The first Annual Conference of the Irish Association for Asian Studies will be held in Dublin City University on 17th and 18th June 2016. It is jointly organised by IAAS and the School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. The theme of the conference is Commemoration. We hope the conference will provide a platform for lively discussions amongst scholars from interdisciplinary… Read more →

Call for Papers The 5th Conference on Korean Screen Culture Department of Film Studies King’s College London, UK June 3rd-4th 2016  Following successful conferences on Korean Screen Culture held at SOAS, the University of London (2012 & 2013), Sheffield Hallam University (2014), and the University of Copenhagen (2015), the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London is pleased to announce the… Read more →

The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies would like to invite applications for its 2016 fellowships. Please note that the deadline for applications is January 31, 2015. The fellowships allow researchers in various stages of their careers to use the Kyujanggak collection as well as the resources at Seoul National University to carry out their research projects or prepare a manuscript for publication. The… Read more →

  Job Reference Number: UOS012552 Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences Department: School of East Asian Studies Salary: Grade 8 £38,896 – £46,414 per annum pro-rata, with potential to progress to £52,219 Closing Date: 4th February 2016 Summary: The School of East Asian Studies is bound together by a passionate belief in the importance of East Asia as the most dynamic… Read more →

Paris, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales June 20-July 1, 2016 Hyper-specialization characterizes most, or all fields of academic studies. Medicine, history, economics or anthropology, are divided in internal subfields, often compartmentalized from each other and bearing little connection to the mother discipline. This hyper-specialization helped the development of all sciences, including the Social Sciences, but is often unsuitable… Read more →

Oxford-Wolfson Min Sunshik Graduate Scholarship Wolfson College and the International Communication Foundation are offering a fully funded graduate scholarship at the University of Oxford from the beginning of the academic year 2016-2017 for a student undertaking a DPhil course in Korean Literature. This scholarship is part-funded by the Oxford Graduate Scholarship Matched Fund.   Applicants proposing to work on pre-modern… Read more →

Postgraduate Scholarship to go to Korea 2016 The Royal Legion’s website is now accepting applications for the Postgraduate Scholarship to go to Korea 2016: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-support/external-grants/postgraduate-scholarship-to-korea/ Application deadline is 18th December 2015. Read more →

2 PhD students in Asian Languages and Cultures, specialization Korean at Stockholm University, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies   Ref. No. SU FV-2687-15 Closing date: 15/10/2015 Qualification requirements In order to meet the general entry requirements, the applicant must have completed a second-cycle degree, completed courses equivalent to at least 240 higher education credits, of which 60… Read more →

On Friday 11th September, BAKS will co-host a workshop with SOAS Centre of Korean Studies on North Korean social history. This event will bring together leading scholars from around the world working on North Korean history. Registration is free for BAKS members, and costs £15 for non-members. More details and a link for registration can be found on the event web page… Read more →

The following funding opportunity will be of interest to students wishing to pursue the new MA *Subject* and Intensive Korean degree at SOAS. More information on that degree here: http://www.soas.ac.uk/japankorea/programmes/ma-and-intensive-language-korean/   SOAS HEFCE Scholarships for 2-Year MA Programmes in Language-based Area Studies We are delighted to announce that SOAS has a scholarship fund of £250,000 to award in 2015-16 for students in Language-based… Read more →