[KS] {Disarmed} Fwd: [GWIKS] 10/26 Premodern Korea Lecture Series with John S. Lee

Tue Oct 11 08:57:23 EDT 2022

Hello, please include the following announcement for the GWIKS 2022-2023
Premodern Korea Lecture Series in the Korean Studies List:

*The Premodern Korea Lecture Series*

*“Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Korea, 1392-1910."*
John S. Lee, Assistant Professor in East Asian History,
 Durham University

 *Wednesday, October 26, 2022*
*2:00 pm - 3:30 pm*
Virtual Event via Zoom
Register <https://t.e2ma.net/click/wlx3gi/k4ryzjlc/8al0d5>

*Event Description*
For almost every society before the twentieth century, the forest ecosystem
was the main source of fuel, construction material, and raw chemical
matter. In this presentation, Lee examines the longest continuous state
forestry system in world history, that of Korea’s Chosŏn dynasty
(1392-1910). For five hundred years, the Chosŏn government managed forests
across the Korean peninsula with focus on one type of conifer, the pine.
Lee argues that state forestry was fundamental to the expansion of the
Chosŏn state and its military, political, and cultural priorities from the
fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Moreover, the government’s
prioritization of pine profoundly transformed Korea’s environment. Over
time, however, Chosŏn forests also became contested zones as government
policies clashed with administrative corruption, commercial operations, and
the workaday sylvan needs of a growing populace. Overall, Lee offers a new,
environmental-historical approach to Korean history that interweaves the
making of state, society, and ecology on the Korean peninsula.
*Speaker*
*John S. Lee*
*John S. Lee* is an environmental historian of early modern East Asia,
particularly the Korean peninsula, with transregional interests in
comparative histories of pre-industrial forestry; the history of pine; the
premodern history of the conservationist state; and the long-term
environmental legacies of Eurasian empires. He received his Ph.D. in
History and East Asian Languages in 2017 from the Department of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His current monograph
project, *Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Korea,
918-1910*, examines the rise and fall of the longest continuous state
forestry system in world history, that of Korea's Chosŏn dynasty. His other
current project examines the environmental legacies of the Mongol Empire in
Asia, with a focus on the long-term impact of Inner Asian equine culture on
the woodland and coastal zones of sedentary East Asia.

*Moderator*
*Jisoo M. Kim*
*Jisoo M. Kim* is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History,
International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She
currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and
the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also
serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a
specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader
research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice,
forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of
emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of *The
Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea*
(University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James
Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the
co-editor of *The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation*
by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently
working on a book project tentatively entitled *Sexual Desire, Crime, and
Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea.* She received her
M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia
University.
Click here for the program <https://t.e2ma.net/click/wlx3gi/k4ryzjlc/o3l0d5>
Future Lectures

Janet Yoon-sun Lee
(Keimyung University)
*Lovesickness in Premodern Korean Fiction*
January 25, 2023, 9:00 AM EST.

*Masato Hasegawa*
(National Taiwan University)
*Politics of Geography and Transport in the Qing-Chosŏn Borderland*
March 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM EST.
Past Lectures
*Franklin Rausch*(Lander University)
*The Famous and the Nameless: The Lives and Afterlives of Chosŏn Catholic
Martyrs*
September 28, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT.
Watch the lecture here. <https://t.e2ma.net/click/wlx3gi/k4ryzjlc/4vm0d5>
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