Committee on Korean Studies Blog

CKS Guide to AAS 2006; Oberlin position

2006-03-21T08:47:00.000-08:00

Going to AAS 2006? The CKS has prepared a guide to the Korean-studies panels and events.

Also, the latest career posting is a one-year visiting position at Oberlin College. Visit the Careers Section for more information.

Recent career postings

2006-01-14T13:01:00.000-08:00

Be aware of several recent career postings with upcoming deadlines:

Stanford University Libraries - Korean Cataloging Librarian.
Oxford University - University Lecturer, Korean History.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures - tenure-track Assistant Professor of Korean.
SUNY Binghamton - Area Studies Librarian for Asian and Asian-American Studies.
SUNY Binghamton - Catalog Librarian for Asian and Asian American Studies.

Korean Studies Graduate Conferences

2005-12-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

Two graduate conferences will be held in Spring 2006, with proposals due soon:

2006 Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference. Harvard University. April 29, 2006. Abstracts due December 9, 2005.
Fifth Annual Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies. University of California, Berkeley. April 22, 2006. Abstracts due January 15, 2006.

New career posting

2005-12-02T21:46:00.000-08:00

Syracuse University - Modern East Asia. Due January 15.

Upcoming events

2005-11-29T08:51:00.000-08:00

Two upcoming events have been posted to the CKS Website:

"Culture and Society in Pre-modern Korea", a one day seminar at SOAS on December 2, 2005.
A call for papers for the "2006 Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference" at Harvard University. Abstracts are due December 9, 2005. The conference will be held on April 29, 2006

Please visit the CKS Website for more information.

New career posting

2005-10-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

The latest career posting comes from Stanford University: a position in 20th century Korean history. Visit the CKS website for links to this job and the many jobs that have come up this fall.

A flood of career opportunities

2005-10-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

September and October have brought over 10 new career opportunities in Korean Studies. Visit the CKS website to see the entire list.

Four new career postings

2005-07-23T23:17:00.000-07:00

The latest additions to the CKS Website include four new career postings, for five positions in the US and the UK. Visit the CKS Website for all of the information and links.

New NEAC Korean Studies Distinguished Lecturer Elected

2005-05-09T05:08:00.000-07:00

Dr. Chaejin Lee of Claremont McKenna College has been elected as the Distinguished Lecturer for the 2005-2006 academic year. The NEAC Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to assist colleges or universities in North America to invite a distinguished scholar of Korean Studies to give public lectures on their campuses, to meet with teachers and students, and possibly to offer advice to administrators regarding the creation or strengthening of Korean Studies at their institutions.

Also, Professor Michael Robinson, Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-2005, reports on his lecture series this past year.

Read more about about bringing Dr. Lee to your university and about Prof. Robinson's lectures.

E-resources round up

2005-04-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

The latest additions to the CKS Website include links to:

Several reports on Korean studies e-resources presented at an AAS roundtable. The reports from the roundtable introduce the wide range of commercial and freely accessible resources.
Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology 2005 Annual Meeting: Held May 20-21, 2005.

New events posted

2005-04-12T05:25:00.000-07:00

Some of the latest event additions to the CKS Website include:

* 15 Years of Local Councils: Results and Perspectives: April 15th, 2005 2 p.m.- 5 p.m. Incheon city.

* Keimyung International Summer Academy for Korean Studies (KISAKS): July 4 to August 12, 2005. A choice of thirteen courses for undergraduates, taught in English. Application deadline: May 1, 2005.

Links are on the CKS Website. Also, don't forget to visit the website to view Frank Joseph Shulman's latest update to the overview of his bibliography of dissertations on Korea.

New additions to the CKS Website

2005-03-28T22:30:00.000-08:00

The latest additions to the CKS Website are:

• Frank Joseph Shulman's Overview of Doctoral Dissertations on Korea (under "Reports")
• Language study and study abroad grants (under "Grants")
• Position for head librarian at the University of Michigan and Korea Investment Analyst position at Knott Partners (under "Careers")
• Link to the Korean Collections Consortium of North America (under "Links")

AAS is coming up. Don't forget to consult the CKS Guide to Korean Studies Events and Panels 2005, available on the CKS Website's main page.

