[KS] Standards of Professional Conduct

Mon Oct 3 12:18:34 EDT 2016

I thank you all for your recent input regarding the KS list. As some of the
postings have suggested, I would agree that it is a time for us to get back
to usual scholastic discussion. When sending a request for posting, the
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Adam Bohnet <abohnet at uwo.ca> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> If I my express my thoughts on this matter. I do not think that there was
> anything per se  wrong, or unprofessional, about raising these matters -
> either the various matters raised by Don Baker or the matters raised by
> Jiyul Kim, Balasz Szalontai, and others - on this list. So, I do not agree
> with many posters here.
>
> However, I strongly agree that these discussions have gone on much  too
> long on the list, and that there is nothing more to be gained from
> continuing these discussions in this forum.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Adam Bohnet
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Koreanstudies <koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com> on behalf
> of Matthew Shapiro <matthew.shapiro at iit.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 3, 2016 10:10:06 AM
> *To:* Korean Studies Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [KS] Standards of Professional Conduct
>
> First of all, a valid vehicle for publicly discussing these matters has
> been made already: publish a book review or sit on an author-meets-critics
> panel. Secondly, this is no longer a discussion but a rehashing of the same
> or similar points. As a non-historian, but one who is still very much
> concerned with research ethics and who reads each KS post from
> top-to-bottom, publishing a book review is the appropriate vehicle for
> "public discussion of academic deception."
>
> Matt Shapiro
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Jiyul Kim <jiykim at oberlin.edu> wrote:
>
>> The American Historical Association's Standards of Professional Conduct
>> contains this statement:
>>
>> *"Scholarship flourishes in an atmosphere of openness and candor, which
>> should include the scrutiny and public discussion of academic deception."*
>>
>> If you agree with this as I do, and if Korean Studies forum is not the
>> place for this "public discussion" of scholarship about Korea, as some
>> subscribers seem to opine, then where?
>>
>> https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development
>> /statements-and-standards-of-the-profession/statement-on-
>> standards-of-professional-conduct
>>
>> Jiyul Kim
>>
>
>
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