[KS] 3rd intensive course for graduate Students (Leiden)

[Koen De Ceuster]

Third Intensive Course for Graduate Students at Leiden:

History, Memory and the Politics of Memorialization in Contemporary Korea

Leiden University, The Netherlands, 24-27 October 2011.

 

In late October 2011, the Department of Korean Studies, Leiden University,
The Netherlands will be hosting its third one-week Intensive Course for
Graduate Students. This intensive course is organized within the framework
of the AKS-funded research project "History as Social Process:
Unconventional historiographies of Korea," a project that deals with the
production, representation and dissemination of historical narratives of
Korea. Flagship of the project is the e-Journal Korean Histories
[www.koreanhistories.net] 

 

In this year's course, Koen De Ceuster will engage the relationship between
public history, cultural memory and Korea's memorial landscape. Monuments
and memorials inscribe the landscape with history; they occupy, historicize
and order public space, and claim to teach a proper understanding of
history. As South Korea embarked on a process of democratization, this
understanding of the nation's history came under scrutiny. The apparently
immutable memorial landscape felt the ripple effect of the push for
historical justice and the demand for settling the past. Charting the
ongoing changes in the memorial landscape in the process of democratization
allows an insight into the dynamic complexity of the social construction of
public history/memory. 

 

The subject of this year's course touches upon a wide array of subjects,
ranging from historical theory to politics of memory, from oral history to
heritage policies, from nation building to identity formation, from academic
history to historical representations in popular culture. 

 

Students enrolled in MA or PhD programmes are entitled to apply.
Participation in the course is free, but the number of participants is
capped at 12 students. Participating students are required to write a 1,500
word discussion paper on a topic agreed upon in consultation with the
lecturer and circulated to all participants in advance.  

 

Following the intensive course, Professor John Duncan (UCLA) will present
the third AKS-Leiden Colloquium Lecture. On 28-29 October, the second
international workshop "History as Social Practice: Unconventional
Historiographies of Korea," will be hosted in Leiden. Participants in the
intensive course are expected to attend both events. 

 

For enquiries or to apply, send an email to koen.de.ceuster at gmail.com. 

 

Applications will be accepted thru June 30. 

 

A grant of up to 400.- Euro/pp will help cover travel costs. Accommodation
will be paid partially or in full, depending on funding. 

 

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