[KS] Two Thursday Evening Korea Panels at AAS

[CedarBough T. Saeji]

*Dear Korean Studies Colleagues,*
I know that many of you are still arriving Thursday evening, but if you're
at the Marriott before 7:30 I hope you'll attend one of the two
Korea-focused panels. As usual the conference includes way too many
interesting panels, always scheduled at the same time.

See you in Philadelphia,

CedarBough Saeji

*Building/Room:* Philadelphia Marriott, Level 4 - Room 402/403
*Title Displayed in Event Calendar: *Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn: A Sillan Literatus in
Late Tang<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+View+Program+Load+Box+To+View&program_box_id=156267&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: James Lewis (University of
Oxford)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118064&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>
 Chair: James Lewis (University of
Oxford)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118064&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>
 *The Tongmunsŏn and Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696497&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*Kosaku Hamada (Kyushu
University)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118800&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

*Cultural Exchange and Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn: The Coexistence of Tang’s Globality
and Silla’s Locality
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696498&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*Il-gyu Chang (Academy of Korean
Studies)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118802&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

*A Lonely Cloud: A Thematic Overview of Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn’s Poems
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696499&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*Xin Wei (Kyushu
University)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118803&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

Discussant: Richard McBride (Brigham Young
University-Hawaii)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118804&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>


Abstract

This panel rejuvenates the already aging conversations on the global-local
dialectics, dichotomy, and dynamics governing our present era by injecting
the strong dose of a case study on a trans-border figure of Silla Korea in
the ninth century—Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn. Being called the “first person to break
all precedents” and “founder of the Eastern School of Chinese Literature”
in Korea, Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn has enjoyed a pivotal status in Korean literary
history. This panel brings together specialists from Japan, Korea, and the
US who bear the latest achievements in the study on Ch’oe. The papers
address the fundamental issues of authenticity, authorship, and employ
textual and inter-textual analysis to tackle questions of trans-border and
cross-cultural influences. Hamada has led field trips over the past decade
to compare different editions of Ch’oe’s writings preserved in both Korea
and Japan. He will offer us the most accurate assessment of Ch’oe’s
authentic, extant writings after a millennium of emendation and exegesis.
Chang and Wei center their inquiries on cultural borrowing and its wider
ramifications. Chang tends to the specifics of expressions, both global and
local, to show how Ch’oe received, mediated, and appropriated Tang
institutions for Silla. Wei closely examines the poetic invocation of the
imagery of “a lonely cloud” in Chinese literary history. She concludes that
Ch’oe’s inter-textual engagement with “a lonely cloud” points to a
cosmopolitan engagement with the world and touches base with a Confucianism
reconfigured for Silla.

*Building/Room:* Philadelphia Marriott, Level 4 - Room 404
*Title Displayed in Event Calendar: *Curating Korea: Stories and Spaces in
Conversation<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+View+Program+Load+Box+To+View&program_box_id=156261&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

Session Participants:

Chair: Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural
History)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>
 Discussant: Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural
History)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4118046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>
 Session Organizer: CedarBough T. Saeji (Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119015&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>
 *Specters of Seoul: The Militarization of Visibility
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696659&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*Timothy Gitzen (University of
Minnesota)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119044&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

*Keeping It Real: Display of Artifact Replicas in National Museums of Korea
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696660&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*Elmer Veldkamp (University College
Roosevelt)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119046&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

*Framing Memory in Korea: State Ideologies in the Modern Museum
<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Publication+For+Extra&publication_id=696661&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>*

*CedarBough T. Saeji (Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies)<http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aas/aas14/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Person&people_id=4119015&PHPSESSID=3n4bn7k5rek2b9pchc4vqqsj11>

Abstract

Through curated display of Korean history and tradition visitors (whether
Korean or foreign) learn about Korea; and are exposed to messages of
national pride, uniqueness, triumph over adversity, and pride of place. The
active and intense effort to assign meanings to Korean tradition
intensified in the wake of the colonial period. This effort has played out
in the designation, excavation, and curation of national tangible and
intangible heritage. This panel concerns itself with the cultural politics
of the display of visual culture in public spaces, particularly museums and
historic sites, in the Republic of Korea. The ways in which
government-designated items of tangible and intangible cultural heritage
are presented are multi-layered: detailed analysis of this public culture
reveals intentional and perhaps unintended messages.

This interdisciplinary panel questions the curation of Korean culture in
relation to constructions of cultural authenticity by investigating modes
of cultural presentation, such as the visible militaristic presence in
Seoul and presentation of displays in national museums, together with the
malleable character of reality as exemplified by the display of replicas
and the resurrection of folk performing arts. Through detailed examination
of public displays of Korean culture and history at the War Memorial and
National Museums we seek to open a dialogue on authenticity and Korean
national culture. How is Korea being curated both for the Korean and
non-Korean visitor? How is "authentic" Korean culture and heritage
portrayed? How fluid are these notions of authenticity?


-- 
CedarBough T. Saeji
Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
(우) 449-791 경기도 용인시 처인구 모현면 외대로 81 오르비스빌딩 703호
ORBIS Building #703, 81 Oedae-ro, Mohyeon-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si,
Gyeonggi-do, Korea 449-791

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