Dear Korean Studies community:
The Committee on Korean Studies, a unit of the Association for Asian Studies, is planning to expand its website (https://koreanstudies.org/), and we would like to invite you to take advantage of this opportunity to share your expertise and news with the Korean studies community.
Among other things, we will be building an archive of syllabi on the Koreas. We hope that this archive will offer a source of help and inspiration to everyone teaching about the Koreas, particularly younger scholars just beginning teaching positions.
If you would be willing to volunteer a syllabus or syllabi for this online archive, please create the file in PDF format. We would recommend omitting certain personal information (office location, telephone number), the personal information of any teaching assistants, and any boilerplate text related to a local teaching context. The intellectual property status of syllabi is an area of present legal dispute; if this is of concern to you, please feel free any copyright or similar statement that you wish. The CKS website is not password protected, and any syllabi we post will be freely available to anyone on the internet.
Please send any syllabi you wish to offer for this project to one of the following CKS officers, depending on its discipline, by September 15:
Dal Yong Jin (Film and media studies): yongjin23@gmail.com
Jisoo Kim (History): jsk10@gwu.edu
Robert Oppenheim (Social sciences): rmo@austin.utexas.edu
Sunyoung Park (Literature, performance, and arts): cks.aas.11@gmail.com
We thank you in advance for your submissions and for your participation in this project! Please note that we are now also accepting conference announcements to be displayed on the CKS website. For these submissions, please forward them to cks.aas.11@gmail.com with the job or conference title in your subject line. They will be posted on a weekly basis for free access to the public.
Finally, CKS will be initiating a twice-yearly newsletter which will be distributed to members and available on our website. Please send newsletter items to CedarBough Saeji (c.saeji@gmail.com) who will be editing the next newsletter. You are welcome to send items such as announcements of your new position, promotion, or successful grant application, your recent publications (from 2017-2018), other musings you would like to share with colleagues, and anything else including some brilliant photo you took last time you were in Korea. In addition we may be soliciting some specific short pieces, so look out for those emails. The deadline for submissions is December 31.
Thank you for all your contributions and encouragement for CKS’s community-building efforts.
Best regards,
The Committee on Korean Studies