Proposals are invited for individual and panel papers to be presented at the first international scientific conference “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation,” which will take place In Kyiv, Ukraine, October 15–16, 2009.
Conference organizers are planning sessions in the following main thematic areas: Social, Economic and Political Development in the Past and [...]

SBS Media Holdings Co., Ltd., and SBS Foundation of Seoul have announced a gift of $200,000 to the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish an expendable fund known as the Korean Law Faculty Fund.
The Law School expects to hire a distinguished tenure-track faculty member whose [...]

The 2009 Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) will take place July 12 through July 16 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California. The application deadline is May 1, 2009. There are places for twelve students in this year’s workshop.
The SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to create [...]

The on-line version of the latest volume (32) of Korean Studies, the journal of the University of Hawai’i Center for Korean Studies, is now available through Project MUSE, the on-line repository of humanities and social sciences journals.
Access to the table of contents and article abstracts is open to all at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/korean_studies/toc/ks.32.html. Access to the full [...]

The Center for Korean Studies spring colloquium series continues on Thursday, February 12, 2009, with a presentation titled “When Did the Rulers of Silla Korea Become Kings?” by Prof. Richard D. McBride, II, of Brigham Young University – Hawai‘i. The colloquium will be held in the Center’s conference room from
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For [...]

March 13 is the deadline for submission of applications for the various Korean studies grants offered by the Academy of Korean Studies. AKS grant programs are aimed at deepening world understanding of Korea by supporting academic activities that will help spread Korean studies and nurture scholars of Korean studies.

Paper proposals are invited for the Korean Religions Group panel at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting in Montreal November 7-10, 2009.
Proposals may deal with:

sacred time, space, or cosmology in Korean religions;
concepts of time in different Korean religions;
religious meaning of place in Korean religions;
religion and revolution, eschatology, and utopia in Korean religions; and
Korean religions [...]

The Centre for Korean Studies of Leiden University is accepting applications for two Ph.D. grants to be made in connection with a five-year research project titled “History as Social Practice: Unconventional Historiographies of Korea.” The project is supported by an Institutional Grant from the Academy of Korean Studies.
The “History as Social Practice” research project will [...]

The deadline for applications for Korea grants offered by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies has been extended until February 10, 2009. Applications must arrive at the AAS Ann Arbor office by that date.
AAS/NEAC grants, supported by generous funding from the Korea Foundation, are available in a number of categories, [...]

Recruitment has begun for the 2nd Korea America Student Conference (KASC) to take place July 12-August 12, 2009 in South Korea.
KASC is an annual student-organized conference that brings together fifty students for a month of discussion, travel, and cross-cultural engagement. Delegations consist of highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students from the United States and Korea [...]