*subject to minor changes
RARE BOOK WORKSHOP
Wednesday December 7, 2022
Location: Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue
2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks
Dr. Jidong Yang
Librarian of Harvard-Yenching Library
2:15-4:15 Presentation by Beth McKillop
4:15-4:30 Coffee break
(Common Room)
4:30-6:00 Special Lectures
(Yenching Auditorium)
Chair: Suyoung Son
Chung Seunghye
A History of Yŏkhaksŏ, Language Textbooks for Chosŏn Official Interpreters
Lee Min Heui
The Materiality and Visuality of Korean Manuscript Fiction
(Q & A Interpreter: Su-Yeon Seo)
6:00-7:30 Catered dinner
(Invitation only)
(Common Room)
A woman sitting on a chair while reading a book against a screen depicting a bird on a branch. Beyond the screen is a banana tree (p’ach’o 파초 芭蕉).
Image source:
Han’guk teit’ŏbeisŭ sanŏp chinhŭngwŏn 한국 데이터베이스산업 진흥원
CONFERENCE
Thursday December 8, 2022
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
(invitation only)
A Welcoming Remark by
Nicholas Harkness, Director of the Korea Institute; Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
9:00-10:30
PANEL I: THE BOOK AND DOMESTIC MATERIALITY
Chair: Thomas Kelly
Discussant: Cynthia Brokaw
Ksenia Chizhova
A Vernacular Miscellany: The Posthumous Biography of Madame Yun
Suyoung Son
Recipe Manuscripts as a Bodily Artifact
Ji-Eun Lee
Domesticity, Women, and Books in 19th– to Early 20th-Century Korea
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-12:20
PANEL II: READING, READABILITY, AND LITERACY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
Chair: Deidre Lynch
Discussant: Young Oh
Giovanni Volpe
The Book as a Social Space: Mediating the Written Word in Early Chosŏn Korea
Si Nae Park
Carving Readability: The Mise-en-Page of Block-Printed Vernacular Novels as Interface
Jeonghun Choi
The Korean Book as a Vantage Point of Global Book History: The Translations of Universal History of War and Its Reception
12:20-1:30 Boxed Lunch
1:30-3:30
PANEL III: THE BOOK AS TECHNOLOGY AND INTERMEDIARY
Chair: Melissa McCormick
Discussant: Ann Blair
Graeme Reynolds
Manuscript in an Era of Print, or Print in an Era of Manuscript?:
The Example of Hong Manjong’s Tongguk yŏktae ch’ongmok
Hwisang Cho
Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books
Xin Yu
Books of Prestige: The Booklization of Genealogies in Korea, 1500-1800
Wayne de Fremery
Opportunities for Deep Learning: Early-to-Mid Twentieth-Century Korean Periodicals
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-5:00 Houghton Library
(Led by Ann Blair with Peter Accardo and Molly Schwartzburg)
Location: Harvard Yard
5:00-6:00 Roundtable Discussion
Beth McKillop, Cynthia Brokaw, Young Oh, Ann Blair, and Mikyung Kang
Chair: Young Oh
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
6:00-8:00 Dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club
(invitation only)
Location: 20 Quincy Street