Global-Historical Diffusion of Western Concepts
and the Transformation of Northeast Asian Regional Order
The 11th Annual International Conference on Conceptual History
Seoul, Korea, September 18-19, 2008
We welcome you to the 11th Annual International Conference on Conceptual History co-organized by the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, Seoul National University and Northeast Asian History Foundation in South Korea. Recent themes of our Conferences have focused on the necessity to adopt comparative approaches in studying conceptual history. It is based on the awareness that conceptual history on national level involves dealing with transfers, translations and different adoptions of critical modern concepts and their source materials beyond the national level.
We believe that now is the right time to study the process of diffusion of major Western concepts to other regions, and specifically in this conference, to Asia from the mid-19th century. Asian history of accepting and transforming Western concepts, and thereby transforming regional order will illuminate the way we look at the transfer and its influence of major concepts inter-regionally and inter-nationally.
Seoul Conference will be the first large-scale meeting of scholars majoring in conceptual history and other related areas from East and West. Networking individual researchers as well as diverse academic clusters of Europe, the Americas and Northeast Asia, this will be most valuable opportunity to introduce HPSCG and its works for the last ten years to Asian scholars and audience. With good pannels on Western conceptual history, Seoul Conference will be distinctive in that it includes several sessions that will show the current stage of conceptual history in China, Japan and Korea.
Youngsun Ha,
President of Korean Research Group of Conceptual History
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History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG)