[KS] announcement of SOAS event

[Anders Karlsson]

Dear Listmembers,

The Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS, London, welcomes all interested to the following event. If you have any queries please contact the Centre on ak49 at soas.ac.uk.

Sincerely,
Anders Karlsson
Centre chair


Culture and Society in Pre-Modern Korea

A one-day seminar jointly organised by the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, and the Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul

Friday 2 December, 2005

10.15-17.30

Venue: B34, Birkbeck College (next to SOAS)


Programme

10.15–10.30
Introduction
Welcoming remarks by Professor Lee Gil Sang, Director of the Center for Information on Korean Culture, AKS

10.30-12.00
Literature
Chair: Yeon Jaehoon
Jo Yoong-hee (AKS), “Tang Style Poems in the Mid-Joseon Period”
Grace Koh (SOAS), “Historical Reality and Literary Strategy: Historical Vision and Literary Imagination in the Samguk yusa”
Lim Chi-kyun (AKS), “Births and Achievements of Heroes in the War Hero Novels”

12.00-13.30
Lunch break

13.30-15.30
Music/Linguistics/Art and Archaeology
Chair: Anders Karlsson
Sheen Dae-cheol (AKS), “Korean Music in the 19th Century”
Yeon Jaehoon (SOAS), “Queries on the Origin and the Inventor of Hunmin chŏngŭm”
Hwang Moon-hwan (AKS), “On the Characteristics of Eon’gan as Linguistic Materials for the Korean Language History”
Pak Youngsook (SOAS), “Koguryŏ Wall Paintings: Are They Chinese or Korean?”
		
15.30-16.00
Coffee

16.00-17.30
History
Chair: Pak Youngsook
James Lewis (Oxford), “How do we Present Korea and Japan in Western Museums? An Essay on Relations and Comparisons from Antiquity to the 21st Century”
Chung Ku-bok (AKS), “Reassessment of the Status System in Fifteenth-Century Chosŏn”
Anders Karlsson (SOAS), ”Orphan Care in Chosŏn Korea”