[KS] Announcement: Early Korea Project Harvard Workshop Aug 5, 2009

[Richard McBride]

Dear Scholars and Friends of Korean Studies

 

The Planning Committee of the Early Korea Project would like to inform the list about a workshop conference in being held at Harvard next week:
 
"State and Society in the Mature Silla Period"
Location:  CGIS South Building, room S250
Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.


10:00-10:15     10:00-10:15     State and Society in the Mature Silla Period  
                        Richard D. McBride, II, Brigham Young University-Hawai’i

10:15-11:15     The Defining Characteristics of the Aristocracy in the Mature Silla Period
                        Jeon Deogjae, Gyeongju University
                        Discussant:  Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University

11:15-12:15     Local Society and Regional Administration during the Unified Silla Period
                        Yoon Seon Tae, Dongguk University
                        Discussant:  Martin Bale, University of Toronto
 
12:15-1:30      Lunch


1:30-2:30         1:30-2:30        Buddhism and the State in the Mature Silla Period
                       Kim Sang Hyun, Dongguk University
                                               Discussant:  Jung Hee Lee, Oregon State University
 
2:30-3:30         2:30-3:30        Dynastic Crisis and the Ruling Strata in 8th-9th Century Silla: Political Administration and Bureaucracy 
                       Ha Il Sik, Yonsei University
                       Discussant:  Sung Min Woo, Northeast Asia History Foundation

 
3:30-3:45        Coffee Break


3:45-4:45         3:45-4:45        The Political and Social Causes for the Collapse of Silla
                       Lee Ki Dong, Dongguk University
                                               Discussant:  Richard D. McBride, II, Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i
 
4:45-5:00         4:45-5:00        Concluding Remarks
                       Mark Byington, Early Korea Project, Korea Institute, Harvard University
 
The Early Korea Project (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/), which is administered through the Korea Institute at Havarvd University, exists to promote the study of early Korea.  Each year members of the planning committee organize a workshop project to explore an aspect of early Korean history and to make scholarship of leading scholars in Korea and East Asia more accessible to the scholarly community in the West.
 

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