8th New Frontiers in Premodern Korea Studies Workshop

Korea Institute, Harvard University

6:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Opening Remarks

6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
Paper Presentation
Zekun Zhang (Harvard University), “From War to Peace: Changing Enslaveability of Koreans in the Tang Empire, 600–900”
Discussant: Hyun Suk Park (UCLA)
Moderator: Graeme Reynolds (Chicago)

7:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Break

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Journal Publishing
Jisoo M. Kim
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Korean Studies
2024-2025 Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs,
and East Asian Languages and Literatures
The George Washington University

8:30 pm – 8:45 pm
Break

8:45 pm – 9:45 pm
Source-reading
Ilsoo Cho (Brandeis), "Beyond the Sillok: Alternative Paths to Chosŏn Political History"

9:45 pm – 10:00 pm
Break

10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Paper Presentation
King Kwong Wong (University of British Columbia), “Phatic Diplomacy in Chosŏn-Qing Investiture Practice”
Discussant: Sixiang Wang (UCLA)
Moderator: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton)