Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jung Lee In brief Guest Speaker - Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University) Title - "Cranes, cultivating a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea: Cultured nature generating instrumentalities" Abstract by Jung Lee Cranes, migratory birds, lived in late Chosŏn literati households in Seoul, spreading to rural or modest ones by the nineteenth century. With cranes’ residency in scholarly households, a new knowledge practice that examined things in a serious manner emerged. This involved both empirical investigations and philological scrutiny, accompanied by a new appreciation for antiques, curios, and arts, which embraced texts and objects from “barbarian” cultures like Qing China, the West, and Japan. The talk seeks to demonstrate how cranes, with their symbolic meanings, like detachment from politics, led and shaped this shift in knowledge practice to things, echoing material turns in various disciplines. Cranes connect this late Chosŏn knowledge transformation to earlier knowledge transformations in Europe and China while revealing its unique instrumentalities based on cultured nature of cranes. Would these cultured nature instrumentalities of late Chosŏn be less modern and more ecologically harmonious with things? About the speaker Jung Lee is an assistant professor at the Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and a 2022-23 Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. As a historian of science and technology, her research has focused on history of botanical sciences and plant-based technologies in the Korean peninsula from its dynastic statehood to the early twentieth century, in its constant connection to its neighbours of China and Japan and the world beyond. She has held fellowships at the Needham Research Institute, Academia Sinica, and the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science. About the seminar series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to join Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 23 2022 17.00 - 18.30 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jung Lee Join us in person for a seminar by Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University) on the symbolic meanings of cranes and the emergence of a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea. LG.10, 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH8 9JX Find the venue: 40 George Square
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jung Lee In brief Guest Speaker - Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University) Title - "Cranes, cultivating a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea: Cultured nature generating instrumentalities" Abstract by Jung Lee Cranes, migratory birds, lived in late Chosŏn literati households in Seoul, spreading to rural or modest ones by the nineteenth century. With cranes’ residency in scholarly households, a new knowledge practice that examined things in a serious manner emerged. This involved both empirical investigations and philological scrutiny, accompanied by a new appreciation for antiques, curios, and arts, which embraced texts and objects from “barbarian” cultures like Qing China, the West, and Japan. The talk seeks to demonstrate how cranes, with their symbolic meanings, like detachment from politics, led and shaped this shift in knowledge practice to things, echoing material turns in various disciplines. Cranes connect this late Chosŏn knowledge transformation to earlier knowledge transformations in Europe and China while revealing its unique instrumentalities based on cultured nature of cranes. Would these cultured nature instrumentalities of late Chosŏn be less modern and more ecologically harmonious with things? About the speaker Jung Lee is an assistant professor at the Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and a 2022-23 Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. As a historian of science and technology, her research has focused on history of botanical sciences and plant-based technologies in the Korean peninsula from its dynastic statehood to the early twentieth century, in its constant connection to its neighbours of China and Japan and the world beyond. She has held fellowships at the Needham Research Institute, Academia Sinica, and the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science. About the seminar series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to join Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 23 2022 17.00 - 18.30 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jung Lee Join us in person for a seminar by Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University) on the symbolic meanings of cranes and the emergence of a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea. LG.10, 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH8 9JX Find the venue: 40 George Square
Nov 23 2022 17.00 - 18.30 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jung Lee Join us in person for a seminar by Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University) on the symbolic meanings of cranes and the emergence of a new knowledge practice in late Chosŏn Korea.
