KSI Events





Oct 19 (Mon): A Crisis Of Representation: Literary Modernism in 1930's Korea, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho House, 5:00PM

Oct 10 (Sat): Rising Stars of Korean Studies Workshop, Doheny Memorial Library, 9:30AM

Oct 09 (Fri): Nationalism and Politics of Adoption in South Korea, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho House, 4:00PM

Oct 02 (Fri): Chuseok Ahn Reception with Korean Cultural Events including "Samdo Seoljanggo", 11:30AM followed by Lunch Reception, 12:00PM

Sep 30 (Wed): Korea Business Forum, JKP300, Marshall School of Business, 5PM

Sep 23 (Wed): Current Issues with North Korean Rights and Refugees, Doheny Memorial Library, 5PM




Spring 2009 Events

April 17 (Fri): One Day Symposium, "Scientizing Korea: (Post)colonialism, Modernity and the Culture of 'Enlightenment'", SOS 250, 9AM

April 11 (Sat): KSI Spring Korean Film Festival Honoring Director Yim Soon-Rye: Forever The Moment and The Waikiki Brothers, USC Norris Theater, 2:30PM

April 03 (Fri): The Korean Community in Brazil: Challenges, Achievements, and Prospects, AHN House, 4PM

March 30 (Mon): KSI Conference on "Dealing with North Korea's Humanitarian and Human Rights Issues: the Variety of Approaches", Davidson Conference Center, Board Room, 4PM

March 11 (Wed): Sung Jin Gong (Member of Supreme Council Grand National Party), "New Voting Rights for Koreans Abroad", JJ Grand, Royal Room, 7PM

March 09 (Mon): Sung Jin Gong (Member of Supreme Council Grand National Party), "South Korean policy toward North Korea, with a focus on the nuclear and human rights issues. Gong's views on US-Korea policy and the future of the alliance", Davidson Sonference Center, Club Room, 5PM

March 05 (Thu): Jamiyan Battur(National University of Mongolia) and Jae-SupPark(Inje University, Korea), "Korean Peninsula from the Eyes of Mongolia" and "The Humanity of Dosan Manifested in His Letters", Oxford Hotel, Dynasty Hall, 4PM

January 23 (Fri): KSI Lunar New Year Reception, AHN House, 12PM


Fall 2008 Events
Nov 18 (Tue): Bruce Fulton & Kim Young-ha, "Young-Ha Kim: How I became a Writer, A Talk and Public Reading by the Writer with Commentary by Bruce Fulton", 240 Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library, 5PM

Nov 10 (Mon): Nick Bonner (Documentary Film Maker), "Crossing the Line" Co-sponsored with UCLA Center for Korean Studies, UCLA Royce Hall 314, 4PM

Nov 3 (Mon): Pak Yang-Jin (Chungnam National University), "Innovations in Bronze Age Korea: Diverse and multiple Sources", AHN House, 5PM

Sep 12 (Fri): Fall Opening Reception in Celebration of the Chuseok Autumn Harvest Festival, AHN House, 12PM - 3PM

Sep 5 (Fri): KSI Film Event Honoring Director Lee Myung-Se: A Master of Visual Cinematic Arts, USC Norris Theater, 4PM - 9:45PM


Spring 2007 Events
Apr 25 (Fri): Symposium, "South Korea under the New Administration", SOS B 40

Apr 8 (Tue): Michael Robinson (Indiana U.),"Negotiating Politicized Narratives and the Writing of Korea's Twentieth Century”, AHN House, 5PM

Mar 25 (Tues): Albert Park (Claremont McKenna College),“The Rage of Modernity: Youth Culture, Religion and Christian Rural Revitalization Movements in 1920s and 1930s Colonial Korea”, AHN House, 5PM

Mar 13 (Thu): Forum:"Election Politics and the U.S.-ROK Alliance", Leavey Library Auditorium, 3PM - 5:30PM

Mar 10 (Mon): Hyaeweol Choi (Arizona State U.), “ New Women, Old Ways: Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea”, AHN House, 5PM

Feb 25 (Mon): Kirk Larsen (George Washington U.), “ Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: The Qing Empire and Chosôn Korea, 1850-1910", AHN House, 5PM

Feb 8 (Fri): Spring opening reception in celebration of the Lunar New Year, AHN House, 3PM - 6PM

