<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The Choson History Society is delighted to announce the lecture by John Duncan, moderated by Luis Botella. Please find the detailed information below. We look forward to seeing you at the virtual meeting.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="6">John Duncan: Learning History in Turbulent Times at Korea University</font></b></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;"><b></b><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4"><b>John Duncan</b>, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles </font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">Moderated by <b>Luis A. Botella</b>, Associate Professor, University of Malaga</font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">This Zoom event will take place on April 13, 10:00 am (LA Time) / 1:00pm (New York Time) / 6:00pm (Malaga Time)</font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">Please register: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/10LhYlphTpyOLEIQzRiC-A" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/10LhYlphTpyOLEIQzRiC-A&source=gmail&ust=1775522405654000&usg=AOvVaw2Dx1HI-FNcgSUwDAESBSRY" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://us02web.zoom.us/<wbr>meeting/register/<wbr>10LhYlphTpyOLEIQzRiC-A</a></font></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="4">Abstract</font></b></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><br></b></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I first went to Korea in 1966 as a soldier in the U.S. Army, where I was stationed along the DMZ. I became fascinated by Korea and decided to study at a university there after my enlistment was over in 1968. After spending another year in Seoul improving my Korean language skills, I was accepted by Korea University as a transfer student in March 1970. </p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">In preparation for my studies, I read everything in English I could find (which wasn\u2019t much) and several Korean books on Korean history, including most of the Chindanhakhoe\u2019s seven-volume <i>Han\u2019guksa</i>. Nonetheless, my first semester at KU was tough. We had no textbooks and no assigned readers. That meant we had to rely on lecture notes to prepare for exams and write papers. I had to copy lecture notes borrowed from my fellow students to survive. By my second semester, I was able to handle most of the workload on my own. By the end of my second year, I won praise from my professors for my Korean writing skills on term papers and, most crucially, my senior thesis on the late Silla revival of the <i>Nog\u016dp </i>system.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Our classes on Korean history ended with the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910, so all my coursework was on what we then termed pre-modern Korea. A consistent concern was the refutation of arguments made by the colonial apologists for imperial Japan. The \u201cinternal development theory\u201d was emerging as the master narrative on Korean history by that time. My courses on Kory\u014f were organized around the question of the feudal stage of development, while my courses on Chos\u014fn focused primarily on non-elite social groups and the sprouts of capitalism. It soon became apparent to me that this reflected the influence of Marxist interpretations even though the professors eschewed the use of such terminology as class struggle or relations of production. It was a very different approach from what I had read in Chindanhakhoe\u2019s books.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">We were required to take 118 credits in our major, which left me, as a transfer student, little opportunity to take elective courses. I did manage to take a few courses in Confucianism, taught by a professor who was a New Confucian trained in Taiwan under Fang Dong-mei. He was very skeptical of the notion of history as linear progress and thus critical of the internal development theory as supportive of Park Chunghee\u2019s developmental state policy.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The late 1960s and early 1970\u2019s were years of great turbulence in Korea, marked by much student activism against the Park regime. Our classes were sometimes interrupted by student demonstrations and the ROK army occupied and shut down the Korea University campus in October 1971. Many professors showed great courage in signing statements calling for the restoration of democracy and several of my friends were permanently expelled from the university. All of this gave me some insight into the Korean struggle for democratization and the importance of our classes for that goal. </p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"></span><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="4">About the Speaker</font></b></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;"><b></b><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b>John Duncan</b> got his B.A. in history from Korea University and his Ph.D. in Korean History from the University of Washington. He was at UCLA from 1989 until 2019, where he taught in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of History. He has been a visiting professor at various universities throughout the world, including Harvard University, Kyushu University, University of Malaga, and Yonsei University. He has written widely on pre-modern and early modern Korean and East Asian history, with books and articles published in the U.S., Korea, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, France, Chile, Mexico, and Costa Rica. His major publications include single-authored monographs, edited/co-edited books, and translations, including <i>The Origins of the Chos\u014fn Dynasty, Imperialism in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: With a Focus on the case of Japan in Korea, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam</i>, <i>Reform and Modernity in the Taehan Empire</i>, and Kang Man\u2019gil, <i>A History of Contemporary Korea</i> (Koch\u2019y\u014f ss\u016dn Han\u2019guk hy\u014fndaesa). He has received a number of awards for his scholarship, including the Korea Foundation Prize, the Manhae Prize for Academic Excellence, and the Yongjae Academic Award.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="4">About the Moderator</font></b></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 16px;"><b></b><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b>Luis Botella</b> is an associate professor at the University of Malaga in the Department of Historical Science. His research interest has focused on the historiography and intellectual history of Korean history. He received his PhD from the University of Malaga in 2017 with a thesis titled \u201cThe field of Korean Archaeology in South Korea (1945-1979). Power relations in the Institutionalization and Professionalization of archaeology,\u201d and has published several articles on the topic, dealing with different aspects of the power dynamics within the field of archaeology. Recently, he has published in <i>Acta Koreana</i> \u201cDecolonizing the Periodization of South Korean Archaeology: From Fujita Ryosaku to Kim W\u014fllyong and <i>Han\u2019guk kogohak kaes\u014fl</i>.\u201d Currently, he is expanding his focus of research to the field of ancient history in South Korea between the Liberation and the end of Park Chung Hee\u2019s regime.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Choson History Society</p><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;"><font color="#222222" face="Helvetica Neue" size="2"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span></font></p><a href="https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/">https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/</a><div><br></div></body></html>