On November 17, 2011, The Research Center held its second annual conference at the Flushing Hospital Medical Center Auditorium. The 2011 conference focused on “Ethnic and Racial Identities among Younger-Generation Korean Americans.” During the all-day conference, twelve 1.5- and second-generation young Korean Americans read their personal narratives on ethnic and racial identities. Pyong Gap Min, Director of the Center, will publish these essays with revisions in an edited book.

On July 26, 2011, a book forum was held at Korean Community Services in Flushing for Adopted Territory: International Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (2010), by the author Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rochester University.
A presentation by Dr. Gil Hee Noh (Sung Sil University in Korea) followed the book forum. The title of her presentation was “Acculturation and Ego Integrity among Korean Elderly People in New York City.” She was a visiting scholar at the Center.

Yong-Gyu Park, Professor of Media and Advertising at Sangji University in Korea, gave a presentation as part of the Center’s lecture and seminar series on May 12, 2011 at Korea Village’s Open Center in Flushing. The title of his presentation was “Korean Immigrant Media’s Discourses on Racial Conflicts.” He was a visiting scholar at the Center at the time.