From albert.park78 at yahoo.com Tue Jun 2 19:50:36 2026 From: albert.park78 at yahoo.com (Albert Park) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 23:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KS] Conference--The Limits and Possibilities of the Natural in Korea, June 5, 2026 at UC Irvine References: <786398028.353372.1780444236660.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <786398028.353372.1780444236660@mail.yahoo.com> The Limits and Possibilities of the Natural in Korea Date: Friday, June 5, 2026Location: HIB 135, University of California Irvine The conference explores the limits and possibilities of multiple conceptions of what constitutes "nature," "biology," "nativeness," or "the organic" in the Korean context. How have terms such as jayeon자연自然, saengmul생물生物, saengtae생태生態, tojong토종土種, yugi유기有機, among others, been invoked in Korea and to what ends? How are they braided into nationalist or Cold War claims over nature and landscape? Conversely, how have these terms been used to denote differences and demarcate the boundaries of “Korean nature”? How have ideas about organicism evolved in Korea over time? What are the boundaries of “the natural" in Korea, and who gets to decide them? For conference details, go to https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/limits-and-possibilities-natural-korea Organized by Eleana Kim (UC Irvine), David Fedman (UC Irvine), Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna College, The Claremont Colleges) and Juwon Lee (UC Irvine) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From esther.kim1990 at gmail.com Thu Jun 4 00:23:44 2026 From: esther.kim1990 at gmail.com (Esther Kim) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:23:44 +0900 Subject: [KS] Event to circulate: 6/12 Friday, Seoul, Fulbright Building Message-ID: Hello Korean Studies, My name is Esther, and I'm a current Fulbright scholar living in Seoul. Below I share information for a reading with fellow artists held next Friday evening that's open to the public. We'd appreciate circulation on the list. Thank you! Esther Please join Fulbright Korea Arts Scholars Esther Kim, Julayne Lee and Tom Pyun for an evening of multi-genre literary art and reflection. They will be sharing new essays, fiction and poems developed during their Fulbright research grants in Korea. When: Friday, June 12, 2026 Location: Fulbright Building, Seoul https://maps.app.goo.gl/fEZnjoA3WD35q6vd7?g_st=ic Esther Kim is a writer, journalist, and critic. Her Fulbright grant (sponsored by Yonsei’s Institute of Korean Studies) funded her research for a book on why and what Koreans forage. After taking her degree in English (Wellesley College, 2012) and a masters in modernist literature (University of Edinburgh, 2013), she worked at Columbia University Press, promoting new scholarship. She earned a masters in Korean Studies (SOAS, University of London, 2019) while continuing work in the book business. She contributes a monthly column to the Korea Times and criticism to American and British papers. This year, she self-published her first art book, HOMELANDS 고향땅, with painter Martyna Alexander, a translation of her grandfather’s story of his childhood in northern Korea (near Sinuiju) and journey to the south alone as a boy after liberation and before the outbreak of the war. She lives in Taiwan with her husband. namulstudios at gmail.com Julayne Lee is an artistic researcher, poet and Fulbright alumnus (2024 - 2025). Her project “Adopted Koreans as Space Makers” is a poetic documentation of the history of Korean adoptees in Korea. Julayne’s debut collection of poems Not My White Savior was on Bitch Media's Bitchreads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read in March and Entropy's Best of 2018. It has been taught globally in Freshman Lit, Asian/Pacific Islander American Women and US and Asia: Empire and Racial Liberalism. Julayne has presented at universities and conferences in the U.S. & Korea. She has written for The Washington Post, ILDA South Korean Feminist Journal, Cultural Daily & elsewhere. @julayneelle Tom Pyun is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. He is a 2025-26 Fulbright alumnus. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University-Los Angeles, studied at Vassar College, and Columbia University. He has received writing fellowships from Tin House, VONA, and the Vermont Studio Center. His essays and short stories have appeared in The Rumpus and Joyland. His debut novel, Something Close to Nothing, was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, which called it “very, very funny” and noted that it explores “the darkly hilarious side of our never-satisfied American dreams.” He is currently adapting the novel into a feature screenplay. Before becoming a writer, Tom worked as a strategy consultant at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Polio Eradication Initiative and in the healthcare division of Los Angeles County Jail, the largest jail system in the world. After working in infectious disease and mass incarceration, he figures that if he can find humor in those environments, he can probably find it anywhere. @thp100 Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From backer at buffalo.edu Fri Jun 5 15:04:27 2026 From: backer at buffalo.edu (Bruce Acker) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 19:04:27 +0000 Subject: [KS] CFP: (Re)Thinking Lowes-Low Fertility in Korea and Beyond In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please feel free to distribute this CFP broadly to scholars working on countries and regions other than Korea, as the goal of this conference is to place Korea's total fertility rate in a global context. Thank you, Bruce Acker, Assistant Director Asia Research Institute, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Call for Papers (Re)Thinking