The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign seeks applicants for a full-time, one-year position in Korean literature forVariationen von poker rules. the academic year 2008-2009. The position carries the rank of visiting lecturer and will be funded by the Korea Foundation.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in [...]

The Center for Korean Studies is co-sponsor with the University of Hawaii at Manoa English Department of a reading and book signing featuring novelist Chang-rae Lee on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the UH Manoa Art Auditorium.
Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft [...]

Hawai’i Pacific University, the East-West Center, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, and Pacific Forum CSIS will present a panel discussion on “Northeast Asian Security Issues” with a group of Korea experts on Monday, March 3, 2008, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. in the East-West Center Art Gallery in John A. Burns Hall. The [...]

The Center for Korean Studies spring 2008 colloquium series begins February 28 with a presentation titled “‘Seoul Train’ and the Politics of North Korean Refugees” by Prof. Byung-Ho Chung of Hanyang University. Chung, director of the Center for Multicultural Studies at Hanyang, is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University [...]

Applicants are being sought for appointment to the Korean Studies Chair at Sciences Po for the 2008-2009 academic year. This position is intended for a Korean specialist with a doctoral degree related to the disciplines of economics/finance, international relations, political science, law, sociology, or contemporary history. The Korean Studies Chair at Sciences Po (www.sciences-po.fr), one [...]

The International Student Conferences (ISC) in Washington, D.C., the organizer of the Japan-America Student Conference (JASC), is inaugurating the Korea-America Student Conference (KASC), an educational and cultural exchange program for graduate and undergraduate university students. A partial scholarship is available for one University of Hawaii student participating in the program.

The Korean Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion invites paper proposals on the theme of religion and violence in both traditional and modern contexts. Variations of the topic include but are not limited to religion and militarism; religion and torture; post-Korean War and religions; religion and student movements in Korea; religion and authoritarianism; [...]

The History Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is seeking applicants with expertise in 16th – 20th century East Asian history (including China, Japan, Korea, or Vietnam) for a year-long teaching post-doc (visiting assistant professor). The position is open to scholars who have their dissertation in hand (or will have completed it no [...]

Proposals are being sought for papers to be presented at the 9th Pacific and Asia Conference on Korean Studies, to be held November 25-27, 2008, in Hanoi. With the title “Korea and Korean Studies: Vision from Asia,” the conference is being organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, [...]

The Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University invites applications for a permanent (continuing faculty status) assistant or associate professor position beginning in the fall of 2008. Applicants should have a Ph.D. (or be near completion of the degree) in linguistics, second language acquisition, teaching Korean as a foreign language, or [...]