Historical Imagery, GIS, and Lost Landscapes of Early China and Korea, lecture by Mark Byington (Nov. 7, 2019)

The BU Center for the Study of Asia and the BU Archaeology Program are pleased to invite you to our next Asian Cultural Heritage Forum (ACHF) lecture:

Viewing the Past through Different Lenses: Historical Imagery, GIS, and Lost Landscapes of Early China and Korea

Dr. Mark Byington

Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea (Cambridge, MA)

Thursday, November 7, 2019 from 4-5:15 pm
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
121 Bay State Road, Boston

The  Asian Cultural Heritage Forum (ACHF) lecture series is supported by a grant from the Boston University Center for the Humanities

About the speaker:

Mark E. Byington is the president and co-founder of the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea, an organization that seeks to develop academic studies involving Korea and the surrounding region outside of the university setting. He was formerly the founder and project director of the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute, Harvard University, in which capacity he served as editor of Early Korea, an edited serial publication focused on early Korean history and archaeology, and the Early Korea Project Occasional Series. He received an A.M. degree from the Regional Studies East Asia program at Harvard (1996) and a Ph.D. degree from the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard (2003), with a research focus on the early history and archaeology of northeastern China and the Korean peninsula. He is also a past lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he taught courses on Korean history and archaeology. He is presently a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University, at both of which he researches and develops programs on the early history and archaeology of Northeast China. He is the author and editor of several publications, the most recent of which is The Ancient State of Puyŏ in Northeast Asia: Archaeology and Historical Memory, Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2016. His primary research interest centers on the formation and development of early states in the Korea-Manchuria region. His current research involves the application of remote sensing and geographic information systems, and particularly the use of historical imagery, in studies of the archaeology and early history of northeastern China and Korea.