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BAKS conference report: looking forward / looking back

by Philip Gowman on 12 September, 2008

in BAKS, Conference reports

The 2008 BAKS conference at Clare College Cambridge started and finished with talks with a distinctly global flavour. People came from the four corners of the globe, with presenters from New Zealand, Singapore, Hawaii, Germany and the US. And we were also fortunate to have the support of the ROK ambassador, Chun Young-woo, plus the [...]

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BAKS 2008 conference agenda finalised

28 August 2008 BAKS
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A reminder of the upcoming BAKS conference, The Koreas at sixty: Looking Forward / Looking Back, to be held in Cambrige 8-10 September. Full details of the cost, and how to book, are on the BAKS website here. You don’t need to be a BAKS member to come along, and the one in Sheffield two [...]

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BAKS 2008 Cambridge Conference: first announcement

16 June 2008 BAKS
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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES
2008 Biennial Conference
‘The Koreas at 60: Looking Back, Looking Forward’
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
The Association will host its biennial conference at Clare College, the University of Cambridge from Monday 8 September to Wednesday 10 September.
The Keynote Speaker on the evening of 8 September will be Prof. Meredith Jung-En Woo, Dean of Arts [...]

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The Anglo-Korean Society post-graduate bursary

25 April 2008 Anglo-Korean Society

Not to be confused with the SOAS / AKS post-graduate bursary. That particular AKS is the Academy of Korean Studies. This post is about the Anglo-Korean Society’s bursary, administered by BAKS. Having sorted out that little confusion, read on…
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies is offering a single £500 [...]

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Anglo-Korean Society postgraduate bursary

27 January 2008 Anglo-Korean Society

ANGLO-KOREAN SOCIETY
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES
The AKS and BAKS are pleased to announce the Anglo-Korean Society Post-Graduate Bursary Programme. A single £500 bursary is being offered on a competitive basis to taught and research post-graduate students. The submission date for all applications will be 1 April, 2008.
The programme will be administered by the Bursary Committee [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #7: Koen De Ceuster

7 December 2007 BAKS

Dr Koen De Ceuster – Docent, Leiden University
The Korean delegation at the 1907 Peace Conference in The Hague
Abstract: Barred from attending the Hague Peace Conference, the Korean delegation at first sight miserably failed in its task of representing Korea at the Conference. Reading this episode as a continuation of Kojong’s ongoing attempts to secure Korean [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #6: Owen Miller

7 December 2007 BAKS

Dr Owen Miller – Research Fellow, Centre for Korean Studies, SOAS
The crisis of Seoul’s traditional commercial system, 1876-1895
Abstract: The guild system of late Chosŏn Seoul and the guild-government trade underpinned the commerce of the capital city and represented a significant slice of national commerce as a whole. This premodern commercial system rested on three planks: [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #5: James Grayson

7 December 2007 BAKS

Professor James Grayson – Professor of Modern Korean Studies and Director of Centre for Korean Studies, Sheffield University
Ch’udo yebae: a Protestant substitute for Confucian ancestral rituals
Abstract: An early resolution of a conflict of values is necessary if a missionary religion is to find acceptance in the culture of the receiving society. In East Asia, under [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #4: James B. Lewis

7 December 2007 BAKS

Dr James B. Lewis – University Lecturer in Korean History, Oxford University
Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: a view suggested by Adam Smith
Abstract: The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #3: Peter Kornicki

7 December 2007 BAKS

Professor Peter Kornicki – Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
Publishing and translation in the Chosŏn period
Abstract: Korea is famous in the global history of printing not only for the concrete evidence of printing in the eighth century found at the Bulguksa but also for the development and use of movable type several centuries [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #2: Anders Karlsson

7 December 2007 BAKS

Dr Anders Karlsson – Lecturer in Korean, SOAS
Royal benevolence and disaster relief in Choson Korea
No abstract is available
Notes (the usual caveats about my amateur efforts apply)
AK started with a brief account of the severe floods in Pyongan province in 1859. The records indicate that the central government sent an “admonishing magistrate” to assess the situation, [...]

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Dec 07 BAKS conference report #1: Martina Deuchler

7 December 2007 BAKS

Professor Martina Deuchler – Professor of Korean Emerita & Professorial Research Associate, SOAS
The social in society: some reflections on the meaning of descent groups in Korean history
Abstract: The presentation will focus on the history of what I call the Korean “descent group” (ssijok) and trace its evolution from early Korea (Silla and Koryŏ, ca. fifth [...]

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Call for papers – 2008 BAKS conference

15 November 2007 BAKS

Call for Papers: The 2008 Conference of the British Association of Korean Studies
The next conference of the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS) will take place between the 8th and 10th of September 2008. The venue will be Clare College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. The theme of the proceedings will be “The Koreas at [...]

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Social and Cultural Change in late pre-modern Korea

11 November 2007 BAKS

A one-day conference at the British Academy organised in collaboration with the British Association for Korean Studies
Convenors: Professor Peter Kornicki, FBA – Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
Professor James H. Grayson – Professor of Modern Korean Studies, University of Sheffield
Friday 7 December 2007
9.30am – 5.00pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y [...]

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Modern Encounters and Mutual Perceptions

28 April 2007 BAKS
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Thanks to Grace Koh for organising the joint CKS / BAKS half day at SOAS on Wednesday. An interesting sharing of papers, with UK-based academics presenting papers on the British encounters with Korea, and Seoul based academics providing the opposite view.
We started with early views of Western civilization as viewed from Korea through their tributary [...]

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