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<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CB1139">GRANT
OPPORTUNITY:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#F02B55"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#383838"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#383838">NEAC Distinguished Speakers Bureau (DSB) </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#383838"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00706F">Host a
Leading Scholar in Japanese or Korean Studies at Your College or
University. </span></b></em><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00706F"> </span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#00706F">NEAC Reimburses the Honorarium and Airfare—Your
Institution Just Covers the Local Expenses.</span></b></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#383838"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838">The Distinguished
Speakers Bureau of the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association
for Asian Studies (AAS) supports public presentations by senior scholars
in Japanese and Korean studies at American colleges and universities,
especially those without well-established programs on East Asia.
The roster of NEAC Distinguished Speakers includes prominent experts in
Japanese and Korean history, North Korean history and culture, gender
studies, environmental studies, agrarian studies, literature, politics,
international relations, popular culture, labor studies, urban studies,
and ethnomusicology and has <strong>just
been revised to include a new “class” of speakers for April 1, 2018 -
March 31, 2021 </strong>(with several speakers staying on to
enable a rotational term system). Each year a few scholars will
roll off the DSB and a few new names will be added.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838">Colleges and
universities may apply to host one of the leading scholars of Japan and
Korea who are members of the NEAC Distinguished Speakers Bureau.
The invited speaker will be expected to give a formal, public lecture
(chosen from a broad list of topics) as well as meet with a class and
interact extensively with host faculty and their students while on
campus. NEAC grant monies fund the speaker honorarium and air travel
for the NEAC Distinguished Speaker on a reimbursement basis, up to the
amount of the approved NEAC grant award, and the host institution is
responsible for all local costs (food, lodging, marketing, airport
transfers, etc.). </span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00706F">Please note: The NEAC
Distinguished Speakers Bureau is intended to serve institutions with
small East Asian studies programs, not institutions with large and
well-established centers in Japanese or Korean studies. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#383838"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CB1139">The NEAC Distinguished
Speakers Bureau is supported by funds generously provided by the <strong>Japan-United States Friendship
Commission</strong> (JUSFC) and the <strong>Korea Foundation</strong>
(KF). </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838">Please see the AAS
website for further details and the NEAC DSB grant application form:</span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838"><a href="http://asian-studies.benchurl.com/c/l?u=7BBAEAA&e=C9DACB&c=E3304&t=0&l=25A0851&email=BZdonBJl1xv9nn2uv7mxP7s9%2FfIFYwrthvLMc0HlFys%3D&seq=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.asian-studies.org/Grants-and-Awards/DSB</a></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#383838">Albert L. Park <br>
Chair, Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) 2018-2019 <br>
Associate Professor of History <br>
Claremont McKenna College</span></p>
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