The Early Modern in East Asia: The Challenges of Periodization
UCLA Faculty to present at USC conference
Friday, February 01, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250, USC
University of Southern California
East Asia Seminar: A Symposium
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:50 a.m. East Asia and the Early Modern World
John Wills Jr., USC
“Some Earlier Divergences: China-Europe Differences that Mattered, Han to Ming”
Robert Marks, Whittier College
“Early Modern or Late Imperial: An Environmental Perspective”
Richard von Glahn, UCLA
“An East Asian Early Modernity? Kinsei in Japanese Scholarship on Japanese and Chinese History”
11:00 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Consciousness and Culture
Samuel Yamashita, Pomona
“Reimagining the Intellectual Landscape of 'Early Modern Japan”
Jahyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University
“Discourse of 'Nation' in Chosôn Korea: Early Modern?”
1:30 - 2:40 p.m. Interactions
John Duncan, UCLA
“From External Stimulus to Internal Integration in Late Koryo and Early ChosonKorea”
Kenneth Pomeranz, UC Irvine
“Early Modern Networks Without an Early Modern Period-or is it the Other Way Around?”
3:00 - 4:40 p.m. Authority Structures
R. Bin Wong, UCLA
“The Eighteenth-century Qing State: Fantasies and Fallacies of the 'Early Modern'”
Kyung Moon Hwang, USC
“Constructions of State and Society in the Late Chosôn”
Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
“Afterlives of the Shogun: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Material Legacy in Early Modern Japan”
4:40 - 5:00 p.m. Closing Discussion
Cost: free
Special Instructions
RSVP to eascrsvp@usc.edu
For more information please contact
USC East Asian Studies Center Tel: (213) 740-2991
easc@usc.edu
Sponsor(s): Center for Korean Studies, USC
