<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Please share this upcoming event on the listserv:</div></div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="gmail-mobile-width-nopad" width="640" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="gmail-template_container" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="editable_image" style="padding-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-ff-max-width"><img alt="" height="472" src="https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260401/a8/a9/9a/b2/00aac90bab7a704050991643_1280x944.png" width="640" style="display: block; border: 0px;"></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-row-region-content e2ma-section" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-layout-column-content"></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="e2ma-single-column-layout e2ma-section"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-design-option-template" style="background-color:transparent"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_pvcaqscq" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:10px;background-color:rgb(8,28,87);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,150,214)"><div class="e2ma-content-block"><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span class="e2ma-style" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:24px"><strong>The Premodern Korea Lecture Series</strong></span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_goqgjpzj" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:20px 40px;background-color:transparent"><div class="e2ma-content-block"><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="line-height:1.5"><strong><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,64,101)">Engineers of the Confucian State:</span></strong></span></div><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="line-height:1.5"><strong><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,64,101)">The Making of Early Modern Korea<br></span></strong></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_ygainppb" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:5px"></td></tr><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper" valign="top" style="padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="text-align:center;padding:0px"><img alt="" border="0" height="354" src="https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260401/a7/d7/10/2d/5bc498b8be35d0bf4650e47e_1260x708.png" width="630" style="display: block;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_zyuoqrst" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:5px"></td></tr><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;line-height:1.5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:0px"><div class="e2ma-content-block"><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="line-height:1.5"><b><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px">Friday, April 17th, 2026</span></span><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px"><br>1:00 P.M. \u2013 21:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)</span></span></b></span></div><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="line-height:1.5"><b><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px"><br>    Virtual Event via Zoom</span></span></b><br></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer e2ma-button" id="gmail-block_seqfnhpf" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:5px"></td></tr><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper" valign="top" style="padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-holder" width="100%" style="padding:8px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table class="gmail-c-collapsed-table" style="border-spacing:0px"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#00425d" style="border-radius:6px;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982989761758?aff=oddtdtcreator" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none;padding:12px 18px;font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;text-align:center;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;display:block;border:1px solid rgb(0,66,93);line-height:17.6px">Register Here!</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_aogkhwjd" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"></td></tr><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper" valign="top" style="padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" style="padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><div style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(0,150,214)"><img border="0" height="1" src="https://images.e2ma.net/images/spacer.gif" width="1" style="display: block;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-row-region-content e2ma-section" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-layout-column-content"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_xmrtzjks" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:20px 40px;background-color:transparent"><div class="e2ma-content-block"><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:20px;color:rgb(0,64,101)"><b><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif">Event Description</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><div><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px">This talk introduces the \u201cingeniators\u201d of Chos\u014fn Korea (1392\u20131910), technical leaders who exercised authority over the state\u2019s material design, standards, and production. Drawing on newly uncovered archives, surviving artifacts, and experimental reconstructions, I show how these figures oversaw government workshops that produced guns, built tombs and bridge, and even made early torpedoes and steam engines. Over five centuries, ingeniators rose in social standing and intellectual authority, finding a stable footing among the chungin (middle people) while exchanging knowledge with physicians, interpreters, editors, and yangban scholars. Even more important, their ingenuity developed into enduring systems of knowledge\u2014from \u201cprototyping,\u201d the practices of drawing, modeling, and measuring, to \u201cmechanics,\u201d the application of natural philosophy to material design. These practices, I argue, helped govern the Confucian state by sustaining its many material enterprises. They also reveal a form of early modern engineering fully commensurate with other traditions, inviting us to rethink the history of engineering beyond Renaissance Italy or the French Polytechnique.<br><br></span></span><br></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_nwtjwzoe" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="paddin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bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:20px 40px;background-color:rgb(253,253,221)"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="1%" style="padding:10px"><div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="278" src="https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260401/5d/18/ed/cf/7461be9622132161f3e1d17c_370x556.jpg" width="185" style="display: block;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="e2ma-combo-content e2ma-content-block" style="line-height:1.5"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:26px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:20px;color:rgb(8,54,74)"><strong>Wenjiao Cai</strong></span><br></h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:26px;line-height:26px;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,40,40)">(DePauw University)</span></h1><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.6px"><strong><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px">The Commodification of Chos\u014fn Ginseng and the Scale of Environmental Change in Early Modern East Asia</span></strong><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.6px"><br></div><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5">March 27, 2024</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_nhzdygov" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper" valign="top" style="padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:20px 40px;background-color:rgb(253,253,221)"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="1%" style="padding:10px"><div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="213" src="https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260401/19/7d/a6/40/98895705a9f568861483ad15_358x426.jpg" width="179" style="display: block;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="e2ma-combo-content e2ma-content-block" style="line-height:1.5"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:26px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:20px;color:rgb(8,54,74)"><strong>Sujung Kim</strong></span><br></h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:26px;line-height:26px;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,40,40)">(DePauw University)</span></h1><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.6px"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px"><strong>Warding Off Woes: Epidemic Talismans</strong></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.6px"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:14px"><strong>in Chos\u014fn Buddhism</strong></span><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.6px"><br></div><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5">February 22, 2024</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="e2ma-block-outer" id="gmail-block_rqydmacx" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-wrapper e2ma-image-td" valign="top" style="padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="e2ma-holder" valign="top" style="padding:20px 40px;background-color:rgb(0,64,101)"><div class="e2ma-content-block"><div class="e2ma-p-div" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:justify"><span class="e2ma-style" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif">Founded in the year 2016, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) is a university wide Institute housed in the Elliott School of International Affairs a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