Faculty – Student Roundtable Discussion on Humanity, Warfare and Peacefare with Prof Nam C. Kim and students
When: Monday, Sept 30, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
What: Faculty – Student Roundtable Discussion on Humanity, Warfare and Peacefare
Who: Anthropology Professor Nam C. Kim, students Charlene Huynh, Venerable Sophea Kai and Axell Boomer
Where: UW-Madison Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, for room see the Today in the Union Board. Check here for event updates.
**Access a recording of the event here.**
Along with UW-Madison students, Professor Nam C. Kim will share an anthropologist- archaeologist’s view of the history of warfare and share family connections to armed conflict. He’ll discuss warfare/peacefare throughout human history. Peacefare is a counterpoint to warfare. Culture allows for war and peace. It takes cooperation to avoid or prevent war, and the archaeological record shows that societies make huge investments in conflict avoidance, ceremonies to prevent war, marriages for alliance building, trade as a political alliance, and signaling peaceful intentions to outsiders.
UW-Madison student Charlene Huynh is winner of the 2024 Waging Peace in Vietnam Essay Contest, details here. She will read her winning essay and be part of the discussion. She majors in Sociology and Communications Arts.
Venerable Sophea Kai is a PhD student in the Department of History, where his research interests are history, religion, despicable wars, Asian Americans and multiracial interaction. He will be part of the discussion.
UW-Madison student Axell Boomer is the winner of the 2024 Beinecke Award, and works with the UW Nonviolence Project. He will share his work on Resurrection City, the encampment created in 1968 in Washington, DC by the Poor People’s Campaign, and how civil rights and anti-war organizing were interrelated, and be part of the discussion. He majors in History and Religion.
We hope to have another warfare/peacefare roundtable next semester, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Vietnam, as part of campus events to commemorate the 50-year anniversary, in April 2025, of the end of the American war in Vietnam.
Sponsored by Madison for a World BEYOND War, the UW-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Veterans for Peace – Madison Chapter 25.