First Call for Papers: Writing Past Each Other? Literary Translation and Community
International Conference on Literary Translation
Te Tumu Whakawhiti Tuhinga o Aotearoa / The New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
December 11-13, 2010
Keynote speakers: Lawrence Venuti and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Metge and Kinloch (Talking Past Each Other: Problems in Cross-Cultural Communication, 1978), explore [...]

The Association for Asian Studies has announced plans for its ninth Dissertation Workshop, “Popular Culture and Social Change,” to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Philadelphia March 28-31, 2010. The workshop will be organized and led by David Szanton and will follow the model used in previous workshops.
The workshop is intended to [...]

The 3rd Korea-America Student Conference (KASC), a student-led cultural and academic exchange, is recruiting students for the summer 2010 program. During the month-long conference, some fifty students will discuss their research on topics of bilateral and global interest and enjoy prominent speakers. The theme for the conference, which will be held July 12-August 12, 2010, [...]

The 10th Biennial Pacific-Asia Conference on Korean Studies 2010 (PACKS 2010) will be held from November 24 (Wednesday) through November 26 (Friday), 2010, at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
The conference organizers invite paper and panel proposals from established and junior scholars. Proposals from postgraduate students and emerging scholars are especially encouraged. [...]

October 19 is the deadline to pre-register for the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, to be held November 12-14, 2009, at the University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies in Honolulu. Participants and others planning to attend the conference are strongly encouraged to pre-register in order to take advantage of lower registration fees and to assist [...]

The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) invites proposals for presentations at the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies, which will take place in Seoul August 3, 2010, as part of the Korean Adoptee Gathering 2010.
The aim of the symposium is to establish and explore this new and rapidly expanding academic field of Korean adoption [...]

The Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers’ Fifth International Workshop concluded July 10 with presentation of awards to three of the graduate-student participants for best papers offered at the meeting. The three were among twenty-six students from eighteen universities in the United States, Korea, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, and China taking part in [...]

The Fifth International Workshop on Korean Studies sponsored by the Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers convened at at the University of Hawai‘i Center for Korean Studies July 7, 2009, for a four-day program of presentations and discussions around the theme “Korea Coping with Globalization.”
The Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers workshops are designed to [...]

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Northeast Asian History Foundation are sponsoring a two-day conference titled “Personality and Politics in Japan’s Annexation of Korea” April 23–24, 2009. The conference takes place in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium beginning at 9 a.m. each day.
The conference will focus [...]

The organizers of the international conference “Innovation and Technology in Korea in International Perspective” invite the submission of proposals for presentation at the conference, which will be held September 24-25, 2009, at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna.
The conference is being planned to analyze the parallel challenges for innovation and technology for the Republic [...]