THE GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY
The 17th Hahn Moo-Sook
Colloquium
in the Korean Humanities
Saturday,
October 17, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Representing Korea’s Visual Culture and Heritage
Defining Identity through the Aesthetic
Qualities of Korean Art
[Performance by Young San
Preservation Group]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Elliott School
of International Affairs
Room 113
(1st FL) and the City View Room (7th FL)
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Saturday, October 17, 2009
“Representing
Korea’s
Visual Culture and Heritage: Defining Identity through the Aesthetic Qualities
of Korean Art”
PROGRAM
(Room
113, 1st FL)
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastry
9:00-9:15 Welcome
Remarks
Ed Able
Session I R. Richard Grinker, Chair
9:20-9:50 Paul Michael Taylor,
“Representing Korean Visual Culture to ‘Other’ Audiences: Opening the Korea Gallery in Washington,
DC”
10:00-10:30 Cheeyun Kwon, “Presenting Korean Art in an Asian Context: Two Case Studies at Two Asian
Art Museums in the US”
10:30-10:40 Break
Session II Gregg Brazinsky, Chair
10:45-11:15 Hyun-key Kim Hogarth, “Revival of
Once-Lost Cultural Heritage: from Subversion to Cultural Nationalism”
11:20-11:50 Tom Vick, “Defining Korean Identity through Film”
12:00-1:00 Lunch (City
View Room, 7th FL)
(City
View Room, 7th FL)
Session III Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Chair
1:15-1:30 Christine Kim, Response to
Taylor and Vick
1:30-1:45 Robert C. Provine, Response to
Hogarth
1:45-2:00 Lenore D. Miller, Response to
Kwon
2:00-2:30 General Discussion
PROFILES
Welcome Remarks
Ed Able is an
advisor and consultant to museums, associations, foundations and philanthropic
organizations. He is past president and CEO of the American Association of
Museums for twenty years, and a board member and/or founder of numerous
non-profit organizations. Recipient of many prestigious awards including the
Chairman’s Medal from the National Endowment for the Arts, he was appointed by
the Secretary of State to serve as a member of the US Commission on the United
Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He holds an MBA from George Washington
University.
Speakers
Hyun-key Kim Hogarth is a fellow of the
Royal Anthropological Institute. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in social
anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
She has published three books in English on Korean folk religions, entitled, Kut: Happiness
through Reciprocity, Korean Shamanism
and Cultural Nationalism, and Syncretism
of Buddhism and Shamanism in Korea, and co-authored Tasks and Times with ex-Foreign Minister Lee Tong Won. Many of her
articles on Korean society and culture also appear in various academic books,
journals and magazines. Her fifth book, Gut: the Korean Shamanistic Ritual is
due to be published shortly. She is currently researching another book on
Korean Christianity.
Cheeyun Kwon served as Curator of Korean art at the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco until July 2009. She is currently working on her manuscript, Rediscovering a Medieval Painting
Monument: the ‘Ten Kings’
from the Seikado Library. She
received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art & Archaeology of Princeton University and has published several
articles on Buddhist, East Asian, and Korean arts. She was recipient of a pre-doctoral
fellowship at the Freer Gallery and also worked as Curatorial Consultant at the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery to host the exhibition “Splendor & Simplicity:
Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century” in 1994.
Paul Michael Taylor is a research anthropologist
at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Director of that
museum's Asian Cultural History Program, and serves as Curator of Asian,
European, and Middle Eastern Ethnology. He has written numerous books and
scholarly articles on the ethnography, ethnobiology, languages, and art of Asia. He has also curated seventeen museum exhibitions,
and served as the consulting anthropologist for five documentary
anthropological films. The recipient of numerous international grants and awards,
he has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies,
and has been a longtime member of the Smithsonian’s Asian-Pacific American
Heritage Committee.
