안녕하세요.

이화인문과학원에서는 5월 14일 금요일 (한국시간 밤 9시-11시) 예일대 미미 이엥프룩사완 교수의 “황금, 유리, 생명의 나무: 한국 중심의 비단길 서사를 향해”라는 강연에 여러분을 초대합니다. 미미 이엥프룩사완 교수님은 옥시덴탈 대학에서 중세 유럽 미술을 공부하신 후, UCLA에서 동아시아, 아프리카, 오세아니아, 미주 지역을 아우르는 연구로 석사를 받으시고, 일본 미술사로 1988년 박사를 받으셨습니다. 1975년부터 1984년까지 일본에서 사셨고, 중국, 티벳, 인도, 캄보디아, 태국 등지에서 연구를 수행하셨습니다. 1990년부터 예일대학교 미술사학과의 교수로 재직중이십니다.

이엥프룩사완 교수님의 강연은 2022년까지 이어질 제6회 이화-예일 학회, “아시아와 그 너머, 연결된 것들”의 특별 기조 강연으로, 흑해까지 이어지는 거대한 유라시아 비단길 네트워크에서 한국(특히 백제, 신라)의 역할을 제대로 자리매김 하시려는 시도가 됩니다. 신라 왕릉의 금속, 유리 공예품을 비롯해 지금까지 그 연결 고리들이 충분히 드러나지 않았던 여러 유물들을 통해 새로운 비단길 서사를 만드는 자리에 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89174328050

Webinar ID: 891 7432 8050

이 강연은 한세예스24 문화재단의 협찬으로 예일 맥밀런 센터 동아시아학위원회와 공동주관하는 행사입니다. 웨비나 형식이라 참가자의 경우 화면을 끄고 참석하시게 되고, 강연에 대한 한국말 채널도 운영됩니다. 질의응답도 최대한 통역을 제공할 예정입니다 (문의: 이화인문과학원, eih@ewha.ac.kr).

감사합니다.

Dear All

You are cordially invited to the talk by Professor Mimi Yiengpruksawan at Yale University on Friday, May 14 (EST 8am-10am), titled “Gold, Glass, and the Tree of Life: Towards a Korean Silk Road Narrative.” Prof. Yiengpruksawan’s lecture is a special keynote lecture for the 6th Ewha-Yale conference scheduled next year in Seoul, “Connected Things in and beyond Asia.” We hope you to join us for this exciting new narrative of the Silk Road exchanges that would deepen our understanding of complex past connections.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89174328050

Webinar ID: 891 7432 8050

Abstract

It is well recognized that the kingdoms of the Korean peninsula had a major role to play in the geopolitics of state formation in northeastern Eurasia during the ancient period. Recent archaeological research has underscored the extent to which the elite material cultures of these peninsular kingdoms were integrated into Eurasian distribution systems including the Silk Roads network. In this context the luxury objects which went to the grave with rulers of these kingdoms sometimes have surprising stories to tell. With these thoughts in mind, from the perspective of art historical inquiry, and taking into account recent Korean scholarship, I analyze a group of gold objects retrieved from Silla tombs of the fifth and sixth centuries. I focus on those objects?crowns, pendants, and earrings?whose provenance is understood to be local and yet whose styles and techniques point to the arts complexes of two ancient pastoral civilizations of the Eurasian steppe, namely, the Yuezhi and the Xianbei. In so doing I address a riddle?how the forms and techniques of Tillya Tepe were intact hundreds of years later in Ky?ngju?and consider its implications for recalibrating our understanding of the dynamics of Eurasian cultural exchange from steppelands to Silk Roads with a distinctively Korean perspective in mind.

Speaker Biography

Mimi Yiengpruksawan completed graduate work at UCLA with aPh.D. in Japanese art studies awarded in 1988. For her undergraduate degree atOccidental College she majored in medieval European art, followed by M.A. studyat UCLA in the combined fields of East Asian (primary) and African, Oceanic,and Pre-Columbian (secondary). She lived in Japan from 1975 through 1984 andhas also traveled extensively and conducted research in China, Tibet, India,Cambodia, and Thailand. Yiengpruksawan joined the Department of the History ofArt at Yale University in 1990 and was awarded tenure in 1998.

* The event is co-hosted by the Ewha Institute for the Humanities and the Yale MacMillan Center, and Council on East Asian Studies, and sponsored by HansaeYes 24 Foundation.