Selected lectures and presentations by H. H. Kang

UPCOMING

October 2026

By Virtue of Craft: Sciences of Making in Chosŏn Korea

Emerging Scholars Speakers Initiative Program, Asia in Depth Series, hosted by Asian Studies Program, History Department, and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

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February 2027

Premodern Korean Studies in the Age of AI

Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) Digital Scholarship Series, University of Washington

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SELECTED RECORDINGS

2026

Sciences of Making in Chosŏn Korea

Premodern Korean Lecture Series · Institute for Korea Studies, George Washington University

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2025

The Wicked Factory? Artisans, Ethics, and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn

Korean Treasures at Harvard · Korea Institute, Harvard University

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Poster archive

A visual record of past lectures, workshops, and conversations.

01
The Wicked Factory? Artisans, Ethics, and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn

The Wicked Factory? Artisans, Ethics, and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn

Korean Treasures at Harvard

Korea Institute, Harvard University

February 2025

02
Engineers of the Confucian State: The Making of Early Modern Korea

Engineers of the Confucian State: The Making of Early Modern Korea

Invited lecture

Korean Studies Programme, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong

April 2026

03
Engineers of the Confucian State: The Making of Early Modern Korea

Engineers of the Confucian State: The Making of Early Modern Korea

Premodern Korea Lecture Series

Institute for Korea Studies, George Washington University

April 2026

04
Digital Chosŏn: 3D Modeling and Virtual Exhibitions

Digital Chosŏn: 3D Modeling and Virtual Exhibitions

Digital Age Symposium

Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas

April 2025

05
The Artisanal Heart: Engineering and Statecraft in Early Modern Korea

The Artisanal Heart: Engineering and Statecraft in Early Modern Korea

Spring Colloquium: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Chosŏn Korea

American Association of Teachers of Korean

April 2024

06
Artisan Squad: Technology, Innovation, and the Early Modern Craftscape in Post-Imjin Korea

Artisan Squad: Technology, Innovation, and the Early Modern Craftscape in Post-Imjin Korea

Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592–1598 Research Webinar Series

Autonomous University of Barcelona

January 2022

07
My Humble Explanation of Things (Somun sasŏl): A Source Reading

My Humble Explanation of Things (Somun sasŏl): A Source Reading

4th New Frontiers in Premodern Korea Studies Workshop

Korea Institute, Harvard University

June 2021

08
Out of Thick Air: Western Pneumatics in Nineteenth Century Korea

Out of Thick Air: Western Pneumatics in Nineteenth Century Korea

Korean Studies Research Network Inaugural Conference

University of Iowa

November 2021

09
Korea in the Global Silver Age: Pirates, Cannons, and Temple Bells

Korea in the Global Silver Age: Pirates, Cannons, and Temple Bells

Invited lecture

Department of History of Art, University of Kansas

February 2025