{"title": "Book Talk - Korean Youth Migration to Australia", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration", "society/migration"], "description": "A book talk presenting a study of Korean youth migration to Australia since the late 19th century. The author, Jay Song of the Australian National University, discusses the book's history of 150 years of people-to-people relations between Australia and South Korea, with each chapter opening an individual migrant's story from 1876 to today. The event is organised by the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and is free, open to the public, and held in person and online.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-talk-korean-youth-migration-to-australia-43651/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-korean-youth-migration-australia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a8977bcbc5d34b11a4b7a78d1fc216068fc3e8395b6e54cf5d7b911d5b1f1bd-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "2026 Australia Studies Institute Reese Lecture: Vannessa Hearman, \"In the hands of ordinary people: Australia’s changing relationship with Indonesia and Timor-Leste\"", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-australia-studies-institute-reese-lecture-vannessa-hearmann-in-the-tickets-2002803480123?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*8ffir0*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTIyMzU3MDUyMC4xNzkwOTQ4NzMx*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTA5NDg3MjkkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTA5NDg3MjkkajYwJGwwJGgw", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "history"], "description": "The 2026 Reese Memorial Lecture, a talk by Associate Professor Vannessa Hearman of Curtin University, hosted by King's College London's Australia Studies Institute. 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Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. The event takes place at Brixton Tate Library and is free to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain-with-c-60892/", "official_url": "https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-migration-britain-with-colin-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f50cce3ac322c2eca82938db0a470ea07ed03c811cfbb47685448905a5da548a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "German, Jewish, British? 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