New Frontiers in Premodern Korea Studies

Date: 

Thursday, May 4, 2017 (All day) to Friday, May 5, 2017 (All day)

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138


SCHEDULE

Thursday, May 4, 2017

9:30 – 10:00            Registration and opening

Morning Session               Moderator: Sun Joo Kim
10:00 – 11:00                Presentation 1: John Lee (Harvard), “Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598-1684”
11:00 – 11:15               Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15               Presentation 2: Eugene Park (UPenn), “Kaesŏng Wang Women in the Aftermath of the Koryŏ-Chosŏn Dynastic Change”

12:15 – 1:30               Lunch Break

Afternoon Session               Moderator: Eugene Park
1:30 – 2:30               Presentation 3: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton), “The Affective Coordinates in the Lineage Novel”
2:30 – 3:30               Presentation 4: Si Nae Park (Harvard), “From Manuscript to Print: The Origins of ‘We-Reading’ of Chosŏn Yadam Narratives”
3:30 – 4:00               Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00               Presentation 5: Alex Martin (UPenn), “The Threat of Illegals: Kanggye and Korean Security”

Friday, May 5, 2017

Source Reading Workshop          
10:00 – 10:30               Breakfast 
10:30 – 11:30               Source Reading I: Sun Joo Kim (Harvard), Kisong nok
11:30 – 11:45               Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30               Source Reading II: Jung Won Kim (Columbia), Sangsan nok

Organized by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University