#  New Perspectives on the History of Books and Reading in Korea 

 



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 **December 7 - December 8, 2022** 

 02:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue // CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

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*Workshops and Conferences*  
Organizers: Si Nae Park, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University and Suyoung Son, Asian Studies, Cornell University

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Wednesday December 7, 2022 (Location: Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue)   
Rare Book Workshop

2:00-2:15 Opening Remark   
2:15-4:15 Lecture: Old Korean Books by Beth McKillop // Discussant: Sören Edgren   
4:15-4:30 Coffee break   
4:30-6:00 Lectures by Professor Chung Seung-Hye and Professor Lee Min-Heui

Thursday December 8, 2022 (Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street)   
Conference

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:30 PANEL I: THE BOOK AND DOMESTIC MATERIALITY   
Chair and Discussant: Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University)   
Moderator: Thomas Kelly (EALC, Harvard)   
Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University), “A Vernacular Miscellany: The Posthumous Biography of Madame Yun”   
Suyoung Son (Cornell University), “Recipe Manuscripts as a Bodily Artifact”   
Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University in St. Louis), “Domesticity, Women, and Books in 19thto early 20th-century Korea”

10:30-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-12:20   
PANEL II: READING, READABILITY, AND LITERACY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE   
Chair and Discussant: Young Oh (Arizona State University)   
Moderator: Deidre Lynch (English, Harvard)   
Giovanni Volpe (Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies), “The Book as a Social Space: Mediating the Written Word in Early Chosŏn Korea”   
Si Nae Park (Harvard University), “Carving Readability: The Mise-en-Page of Block-Printed Vernacular Novels as Interface”   
Jeonghun Choi (Harvard University), “The Korean Book as a Vantage Point of Global Book History: The Translations of Universal History of Warand Its Reception”

12:20-1:30 Boxed Lunch

1:30-3:30 PANEL III: THE BOOK AS TECHNOLOGY AND INTERMEDIARY   
Chair and Discussant: Ann Blair (Harvard University)   
Graeme Reynolds (Yale University), “Manuscript in an Era of Print, or Print in an Era of Manuscript?: The Example of Hong Manjong’s Tongguk yŏktae ch’ongmok”   
Hwisang Cho (Emory University), “Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books"   
Xin Yu (Washington University in St. Louis), “Books of Prestige: The Booklization of Genealogies in Korea, 1500-1800”   
Wayne de Fremery (Dominican University of California), “Deep Learning and Early Twentieth-Century Korean Periodicals”

3:30-3:45 Coffee break

3:45-5:00 Houghton Library Tour (Peter Xavier Accardo and Ann Blair)

5:00-6:00 Roundtable Discussion (Room 133, Barker Center)

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To attend this event virtually, please register [here](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdOGgrTwuH912svzU7cFEPcmx6us2XRK5).  
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The official conference website is found [here](https://sites.harvard.edu/new-perspectives-book-history-korea/).



 

 



 

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