SOAS–SKKU Symposium on Korean Philosophy and Society

Key information

Date
Time
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
R201
Event type
Conference

About this event

The first symposium organised by jointly the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sungkyunkwan University K-Academic Expansion Center 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

TimeDescription
1:00pm-1:15pmOpening remarks
1:15pm-3:00pm

First Panel

  1. Lucy Waugh (SOAS): Establishing Regency in Nineteenth-Century Chosǒn: Influences and Implementation.
  2. Esme Wing Shan Chan (SOAS): Blossoms in Adversity: Female Chastity and the Implications of Yŏllyŏbi in Chosŏn Korea.
  3. Dr. Eunyoung Kim (SKKU): A Posthumanist Reading of Park Ji-won’s Philosophy: A Philosophical Inquiry into Vitality and Ontological Equality
3:00pm-3:15pmTea/coffee break
3:15pm-5:00pm

Second Panel

  1. Dr Chanhee Lee (SOAS): Travelling Confucian: Yi Chongŭng’s Confucianist perception and emotion of his modern experience in 1902.
  2. 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"
  3. Dr. Na Ha (SKKU): Unveiling the Differences of Negative and Positive Moral Emotions in the Sŏngho Yi Ik’s Four-Seven Theory
5:00pm-5:15pmClosing remarks 
  • Organisers: SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sungkyunkwan University K-Academic Expansion Center
  • Contact: centres@soas.ac.uk

Header image credit: 'A Game of Chess, Korea' by Elizabeth Keith

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