Ewha Womans University – Yale University Conference
The 5th Yale-Ewha Conference invites a group of eight scholars working on the interconnection of life, medicine, and religion in Korea and Southeast Asia. Following upon last year’s conference which focused on ecology and environmental issues, this conference turns to the topic of life, religion, and medicine. Special attention will be given to the following issues: how religions define the word “life as well as the meaning of life; the ethical frameworks religions develop for living this life; the ways in which religions exhort human beings to understand their existence; what religions...
Ewha Womans University Attendees: Eunice Kim special adviser to Ewha President and Professor of Ewha Law School Ki-Jeong Song, Professor, Department of French Studies, Director of Ewha Institute for the Humanities Pilwha Chang, Korean Women’s Institute, “Surviving to Reconstruct; 40 years of Women’s Studies and Social Change in Korea” Eunshil Kim, Korean Women’s Institute, “The Politics of Unspeakability and the Subject of Defilement” Kyungmi Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Sense of Justice in Women’s Petitions of Joseon Dynasty” Ae-Ryung Kim, Ewha Institute...
