[Korean Legal History Research Center] Hanyang Global History Lecture Series 1

▣ Title: The Periphery of Confucianism: an Examination of Non-patrilineal Adoption in modern Korea

▣ Speaker: TanAKA Misato (Toyo University)

▣ Date & Time: Monday, March 25, 2024, 4:00 PM

▣ Venue: Classroom 205, College of Humanities, Hanyang University

About the Speaker: Misato Tanaka is a Lecturer in the Department of Regional Development Studies, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University. She has been a Junior Fellow at Kyujanggak, Seoul National University, and an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for oriental Cultures, Gakushuin University. She holds degrees from Kyushu University (BA, MA, PhD).
Her research interests focus on the adoption in modern Korea from a legal and socio-historical perspective. In particular, through adoption cases, she studies the image of the family pursued by Koreans before/after being colonized by the Japanese Empire and the changes and continuities that occurred in the Korean family from pre-modern to the present.

※ The talk will be in Korean and will not be available on ZOOM.

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http://krlegalhistory.hanyang.ac.kr/eng/