Lowest-Low Fertility in Korea and Beyond The Fifth Annual University at Buffalo (SUNY) Korean Studies Conference September 30 - October 2, 2026 Background South Korea currently has the lowest fertility rate in the world, with a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 0.72 in 2023, and it has been the only OECD country with a TFR below 1.0 since 2018. The profound demographic and socioeconomic implications of this decline led the Korean government to declare a "National Population Crisis" on June 19, 2024. Yet Korea is not alone. Lowest-low fertility - conventionally defined as a TFR at or below 1.3 - is now a sustained feature of many societies across East Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and, increasingly, parts of Latin America. Whether Korea's trajectory represents an extreme outlier rooted in distinctive socioeconomic and cultural conditions, or a leading edge of changes to come elsewhere, remains an open and pressing question. This conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields and methodological traditions to provide a comprehensive understanding of lowest-low fertility observed in South Korea and other countries within the contemporary global context and to facilitate theoretical discussions grounded in rigorous empirical research. Conference Structure The program will consist of two parts: 1. Invited Keynote and Panel The conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. James Raymo (Princeton University), followed by an invited panel of presentations and discussion featuring Dr. Hyunjoon Park (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Alícia Adserà (Princeton University), Dr. Joeun Kim (Korea Development Institute), Dr. Sojung Lim (University at Buffalo, SUNY), and additional invited scholars whose work has shaped current thinking on Korean and comparative fertility dynamics. 1. Contributed Papers (this Call) A set of paper sessions will be organized from submissions received through this open call. Scope of the Call Invited speakers and panelists will focus primarily on Korea and East Asia. To facilitate discussions of lowest fertility from global and comparative perspectives, this call also invites papers examining lowest-low fertility in countries beyond Korea, including but not limited to: * Cross-national comparative perspectives situating Korea within broader global patterns * Other East Asian societies (e.g., Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore) * European countries with sustained sub-replacement or lowest-low fertility (e.g., Southern, Central and Eastern European cases) * Latin American countries that have recently entered, or are approaching, the lowest-low range Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Proximate and structural drivers of fertility decline to lowest-low levels, including tempo-quantum dynamics and the role of migration * Gender inequality, work-family conflict, and labor market conditions * Housing affordability, education costs, and economic precarity * Marriage, cohabitation, and union formation trends * Cultural, normative, and ideational change * The role and (in)effectiveness of family policies, broadly defined Submission Guidelines Please fill out the form below and submit: * Either a four- to six-page extended abstract or a full working paper (PDF format). * A short abstract of no more than 250 words. * A brief CV (PDF format). Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 Notifications of acceptance: August 5, 2026 Submit your proposal here Travel Support The Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the University at Buffalo will provide up to three-nights of hotel accommodation, conference meals, and local transportation for accepted participants. In addition, ARI will provide a travel subsidy of up to $500 to participants traveling within North America and up to $800 for scholars traveling from outside North America, payable by standard procedures and regulations of the University at Buffalo and the State University of New York. For academic questions, please contact Sojung Lim (Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies, University at Buffalo) at sjlim25 at buffalo.edu. For logistical questions, please contact Mia Arnold (Project Coordinator, Asia Research Institute, University at Buffalo) at miaarnol at buffalo.edu. Bruce Acker Assistant Director Asia Research Institute 212 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 backer at buffalo.edu 716.645.2580 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From K.Sueberkrueb at dsm.museum Tue Jun 9 02:53:15 2026 From: K.Sueberkrueb at dsm.museum (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCberkr=FCb_Katharina?=) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 06:53:15 +0000 Subject: [KS] =?iso-8859-1?q?Job_opportunity_at_L=FCbecker_Museen=2C_German?= =?iso-8859-1?q?y?= Message-ID: Dear list members, I would like to draw your attention to a job opportunity that may be of interest to German-speaking early-career scholars in Korean Studies, particularly those with an interest in material culture, postcolonial museum studies, or collections research. The Lübecker Museen are currently advertising a Wissenschaftliches Volontariat (academic traineeship) that explicitly lists knowledge of traditional and modern Korean culture as a desirable qualification. The position is based at their collection of some 30,000 objects from across the globe that is actively engaged in reappraising its colonial histories, initiating dialogues with source communities, and developing contemporary formats for collections work, including provenance research, digitisation, and community outreach. The full job advertisement can be found here: https://luebecker-museen.de/volo_skw Please feel free to share this with anyone in your networks who might be interested. Best wishes, Katharina Süberkrüb Dr. Katharina Süberkrüb Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Provenienz- und Sammlungsforschung Fachbereich Dokumentation und Herkünfte Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum | German Maritime Museum Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte | Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 · 27568 Bremerhaven T +49 471 482 07 853 k.sueberkrueb at dsm.museum · www.dsm.museum Aktuelles aus dem DSM: www.dsm.museum/newsletter www.instagram.com/leibnizdsm www.facebook.com/leibnizdsm www.tiktok.com/@leibnizdsm Tickets: 10 Euro, ermäßigt 5 Euro. Freier Eintritt für Kinder und Jugendliche bis einschließlich 18 Jahre. (Ticket beinhaltet die Dauer- und Sonderausstellungen in der Kogge-Halle und im Bangert-Bau. Freier Eintritt auf alle DSM-Schiffe im Museumshafen.