My research col­lab­o­ra­tor, Jennifer Chun, will be attend­ing this con­fer­ence to present a paper that we co-wrote, “Language Travels: The Cosmopolitan Pursuits of Korean Temporary Residents in Vancouver.”

American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference
March 9 – 10, 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Many American uni­ver­si­ties, like top-tier uni­ver­si­ties through­out the world, are increas­ingly becom­ing global insti­tu­tions, no longer held exclu­sively to national inter­ests. What is the impact of the esca­lat­ing num­bers of inter­na­tional under­grad­u­ates and how are they trans­form­ing the American uni­ver­sity? These ques­tions will be exam­ined on March 9 – 10, 2012 at the American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This con­fer­ence will fea­ture research from schol­ars in the United States, Great Britain, and South Korea.

The con­fer­ence is hosted in asso­ci­a­tion with the American University Meets the Pacific Century Project (AUPC, 2010-), an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of social sci­en­tist fac­ulty and stu­dents who are cur­rently research­ing the inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion of the under­grad­u­ate stu­dent body at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project is prin­ci­pally inter­ested in the American uni­ver­sity as a con­tact zone in which record lev­els of inter­na­tional under­grad­u­ates, largely from Asia, meet American stu­dents whose futures are increas­ingly impacted by global trans­for­ma­tions, the eco­nomic and sci­en­tific rise of Asia among them.
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The Journal of Korean Studies Announces Call for Papers for Thematic Issue

Call for Papers on “The End of War? The Korean Armistice after Sixty Years”
Thematic issue of The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 18 No. 2 (Fall 2013)
Due July 31, 2012

The 2013 the­matic issue of The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS), under the direc­tion of guest edi­tor Charles K. Armstrong of Columbia University, will have as its theme the six­ti­eth anniver­sary of the Korean War Armistice. We invite orig­i­nal stud­ies of the armistice and its his­tor­i­cal and present-day sig­nif­i­cance by schol­ars from fields includ­ing – but not lim­ited to – diplo­matic, polit­i­cal, social and cul­tural his­tory, as well as polit­i­cal sci­ence, law, soci­ol­ogy, anthro­pol­ogy, and film and lit­er­ary studies.

We are inter­ested in man­u­scripts from a vari­ety of the­o­ret­i­cal, con­cep­tual, method­olog­i­cal and geo­graph­i­cal per­spec­tives, includ­ing those deal­ing with par­tic­i­pants on var­i­ous sides of the con­flict: North and South Korea, the US, China, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and United Nations coali­tion forces. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact Charles K. Armstrong at cra10@columbia.edu.

Articles appear­ing in the JKS are abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS International, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Historical Abstracts, and America: History and Life.

JKS is a peer-reviewed jour­nal and all papers will be vet­ted by two out­side read­ers.
Please sub­mit your man­u­script by July 31, 2012 to Tracy Stober, JKS Managing Editor, at jourks@u.washington.edu and to Charles K. Armstrong at cra10@columbia.edu.

For detailed infor­ma­tion on the sub­mis­sion process please review the sub­mis­sion pro­ce­dures on the JKS web­site: http://jsis.washington.edu/korea/jks/submissionguidelines.shtml

Contact:

Tracy L. Stober
Managing Editor
The Journal of Korean Studies
Center for Korean Studies Publication Series
University of Washington-Seattle
206 – 543-7896 FAX 206 – 685-0668
The JKS is now on Facebook.

Call for Papers
‘Political Popular: Intersection of Democracy and Popular/Public Culture in South Korea’ Conference
University of California, Irvine
September 20 – 22, 2012

Proposals may address (but are not lim­ited to) the fol­low­ing topics:

• Critical analy­sis of Korean pop­u­lar cul­ture rang­ing from music, the­ater, film, tele­vi­sion, man­hwa, etc. Post-1980s lit­er­a­ture and poetry beyond ‘autonomous lit­er­a­ture’ (sunsu munhak 순수문학) vs ‘engaged lit­er­a­ture’ (ch’amyô munhak 참여문학)
• Aesthetic nego­ti­a­tions in min­jung visual cul­ture and “post-minjung” art production
• Protest cul­ture (both on-line and off-line)
• New polit­i­cal media such as SNS activism, Nakkomsu, and inter­net blogging
• Cinema, music, tele­vi­sion at the age of block­buster, super-talent agency, and neoliberalism
• New youth cul­ture, con­sumerism, and urban space

Held con­cur­rently with a film series that high­light both fic­tion and doc­u­men­tary inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion in South Korea and an art exhi­bi­tion that show­cases the visual cul­ture of South Korea’s democ­ra­ti­za­tion over the past three decades (1980s to the first decade of the 2000s), we invite pro­pos­als for unpub­lished, orig­i­nal indi­vid­ual papers (pre-constituted pan­els may also be given con­sid­er­a­tion). All pre­sen­ters of selected papers will have their travel, hotel, and meal expenses remu­ner­ated by the orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee. A brief bio and a 500-word abstract should be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cally to Kyung Hyun Kim (kyunghk@uci.edu) no later than April 15, 2012. Conference will be held on September 20 – 22, 2012 at UC Irvine cam­pus. This event is co-sponsored by Academy of Korean Studies.

