[KS] mini-conference/graduate student workshop at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa - 12-14 December 2018

[Christopher Bae]

Dear Korean Studies Graduate Students:

I would like to draw your attention to this mini-conference/graduate student workshop that is being organized at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i. The event will focus on drilling down into the origins of Korean identity and examine it from a multidisciplinary perspective. In this regard, we have invited five scholars from different disciplines (anatomy, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, sociology) to give a series of public lectures on the first day and then on the second and third days to be involved in a closed door workshop organized for graduate students and led by the five invited scholars. The event is specifically designed to allow you to have the opportunity to interact with these scholars and other graduate students and particularly to understand how other disciplines may define Korean identity. The idea here is that what you learn from being involved with this conference will help you with your own research projects as they evolve.

The public lecture component of the event is obviously open to one and all. However, if you are interested in participating in the graduate student workshop component of the event, then please send me via email a current Curriculum vitae and a 1-2 page single spaced statement about your research project and how you think participating in this workshop could help you with your own research. In addition, your advisor must send me directly a recommendation letter that verifies that you are who you are, are a graduate student in good standing, and that participating in such a workshop could help you develop your own research project(s) now and/or down the road. The submission deadline is 1 September 2018 for both your application materials and the letter from your advisor. If chosen to participate, we will be able to cover your travel expenses (i.e., roundtrip economy class airfare and room and board during the conference).

Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to receiving your application materials in due course.

Yours sincerely,

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Christopher J. Bae, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology

Editor, Korean Studies & Hawaii Studies On Korea
Center for Korean Studies

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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WHO ARE “KOREANS”:
KOREAN IDENTITY VIEWED THROUGH DIFFERENT LENSES

12-14 December 2018
Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa


Organizer: Christopher J. Bae

Korea, as we know it today, is quite distinct from neighboring China and Japan. The question though is can it be identified, when viewed through different lenses, when “Korea” as we have come to know it began to take form? In all likelihood, different fields will provide different perspectives on this origins questions, but the primary question will be, when specialists from different disciplines are brought together to discuss this topic, can a consensus be drawn? If so, what might it be? If no clear consensus can be drawn, then why not? In particular, by examining Korean identity from behavioral and biological perspectives do researchers from different disciplines view Korean identity differently? If so, why? Here, we bring together a group of established scholars and advanced graduate students to drill down into each of these various disciplines using the origin of Korean identity question as the basic framework to ask more detailed questions.

Invited Speakers:
Choongwon Jeong (Max Planck Jena – genetics)
Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan – sociology)
Jangsuk Kim (Seoul National University – archaeology)
U-Young Lee (Catholic University – anatomy)
John Whitman (Cornell University – linguistics)

Schedule
Wednesday (12 December)
9:00-9:30         Opening Introductions
9:30-10:30       Jaeeun Kim (sociology)
10:45-11:45     U-Young Lee (anatomy)

1:30-2:30         Choongwon Jeong (population genetics)
2:45-3:45         John Whitman (historical linguistics)
4:00-5:00         Jangsuk Kim (archaeology)

Thursday (13 December)
9:30-12:00       Workshop (Korean identity today)

2:00-5:00         Workshop (Korean identity origins)

Friday (14 December)
9:30-11:30       Workshop (wrap up synthesis)

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