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jay.lewis at ames.ox.ac.uk Wed Jun 10 11:16:38 2026 From: jay.lewis at ames.ox.ac.uk (James B. Lewis) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:16:38 +0100 Subject: [KS] Samchully Career Development Fellow (4 years) in Korean History and Culture--University of Oxford Message-ID: Samchully Career Development Fellow (4 years) in Korean History and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, 1 Pusey Lane, Central Oxford Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum, inclusive of Oxford University Weighting Fixed-term for 4 years from 1 January 2027 The Samchully Career Development Fellowship is an exciting opportunity to undertake innovative research in Korean history and culture, contributing to the development of Oxford’s international leadership in interdisciplinary Korean Studies. This Fellowship forms part of the Samchully Hallyu South Korean Studies Programme, a major initiative supporting research on Korean history, culture, language, and the Korean Wave (Hallyu). The Programme combines scholarly research with creative and public-facing outputs, including film, media, and cultural dissemination. This Career Development Fellowship is intended to support the postholder in establishing an independent academic profile and in progressing to a permanent academic position. The Fellow will benefit from mentorship, research support, and integration into a dynamic and interdisciplinary research environment. You will be at an early stage of an academic career, having completed a doctorate not earlier than 1 January 2023 (excluding justified career breaks), and able to demonstrate expertise in either premodern or modern Korean history and culture, with either a record of, or potential for, high-quality academic publications.  You will be highly proficient in Korean language and able to work with Korean-language resources; and be able to contribute to teaching based on texts and methodologies in Korean Studies and to teach effectively. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively as appropriate. This post is based in central Oxford.  This is a full-time, fixed-term position for 4 years from 1 January 2027. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 3 July 2026. Contact Person :    HR Team    Vacancy ID :    187013 Closing Date & Time :    03-Jul-2026 12:00 Pay Scale :    RESEARCH GRADE 7    Contact Email : hr at ames.ox.ac.uk Salary (£) :    £39,424 - £47,779 per annum, inclusive of Oxford University Weighting Click on the link(s) below to view documents    Filesize 187013 Samchully Halyu CDF Job Description     525.5 -- Dr. James B. Lewis Professor of Korean History, University of Oxford Fellow of Wolfson College Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 1 Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE United Kingdom https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/people/james-b-lewis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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DiMoia(서울대학교)토론자: 김마이클(연세대학교/규장각한국학연구원)사전 등록: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyZzLTuqk3k8JL8X6XDAJR1yworUJEwhUokjqQqEn2EYE1Vg/viewform?usp=dialog* 참여를 희망하시는 분께서는 6월 22일(월) 오후 5시까지 신청해 주시기를 바랍니다.  * 자세한 문의는 icks at snu.ac.kr(전화: 02-880-9378)로 연락해 주시기를 바랍니다. --------------------- Dear all, The Kyujanggak Korean Studies Book Talk Series: Lecture V will be held on Tuesday, June 23rd at 11:00 AM (KST). For this event, Dr. Joseph A. Seeley (University of Virginia) will present on his book: Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria. The event will be conducted in English, and held online. We warmly invite your interest and participation. Book Title: Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and ManchuriaDate: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 11:00 AM (KST)Venue: Zoom Online Meeting (A separate email will be sent the day before.)Language: EnglishAuthor: Joseph A. Seeley (University of Virginia)Moderator: John P. DiMoia (Seoul National University)Discussant: Michael Kim (Yonsei University/Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies)Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyZzLTuqk3k8JL8X6XDAJR1yworUJEwhUokjqQqEn2EYE1Vg/viewform?usp=dialog* To participate, please submit the application form by Monday, June 22nd at 5:00 PM (KST).  * For further inquiries, please contact us at icks at snu.ac.kr or by phone at +82-2-880-9378. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 포스터_Seeley.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 475830 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Once it is finalized, we will announce it on the website of the International Center for Korean Studies. We sincerely apologize for this sudden change and any inconvenience it may cause, and we kindly ask for your understanding. Thank you. * For inquiries, please contact us at icks at snu.ac.kr or by phone at +82-2-880-9378. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: