Spring 2000

Unless otherwise noted, all colloquiums will be held on Thursdays 4:00-5:30pm in Coolidge Hall, Room 2.

March 2 - Colloquium
Chai-sik Chung
Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics,
Boston University School of Theology
Out of the Inertia of Traditionalism: Reflection on the Religious Situation of Korea

March 16 - Colloquium
Gari Ledyard
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies
Columbia University in the City of New York
Classical Chinese and the Korean Vernacular: Two Views of China in the Writings of Hong Taeyong (1731-1783)

March 23 - Colloquium
Jonathan Best
Professor of East Asian Art History
Wesleyan University
The Rectification of Anachronisms in the Samguk Sagi: Some Systematic Redatings of Early Korean History

April 6 - Colloquium
Werner Sasse
Director of Korean Studies Section
University of Hamburg
Chinese-Korean Language Contact and Traditional Grammatical Scholarship in Korea

May 4 - Colloquium
Robert Carlin
Chief, Northeast Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Horizons and Mirages: The View from Mars of US-DPRK Relations