Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Xianbei, Fuyu, or Puyo: The Laoheshen Cemetery in Jilin, China, and Its Ethnicity and Women
UCLA presents a talk by Pak Yingjin (Chungnam University)
When:
January 26, 2009 4:30pm to 6:00pm
In this talk, Professor Pak will analyze archaeological data from the Laoheshen cemetery (in Jiliin, China) and other sites in northeast China in terms of the ethnicity of this early historic period cemetery. He will also briefly discuss the ethnic identity of this site in the context of the recent disputes between Korea and China over the histocial and archaeological heritage of this area. Finally, he will discuss archaeological data from this cemetery to nderstand gender differences in mortuary practice of this society and its relevance to the historical accounts of levirate marriage.
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Yangjin Pak (Ph.D. in archaeology, Harvard, 1996) is a professor in the Department of Archaeology of Chungnam National University (Daejeon, Korea) and a visiting scholar in UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research interests include Chinese archaeology, especially Bronze Age cultures in the northern frontiers of China; the archaeology of northeast China; prehistoric and early historical archaeology of Korea; social complexity; cultural, ethnic, and gender identities; and the relation between archaeology and contemporary societies.
For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
Sponsor(s): UCLA Center for Korean Studies, ULCA Center for Chinese Studies
Cost:
Free
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