Event

May 10-11, 2024

The “Transnational Korea in Eurasian Context” conference serves as a unique platform for sharing cutting-edge research, fostering collaboration, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions within the realm of Korean history in the context of Northeast Eurasia. The conference will showcase a diverse array of topics, presentations, and panel discussions, all of which will provide invaluable insights and networking opportunities with fellow experts in the field.

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Program:

May 10 (Friday)
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am-9:15am Welcome Remarks by Hyunjoon Park (Director, Kim Center for Korean Studies)

9:15am-11:45am
Panel 1 Embassies and Exchanges in Eurasian Empires
Lee Myungmi, “Goryeo people in the Mongol Empire: Women, Eunuchs, Monks, Scholars, etc.”
Yuanchong Wang, “The Last Korean Tribute Women to Imperial China in the Early Seventeenth Century”
Adam Bohnet, “Border-Crossing Loyalists – Complicated Memories of Mao Wenlong in Ming Migrant Narratives”
Jaymin Kim, “Korean Tribute Embassies as Eurasian Caravans: Traders, Commodities, and State Protection”

1:30pm-3:30pm
Panel 2 Emergent Ethnicities and Religious Regimes
Christopher P. Atwood, “The Koreans, The Bulls, and Lady Qulan: Explorations in Medieval Mongolian Ethnography”
Sixiang Wang, “Who are the Orangkae?: Mapping the Post-Mongol Korean Frontier and the Intersectional Problem of ‘Ethnicity’”
Stephen Garrett, “Smoldering Shrines: Shamanism and Religion-Making in Northeast Asian States”

3:45pm-5:45pm
Panel 3 Construction and Ecology of Borders
Seonmin Kim, “Qing Mapping and Patrols of the Chosŏn Border in the Eighteenth Century”
Wenjiao Cai, “Ginseng and Ecological Linkages in Early Modern East Asian Trade”
June Hee Kwon, “Ethnic River, Ethnic Crop: Borderland Ecology and Rice Farming around the Tumen River”
 

May 11 (Saturday)

9:15am-10:45am
Panel 4 Korea in the Eurasian Block: Where Does It Fit?
Balazs Szalontai “Divergent Paths of Economic Nationalism in Socialist Northeast Asia: North Korean and Mongolian Encounters with Soviet-led Economic Integration”
Paehwon Seol “Wolves and Lambs Shall Graze Together: The Cultural and Economic Order of the Mongol Saugha and Goryeo”

Discussion to follow