Workshops and Conferences
Organizers: Si Nae Park, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University and Suyoung Son, Asian Studies, Cornell University
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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LOCATION:Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue // CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20221207T190000Z DTEND:20221208T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR