afghanistan; 2) governmental policies and the oppression of Asian Pacific American women and girls.
 
St. Mary’s College is the first university to adopt the student edition as one of its required course books.