Conference Schedule:
DAY 1: (Korean Standard Time)
Location:
- Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (In-person only)
Date & Time (Day 1 schedule below is Korean Standard Time):
- Korean Standard Time: Friday, September 22, 2023 9:30am – 5:20pm
- Eastern Standard Time: Thursday, September 21, 2023 8:30pm – Friday, September 22, 2023 4:20am
| TIME | SESSION |
| Opening Session Chair, Jiyoon Jo (Leeum Museum of Art) | |
| 9:30am-9:50am | Welcome Remarks Sungwon Kim (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Leeum Museum of Art) Soyoung Lee (Chief Curator, Harvard Art Museums) Opening Remarks Namwon Jang (President of Art History Association of Korea, Ewha Womans University) |
| 9:50am-10:30am | Session 1: Representation and Images Chair, Cho Jiyoon (Leeum Museum of Art) Kwanghee Shin (Central Sangha University) “Female Images in the Narrative Paintings of the Buddha’s Biographies from Early Joseon ” Myounghee Jeong (National Museum of Korea) “Women Illustrated in Joseon-period Sweet Dew Paintings and Their Meaning” |
| 10:30am-11:10am | Session 2: Medium and Functions Chair, Jiyoon Jo (Leeum Museum of Art) Boyeon An (National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage) “Commission and Making of the Embroidered Kāṣāya, the Treasure of Korea: the Monk Haebung and Lady Pak” Dahee Jeong (Seoul Museum of History) “From Embroidery to Painting: Imperial Noble Consort Eom and the Kāṣāya Painting (1902) at Hangnimam” |
| 11:10am-11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Roundtable and Discussion Chair, Jaeho Bae (Yong In University) Maya Stiller (University of Kansas) Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University) |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm-2:40pm | Session 3: Belief and Status Chair, Jimin Seo (Chungbuk National University) Joungho Han (Dongguk University-WISE) “Silla Buddhist Art and Women” Soyeon Shin (National Museum of Korea) “Gendering a Bodhisattva : Images of Avalokitesvara in Medieval and Early Modern Korea” |
| 2:40pm-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm-3:40pm | Session 4: Patronage and the Royal Court Chair, Jimin Seo (Chungbuk National University) Ah Yeon Park (Gyeongju National Museum) “Women in the Joseon Royal Family: Buddhist Art Commissioned by Royal Noble Consort Myeongbin from the Kim Clan” Geun-Ja Yoo (Dongguk University) “The Role and Characteristics of Royal Female Patrons in the Creation of Buddhist Statues during the Reign of King Sukjong in Joseon Dynasty ” |
| 3:40pm-4:10pm | Break |
| 4:10pm-5:20pm | Roundtable and Discussion Chair, Jaeho Bae (Yong In University) Seunghye Lee (Leeum Museum of Art) Joowan Shim (Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism Office) |
DAY 2: (Eastern Standard Time)
Hybrid:
- Location: S010 (Tsai Auditorium), CGIS South, Harvard University
- Online: Zoom (Register: here)
Date & Time (Day 2 schedule below is Eastern Standard Time)
- Eastern Standard Time: Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:00am – 5:40pm
- Korean Standard Time: Saturday, September 23, 2023 11:00pm – Sunday, September 24, 2023, 6:40am
| TIME | Session |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Registration Breakfast 9:15- 10:00am |
| 10:00am-10:15am | Opening Remarks Melissa McCormick (Harvard University) Youn-mi Kim (Art History Association of Korea, Ewha Womans University) [Bio] |
| 10:15am-11:00am | Session 1: Textile and Practice Chair, Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University) Sooa Im McCormick (Cleveland Museum of Art) “Gender Politics and Sumptuary Laws in 18th-century Korean Textile Art” (in Korean) [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] Hyesung Park (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea) “Rethinking Korean Modern Art and Embroidery from Gender Perspectives” (in Korean) [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] |
| 11:00am-11:35am | Discussion Youn-mi Kim (Ewha Womans University) |
| 11:35am-1:00pm | Lunch: Catered Lunch for speakers and in-person audience |
| 1:00pm-1:45pm | Session 2: Desire and Borders Chair, Si Nae Park (Harvard University) Ja Won Lee (California State University, East Bay) “Cultural Encounter: Embroideries, Chinese Antiquities, and Royal Court Women in Late Chosŏn Korea” [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] Byungmo Chung (Formerly Gyeongju University) “Representation of Gender in Paintings of Books and Things in the Folk Art” (in Korean) [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] |
| 1:45pm-2:20pm | Discussion Eleanor Hyun (Metropolitan Museum of Art) [Bio] |
| 2:20pm-2:40pm | Coffee and Snack Break |
| 2:40pm-3:25pm | Session 3: Modernity and Body Chair, Chan Yong Bu (Harvard University) Sunglim Kim (Dartmouth College) “Seundja Rhee: The Aesthetic Journey from Earth to Cosmos” [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] Yisoon Kim (Formerly Hongik University) “Obsession with ‘Subjectivity’: The Signification Process of the ‘Naked’ Male Body in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art” (in Korean) [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] Hyeonjoo Kim (Chugye University For The Arts) “Friendship of Yun Suknam and the Expansion of Feminist Artists Network” (in Korean) [Abstract/Bio] [Full Paper] |
| 3:25pm-4:20pm | Discussion Jiyeon Kim (Peabody Essex Museum) [Bio] |
| 4:20pm-4:40pm | Coffee and Snack Break |
| 4:40pm-5:40pm | Roundtable Jinah Kim (Harvard University) Yukio Lippit (Harvard University) Melissa McCormick (Harvard University) |