Javier Cha
5.09 Run Run Shaw Tower
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
https://javiercha.com/
Employment
| 2014-present | Postdoctoral Fellow in Sino-Korean Cultural Interactions School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong |
| 2013-2014 | Kyujanggak Fellow B Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University |
Education
| 2014 | PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityGeneral examination fields: – history of premodern Korea, early times to 1900 – history of middle-period China, 700-1700 – intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, 1500-1750 |
| 2006 | MA in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
| 2004 | BA in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia |
Awards and Fellowships
| 2012-2013 | Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship Harvard University |
| 2010-2012 | Fellowship for Graduate Studies The Korea Foundation |
| 2011 | Excellence Award Thesis and Research Grant The Academy of Korean Studies |
| 2006-2010 | Doctoral Fellowship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
Language Proficiency
| Native-level | English, Korean |
| Advanced | literary Chinese, modern Chinese, Spanish |
| Intermediate | Japanese, French |
Academic Activities
Conferences
| 9/2014 | SMLC Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong “Rethinking the Rise of Confucianism in Medieval Korea” |
| 3/2014 | AAS Annual Meeting 2014, Philadelphia “To Build a Centralizing Order: A Comparison of Two Aristocratic Regimes” |
| 2/2014 | Kyujanggak Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea “The Reception of Neoclassical Confucianism in Medieval Korea”고려시대 신고전주의적 유학의 수용 (in both English and Korean) |
| 10/2013 | Kyujanggak International Symposium, Seoul National University, Seoul “Genealogies of the Past: The Production of Histories and Anthologies in Medieval Korea” |
| 3/2013 | AAS Annual Meeting 2013, San Diego “The Dawn of a New Era: Teleology, Geomancy, and the Yuan Origins of Early Chosŏn State Ideology” |
| 3/2012 | AAS Annual Meeting 2012, Toronto “Figurations of Power in Medieval Korea: 1095 and 1454 Compared” |
| 7/2011 | 2011 International Toegyehak Conference, Daejeon, South Korea In Korean: “중세 말 한국의 신유학과 독서 관행”(Neo-Confucianism and Reading Practices in Late Medieval Korea) |
| 6/2011 | AKSE Biennial Conference 2011, Moscow “Voices of Dissent: The Limits of the Civilizing Project and the Moralization of Politics” |
| 3/2011 | AAS Annual Meeting 2011, Honolulu “Data-Intensive Methods and the Logic of Scientific History” |
| 5/2010 | humanities+digital Visual Interpretations Conference, MIT HyperStudio “The Virtues and Limits of Data-Intensive Methods in Korean History” |
| 10/2009 | New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Brown University “Korean History in the Digital Age” |
Workshops
| 20/10/2011-22/10/2011 | NEH Reunion Conference, IPAM, UCLA “Marriage Networks and Figurations of Power in Late Medieval Korea” |
| 15/8/2010-27/8/2010 | NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, IPAM, UCLA Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities “The Marriage Networks of Late Medieval Korean Elites” |
| 4/10/2010-8/10/2010 | History as Social Process: Forging and Forgeries in Korean History, Leiden University “The Logic of History-Writing in Later Medieval Korea” |
| 2/2010 | Harvard-SNU-UCLA Workshop for Graduate Students in Korean Studies, UCLA “Digital Humanities and the Future of Korean History: Historiography, Epistemology, Narratology” |
| 8/6/2009-19/6/2009 | GIS Institute Workshop, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University “Historical GIS of Middle-Period Korea: Prospects and Challenges” |
Lectures
| 5/11/2014 | SMLC 7004: Thesis Writing, HKU “The Use of Theory—Definitions, Significance, and Limitations” |
| 3/9/2014 | SMLC 7005: Transferable Skills in the Humanities and Area Studies, HKU “Collaborative Research in Pairs or Teams” |
| 4/7/2013 | Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea “Why Compute? Changing Approaches to the Koryŏ/Chosŏn Transition” |
| 19/7/2013 | Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea “The Past and the Present in Korean History” |
| 1/2/2013 | First Friday Lunch Series, EALC, Harvard University “Structural Endogamy in Late Medieval Korea: Research Questions and Computational Tools” |
| 27/10/2011 | Korean History 111: Traditional Korea, Harvard University “Intellectual Trends in the Late Koryŏ and the Early Chosŏn” |
| 7/4/2010 | Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 35: Korea Indigenous, Harvard University “The Korean Appropriation of Sinitic Culture” |
Event Coordination
Speaker Series and Roundtable
| AY 2014/15 | SMLC Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong |
| AY 2011/12 | The Historian’s Craft in the 21st Century, Harvard University eight sessions of roundtable discussions about technology and research methods co-organized with Rachel Leow and Konrad Lawson http://idlethink.wordpress.com/thc21/ |
Conference Panels
| 3/2014 | AAS Annual Meeting 2014, Philadelphia “Bridging Korea Old and New: Re-Periodizing Korean History” |
| 3/2013 | AAS Annual Meeting 2013, San Diego “In Search of New Orders: Geopolitics, Ideology, and Intelligence Gathering in Post-Mongol China and Korea” |
| 7/2011 | AKSE Biennial Conference 2011, Moscow “The Objects and Processes of Social Transformation in Sixteenth-Century Korea” |
| 3/2011 | AAS Annual Meeting 2011, Honolulu “Digital Humanities and the Mechanics of Knowledge Production” |
| 2/2009 | HEAS Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University “Brushes, Blocks, and Bibliophilia: The Order of Books in East Asia” |
Publications
| 11/2009 | Review essay of Kungmunhak kwa minjok kŭrigo kŭndae (National Literature and the Nation–and Modernity) and Konganp’a wa Chosŏn hugi hanmunhak (The Gong’an School and Late Chosŏn Literature) by Kang Myŏnggwan. Journal of Asian Studies 68.4. |
| 7/2009 | Translation of Yi Hyunhae, “The Formation and Development of Samhan,” Early Korea 2 Cambridge, MA: Early Korea Project, Harvard University. |
Teaching Experience
Courses of Instruction
| AY 2014-15 | School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong KORE 2035: Thoughts and Society in Korea KORE 2036: Korean Society Before 1900 SMLC 7001: Orientalism and Occidentalism |
Undergraduate Thesis
| AY 2009-10 | Joa Alexander, Harvard University “Visions of an Ideal Society: The Role of Neo-Confucianism, Local Leadership, and Community Compacts in Chosŏn Korea” |
