January 14-15th Conference Schedule
All non-presenters must register in advance for this meeting.
Friday, January 14th
Introductions
9:45–10:00 AM
Session 1: Methods
10:00–12:00 noon
- Moderated by Sixiang Wang (UCLA)
Toward a connected history of reading in Vietnamese and Korean cultures
- Young Kyun Oh (Arizona State)
Korea and Vietnam in world history: question of the early modern
- John Duncan (UCLA)
Toward a comparative study of Sinitic legal codes
- Jaymin Kim (Rice)
Session 2: Nature
- Moderated by George Dutton (UCLA)
1:00–3:00 PM
Notable changes in the medical culture of late Chosŏn Korea
- Richard Kim (UCLA)
Environmental histories of Korea and Vietnam: comparisons, approaches, possibilities (Part 1)
- Bradley Davis (Eastern Connecticut)
Environmental histories of Korea and Vietnam: comparisons, approaches, possibilities (Part 2)
- John S. Lee (Durham)
Session 3: Vernaculars
- Moderated by Hyun Suk Park (UCLA)
3:30–5:30 PM
Nôm Script Variation and Textual Layering in an early Sino-Việt dictionary
- Albert Errickson (Columbia)
Translating Du Fu, Rewriting Li Bai: Vernacularization and Adaptation of Sinitic Poems in Chosŏn Korea
- Christina Han (Wilfrid Laurier)
Construction of feminine piety in Vietnamese Christian vernacular writing
- Nhung Tuyet Tran (Toronto)
Saturday, January 15th
Session 4: Encounters
1:00–3:00 PM
- Moderated by John Phan (Columbia)
At Home in the World’s Wild Edges
- Kate Baldanza (Penn State)
Ming Loyalist International: Choson and the broader Ming Loyalist world
- Adam Bohnet (King’s University College)
Not quite others: Korean and Vietnamese Encounters
- Sixiang Wang (UCLA)
Friday January 21st
Session 5: Identities (Part 1)
9:30–10:45
Moderated by Young Kyun Oh (Arizona State)
Sinitic speech on the periphery: Annamese Middle Chinese and the question of the Four Commanderies
- John Phan (Columbia)
Female Entertainers of Chosŏn Korea, Forgotten Actors in the Tributary System
- Hyun Suk Park (UCLA)
Session 6: Identities (Part 2)
11:00–12:15
Moderated by Adam Bohnet (King’s University College)
From Hoa 華 to Hán 漢: Ming loyalists, cultural categories, and state-formation in early Nguyễn Vietnam
- Dan Nguyen (Columbia)
Woodblock Modernities
- Devin Fitzgerald (UCLA)
