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SUMMARY: Why Were They Arrested? Religious Leaders and the Kwangju Democrat
 ization Movement
DESCRIPTION: Join Dr. Don Baker to hear his findings about the role of Cath
 olic priests and Protestant women in helping people cope with trauma after 
 the Kwangju Uprising of May\, 1980.
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 11/why-arrested-1.png" alt="" width="715" height="402" /></p><ul><li>Date: 
 Friday\, Nov 24th\, 2023</li><li>Time: 3:30-5:00PM (PST)</li><li>Location: 
 The Case Room (Room 132)\, UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues</li><li>Spea
 ker: Dr. Don Baker (Professor of Korean Civilization\, Department of Asian 
 Studies at University of British Columbia)</li><li>Bio: Don Baker is Profes
 sor of Korean Civilization in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC\, wher
 e he has been teaching courses on both modern and premodern Korean history 
 since 1987. He has published extensively on the history of Korea\, paying p
 articular attention to philosophy\, religion\, and traditional science in K
 orea’s past. His latest book is A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to be Mo
 ral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong (University of Hawai’i 
 Press). Prof. Baker first went to Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer to teach
  English in Kwangju from 1971 to 1974. He returned briefly to Kwangju in Ma
 y\,1980. He is currently serving as co-director of the Centre for Korean Re
 search.</li><li>Abstract: I am a historian. That means that I try to unrave
 l puzzles in past events\, trying to figure out why things happened the way
  they did. One puzzle I have been trying to unravel recently is related to 
 the Kwangju Uprising of May\, 1980. (It is also known as the Kwangju Democr
 atization Movement.) I have been investigating why so many Catholic priests
  in Kwangju were jailed by the Chun Doo-hwan government soon after that upr
 ising was suppressed\, though no Protestant pastors or Buddhist abbots who 
 were in the Kwangju area at that time were arrested in the immediate afterm
 ath of the uprising. A related puzzle is why did the YWCA rather than the Y
 MCA play such an important role during the 10 days of terror Gwangju reside
 nts had to endure between May 18 and May 27. In my talk\, I will present wh
 at I have discovered so far about the roles Catholic priests and Protestant
  women played in helping people in Kwangju cope with the traumatic events t
 hey were confronting.</li></ul>
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