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)
Programme
Friday 7 December 2007
| 9.00 | Coffee and registration |
| 9.30 | Welcome |
| 9.35 | Professor James Grayson, President of British Association for Korean Studies |
| Session 1 Chair: Professor Peter Kornicki - Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge | |
| 9.40 | Professor Martina Deuchler - Professor of Korean Emerita & Professorial Research Associate, SOAS The social in society: some reflections on the meaning of descent groups in Korean history |
| 10:50 | Tea/coffee |
| Session 2 Chair: Professor James Grayson, President of British Association for Korean Studies | |
| 11.15 | Dr Anders Karlsson - Lecturer in Korean, SOAS Royal benevolence and disaster relief in Chosôn Korea |
| 12.00 | Professor Peter Kornicki - Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge Publishing and translation in the Chos?n period |
| 12.45 | Buffet Lunch |
| Session 3 Chair: Ms Grace Koh - Lecturer in Korean Literature, SOAS | |
| 1.45 | Dr James B. Lewis - University Lecturer in Korean History, Oxford University Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: a view suggested by Adam Smith |
| 2.30 | Professor James Grayson - Professor of Modern Korean Studies and Director of Centre for Korean Studies, Sheffield University Ch'udo yebae: a Protestant substitute for Confucian ancestral rituals |
| 3.15 | Dr Owen Miller - Research Fellow, Centre for Korean Studies, SOAS The crisis of Seoul's traditional commercial system, 1876-1895 |
| 4.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| Session 4 Chair: Dr John Swenson-Wright - Fuji Bank Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, Cambridge University | |
| 4.15 | Dr Koen De Ceuster - Docent, Leiden University The Korean delegation at the 1907 Peace Conference in The Hague |
| 5.00 | Close of conference |