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규장각한국학연구원에서 < 2023 해외 한국학 저자특강 시리즈: 제1강 >을 개최합니다.

제목: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chos?n Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
일시: 2023년 4월 28일 금요일, 10:00 - 12:00
저자: 조휘상 (에모리대학)
사회: John P. DiMoia (서울대학교)
토론: Graeme Reynolds (시카고대학), 박시내 (하버드대학)

본 특강은 영어로 진행되는 온라인 행사입니다. 사전등록 링크를 통해 참가신청을 해주시면 행사 하루 전에 Zoom 접속링크를 보내드립니다. (링크: https://forms.gle/STAdujVKTFwffHqk6)

기타 문의사항은 icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378)로 연락주시기 바랍니다.


Dear All,

The International Center for Korean Studies of the Kyujanggak Institute is hosting a Book Talk series, introducing Hwisang Cho’s The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chos?n Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies).

Title: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chos?n Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
Date: April 28 (Friday) 10:00 - 12:00 (Seoul)
Author: Hwisang Cho (Emory University)
Moderator: John P. DiMoia (Seoul National University)
Discussants: Graeme Reynolds (Chicago University), Si Nae Park (Harvard University)

About the Author:
Hwisang Cho specializes in cultural, intellectual, and literary history of Korea, comparative textual media, and global written culture. He earned his B.A. in Chinese literature from Korea University and his Ph.D. in Korean history from Columbia University. At Emory, Cho teaches courses on history of Korea (both modern and premodern), early modern East Asia, and epistolary culture.
His first book, The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chos?n Korea, was published from the University of Washington Press in 2020. This book received two honorable mentions for the 28th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (MLA) and the 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). It was also shortlisted for the 2021 DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
His major work in progress is The Tales of the Master: Storytelling and the Uses of the Past in the Making of Korean Identities, a study of how the culture of storytelling about a historical personage and its manifestation in diverse material forms have influenced the formation and appropriation of self-identities of various communities in Korea from the late sixteenth century to the present.
Cho’s publications include a forthcoming essay on textual (im)materialities of Chos?n funerary texts from the Journal of Korean Studies (Fall 2022), an article on the somatic origins of nonlinear textual forms in early modern Korea from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (2022), an article on the poetry societies by secondary status groups in the late Chos?n period in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (2020), an article on Chos?n epistolary culture in the Journal of Asian Studies (2016) and an article on the problems of controlling emotions in early Chos?n political and intellectual discourses in the Journal of Korean Studies (2015). Cho has also contributed chapters to the collections: Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (Routledge), Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton), Cultures of Yusin: The 1970s in South Korea (Michigan), and Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chos?n 1392?1910 (Columbia).
He is currently a senior fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) and an executive committee member of the Committee on Korean Studies (CKS), Association for Asian Studies.

About the Book:
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for appropriation and subversion by those who joined epistolary practices.
Focusing on the ways that written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered elite cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies.

The event will be held online via Zoom. The link for Zoom meeting will be sent a day before the event after your registration is confirmed (register: https://forms.gle/STAdujVKTFwffHqk6).

Please contact icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378) for more information.