New career opportunities

2005-03-14T08:18:00.000-08:00

The following career opportunities have been posted:

• University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Lecturer in Korean Studies.

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Curatorial Assistant, Asian Art.

March is filled with deadlines for job and grant opportunities. Be sure to visit the CKS website to be sure that you're aware of what we have listed!

Careers: ANU Research Fellow/Fellow

2005-03-01T07:21:00.000-08:00

One of the CKS website's features is a Careers section with job postings such as this one. Updates to the Careers page, as with updates elsewhere on the CKS website, will be noted here.

"Australian National University, Research Fellow/Fellow on Northeast Asia, in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies. Closing date: May 31, 2005."

The CKS Website's Mission

2005-03-01T01:00:00.000-08:00

Dear Colleagues,

Korean Studies has finally reached the stage where our field is large and diverse enough that the internet is the best venue for outreach. With the exponential growth in the number of Koreanists and publications (as evidenced by our findings at the UCSB workshop), our community needs a central repository for information now more than ever.

The need for such a website has been discussed by the CKS for nearly five years, but we have finally organized and secured funding from the Korea Foundation to construct, launch, and maintain a website. The CKS website is designed to fill the following needs:

Advertise information regarding current grants and funding resources available for research and travel (See the report by the outgoing CKS chair (DOC)), career opportunities such as teaching positions in the U.S. and abroad, as well as graduate fellowship announcements, KF requirements, and deadlines.
Promote language training opportunities, especially for advanced graduate students who need more intensive academic reading and writing skills necessary to conduct dissertation research, education abroad opportunities, and internship information.
Centralize dissemination of information about current Korea related events such as upcoming academic conferences to attend, apply to give papers, or volunteer services.
Create a central site where Koreanists now scattered around the globe from Tashkent to New Zealand (See story in the U. Hawaii CKS Newsletter (PDF)) can get to know the members of the CKS executive committee so they can be better informed when voting in the future.

Please log on frequently and subscribe to our new RSS feed (What is RSS?) to keep abreast of our frequent updates. Current events, conferences, funding opportunities, and job information will be constantly updated. Furthermore, we are planning to add more historical insights by those intimately involved in the CKS since its inception over thirty years ago. Furthermore, we will be adding more about the history of the organization as well as current members’ information, newly elected members’ profiles, and current events to be uploaded.

One crucial mission of the CKS website is to help graduate students in Korean Studies as they advance in their careers. Graduate students need to know about funding opportunities, upcoming conferences, and job openings. While graduate students certainly hear about some of these opportunities through their departments or online mailing lists, no central site for this information has existed until now. The CKS website aims to fill this void.

The CKS website welcomes submissions in each of these areas, as well as suggestions for improving the site. (Please see our Contacts page.) The community that lives and grows around this website is the key to its success, so please contribute your announcements and suggestions.

I regret that I will not be attending the AAS this year since I am on research leave in Japan, but I hope to see everyone at the next AAS in San Francisco. In the meantime, I look forward to hearing from everyone over the net.

Sincerely yours,

Hyung Il Pai, CKS Website Supervisor
Tokyo, Japan
March 1, 2005

CKS Website is launched

2005-03-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

After months of internal testing and research, the CKS is pleased to announce the launch of the CKS Website! The website will serve as a central repository of information for the field of Korean studies. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Please visit the CKS Website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea2/.

Your first stop should be to download the CKS Guide to AAS 2005. We've compiled a list of all of the Korean studies related panels and events. Also, peruse the other sections of the site: Grants, Careers, Reports, and Links.

Lastly, subscribe to the RSS/XML feed for the CKS Blog! (What is RSS?) It's the best way to stay up to date with new additions to the website.