[KS] CHS Zoom Talk: Sang-ho Ro (Aug 16) link corrected

[Sean Han]

Please join Choson History Society's next Zoom talk, presented by Sang-ho Ro, Ewha Womans Univ.

Book Talk: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (Routledge, 2021)

The event will take place on August 16, 09:00-10:30am (Korea Standard Time) / August 15, 5:00-6:30pm (Los Angeles Time)

Please register here (correct link): 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcOutrjMtHdQqo9MrKXyKSsibovQijfOW
Korean intelligence has a long and complex history. Given its location next to China, it had received significant influences from its continental neighbor. At the same time, Korean thinkers for many centuries had endeavored to find a way of reckoning their Self between the universal and the local. In my book, Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea, I wanted to unveil how the long-lasting tension between two bipolar, the universal and the local in Korean mentality, made an intriguing turn in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By doing so, I attempted to explore Korean epistemology beyond the pre-existing horizons of Practical Learning (Sirhak) and Western Learning (Sŏhak). Instead, I reinterpreted the discourses and the methods of Korean intellectual society in terms of reason and sense experience. Neo-Confucian rationalism and Korean empiricism, in my opinion, may better describe their mentality at the dawn of the modern era.



About the Presenter

Sang-ho Ro is Associate Professor of Global Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University. Ro writes a history that examines the evolution of Korean intellectual tradition and philosophy in the late Chosŏn period and the twentieth century. His latest monograph is Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (Routledge, 2021). Also, he contributed to two edited books; Myongdong kilgori munhwasa (Han’gukhak chungang yŏn’guwŏn ch’ulp’anbu, 2019) in Korean and Kanryu Nichiryu (Bensei shuppan, 2014) in Japanese. In the books, he worked on inter-connectedness of Korea and her neighbors, China and Japan, in intellectual tradition and daily experience. And, his other articles cover broad topics, from the history of science and technology to the history of ethnic and cultural minorities in Korea. Ro earned his Ph. D. from Princeton University and M.A. and B.A. from Seoul National University.


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