About the event
The Center for the Study of Women and Society, as part of the CUNY GC Great Read program, is pleased to present Grace M. Cho in conversation with Hosu Kim, to discuss Cho's new book, Tastes Like War.
Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive.
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Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War
(Feminist Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in
nonfiction and the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature
Award in adult nonfiction. Her first book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
(University of Minnesota Press, 2008), received a 2010 book award from
the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in
journals such as Catapult, The New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Qualitative Inquiry. She is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Hosu Kim
is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and affiliated
faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of
Staten Island and Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY
Graduate Center. Her first book, Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering,
published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2016. It examines South Korea’s
transnational adoption practice with a focus on the material, affective,
and discursive processes of becoming birth mothers. She is currently
exploring material processes and cultural practices of social repair at
the sites of state and imperial violence in South Korea and Staten
Island. Her research interests include transpacific critique of
Asian/Asian America, disability studies and critical university studies.
Her work appears in Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, Adoption & Culture, Body and Society among many others.
This event is part of the CUNY GC Great Read program, learn more about it here.
This event is organized and hosted by The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and co- sponsored with The Center for the Humanities, Women's Studies Quarterly, the CUNY Graduate Center MA Program in Liberal Studies, the PublicsLab, and The Feminist Press.
