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Thought this webinar next Tuesday from the Freer-Sackler (now the National Museum of Asian Art) on the architecture of the Three Kingdoms period would be of interest to some—maybe even many? — Jonathan<br>
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<b style="color:inherit !important;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><b>Tuesday, July 26, 2022</b><span style="font-weight:400"> </span> </b><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i>Ancient Korean Architecture in Context </i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>8:30—10:30 a.m. (Washington, DC) </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>9:30—11:30 p.m. (Seoul, Korea) </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please join us for a webinar inspired by the current exhibition
<i>Once Upon a Roof: Vanished Korean Architecture</i>, examining recent research findings on ancient Korean architecture and ceramic roof tiles created more than one thousand years ago during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla kingdoms. Although no buildings
from these periods survive, archaeological surveys reveal the advent of distinct regional styles on the peninsula that contributed to the complex cultural exchanges taking place in East Asia from the fifth through the ninth centuries. The four featured scholars
from Korea and the United States will place Korea's earliest wooden architectural traditions in a broader East Asian context. Special emphasis is placed on roof tiles— the subject of the current exhibition—and two speakers will address the original design
and fabrication of a special type of ornamented roof tile, called <i>chimi</i> in Korean, that crowned both ends of the main roof ridge of prominent buildings. Using examples excavated at important historical sites, specialists will address their discovery
and reconstruction. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Speakers include: </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lee Byongho, Gongju National University of Education, Gongju </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jeong Hyun, National Museum of Korea, Seoul </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hwang Hyun Sung, National Museum of Korea, Seoul </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Register here:</b> </span><a href="https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AAQgBlWVQBq2b3SamdiM-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AAQgBlWVQBq2b3SamdiM-w</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>The full program, speaker bios, and abstract can be found here:</b>
</span><a href="https://asia.si.edu/research/scholarly-programs/ancient-korean-architecture-in-context/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://asia.si.edu/research/scholarly-programs/ancient-korean-architecture-in-context/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
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