BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:581@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T193000 DTSTAMP:20230209T200444Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2023-sciame-le cture-series-min-kyung-lee/ SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Min Kyung Lee DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2 023 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture a nd Landscape in Translation."\n\n \;\n\nMin Kyung Lee\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Modern Architecture in the Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr College. Her first book\, The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris (Yale University Press\, forthcoming 2024) outl ines the cartographic survey of the French capital during the nineteenth c entury. Her current research is on spaces of Korean migration during the C old War in a project titled\, Mapping Wigs and Plywood: Korean Migration a nd the African-American Landscape. At present\, she is a New Directions Me llon Foundation Fellow and associate research fellow at The Heyman Center for Humanities at Columbia University.\n\n"Wig Spaces: Korean Migration an d the African American Street": Following the Korean War\, the military go vernment of South Korea sponsored specific industries to improve the dire post-war economic situation. Central to this strategy was to identify expo rt goods that optimized local resources and knowledge\, and that targeted international markets. Among those exports were wigs\, and by the sixties\ , Seoul became the global center for wig manufacturing\, relying on its ow n female population for hair supplies and cheap labor. These wigs were exp orted to the US and specifically targeted the growing consumer market of A frican American women who had settled in northern cities since the Jim Cro w era. Wig stores were run by new Korean immigrants in urban neighborhoods that were in the process of becoming increasingly Black with white flight to the suburbs and red-lining practices. Parallel to the racial and ethni c shifts in American cities\, South Korea was also facing social change in which the women toiling in wig factories started to protest their working conditions. Their political actions would eventually mark the beginning o f the South Korean democracy movement. This presentation connects the migr ation stories of Koreans to those of African Americans\, focusing on their shared spatial practices in wig stores during Cold War in the US.\n\nSugg ested Readings: Park\, Kyeyoung. The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Ithaca\, Cornell University Press\, 2018 .\n\nLee\, Jennifer. Civility in the City: Blacks\, Jews\, and Koreans in Urban America. Cambridge\, MA: Harvard University Press\, 2002.\n\n \; \n\n"Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation" be gins with what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place\, a sea where ideas\, p eople\, and artifacts move. It questions the framing of this great body of water as a barrier or a void\, concepts that are rooted in colonialism an d imperialism. Instead\, it posits the Pacific as an active stage for exch anging and translating ideas\, concepts\, materials\, and technologies abo ut constructed environments. The designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, an d activists featured in this series are situated along the Pacific Rim. Th ey examine areas\, products\, and product histories along the Pacific Rim. They call on this positionality to offer exceptional\, transnational\, bo undary-breaking\, hybrid practices and research that contribute to a share d environment and a collective future.\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are free \, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium.\n\nPlease note this lecture will not be a vailable remotely (via Zoom). \n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-ca mpus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\n \;\n\nThis l ecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the ge nerous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR