Yun Posun Memorial Symposium: Promoting Science and Humanities in Korea and UK
Posted by: Hannah Giles | Posted on: June 29th, 2016
Abden House, University of Edinburgh
10 August 2016, 9:30am – 5:00 pm
If you would like to attend, please contact dorothy.watson@ed.ac.uk
Programme
09.30 Registration & Coffee
10.00 Welcome & Introduction Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Vice Chancellor, University of Edinburgh
10.10 Response & Congratulatory Remarks Minister Deuk-hwan KIM representing the Korean Ambassador Professor, Hyeon KIM, Director of Center for International Affairs, Academy of Korean Studies
10.20 The Importance of Korea in an international perspective – setting the scene Professor James Smith, Vice Principal International, University of Edinburgh
10.35 Coffee/Tea
11.00 Plenary Session : International Education – Korean and UK Policies
Chair:Professor Charlie Jeffery, Senior Vice Principal
Speakers: Professor Christoph Bluth, Director of International Studies, University of Bradford Mark Morris, Lecturer in Japanese Cultural History, University of Cambridge Mr Martin Fryer, Director British Council Korea Dr Seung-young Kim, Senior Lecturer, East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Lecture: A Korean Reading of John Herschel (1792-1871)’s Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century JUN, Yong Hoon, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Academy of Korean Studies
14.30 Lecture: Heo Jun’s Synthesis of Great Asian Medical Tradition, Shin Dongwon, Professor of Science Studies, Chonbuk National University
15.30 Tea/Coffee
15.45 Breakout Sessions | UK Engagement with Korea in the Disciplines: Plans and Practicalities
Chaired by College Deans International
Science: David Weller, Jeremy Bradshaw, Robin Wallace, Eleanor Campbell, Humanities: LLC, HCA, SSPS, Law, Business
16.45 Roundtable discussion: Reports from Breakout Session Chairs and General Discussion
17.15 Yun Posun Memorial Lecture, introduced by Mr Yun Sangkoo Discovering a Distant Land: A Survey of 19th Century British Accounts of Korea An Seon-jae (Brother Anthony)
19.00 Symposium Dinner, Raeburn Room, Old College (capacity 25)