Tom Vick
is one of
the foremost experts on Asian cinema and the author of Asian Cinema: A Field Guide, published by HarperCollins/Smithsonian
Books. He is the film programmer for the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the
Smithsonian Institution, where he organizes film series and retrospectives of
Asian film
Commentators
Christine Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of
Foreign Service, with a joint appointment in the Department of History at Georgetown University. She specializes in modern
Korean history, and is broadly interested in social and cultural change in
colonial Korea
(1910-1945). Her current project is a manuscript entitled The King Is Dead: The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea,
which examines the gradual demise of monarchism and its political, social, and
cultural impact in twentieth-century Korea. She has a Ph.D. in History
from Harvard University.
Lenore D. Miller is Director, University Art
Galleries and Chief
Curator, The George Washington University.
Miller is associate professorial lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts
and Art History, and she is a free-lance writer for various art publications,
which have included "KOAN" and "Washington Print Club
Quarterly." Miller holds an M.F.A.
in Printmaking, and a B.A. in Art History.
Robert C. Provine is
Professor in the School of Music of the University of Maryland.
He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Music, M.A. in Asian Studies, and Ph.D. in Music,
all from Harvard University. Provine researches the music
of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan), with a particular focus on
Korean traditional music and a disciplinary emphasis on historical
ethnomusicology. He also has an interest in Barbershop Quartets. Aside from
having taught for many years in the United
Kingdom, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Korean Studies (Hawai’i)
and past President of both the Association for Korean Studies in Europe and the Association for Korean Music Research. He
has contributed the country article “Korea” and nineteen shorter entries
to the second edition of the New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). He is the author of Essays on
Sino-Korean Musicology: Early Sources for Korean Ritual Music (1988) and
many articles.
Conveners
Gregg Brazinsky is Associate Professor of History and International
Affairs at GW. He received his Ph.D. in History from Cornell University. Brazinsky's first book, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the
Making of a Democracy, appeared in the fall of 2007 from the University of North Carolina Press. He is now pursuing
research on the cultural impact of the Korean War in America,
Korea and China and Sino-American competition in the Third World. He serves as Co-director of the George
Washington University Cold War Group.
Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and International
Affairs, and Human Sciences at GW. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
from Harvard University with a specialization in
African Studies. His publications include Houses
in the Rainforest, Korea and Its
Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War, In the Arms of Africa, and
Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. He
worked extensively on North-South Korean relations and in 1997 he testified
before Congress on the issue of North Korean defectors' adaptation to South
Korean society. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Anthropological Quarterly. His book, Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (NY: Basic Books,
2007) was published in Korean as Natsŏlji
anǔn kǔdǔl in Korea in early 2008.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor of Korean Language and Culture and
International Affairs and Chair of the East
Asian Languages and Literatures Department at GW.
She received her
Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University
of Hawai‘i. A theoretical linguist with a broad interest in the
Korean humanities and Asian affairs, she is Editor-in-Chief of Korean Linguistics, and serves on various Asia-related boards. Her
publications include Creative
Women of Korea: The Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century (M.E. Sharpe,
2004) and nine other books, numerous book chapters and journal
articles. In 2006 Kim-Renaud received a Republic of Korea Jade Order of Cultural Merit. Most recently, she
received the Bichumi Grand Award from Samsung Life Foundation as a Woman of the
Year 2008 for Public Service.
BACKGROUND
The
HMS Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series at GW provides a forum for
academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature, thought and
religious systems in the context of East Asia
and the world. The Colloquium series is made possible by an endowment
established by the estate of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918-1993), one of Korea’s most
honored writers, in order to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and
commitment to education. The 17th HMS colloquium is co-sponsored by
GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Sigur Center
for Asian Studies, and Institute for Ethnographic Research.
This
year’s program is organized in cooperation with the Korea Society and Freer and
Sackler Art Galleries presenting The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment: Buddhist
Ritual Song and Dance from Korea by Young San Preservation Group, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at
7:30 p.m., Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; and in conjunction with the permanent exhibition, The Korea Gallery, opened in June 2007
by the Asian Cultural History Program of
the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
The Colloquium is open to the public free
of charge. However, reservations are required.
For more information, please contact:
Dr.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Chair,
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
The
George Washington University
Washington,
DC 20052
Tel:
202-994-7106/7107, Fax: 202-994-1512, kimrenau@gwu.edu
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