British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Change in late pre-modern Korea
A one-day conference organised in collaboration with the British Association for Korean Studies
Convenors: Professor Peter Kornicki, FBA - Professor of East Asian Studies , University of Cambridge
Professor James H. Grayson - Professor of Modern Korean Studies, University of Sheffield
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Friday 7 December 2007
£30 (£15 concessions, postgraduate students may attend free of charge)
About this Event
Interest in Korea has been growing steadily in the UK over the last twenty years, partly because of the political tensions on the Korean peninsula but also because of the growing awareness that Korea has had a key role to play in East Asia, and as a result the British Association for Korean Studies is now a thriving organization.
Last year Professor Dr Martina Deuchler was elected to a corresponding fellowship in the British Academy, the first Koreanist to be so honoured, and the conference is designed to bring Korean studies within the Academy’s horizons. It will focus on Korea in the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and the centerpiece will be a lecture by Professor Deuchler herself. Other papers will explore social and economic change in pre-modern Korea, disaster relief, education and print culture.