General Meetings
& Announcements
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…
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Call 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…
Keep readingCKS Executive Committee Election Results
Posted by: Beadle on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Seungsook Moon, chair of the CKS Executive Committee, has announced the results of the recent balloting to choose new members of the Executive Commitee. The top three vote-getters were Hwasook Nam of the University of Washington, Joy Kim of the University of Southern California, and Christopher P.…
Keep readingCKS Executive Committee Election
Posted by: Beadle on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Ballots have been mailed to current members of the AAS Committee on Korean Studies for the selection of three new members of the CKS Executive Committee. To be counted, completed ballots must reach the chair of the committee, Seungsook Moon (Department of Sociology, Vassar College, Box #…
Keep readingCKS Executive Committee Election
Posted by: Beadle on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 To: NEAC CKS Members (include all Koreanists who are currently members of the Association for Asian Studies) The CKS Executive Committee consists of seven members elected by the CKS membership to serve staggered three-year terms. The Executive Committee at present consists of Theodore Hughes, Sun Joo Kim,…
Keep readingCKS Executive Committee Election Results
Posted by: Beadle on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 In balloting conducted by mail, Seungsook Moon of Vassar College and Janet Poole of the University of Toronto have been chosen to serve three-year terms on the Executive Committee of the Committee on Korean Studies. They succeed Hyaeweol Choi of Arizona State University and Nam-hee Lee of…
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