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Dear Scholars and Friends of Korean Studies<BR>
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The Planning Committee of the Early Korea Project would like to inform the list about a workshop conference in being held at Harvard next week:<BR> <BR><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000>"State and Society in the Mature Silla Period"</FONT><BR></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Location: CGIS South Building, room S250<BR>Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<BR></FONT><BR>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">10:00-10:15<SPAN> 10:00-10:15 </SPAN>State and Society in the Mature Silla Period<SPAN> </SPAN><BR> Richard D. McBride, II, Brigham Young University-Hawai’i</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><BR><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">10:15-11:15<SPAN> </SPAN>The Defining Characteristics of the Aristocracy in the Mature Silla Period<BR> Jeon Deogjae, Gyeongju University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>Discussant:<SPAN> </SPAN>Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><BR><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">11:15-12:15<SPAN> </SPAN>Local Society and Regional Administration during the Unified Silla Period<BR> Yoon Seon Tae, Dongguk University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>Discussant:<SPAN> </SPAN>Martin Bale, University of Toronto</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">12:15-1:30 Lunch<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">1:30-2:30<SPAN> 1:30-2:30 </SPAN>Buddhism and the State in the Mature Silla Period<BR> Kim Sang Hyun, Dongguk University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>Discussant:<SPAN> </SPAN>Jung Hee Lee, Oregon State University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">2:30-3:30<SPAN> 2:30-3:30 </SPAN>Dynastic Crisis and the Ruling Strata in 8th-9th Century Silla: Political Administration and Bureaucracy </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Ha Il Sik, Yonsei University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Discussant:<SPAN> </SPAN>Sung Min Woo, Northeast Asia History Foundation</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">3:30-3:45 Coffee Break<BR><BR></P></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">3:45-4:45<SPAN> 3:45-4:45 </SPAN>The Political and Social Causes for the Collapse of Silla<BR> Lee Ki Dong, Dongguk University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>Discussant:<SPAN> </SPAN>Richard D. McBride, II, Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -1in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">4:45-5:00 4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Mark Byington, Early Korea Project, Korea Institute, Harvard University</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">The Early Korea Project (<A href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/"><FONT color=#0068cf size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">), which is administered through the Korea Institute at Havarvd University, exists to promote the study of early Korea. Each year members of the planning committee organize a workshop project to explore an aspect of early Korean history and to make scholarship of leading scholars in Korea and East Asia more accessible to the scholarly community in the West.</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></P> <BR><br /><hr />NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_MB_new_hotmail_072009' target='_new'>Click here.</a></body>
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