The First Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 1995

Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University

8:30- 9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00- 9:10	OPENING REMARKS Carter J. Eckert Professor of Modern Korean History Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
9:10- 10:30	Session I: Chinese Influence on Pre-Modern Korea Discussant: Marion Eggert Mark Byington "Kings of Early Koguryo: A Problem of Identification" Anthony St. George "Writing the Land: A Comparison of Chinese and Korean Landscape Descriptions in Verse" Emanuel Pastreich "The Reception of Chinese Vernacular Fiction in Pre-Modern Korea"
10:40- 11:10	Session II Richard Hoge "Monks and the Monarch: Issues of Faith and Government During the Reign of Sejong"
11:20- 12:30	Session III: Economic Aspects of Foreign Involvement in Korea, 1885-1945 Discussant: Professor Carter Eckert Kirk Larsen "Foreign lons and Reform During Yuan Shih-k'ai's Residency, 1885-1894" Kenneth Kang "Policy or Price Shocks? Explaining Colonial Trends in Korea"
12:30	LUNCH
1:30- 2:10	Session IV Discussant: Kyu Hyun Kim Seung-Hee Jeon "'A Country Which is Incapable of Standing Alone': An Analysis of Discursive Frameworks in Isabella Bird Bishop's Korea and Her Neighbors"
2:10- 2:50	Session V Discussant: Rebecca Ruhlen Greg McPhee "Streets with no Shame"