2012 – 13 Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowships
(admin­is­tered by the University of Michigan Nam Center for Korean Studies)

Deadline: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Korea Foundation (KF) Graduate Fellowships pro­vide full fund­ing for one aca­d­e­mic year to grad­u­ate stu­dents at the doc­toral level. The fel­low­ships will be awarded to incom­ing Ph.D. stu­dents at the University of Michigan, who expect to focus their grad­u­ate work on study areas of Humanities or Social Sciences related to Korea. Candidates for the fel­low­ship should be nom­i­nated by depart­ments or schools, and nor­mally fel­low­ship awards up to $50,000 will be given to two eli­gi­ble incom­ing stu­dents. When qual­i­fied incom­ing Ph.D. stu­dents can­not be iden­ti­fied, con­tin­u­ing stu­dents in Korean Studies may be con­sid­ered for the fel­low­ship.
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An inter­est­ing post­doc posi­tion on Korean fam­ily in com­par­a­tive perspective.

ATTENTION: Koreanists AND East Asia Specialists with Comparative inter­ests in the Koreas

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Illinois, United States
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow

The 5-year Korean Family in Comparative Perspective (KFCP, 2010-) Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies at the University of Illinois, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, and housed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, is pleased to announce its sec­ond KFCP Postdoctoral Fellowship start­ing August 16, 2012. This one-year posi­tion, with the pos­si­bil­ity of a one-year exten­sion, is open to: (1) recent PhD recip­i­ents (within the last 5 years) and (2) those who will deposit their dis­ser­ta­tion by August 15, 2012.

The KFCP Laboratory aims to bring the Korean fam­ily to the cen­ter of com­par­a­tive East Asian and gen­eral fam­ily stud­ies, high­light­ing Korea as a pro­duc­tive com­par­a­tive case of inter­est to non-Koreanists across a range of dis­ci­plines and schol­arly loca­tions. KFCP Fellows must be schol­ars inter­ested in com­par­a­tive work on the Korean fam­ily. Scholars with pri­mary exper­tise in the fam­ily of other East Asian coun­tries (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan) are par­tic­u­larly wel­come to apply. Scholars with pri­mary research empha­sis on the Koreas must have a con­crete plan to con­duct com­par­a­tive research (i.e., with another country/region). The Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to schol­ars in any human­i­ties or social sci­ence discipline.

The KFCP Laboratory is directed by anthro­pol­o­gist Nancy Abelmann and includes 3 KFCP Laboratory Fellows: Jungwon Kim (EALC and History, University of Illinois), Seung-Kyung Kim (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland), and Hyunjoon Park (Sociology, University of Pennsylvania). The 2011 – 13 cur­rent Postdoctoral Fellow is his­to­rian of China, Elizabeth LaCouture (History, Colby College)

The Postdoctoral Fellow will be wel­comed to an active Koreanist com­mu­nity at the University of Illinois that includes a biweekly Korea Workshop (that will actively engage the themes of the Laboratory). The KFCP Fellow will be pro­vided the oppor­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in orga­niz­ing a Korean Family Colloquium Series which grad­u­ate stu­dents will be able to attend for par­tial credit. The KFCP Laboratory will be guided by a National Advisory Board (See list below). KFCP Laboratory Director, Fellows, and National Board Members will take an active role in nur­tur­ing the com­par­a­tive schol­ar­ship of the Postdoctoral Fellow. The Postdoctoral Fellow will also have the oppor­tu­nity to “work­shop” his or her manuscript/s with experts from both on and off campus.

The KFCP Fellow will be paid $40,000 and ben­e­fits. To ensure full con­sid­er­a­tion, all required appli­ca­tion mate­ri­als must be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cally by February 10, 2012 at http://go.illinois.edu/KFCP_Application Referees will be con­tacted elec­tron­i­cally upon sub­mis­sion of the appli­ca­tion. Only elec­tronic appli­ca­tions will be accepted.

Applications must include:

1. A cover let­ter review­ing your research his­tory, includ­ing your dis­ser­ta­tion and other publications.
2. A state­ment of inter­est in the Korean fam­ily in com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive, includ­ing a pub­li­ca­tion plan that includes the sub­mis­sion of one arti­cle for each post­doc­toral year (OR a sin­gle– or co-authored book man­u­script) (this can be inte­grated into the cover letter).
3. A state­ment of com­mit­ment to active par­tic­i­pa­tion in KFCP Laboratory events, includ­ing the Korean Family Colloquium Series (this can be a sim­ple state­ment in the cover letter).
4. One writ­ing sam­ple, 25 – 40 pages.
5. Contact infor­ma­tion for three ref­er­ees who can speak to your schol­arly work and abil­i­ties and to the fea­si­bil­ity of your research and pub­li­ca­tions plans for com­par­a­tive work on the Korean fam­ily. Referees will be con­tacted elec­tron­i­cally and asked to sub­mit their letters.

Please address inquires to slcl-hr@illinois.edu
The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and wel­comes indi­vid­u­als with diverse back­grounds, expe­ri­ences, and ideas who embrace and value diver­sity and inclu­siv­ity (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

Contact:
Please address inquires to slcl-hr@illinois.edu

Posting Date: 01/19/2012
Closing Date 02/10/2012