Date: May 26th, 2023
Time: 9:30 AM–5:00 PM
Location: Royce Hall 314, UCLA
Presentation sessions are hybrid.
For virtual attendance, register on ZOOM
In-person attendance and lunch, please RSVP
See here for detailed symposium schedule
See here for morning roundtable session
See here for afternoon presenter bios and abstracts
Breakfast and Greetings
9:30–10:00 AM
Roundtable Session
New Books on Korea and Early Modern Eastern Eurasia
10:00–11:30 AM
Speakers
David M. Robinson
Robert H.N Ho Professor in Asian Studies, Professor of History, Colgate University
George Kallander
Professor of History, Syracuse University
- Author of Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Sixiang Wang
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Discussant and Moderator
Choon Hwee Koh
Assistant Professor, History, UCLA
Lunch
11:30–1:00 PM
Guests please RSVP for Lunch Session
Session I
Korea and Eurasian Empire: Connections and Legacies
1:00–2:30 PM
Presenters
Inho Choi
USC-Berggruen fellow, University of Southern California and Berggruen Institute
- Reciprocity in Context: Institutionalization of Early Modern East Asian Interstate Relations
Lina Nie
Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Southern California
- Requesting more than a doctor: An examination of the Medical Diplomacy of Koryŏ with Heian Japan and Song China in the eleventh century
Richard Y. Kim
Ph.D. Student, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
- Thinking Beyond Nationalist Narratives of Early Modern Korean Medicine
Discussant
David M. Robinson
Robert H.N Ho Professor in Asian Studies, Professor of History, Colgate University
Session II
Infrastructures of State: Comparative Perspectives
3:00–4:30 PM
Presenters
David C. Kang
Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California
- State Formation Through Emulation – some thoughts on regional differences
Yiming Ha
Ph.D. Candidate, History, UCLA
- In Service of the State: Military Mobilization, State-Building, and the Mongol Transformation of China, 1260-1500
Chelsea Z. Wang
Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College
- Diseconomies of Scale in Premodern Empires, or Why It Was Hard to be Humble as a Ming Official
Discussant
George Kallander
Professor of History, Syracuse University
Closing remarks and open discussion
4:30–5:15 PM
Dinner for Panelists
6:00–8:00 PM
