USF Graduate Seminar

​On Sept. 26, at the University of San Francisco graduate seminar, Culture in the Contemporary Asia Pacific, Sung gave a lecture on historical denialism and the power of civic engagement. One of the questions during the lecture was the significance of having “comfort women” memorials in the U.S. and beyond. Referring to ESJF’s 2023 decolonization study tour in Germany, Sung talked about how activists and educators in the decolonization movement saw the deep connection between sexual violence their ancestors were forced to endure under colonization and “comfort women” history in Asia. In Berlin, many activists and educators Sung met considered the Peace Girl statue a unifying symbol of all women and girls impacted by colonialism and a source of strength for activism for decolonization.