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

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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