[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 124, Issue 9
Jaenam Kim
jaenam_kim at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 14 12:43:47 EDT 2013
On October 20th Sunday 2pm at the Reception House; 167-17 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11358; there will be a lecture on the book Hwan-dan-go-gi. The lecture will focus on archeological evidences gathered from Hongshan culture located in Liaoning county in Manchuria and how they relate to the history laid out in the book, Hwan-dan-go-gi. The lecture will be given in Korean and it will be translated into English.
Hongshan culture is known to have existed from 5000 BC. They found foundation of pyramids in the scale of the largest pyramids of Egypt. They found many temples that enshrined life size Goddess statues that are in the sitting meditating postures. There are many goddess statues that represent mother or fertility; however, Hongshan Goddess statues are the only known meditating statues. In the Temple we also find many bear paws representing signs of bear worship or bear clan. (The tradition of bear clan still exit among the Ainues in Japan and Okinawa.) According to Korean tradition, Korean people came about by Heaven worshiping, Hwan clan uniting with earth worshiping Bear clan. But before they can unite, the woman of the bear clan goes into the cave and meditates until her enlightenment before marriage. This temple is for the mother of Koreans, the bear woman. The lecture is being sponsored by a Korean cultural TV station, STB
broadcasting.
The lecture and gayageum concert will start at 2pm, and after the lecture there will be free Korean buffet dinner if you would like stay for dinner. See you there.
At 2 pm there will be a gayageum concert performed by beautiful and talented, Seo Rami . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ljx3h4DY0 (Preview) .
At 2:45 pm an opening speech will be given by the Consul General of Korea in NY, Son Se-joo. http://usa-newyork.mofa.go.kr/english/am/usa-newyork/mission/greetings/index.jsp.
At 3 pm the lecture will be presented along with a slide show by the translator of Hwandan-Gogi, Ahn Kyung-Jeon. http://www.amazon.com/Hwandan-Gogi-Pocket-Korean-Yeun/dp/8994295402.
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Today's Topics:
1. "InfoShare" / "Korea InfoPool": any suggestions? (Frank Hoffmann)
2. Leiden University Centre for Korean Studies looking for 4 PhD
candidates and 1 postdoc (Remco Breuker)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:33:54 -0700
From: Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreanstudies.com>
To: koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com
Subject: [KS] "InfoShare" / "Korea InfoPool": any suggestions?
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Dear All:
This is just a very loose idea -- and I wonder what your take is on
this, and what more specific ideas you may have (in case this seems
something that may be wanted)?
Originally, when Rob Provine started an email discussion list in 1994,
an important function was to exchange all kind of informations
regarding publications, research, conferences, positions. That is still
the same today.
What I myself am sometimes missing -- and here I am not too sure if
that is or is not shared by others -- is some sort of micro information
exchange, or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes I wonder about
smaller detail questions, issues that I would not want to post and
"bother" 1,700+ scholars with, or that I might feel are questions whose
answers I should certainly know the answer to by now but still do not.
A typical example that came up today: some old newspaper article very
briefly lists a person's education and then his current whereabouts,
and there it reads something like: "[city name]? ??" -- and I now
wonder if this means person X runs his "own business" in [city name].
Or, a few days ago I was wondering about another very tiny detail: how
would you transcribe "[person's name]?" -- would you put a dash in
between the name an ssi, better write it in two words? These kind of
questions are clearly not questions one would want to really bother a
whole list with, nor any personal friends. When you look for
information of how to fix your computer or your car, you just search
the Web and find some posting in some forum for sure that has the
answer. Korean studies is obviously not such a big field, and the
"forum" format would likely not work, because nobody would go there
unless he/she has a question.
Anyone has suggestions and ideas?
Best
Frank
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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreanstudies.com
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:43:15 +0200
From: Remco Breuker <rebreuker at gmail.com>
To: koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com
Subject: [KS] Leiden University Centre for Korean Studies looking for
4 PhD candidates and 1 postdoc
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Dear List,
I have recently been awarded a five-year research project by the European
Research Council. For this project, I am now looking for four PhD students
(salaried employee-status, 4 years) and one postdoc (three years).
These are the links to the announcements on the site of Leiden University.
Assessment of incoming applications will continue until the positions are
filled.
postdoc:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/13-285-postdoctoral-researcher-in-reading-policy-through-historiography-north-korea.html
PhD 1:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/13-284-phd-position-in-the-manchurian-heriotage-of-north-korea.html
PhD 2:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/13-283-phd-poistion-in-uses-and-abuses-korea.html
PhD 3:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/13-281-phd-position-in-uses-and-abuses.html
PhD 4:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/13-282-phd-position-in-subsidizing-history.html
Remco Breuker
Professor of Korean Studies
Leiden University
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