Washington University in St. Louis seeks candidates for a faculty position at the rank of assistant professor in the fields of Korean language, literature, and culture to begin in the fall of 2008. The appointment will be made in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and is supported in part by [...]

The recently launched Web site on East Asian economic integration — www.asianintegration.org — is seeking scholars and practitioners to review books. The site is maintained by the Seoul ASEM Institute for International Relations and Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Those interested in reviewing books for www.asianintegration.org should send an e-mail message mentioning “book reviews” with a short biographical [...]

The School of International Service at American University seeks applications and nominations for the C. W. Lim and Korea Foundation Chair of Korean Studies to [...]

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences in the College of Cultural Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is seeking applicants for an open-rank, tenure-track or tenured position in the social sciences to begin in fall 2008 or earlier. Particularly sought are candidates with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research [...]

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, York University, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Korean at the assistant professor level to begin July 1, 2008, subject to budgetary approval. A Ph.D. in a field relevant to teaching Korean language and/or culture is required.

Esoteric Buddhist Tradition in East Asia: Text, Ritual, and Image is an international conference to be held at Yale University November 9-11, 2007. According to its organizers, the conference “will investigate the images which served for ceremonies of an esoteric character, in conjunction with a study of manuals and scriptures and ritual procedures, in order [...]

The September 2007 list of new acquisitions in the Korea Collection of the University of Hawaii Thomas H. Hamilton Library is now available on line at: http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/korea/acquisitions.htm. For additional information, contact the Korea Collection librarian, Daniel C. Kane (dkane@hawaii.edu) at (808) 956-2319.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Global Studies Focus Group Colloquium will present a discussion by Mark Selden of Cornell University titled “U.S. Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq” on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. The colloquium, sponsored by the UH Department of [...]

The University of Hawaii School of Asian and Pacific Studies; its constituent area centers for Korea, Japan, and China; the Northeast Asia History Foundation; and the East-West Center will host a conference and planning meeting to consider a recently published multinational textbook on East Asian history. The conference will take place October 8 and 9, [...]