[KS] CFP: "Archives, Archival Practice, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea"

[Jooyeon Kim]

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

"Archives, Archival Practice, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea"

Journal of Korean Studies Premodern Korea Workshop

 

Columbia University, May 17, 2018

 

We invite proposals for "Archives, Archival Practice, and the Writing of
History in Premodern Korea," a one-day workshop organized by the Center for
Korea Research (CKR) with generous support from the Academy of Korean
Studies (AKS). The workshop is conceived as a platform that brings together
a small number of scholars interested in rethinking the roles of archives in
writing the history of premodern Korea. 

Papers presented at the conference will be developed and then considered for
publication in a special issue of The Journal of Korean Studies, scheduled
for print in the Fall 2019 issue volume 24, number 2. 

For any scholar interested in the human past in all its complexity, archives
and archival sources have long been considered primary repositories of
information essential to a given people's history. In premodern Korea, they
were gathered and housed in official or state storerooms, as well as in
unofficial sites such as the libraries of lineage associations and local
academies. The use of underutilized and rare materials-from unofficial sites
in particular-has cast invaluable light on what and who were left out of the
conventional historiography of premodern Korea. At the same time, the
exclusion of documents pertaining to the lives of marginalized people as
legitimate subjects of history raises the question of the diverse possible
approaches to archival collection itself, which involves a series of
decisions as to what to archive, what to discard, and why. Archives are thus
not only products of recordkeeping and sites for the production and
circulation of knowledge but rich subjects for historical and cultural
studies, precisely because they are embedded in the structures of power that
historically produced them. With its focus on archiving and archival
practice in various premodern Korean contexts, this workshop takes the
archive beyond its usual definition as a static collection of historical
documents of the past. By addressing topics such as the formation and use of
archives, the role of archives in shaping knowledge culture, and the
archival dilemmas scholars encounter, the workshop invites a vital
conversation about how histories of the archive might reshape stories
written from the archives in premodern Korea.

 

Accommodations, all meals, and, under special circumstances, the cost of
transportation will be covered for workshop participants. Please submit a
300-word abstract and a brief biographical note by December 31, 2017 to the
workshop organizer, Jungwon Kim (jk3638 at columbia.edu). 

 

 

Center for Korean Research

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Columbia University

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