BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190313T1853Z-1552503201.3318-EO-29809-5@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T013922Z CREATED:20190313T184514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T184514Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190329T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190329T170000 SUMMARY: Visualizing Violence: Forensic Medicine\, Body as Evidence\, and C riminal Justice in Eighteenth Century Korea DESCRIPTION: Dr. Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Hi story\, International Affairs\, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University. She is also Director of the GW Institute for Korean Studies. Her broader research interests include crime and justi ce\, forensic medicine\, the history of emotions\, literary representations of the law\, diglossia\, the vernacular\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History\, International Affairs\, and Eas t Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University. She is also Director of the GW Institute for Korean Studies. Her broader resear ch interests include crime and justice\, forensic medicine\, the history of emotions\, literary representations of the law\, diglossia\, the vernacula r\, and gender and sexuality.
In her talk\, Dr. Kim will study the th eme of criminal justice in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) by investigating foren sic medicine and the postmortem examination of dead bodies\, and will focus on homicide cases to probe into the cultural meaning of interpersonal viol ence.