[KS] AAS-Invitation
C. Sarah Soh
soh at sfsu.edu
Fri Mar 24 21:12:28 EST 2006
Hi, I'll be happy to attend the meeting. Thanks.
C. Sarah Soh
At 10:14 PM 3/22/2006, you wrote:
>Late last year the International Society for Korean Studies (ISKS) sent
>you an invitation to attend a planning meeting to organize the North
>American Branch of this society.
>The orgnizational meeting will be held at the Marriott Hotel in San
>Francisco in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for
>Asian Studies. To avoid a meeting conflict with the Association of
>Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK), we have pushed our organizational
>meeting back to 7:45 PM on the 8th of April. We will be meeting as listed
>in the AAS program in the Sierra Suite on the 5th floor.
>To repeat the organizational meeting of the ISKS, North American Branch
>will start at 7:45 PM on April 8 in the Sierra Suite.
>In order for us to prepare ample materials, please let me know at
>Shultz at Hawaii.edu by March 31 if you will be able to attend this planning
>meeting.
>
>For your information I have posted below the initial invitation we
>distributed last fall. For those of you who have already responded to the
>first invitation, it is not necessary to repond again.
>
>An Invitation
>The International Society for Korean Studies (ISKS) was formed in Osaka,
>Japan in 1990 and over the last fifteen years it has been quietly building
>a network of scholars in Korean studies. In addition to its headquarters
>in Osaka, ISKS has branch offices in Seoul, Pyongyang, Beijing, Osaka, and
>Europe (London). Although there was once a North American branch, it has
>become dormant for sometime now. This has led ISKS to start afresh by
>reorganizing the North American branch to meet the needs of the ISKS
>members in the U.S. and Canada. As the current president of ISKS, I am
>calling for an organizational meeting to be held in San Francisco in
>conjunction with the AAS Annual Meeting in April 2006. We have scheduled
>an organizational meeting for Saturday evening, April 8th at 7:45 PM. And
>I strongly urge those of you who are interested in joining this Society to
>make every effort to attend this initial meeting. If you are interested
>but unable to attend the San Francisco meeting
>, please contact me at Shultz at hawaii.edu Also if you plan to attend this
>meeting, please let me know.
>Given that there are already a number of associations focused on Korean
>studies, one might ask why yet another? ISKS has carved out an important
>niche that warrants recognition. ISKS is unique among Korean studies
>organizations in that it is truly international, in fact, global. Our
>members come from Korea (both South and North), China, Japan, Europe, and
>North America and with such a broad base of membership, our conferences
>have been held in geographically diverse areas, for example, Osaka,
>Beijing, Honolulu, and Shenyang, China. Since its founding, ISKS has
>stressed enhancing contacts between North and South Korea and has
>succeeded in providing a venue for dialogue and understanding between
>scholars of North and South Korea. Most recently in September 2005,
>thirty-four scholars from Pyongyang led by the President of the DPRK
>Academy of Social Sciences joined over ninety scholars from South Korea
>and abroad to participate in the seventh international conference of ISKS. I
>SKS held a formal three-day program in Shenyang as well as a two-day tour
>of ancient Koguryo historical sites. Current plans call for the next
>international conference to be held in Pyongyang in the summer of 2007.
> We feel that it is important for North American scholars to have
> an opportunity to participate in these significant gatherings, and that
> by forming a new, viable North American branch we can begin to assure
> greater North American participation. If you have any questions or wish
> further information, please contact us. Thank you.
> Edward J. Shultz,
> president
C. Sarah Soh, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
San Francisco State University
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