Venue: Room R201, Main Building, SOAS University of London
About this event
The first symposium organised by jointly the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sungkyungwan University will offer an opportunity for both established academics and PhD students from the two institutions to present their current work on topics related to Korean Confucianism and the roles of women in Chosǒn society.
Programme
1:00pm-1:15pm | Opening remarks
1:15pm-3:00pm | First Panel
Lucy Waugh (SOAS): Establishing Regency in Nineteenth-Century Chosǒn: Influences and Implementation.
Esme Wing Shan Chan (SOAS): Blossoms in Adversity: Female Chastity and the Implications of Yŏllyŏbi in Chosŏn Korea.
Dr. Eunyoung Kim (SKKU): A Posthumanist Reading of Park Ji-won’s Philosophy: A Philosophical Inquiry into Vitality and Ontological Equality
3:00pm-3:15pm | Tea/coffee break
3:15pm-5:00pm | Second Panel
Dr Chanhee Lee (SOAS): Travelling Confucian: Yi Chongŭng’s Confucianist perception and emotion of his modern experience in 1902.
Yeongchae Yun (SKKU): Why Can Filial Piety Be a Public Virtue? — Focusing on Yi Ik’s Theory of Emotion and the Concept of "the Publicness within the Private"
Dr. Na Ha (SKKU): Unveiling the Differences of Negative and Positive Moral Emotions in the Sŏngho Yi Ik’s Four-Seven Theory
5:00pm-5:15pm | Closing remarks
Registration
This event is free, open to the public and held in person only. If you would like to attend, please register using the link above.
Organiser: SOAS Centre of Korean Studies
Contact: centres@soas.ac.uk
For further information, please visit SOAS' website here
