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Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies
(Organized by the Seoul Center of the ÉFEO and RAS Korea)
The November session of the Colloquium will be held at 6 pm on Thursday, November 21 in the Grand Conference Room (Room number 310), of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, beginning at 6:00 pm
All who wish to participate are asked to register in advance by sending an email to efeoseoul@hotmail.com
DATE: Thursday. November 21, 2024. 6:00PM
VENUE: Grand Conference Room (#310), of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University
[Take Exit 1 from Korea University subway station, turn right onto the footpath leading up onto the campus. Walk straight up the road past LG Posco Hall, the Business School and Main Library (all on the right hand side). The Asiatic Research Institute is the building next after the Library (Building 39 on the Campus Map https://www.korea.edu/mbshome/mbs/en/subview5.jsp?id=en_010501000000#1 )
After 6 pm the front door of the Institute may be locked. If the door is locked, phone to the EFEO Seoul Center (02-921-4526) so that we can let you into the building.]
SUMMARY:
Jack London anticipated in a 1910 short story a future world where China plays a pivotal role, coming as far as to eventually challenge the US for world domination. A few decades later, Karl Wittfogel offered a longitudinal analysis of how early hydraulic systems in Asia provided state bureaucracies with formidable means to control their populations over centuries. The objective is to juxtapose these two perspectives and question their practical implications, as the global economic fulcrum shifts Eastward. What made East Asia such a good fit for Western-born capitalism? What consequences follow for the future of democracy, both in East Asia and in the rest of the world?
BIO:
Christophe Gaudin is a French sociologist, from the tradition of sociology of imagination (G. Durand, J. Baudrillard, M. Maffesoli). An assistant professor of political science at Kookmin University in Seoul, he has served since 2018 as a CKO for the Korean branch of Eranos, a research consultancy based in Paris and Seoul, and operating in 10 countries. His work revolves around the shifts in meaning that take place in globalization, with a focus on the way concepts of Western sociology recalibrate, sometimes beyond recognition, as they get exported all around the world. Last book published: Le Grand miroir de Corée, Paris, La Route la Soie, 2023.
Élisabeth Chabanol,
Head of the Seoul Center, French School of Asian Studies/École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
Brother Anthony,
President Emeritus, Royal Asiatic Society Korea
