The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University Title VI National Resource Center Consortium (IL/IN NRC Consortium) is sponsoring a summer dissertation workshop in the field of Korean culture and society and invites applications from doctoral students whose dissertations focus on some aspect of Korean society and culture. The workshop will take place July 30-31, [...]

The first Kim Ch’ŏn-hŭng Memorial Fund Scholarship has been awarded to Nathan Nass, a master’s-degree student in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
The award was announced April 24, 2009, at a reception prior to the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Department of Theatre and Dance annual dance concert at Kennedy Theatre, which was [...]

The Center for Korean Studies spring colloquium series continues on Monday, April 27, 2009, with a presentation titled “Two Different Images of the Nuclear Bomb in Japan and Korea, 1945–1960″ by Dong-Won Kim of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kim will compare Japan’s and Korea’s respective images of the nuclear bomb between 1945 and 1960. The [...]

Applications are due by April 30, 2009, for participation in the Fifth International Workshop on Korean Studies, sponsored by the Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers. The workshop, on the theme “Korea Coping with Globalization,” will be held July 7–10, 2009, at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, [...]

The deadline for applications to participate in the Social Science Research Council’s 2009 Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop is Friday, May 1, 2009. The workshop will be held in Monterey, California, July 12-16. For further information about the workshop and application procedures, see the earlier announcement at: SSRC 2009 Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop.

The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present its 2009 Annual Dance Concert at Kennedy Theatre April 24 and 25 and May 1, 2, and 3. This year’s concert, featuring both classical and contemporary dance, is dedicated to Korean dance master Kim Ch’ŏn-hŭng (1909-2007).
Kim was one of Korea’s foremost [...]

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Northeast Asian History Foundation are sponsoring a two-day conference titled “Personality and Politics in Japan’s Annexation of Korea” April 23–24, 2009. The conference takes place in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium beginning at 9 a.m. each day.
The conference will focus [...]

The organizers of the international conference “Innovation and Technology in Korea in International Perspective” invite the submission of proposals for presentation at the conference, which will be held September 24-25, 2009, at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna.
The conference is being planned to analyze the parallel challenges for innovation and technology for the Republic [...]

The Center for Korean Studies will host a one-day symposium titled “Korean American Diaspora” April 21, 2009, beginning at 11:00 a.m. in the Center’s auditorium. The symposium is being presented in collaboration with the Association for Asian American Studies, which is holding its 2009 annual meeting April 22-26 at the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel [...]

The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University has announced the establishment of a new junior fellowship for Ph.D. students who want to carry out research in Korea. The new fellowship, which is an addition to the regular Kyujanggak fellowships, will allow the students to be in residence at the Kyujanggak for about [...]