Center for Korean Studies faculty member Jun Yoo of the Department of History will present a lecture titled “The Paekhwajŏm (Department Store) and the Politics of Consumption in Colonial Korea” Thursday, November 2, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. in Crawford Hall 115. This presentation is co-sponsored by the UH-Mānoa Department of Anthropology and the Center for [...]

The International Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles, is seeking applications and nominations for a distinguished senior scholar to occupy the newly established Dong Soon Im and Mi Ja Im Endowed Chair in Korean Christianity. Appointment will be in the professorial series in an appropriate department in the College of Letters and Science.

The Eleventh Asian Studies Conference Japan invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the conference at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo June 24-25, 2007. The deadline for submission of proposals is November 25, 2006. Conference details and proposal submission forms can be found on the ASCJ Web site: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/. Participation [...]

The August and September 2006 lists of new acquisitions on Korea in the Asia Collection of Hamilton Library are now available at http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/korea/acquisitions.htm

The Center for Korean Studies fall 2006 colloquium series continues Wednesday, November 1, with a presentation by Prof. Edward J. Shultz titled “A Song Excursion to Korea: Xu Jing and the Gaoli-tujing (Koryŏ-togyŏng).” The colloquium will take place in the Center for Korean Studies conference room from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Center for Korean Studies faculty member Gary Pak will offer a presentation titled “Researching My Novel in Korea” in the UH Mānoa English Department Colloqium Series October 19, 2006, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Kuykendall 410 on the Mānoa campus. The colloquium is free and open to the public. 

Australian National University’s Fourth Annual Korean Graduate Studies Conference will be held from January 29 to January 31, 2007. The conference is supported administratively and financially by the ANU Centre for Korean Studies, the College of Asia and the Pacific, and the International Centre for Excellence in Asia and the Pacific. The Korean Graduate Studies [...]

Contributions are being solicited for inclusion in the first edition of the yearbook Korea: Politics, Economy, Society, which will be published in the fall of 2007. The new yearbook will be edited by Rüdiger Frank (Vienna), James Hoare (London), Patrick Köllner (Hamburg), and Susan Pares (London). Park Sunghoon (Seoul) and Charles Armstrong (New York) will [...]

The Center for Korean Studies will host a conference titled “Consuming Korean Culture in Early and Late Modernity” October 14–October 16, 2006. The schedule of conference presentations can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/announce/tbconf06.html. The conference is free and open to the public.

The Underwood International College of Yonsei University in Seoul is seeking candidates for a professorship in the history and philosophy of science for spring 2007. Recruitment is limited to non-Korean nationals with doctorates from non-Korean universities. All application materials must be received at Yonsei by October 24, 2006.