Hong Yung Lee Book Award Ceremony

Schedule

Fri Feb 03 2023 at 05:00 pm

Location

David Brower Center | Berkeley, CA

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[In Person] Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies
Special Event: Center for Korean Studies | February 3 | 5-7:30 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater
Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Featured Speaker: Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University
Speaker: Yoon Sun Yang, Boston University
Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Tickets are Free but Required for In Person Attendance - Space is Limited
Reserve Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hong-yung-lee-book-award-in-korean-studies-tickets-503651945527
Online Viewing Options: Livestream & Recording - More Information Coming Soon
Event Schedule:
5:00 PM - Event Begins
6:30 PM - Cocktail Hour Begins (Hearty Refreshments Provided)
6:45 PM - Book Signing Begins
7:30 PM - Event Ends
The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to announce the inaugural winner of the UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia University Press, 2021), by Professor Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University).
"Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea" is a pioneering treatise on lineage novels [kamun sosŏl], a literary genre that has been understudied and underexamined, particularly in English-language academia. In the book, Prof. Chizhova assembles granular textual readings, historical inquiries and examinations, and theoretical illumination to put forward a compelling view of established kinship norms, intimate practices in the domestic spheres, and the development of the emotional self in late Chosŏn Korea.
The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies and its $10,000 prize were created to support groundbreaking research and writing that seeks to further the field of Korean Studies. A ceremony and symposium to celebrate the award and Professor Chizhova’s achievement will be held at UC Berkeley on February 3, 2023.
Learn more about the Hong Yung Lee Book Award here: https://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/hylbookaward
"Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea" is available for purchase in paperback and hard copy as well as e-book format.
An excerpt can be read online for free here: https://issuu.com/columbiaup/docs/kinship_novels_of_early_modern_korea_introduction
You can order copies of the book in all formats here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/kinship-novels-of-early-modern-korea/9780231187817
A limited number of copies will also be available for purchase at the event.
Speaker Bios:
Ksenia Chizhova is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, with research interests spanning vernacular Korean fiction and the techno-aesthetic history of the Korean script.
Ksenia’s first book, Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday (Columbia University Press, 2021), traces the rise and fall of vernacular Korean lineage novels between the late 17th and the early 20th centuries. This book locates a massive but hitherto neglected archive of elite vernacular Korean writing, unveils the history of its disappearance from cultural memory, and uses it as a suggestive vantage point upon the patrilineal kinship, which determined all areas of social life in pre-20th century Korea. At Columbia University Press, Kinship Novels, the first anglophone study of vernacular Korean prose and calligraphy, was featured in a new series “Premodern East Asia: New Horizons.”
Continuing the archaeological project centered on the Korean script, Ksenia is now working on her second book, titled Women in the Media History of the Korean Script: 1600/2000. Korean calligraphy, the so-called palace-style, was first developed in the 17th-century royal letters, and then spread outside the palace to elite women’s use. This style became the prototype for school lettering instruction, most widely used serif fonts in North and South Korea, as well as the Ch’ŏngbong calligraphy ubiquitous in North Korean mass mobilization art. Women in the Media History of the Korean Script lays out the techno-aesthetic genealogy from palace-style calligraphy to fonts and contemporary graphic design, reflecting on the materiality and gender politics of graphic media.
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Yoon Sun Yang is Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her book From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017) won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2020. She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (2020). She is currently translating early colonial Korean short stories and essays published between 1907 and 1918 (for the MLA Texts and Translations series) while working on two book-length studies: “Beyond the Medical Gaze: Sexuality and Illness in Korean Literature” and “Transpacific Palimpsests: Early Twentieth-Century Korean Migrant Literature between Two Empires.” Her current research on transpacific literature has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship and a Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship.
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David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way,Berkeley,CA,United States

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