MCLC: Imperial Court symposium

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Melissa Dale <mdale3 at usfca.edu>
Subject: Imperial Court symposium
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"The Imperial Court in China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the
Emperor's Household (1600-early 1900s)"

University of San Francisco, Center for the Pacific Rim
April 18-19, 2013

 
The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to
announce its Spring 2013 symposium, "The Imperial Court in China, Japan,
and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor's Household (1600-early
1900s)."

The symposium will provide a forum for the examination and comparison of
imperial courts and court life in China, Japan, and Korea through the lens
of women, servants, and those who managed the households of the Emperor
and Empress from the 1600s through the early 1900s.  Themes to be
discussed include but are not limited to: women, servants, and household
managers with a particular focus on aspects of court life, relations of
power, issues of gender, cultural identity, art, medicine, and theater.

 
Please join us!  The symposium is open to the public.  Registration is
required. 

 
For the symposium agenda and registration, please visit:

https://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/imperialcourt/
 


Melissa S. Dale, Ph.D.Executive Director & Assistant Professor
Center for the Pacific Rim
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., KA-180A

San Francisco, CA  94117-1080
(415) 422-2590 <tel:%28415%29%20422-2590>