Additional Cosponsors: East Asian Art History Program, Harvard University
Schedule:
9:00 – 10:30 Session I Part 1: Sites, Rites, and Efficacy
Chair: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University
Discussant: Eun Gyeng Yang, Pusan National University (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University)
Ah-Rim Park
Sookmyung Women’s University (Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University)
Newly Discovered Koguryŏ Painted Tomb at Okto-ri, Yonggang, North Korea
Insoo Cho
Korean National University of Arts (Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University)
Praying for Good Fortune and Eternal Life: Daoist Immortal Paintings in the Chosŏn Dynasty
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Session I Part 2: Sites, Rites, and Efficacy
Chair: Melissa McCormick, Harvard University
Discussant: Burglind Jungmann, UCLA
Hyunsoo Woo, Philadelphia Museum of Art
In the King’s Bedchamber: Use and Placement of the Chosŏn Court Paintings in Taejo-jŏn Hall of Ch’angdŏk-kung Palace
Soojin Kim, Seoul National University (Visiting Fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University)
Diplomacy of Brush-wielding: “Orchid and Rock” Painting Collected in Harvard Sackler Museum
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 Special Lecture by Robert D. Mowry Harvard University Art Museums
1:30 – 3:00 Session II: Miraculous Tales and Images
Chair: Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
Discussant: Youngsook Pak, SOAS, University of London
Karen Hwang, Vassar College
The Ontology of the Painted Image: Goryeo Amitabha Paintings as Visual History
Youn-mi Kim, Ohio State University
An Esoteric Buddhist Ritual in Seventh Century Silla?
Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Samguk yusa
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 5:15 Session III: The Emergence of the Modern Subject
Chair: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University
Discussant: Burglind Jungman and Youngsook Pak
Sung Lim Kim, Dartmouth College
Dalliance with Objects: the Rise of Consumer Culture in Late Chosŏn Korea
Seunghye Sun, Sungkyunkwan University
Crisis and Tradition: Korean Art at the Fin de Siecle
Soyoung Lee, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collecting Korean Art at the MET, 1910–1950