On April 24 (Wednesday), Incheon National University's Humanities Research Institute (Director Noh Ji-seung) will hold a lecture invited by Professor Kim Eun-jung of Syracuse University in the United States as the 6th international cooperation program.

The Humanities Research Institute's international cooperation program is a lecture invited to overseas scholars once a year to lay the foundation for global research capabilities, and it is celebrating its sixth anniversary this year, starting with a special lecture by the late honorary professor Ted Jennings of the Chicago Theological University in 2019. This year, under the theme of "violence in the name of healing," we prepared a lecture by Kim Eun-jung, an associate professor of women's and gender studies at Syracuse University in the United States. Professor Kim Eun-jung is a co-founder and member of Women with Disabilities Empathy, and won the Alison Pipmeyer Award of the American Women's Association in 2017 and the James B. Palais Award of the Asian Studies Association in 2019 for her book Violence in the Name of Healing (Humanitas), published in 2022. In this special lecture, Professor Kim Eun-jung will analyze through historical cases and cultural texts how people with disabilities and diseases have been detained and experienced violence in Korean society under the guise of rehabilitation policies and healing. Jeon Ji-hye, a professor of social welfare at Incheon National University, will participate as a debater.

Incheon National University's Humanities Research Institute hopes this special lecture will help understand minorities and disability rights made up of various social and cultural strata, and asked for the participation of many people interested in gender and disability studies (provided sign language interpretation).