evidence: Today, according to North Korean textbooks and monographs, the first and the only center of Old Chosŏn was located in Pyongyang and its surroundings; in its initial stage, the borders of Old Chosŏn extended from the Yalu River in the North to the Han River in the South; and during the period of its greatest power, Old Chosŏn’s territory included the Korean Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula, as well as part of southern Manchuria. [...] To others, it represented personal ties to the Northern region, and an active recruitment scheme, with economic and other benefits, rather than simply a place to display ideological commitment. This paper examines the very raison d'être of the nascent state through the prism of the university, surveying over four hundred pages of curriculum vitae, autobiographies, and Kim Il Sung University administrative documents seized by the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Despite the North Korean state’s commitment to its revolutionary identity, Kim Il Sung University served as a distinct space where the legacy of the Japanese Empire paradoxically lived on in the early decades. [...] Sovereignty and Territory in Qing-Chosŏn Investiture Practices / King Kwong Wong, PhD Student, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia