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<td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Dear Korean Studies Colleagues,</b><br>
I know that many of you are still arriving Thursday evening, but if you're at the Marriott before 7:30 I hope you'll attend one of the two Korea-focused panels. As usual the conference includes way too many interesting panels, always scheduled at the same time.<br>
<br>See you in Philadelphia,<br><br>CedarBough Saeji<br><br></font><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Building/Room:</b> Philadelphia Marriott, Level 4 - Room 402/403</font><br>
<font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Title Displayed in Event Calendar: </b></font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+View+Program+Load+Box+To+View&program_box_id=156267&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn: A Sillan Literatus in Late Tang</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session Participants:</font></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Session Organizer</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118064&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">James Lewis (University of Oxford)</a> </td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118064&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">James Lewis (University of Oxford)</a> </td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696497&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">The Tongmunsŏn and Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118800&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Kosaku Hamada (Kyushu University)</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696498&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">Cultural Exchange and Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn: The Coexistence of Tang’s Globality and Silla’s Locality</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118802&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Il-gyu Chang (Academy of Korean Studies)</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696499&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">A Lonely Cloud: A Thematic Overview of Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn’s Poems</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118803&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Xin Wei (Kyushu University)</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Discussant</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118804&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Richard McBride (Brigham Young University-Hawaii)</a> </td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px">Abstract</font></td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">This panel rejuvenates the already aging conversations on the global-local dialectics, dichotomy, and dynamics governing our present era by injecting the strong dose of a case study on a trans-border figure of Silla Korea in the ninth century—Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn. Being called the “first person to break all precedents” and “founder of the Eastern School of Chinese Literature” in Korea, Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn has enjoyed a pivotal status in Korean literary history. This panel brings together specialists from Japan, Korea, and the US who bear the latest achievements in the study on Ch’oe. The papers address the fundamental issues of authenticity, authorship, and employ textual and inter-textual analysis to tackle questions of trans-border and cross-cultural influences. Hamada has led field trips over the past decade to compare different editions of Ch’oe’s writings preserved in both Korea and Japan. He will offer us the most accurate assessment of Ch’oe’s authentic, extant writings after a millennium of emendation and exegesis. Chang and Wei center their inquiries on cultural borrowing and its wider ramifications. Chang tends to the specifics of expressions, both global and local, to show how Ch’oe received, mediated, and appropriated Tang institutions for Silla. Wei closely examines the poetic invocation of the imagery of “a lonely cloud” in Chinese literary history. She concludes that Ch’oe’s inter-textual engagement with “a lonely cloud” points to a cosmopolitan engagement with the world and touches base with a Confucianism reconfigured for Silla.<br>
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<tbody><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Building/Room:</b> Philadelphia Marriott, Level 4 - Room 404</font><br>
<font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Title Displayed in Event Calendar: </b></font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+View+Program+Load+Box+To+View&program_box_id=156261&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Curating Korea: Stories and Spaces in Conversation</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session Participants:</font></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History)</a> </td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Discussant</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History)</a> </td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Session Organizer</font>: <a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119015&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">CedarBough T. Saeji (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)</a> </td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696659&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">Specters of Seoul: The Militarization of Visibility</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119044&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Timothy Gitzen (University of Minnesota)</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696660&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">Keeping It Real: Display of Artifact Replicas in National Museums of Korea</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">Elmer Veldkamp (University College Roosevelt)</a></blockquote>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><b><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696661&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none">Framing Memory in Korea: State Ideologies in the Modern Museum</a></b></td>
</tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="4"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">*</font><a href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119015&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none">CedarBough T. Saeji (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)</a></blockquote>
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</tr><tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px"><font style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px">Through curated display of Korean history and tradition visitors (whether Korean or foreign) learn about Korea; and are exposed to messages of national pride, uniqueness, triumph over adversity, and pride of place. The active and intense effort to assign meanings to Korean tradition intensified in the wake of the colonial period. This effort has played out in the designation, excavation, and curation of national tangible and intangible heritage. This panel concerns itself with the cultural politics of the display of visual culture in public spaces, particularly museums and historic sites, in the Republic of Korea. The ways in which government-designated items of tangible and intangible cultural heritage are presented are multi-layered: detailed analysis of this public culture reveals intentional and perhaps unintended messages. <br>
<br>This interdisciplinary panel questions the curation of Korean culture in relation to constructions of cultural authenticity by investigating modes of cultural presentation, such as the visible militaristic presence in Seoul and presentation of displays in national museums, together with the malleable character of reality as exemplified by the display of replicas and the resurrection of folk performing arts. Through detailed examination of public displays of Korean culture and history at the War Memorial and National Museums we seek to open a dialogue on authenticity and Korean national culture. How is Korea being curated both for the Korean and non-Korean visitor? How is "authentic" Korean culture and heritage portrayed? How fluid are these notions of authenticity?</font></blockquote>
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<div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CedarBough T. Saeji</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies</div>
</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">(우) 449-791 경기도 용인시 처인구 모현면 외대로 81 오르비스빌딩 703호 </div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">ORBIS Building #703, 81 Oedae-ro, Mohyeon-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 449-791</div>
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