Early Korea-Japan Interactions: New Perspectives on Old Issues

Schedule

Day 1 (May 3) - Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge Street

9:00 Introductory Comments 9:15 Exchanges between Southern Korea and Kyushu Viewed from Tombs Containing Bronze Mirrors - With the Focus on the Fourth to First Centuries BC LEE Chungkyu, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yeungnam University Discussant: Rowan Flad, Harvard University

11:15 Break 12:30 Interaction between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago during the Yayoi Period IWANAGA Shozo, Professor, Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University Discussant: Gina Barnes, SOAS, University of London

2:30 Break 2:45 Historical Interaction between Paekche and Japan in the Third to Sixth Centuries AD: Based on Patterns of Trade and Exchange WOO Jae Pyoung - Professor, Department of Archaeology, Chungnam National University Discussant: Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University

Day 2 (May 4) - Room S153, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge Street

9:00 Introductory Comments 9:15 Ancient Western Japan and the Korean Peninsula KAMEDA Shuichi - Professor, Department of History, Okayama University of Science Discussant: William Wayne Farris, University of Hawai'i

11:15 Break 12:30 Cultural Exchange between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago between the Third and Sixth Centuries PARK Cheun Soo - Professor, Department of Archaeology, Kyungpook National University. Discussant: C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Harvard University

2:30 Break 2:45 Japan-Korea Interaction Viewed from Eastern Japan during the Kofun Period HABUTA Yoshiyuki - Professor, Department of History, Senshu University. Discussant: Walter Edwards, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties