General Meetings
& Announcements
AAS 2026 Annual Meeting of Committee on Korean Studies
The CKS Board invites Korean Studies scholars to a general meeting on March 14, 2026, at Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver. Attendees will discuss upcoming events, membership, and fundraising. Voting for CKS elections runs from April 3 to April 15 for dues-paying members. Membership costs $20 annually, supporting CKS activities.
Keep reading2026 Election of CKS Executive Board Members – Call for Nominations
The Committee for Korean Studies (CKS) is seeking nominations for its upcoming elections, which will occur from March 1 to March 31, 2026. Two executive board positions are available, alongside a Graduate Student Representative role. Nominations are due by January 31, 2026. Voting eligibility requires current membership dues of $20.
Keep readingImportant Changes and Initiatives in 2025
Dear Members of the Committee on Korean Studies, We are writing with a number of important updates regarding the Committee on Korean Studies. In March 2025, after the annual meeting, the CKS sent out a poll to its community. The poll provided guidance to the Committee regarding how best to serve the Korean Studies community.…
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2026 AAS Pre-Conference Meeting: Popular Culture in the 1990s (Simon Fraser University)
For the 2026 Vancouver AAS, Dr. Dal Yong Jin is organizing our first Committee on Korean Studies AAS pre-conference (hopefully something that can become a yearly tradition!). The conference will be on Wednesday, and AAS starts on Thursday afternoon (usually around 4pm or so). The idea is that we can gather for an intimate Korean…
Keep readingAAS 2025 Annual Meeting of Committee on Korean Studies
Date and Time: 12:15-1:45pm, Saturday, March 15 Venue: : Roman Johnson Room, 3rd Level Hilton The CKS Board extends a warm invitation to all scholars of Korean Studies to join us for the CKS general meeting over lunch. This is a great opportunity to learn more about CKS, make new acquaintances, and join the Committee! All conference…
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2025 AAS Pre-Conference Film Screening Event
In collaboration with Ohio State University’s Korean Performance Research Program (KPRP) and Institute for Korean Studies (IKS), CKS presents: Body and Text in Motion: Korean Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and Animation on Screen Date and Time: 11:00am-3:30pm, Thursday, March 13Place: Meeting Room 1, Columbus Metropolitan Library Northside Branch (google maps) If you arrive in Columbus early…
Keep readingAAS 2024 Annual Meeting of Committee on Korean Studies
Date and Time: Saturday, March 16, 12:15pm-1:45pm Venue: Sheraton Grand Seattle – 4th Floor, Union Street Tower The CKS Board extends a warm invitation to all scholars of Korean Studies to join us for the CKS general meeting over lunch. This is a great opportunity to learn more about CKS, make new acquaintances, and join the Committee! All…
Keep readingCall for Submissions: Syllabi, CFP, and News (August 2018)
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…
Keep readingCKS General Meeting 2017 Toronto
Meeting Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel Date: Friday, March 17 Time: 9:45pm – 11:00pm Room Assignment: Forest Hill
Keep readingCommittee on Korean Studies Meeting Seattle, 2016
The 2016 meeting of the Committee on Korean Studies will be at 10 pm on Friday, April 1, in the Diamond room in the Sheraton. The meeting will begin by taking a few minutes to honor the memory of Nancy Ablemann and discuss her contributions to the study of Korea. Professor Ablemann passed away in…
Keep readingNew CKS board members after San Diego
Following a ballot via Survey Monkey on which well over 100 people voted – thanks! – Don Baker (UBC) and Wayne Patterson (St Norbert’s College) were elected as the new CKS board members for 2013-2015. They replace Sonja Kim and Todd Henry whose term ended as of the San Diego AAS meeting. Welcome on board,…
Keep readingNew CKS board members
This January the elections for new board members were conducted; a big thank you to all who voted (100+)! We would like to welcome Koen De Ceuster (Leiden), George Kallander (Syracuse), and Youngju Ryu (Michigan). After AAS 2013, they will replace Todd Henry and Sonja Kim.
Keep readingNominations for new CKS board members (2012)
All current members of AAS who have listed Korea as their first area of interest should have received an e-mail asking them to nominate three people to replace outgoing board members. The three people with the most nominations will be contacted and asked if they agree to stand for election. If you haven’t nominated anyone…
Keep readingCall for Papers – CKS-sponsored panels for San Diego AAS (2013)
Beginning with the AAS in Toronto (2012), the Committee on Korean Studies (CKS) has been sponsoring innovative panels on Korean studies that present the broader Asian studies community with a knowledge that is inter-disciplinary, transnational, comparative, and relevant to the issues of today’s world. Continuing this tradition, CKS is planning to sponsor one panel at…
Keep readingCall to Share Memories of the CKS
Dear long-time members of the Committee on Korean Studies (CKS): We need your help in creating an institutional memory for the CKS. Knowledge of the history of the CKS and its many past activities is important for the community building we are seeking. We would very much appreciate it if you would send us a…
Keep readingReport on 2011-2012 CKS Activities
The 2011 Committee on Korean Studies (CKS) General Meeting in Honolulu (see “Report from Honolulu”) made it clear that members want the CKS to continue to exist and play a role as an important site for Koreanists for information sharing, intellectual communication, advocacy, and community building. With that mandate, over the years the Executive Board…
Keep readingReport on Executive Board Elections
In May 2011, the Executive Board of the Committee on Korean Studies (CKS) sent out via e-mail a request for nominations from members to replace two positions on the Board vacated by Michael Pettid and Donald Clark, who served from 2008–2009 to 2010–2011, respectively. The June 25th deadline for the nomination was extended to July…
Keep readingAn Invitation from the CKS Executive Committee
Posted by: Beadle on Thursday, March 24th, 2011 Dear Colleagues, I invite you to join us for the General Meeting of the Committee on Korean Studies at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu on March 31, 2011, from 9:15 to 11 pm. The meeting will be held in Room 305A…
Keep readingNotes from the Chair of the Committee on Korean Studies (February 2010)
Posted by: Beadle on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 As the chair of the CKS-AAS (April 2008 – March 2010), I would like to report CKS activities and accomplishments during the past one year. Since the CKS (executive board members) redefined in 2008 its identity as a professional organization that would connect various forms of resources…
Keep readingMultimedia Database Survey
Posted by: Beadle on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 In response to a growing number of requests for Korea-related multimedia content for instructional purposes (video clips of about five minutes for instruction on Korean history, culture, and society), the Korea Foundation plans to release a multimedia database in 2010 in an effort to make such video…
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