This page brings together my current article projects, my French translations for Dongguk University’s K‑MOOC programme, and my conference papers and invited talks.
Four article projects currently structure my writing, at different stages of development.
A study of the emergence of kamnodo through ritual reconfiguration, institutional constraints, and the visual stabilization of liturgical action.
Daderot · Wikimedia Commons · CC0 ↗
Connecting scriptural sources, legends, sacred topography, ritual practices, and the construction of the iconography.
Freer Gallery of Art · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Reconsidering dynastic periodization through architectural continuities and the longue durée of monumental forms.
sarahkim · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Reconstructing networks of people, objects, and artistic models linking Song and Yuan China with Koryŏ.
Historical map of Hangzhou · Wikimedia Commons ↗French translations produced for the K‑Academics programme devoted to Korean Buddhism.
Since 2022, I have translated Korean- and English-language video seminar subtitles into French for Dongguk University’s K‑Academics / K‑MOOC programme.
View Dongguk K‑MOOC courses ↗Chronological list of the conference papers, invited talks, and scholarly presentations included in my CV.
Paris, FranceBypassing anti-Buddhist policy through a “performative window”: ritual scenes in sixteenth-century Korean Sweet Dew paintings.
Seattle, United StatesPanel organizer: “Court Policy, State Politics, and Their Religious Outcomes in Pre-Modern East Asian Material Culture”.
Paper: Bypassing Anti-Buddhist Restrictions through a “Window of Performativity”: Ritual Scene Apparition in 16th Century Korean Buddhist Painting.
Cambridge, United KingdomThe Buddhist Ritual Ban and the Emergence of the “Sweet Dew Paintings” in 16th Century Korea.
Paris, FranceWhat if the image no longer represents? Questions on the materiality and iconography of Buddhist images in relation to Korean court rituals (14th–16th centuries).
Berlin, GermanyEncounter the Korean Buddhist collections from the Musée Guimet: Their history and masterpieces.
Paris, FranceFrom nostalgia to sameness: a taste for the old in Korean court Buddhist art (1459–1598).
Houston, United StatesPolitic, Nostalgia and Imagination: An attempt to approach Korean Buddhist art.
La Rochelle, FrancePolitical practice “beyond the rituals”: The use of gendered and religious discourses in Korean Buddhist court images (1270–1598).
Paris, FranceWhen Korean Buddhist images become court art: adaptations, circulations, and feminization (1270–1598).
Paris, FranceSome examples of Buddhist and Taoist artistic heritage in North Korea.
Paris, FranceReligious Art in North Korea: The Missing Link in Korean Heritage Studies.
Paris, FranceJourneys across the realm of the Dead: Narratives, rituals, and images.
Which hell for which Korea? An Aesthetic and Layout study about representations of the Ten Kings of Hell in Korean Peninsula.