On October 15, Dr. Sunkyu Lee will present her paper Infrastructure, Epigraphy, and Space/Place-Making in the Transforming Spaces session at the Sinographic Forays into the Epiverse conference in Paris. This session will explore the various contexts—religious, political, and social—in which inscriptions are embedded and how these spaces interact and transform. Professor Hilde De Weerdt will join the session as discussant.
Dr. Lee will share two sets of examples related to infrastructure, epigraphy, and space/place-making, highlighting how inscriptions shape infrastructure and community identity while reflecting the voices of local elites, village heads, and ordinary citizens. The discussion will also examine the social purposes of these inscriptions and their role in navigating power dynamics, representing personal connections to space, and memorializing the past.