[KS] 2022 Kyujanggak Book Talk Series #8: Maya Stiller

규장각 icks at snu.ac.kr
Thu Oct 20 02:32:32 EDT 2022


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제목:Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea
일시: 2022년10월28일 금요일, 10:00 - 12:00
저자: Maya Stiller (캔자스대학)
사회: Giovanni Volpe (규장각한국학연구원)
토론:신정수(한국학중앙연구원)

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기타 문의사항은icks at snu.ac.kr https://mail.snu.ac.kr/mail/icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378)로 연락주시기 바랍니다.


Dear All,

The International Center for Korean Studies of the Kyujanggak Institute is hosting a Book Talk series, introducing Maya Stiller’sCarving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea.

Title: Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea
Date: October 28 (Friday) 10:00 - 12:00 (Seoul)
Author: Maya Stiller (University of Kansas)
Moderator: Giovanni Volpe (Kyujanggak)
Discussants: Jeongsoo Shin (The Academy of Korean Studies)


The event will be held online via Zoom. The link for Zoom meeting will be sent a day before the event after your registration is confirmed (registerhere https://forms.gle/rpYVcoJKcPxvX7ZY7).

Please contact icks at snu.ac.kr https://mail.snu.ac.kr/mail/icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378) for more information. 


About the Author:
Professor Maya Stiller specializes in Chosŏn period (1392-1910) Korean art and visual culture. After double majoring in Korean Studies and Art History for her BA and MA, she spent several years of field research in Korea and Japan, followed by a doctoral degree in Korean Art History from Freie Universität Berlin in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Asian Languages & Cultures (focus: Korean History and Buddhist Studies) from UCLA in 2014. From 2015 until 2018, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Department of Art History and Architecture and a fellow at Harvard University's Korea Institute. As an art historian with an interdisciplinary approach, professor Stiller explores visual interpretations of Buddhist faith and ritual practice in Chosŏn Korea. Her most recent article, “Slaves, Village Headmen, and Aristocrats: Patronage and Functions of Buddhist Sculpture Burials in Late Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn Korea,” will be published in Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, while another article, “The Politics of Commemoration: Patronage of Monk-General Shrines in Late Chosŏn Korea,” was published in the Journal of Asian Studies in 2018. Professor Stiller’s research projects have received support from the ACLS/Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, the Korea Institute at Harvard University, and the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University.

About the Book:
North Korea's Kŭmgangsan is one of Asia's most celebrated sacred mountain ranges, comparable in fame to Mount Tai in China and Mount Fuji in Japan. Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan marks a paradigm shift in the research about East Asian mountains by introducing an entirely new field: autographic rock graffiti. The book details how late Chosŏn (ca. 1600–1900 CE) Korean elite travelers used Kŭmgangsan to demonstrate their high social status by carving inscriptions, naming sites, and joining the literary pedigree of visitors to renowned locales. Such travel practices show how social competition emerged in the spatial context of a landscape. Hence, Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan argues for an expansion of accepted historical narratives on travel and mountain space in premodern East Asia. Rather than interpreting pilgrimage routes as exclusively religious or tourist, in Kŭmgangsan's case they were also an important site of collective memory.

A journey to Kŭmgangsan to view and contribute to its sites of memory was an endeavor that late Chosŏn Koreans hoped to achieve in their lives. Based on multidisciplinary research drawing on literary writings, court records, gazetteers, maps, songs, calligraphy, and paintings, Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan is the first historical study of this practice. It will appeal to scholars in fields ranging from East Asian history, literature, and geography, to pilgrimage studies and art history.

International Center for Korean Studies
Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies
Seoul National University
#451 Bldg.103 
1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul
Republic of Korea, 08826
T +82.2.880.9378 
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