The Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in Korean or Japanese art history. First consideration will be given to applications received by December 15, 2006.

The East-West Center Research Program’s Seminar on Politics, Governance, and Security will present a program titled “Spatial Aspects of Korean Reunification” featuring Professor Harry W. Richardson of the University of Southern California Tuesday, December 5, 2006, at 12 noon in John A. Burns Hall, Room 3012. Richardson is a POSCO visiting fellow at the East-West Center.

Center for Korean Studies faculty member Hagen Koo of the UH Sociology Department will present a talk titled “The Changing Cultural Landscape of Inequality in Globalized Korea” in the CKS Colloquium Series Thursday, November 30, 2006. The colloquium will take place in the CKS Conference Room from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Department of Korean Education) in Seoul, Korea, invites applications from international scholars for a full-time, renewable (up to a maximum of four years) professorship in Korean linguistics or Korean culture beginning in March 2007. Responsibilities will include teaching Korean linguistics or Korean culture (at least eight hours per week) to undergraduate and [...]

The UH Center for Japanese Studies will present a seminar titled “Japan, the Six-Party Talks, and U.S.-Japan Cooperation on the North Korean Issues” Thursday, November 30, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. in Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room). The seminar speaker will be Yoichiro Sato, associate professor in the Regional Studies Department of the Asia-Pacific Center for [...]

Gary Pak, director of creative writing at UH Mānoa and a member of Center for Korean Studies faculty, will give a talk titled “Plantation Children: Broadcasting Histories of Second-Generation Koreans in Hawai’i” on Thursday, November 16, 2006, from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m., at the Center for Biographical Research, in Henke Hall 325, 1800 East-West [...]

The Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series continues Wednesday, November 22, 2006, with a presentation by Mi-Jeong Kang of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Korean Studies. The colloquium, “Contrastive Strategy for EFL Writing by Korean Learners,” will take place in the Center for Korean Studies Conference Room [...]

The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, a newly restructured institution of Seoul National University, has announced its second annual junior postdoctoral fellowship program for the 2007-2008 academic year. The appointment is for one year, but can be extended for up to two years, upon review.

The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies has announced the inauguration of a travel grant program aimed at promoting Korean studies through facilitating research in the Kyujanggak’s unique archive. The grants are open to domestic and foreign professors, lecturers, Ph.D. candidates, and research institute fellows, as well as independent researchers on a case-by-case basis.

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University is seeking to fill a non-tenured position in Korean Studies at the assistant or associate professor level. This is a new position. The person selected will teach four courses during the academic year and provide program direction to Korean studies at SAIS. [...]