Feb 1 (Fri): "The Early Modern in East Asia: The Challenges of Periodization," a symposium, SOS 250, 9AM-5PM

Jan 19 (Sat): Korean Film Festival honoring the work of Director Kang Je Gyu, USC Norris Theater, 3PM - 9PM



*********************"The Early Modern in East Asia: The Challenges of Periodization"**********************

A Symposium, Friday, February 1, 2008, 9:00am-5:00pm, University of Southern California, SOS 250

Recently the concept of the "early modern" has undergone a reevaluation, not necessarily to dismiss its suitability but rather to expand its utility in thinking about the larger narratives of modernity (and hence also "premodernity"), universality, and world history. While the early modern concept has found a niche roughly corresponding to the mid-15th to mid-19th centuries in the West, for East Asian historians there has been a halting response to this notion, for the East Asian historical trajectory (even for Japan, which seems most similar) resists easy divisions according to established periodization.

This one-day symposium seeks to gather the thoughts of East Asian historians whose research inspires thinking about the early modern, and to use this gathering as a forum for extended discussions about periodization in East Asian history-- indeed to wonder whether it is possible to apply a standard periodization scheme for East Asia as a whole.

Please click on the participants' names to be directed to their personal web listing. Please also click on the presentation titles for summaries.

SCHEDULE:

Opening Remarks (9:00-9:10am)

1. East Asia and the Early Modern World (9:10-10:50am)

John Wills, Jr. (USC), "Some Earlier Divergences: China-Europe Differences That Mattered, Han to Ming"
Robert Marks (Whittier College), "Early Modern or Late Imperial: An Environmental Perspective"
Richard von Glahn (UCLA), "An East Asian Early Modernity? Kinsei in Japanese Scholarship on Japanese and Chinese History"

2. Consciousness and Culture (11:00am-12:10pm)

Samuel Yamashita (Pomona), "Reimagining the Intellectual Landscape of  'Early Modern Japan'"
Jahyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University), "Discourse of 'Nation' in Chosôn Korea: Early Modern?"

3. Interactions (1:30-2:40pm)

John Duncan (UCLA) “From External Stimulus to Internal Integration in Late Koryo and Early Choson Korea”
Kenneth Pomeranz (UC-Irvine) “Early Modern Networks Without an Early Modern Period- or is it the Other Way Around?”

4. Authority Structures (3:00-4:40pm)

R. Bin Wong (UCLA), "The Eighteenth-century Qing State: Fantasies and Fallacies of the 'Early Modern'"
Kyung Moon Hwang (USC), "Constructions of State and Society in the Late Chosôn"
Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College), "Afterlives of the Shogun: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Material Legacy in Early Modern and Modern Japan"

5. Closing Discussion (4:40-5:00pm)

Sponsored by the East Asia Seminar of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Department of History, East Asian Studies Center, and Korean Studies Institute at US
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Fall 2007 Events
Nov 16 (Fri): Forum on the South Korean Presidential Election, Aroma Wilshire Center, Koreatown, 6PM

Oct 29 (Mon): Nancy Abelmann, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne: “The Intimate University: College, Segregation, and the Korean American Family”, AHN House, 4PM

Oct 26 (Fri): Korea Global Speakers Forum: "Nationalism and Internationalism in Korea and Northeast Asia", Noon, Omni Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles

Oct 15 (Mon): Gina Barnes, U. of Durham: “Cross-Straits Relations: Japan, Korea, and Dynastic Change in the 4th century AD -- The Identity of Ojin”, AHN House, 4PM

Oct 3 (Wed): Chan E. Park, Ohio State Univ.: “Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: A P’ansori Lecture & Demonstration", Performance Cafe, Parkside Arts and Humanities Residential College, 5PM

Oct 1-5 (Mon-Fri): "The Beauty of Harmony: An Exhibition of Traditional Korean Clothing,"by Prof. Soh Hwang-ok, Chungang University, AHN House, 10AM-5PM

Sept 27 (Thu): Soyoung Suh, UCLA: "Medicine and the Politics of National Identity in Early 20th Century Korea", AHN House, 2PM

Sept 26-28 (Wed-Fri): KEI/KSI Symposium: "Towards Sustainable Economic and Security Relations in East Asia: U.S. & ROK Policy Options", Davidson Conference Center

Sept 21 (Fri): Opening Reception in celebration of the Chuseok harvest festival holiday, AHN House,3PM