JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University
| DATE: | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies |
What can we read in and through the codes that govern written expression? From royal public edicts to private letters, the works in this collection—written in both literary Chinese and vernacular Korean—recast relationships between epistolography and concepts of public and private space, between classical and everyday language, and between men and women.
Jahyun Kim Haboush is a cultural historian of pre- and early modern Korea, particularly from the 16th to 19th centuries. Her current areas of interest include Korean literature, political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Professor Haboush received her MA from the University of Michigan in 1970 and Ph.D. from Columbia in 1978. She is the author and editor of many works, including most recently Epistolary Korea.
Introduced by Clare You, Vice Chair, Center for Korean Studies.
