Joshua D. Pilzer is an Assistant 
Professor of Ethnomusicology
at the University of Toronto, and is a scholar of Korean and Japanese
\music. In this seminar, he focused on how during four decades of post-war public secrecy about the comfort women system, song served for these women as both a private and a public means of coping with their trauma-each used song in a different way to reckon with their experiences and to forge a new sense of self.