[KS] INTENSIVE MASTERCLASS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: HISTORY AS SOCIAL PROCESS (LEIDEN)

[Remco Breuker]

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you, Remco Breuker.




SECOND INTENSIVE COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: HISTORY AS SOCIAL PROCESS

Leiden, 4-8 October, 2010



Within the framework of the research project “*History as Social Process:
unconventional historiographies of Korea*”, sponsored by the Academy of
Korean Studies, the Korean Studies Department of Leiden University, The
Netherlands will organize a one-week intensive masterclass for graduate
students on the various ways representations of history are created,
maintained or changed through novels, poetry, films, television dramas,
etc., which interact in complex patterns with the historiography of
professional historians and public opinion.



One part of the research project is the  e-journal *Korean Histories*. Please
refer to www.koreanhistories.net for the particulars of the research
project. Faculty members of the research project are Professor Boudewijn
Walraven, Dr Koen De Ceuster, Dr Remco Breuker and postdoctoral fellow
Jungshim Lee.



The theme of this year’s masterclass is *forging and forgeries*. Using
forgeries as an unconventional source for the writing of history, the
masterclass will look at forging as a means of approaching possible truths
or possible realities. As such, it will approach forging and forgeries as
creative means to approximate unrealized or potential realities, in
particular with regard to the ever-tense way in which the past is thought to
influence the present and the present deals with the past: forgeries may
serve as critical tools to censure reality and to construct potential – or:
forged – realities.



The masterclass will look at several kinds of forgeries and their social and
historical roles in Korean history: textual forgeries such as the *Ten
Injunctions*, *Hwarang segi* and *Tan’gun kogi*; religious forgeries such as
Buddhist apocrypha; social/genealogical forgeries such as *chokpo*;
scientific forgeries such as the research of Hwang Usŏk. The masterclass
simultaneously aims to widen the field of forgery by including categories
usually not considered forgeries, but which can be shown to be
morphologically related to the above-mentioned forgeries in the sense that
these categories, too, try to realize potential realities by creatively
dealing with the past. These categories include historical movies and
historical novels, both of which select established truths, anxieties, hopes
and fears; exaggerate and magnify them through a historical filter that is
focused on the present; and present a result that does everything to
convince the audience that it is the past he/she is looking at, while
stressing messages that nonetheless relate to the audience’s present.



The course will involve active participation by the students, who will be
asked to write a 1500-word discussion paper on an issue related to the topic
of the course before they come to Leiden. The choice of the issues to be
dealt with will be determined in consultation with the teacher of the course
.



Participation in the course will also allow students to attend the
Second AKS-Leiden
Colloquium, on September. Guest speaker at the Colloquium is Professor Ken
Wells (Berkeley).



If so desired, ways will be sought to extend credits for participation in
consultation with students’ home institutions.



Participation in the course is free, but limited to 16 students. For each
student, a maximum subvention of € 400 will be available to assist with
expenses for travel and accommodation.

Interested graduate students are advised to apply as soon as possible, so
that accommodation may be arranged, but the final deadline for application
is 15 August.



For further information and to apply please write to: cksleiden at gmail.com
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