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We invite applications for this postdoctoral fellowship for the 2018-19 academic year. The application deadline is May 23rd.  Selection and announcement will take place in the last week of May. The fellowship is usually awarded to a recent PhD graduate of EALAC or an allied Columbia department; exceptions to this have been rare. Candidates who have already received another postdoc or an academic appointment for the coming year are generally not considered for this fellowship. The PhD must be conferred by June 30, 2018 for the applicant to be eligible for 2018-19 postdoctoral appointment.

The Heyman Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in East Asian Civilizations is a teaching fellowship carrying a term of one year. Only recent PhD graduates or students who plan to defend their dissertations before the summer of this year, preferably in the fields of Chinese literature and history, are eligible to apply. A fellow is usually asked to teach independent sections of Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia (Asian Humanities) or Introduction to Major Topics in East Asian Civilizations; in some cases other teaching assignments may be made, according to departmental need and the specialty of the fellow. Prior teaching experience in Major Texts or Major Topics is valuable and will be considered by the selection committee.

Applicants should submit:

  • a letter of application, including an account of the applicant’s teaching experience and/or other intellectual qualifications for teaching either, or both, of the courses mentioned above
  • an academic transcript and personal résumé (CV)
  • one letter of recommendation

Materials should be submitted to Kevin Stillwell (ks3453@columbia.edu), Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York NY 10027, indicating “Attention: Heyman Center Postdoc Application.”

Speaking for the selection committee, we wish every applicant well in this process, and we thank you in advance for your interest and willingness to apply.

 

Shang Wei, Acting Chair of EALAC

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We are pleased to announce that Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Chinese Law and History.

The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) was established in 2014 to promote more regular exchanges of ideas and fruitful collaboration among all scholars across the world who are interested in better understanding Chinese law and society from historical and comparative perspectives. The ISCLH organizes a series of workshops, international conferences, and publication projects on a regular basis. Registered members now include almost 140 researchers from more than ten different countries in multiple continents.

 by Ross Yelsey

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The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.2.

Guest edited by Steven Chung (Princeton University) and Hyun Seon Park (Yonsei University), the fall 2017 thematic issue, “The Cold War in Korean Cinemas,” offers seven articles that complement each other in the ways they each redefine not only Korean cinema but the Cold War itself. This issue provides both a deep engagement with the archive and a set of major theoretical interventions.

The articles will be available online shortly through read.dukeupress.edu and Project MUSE, including for individuals not affiliated with a subscribing institution. The abstracts for the current issue are available at jks.weai.columbia.edu.

The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) publishes articles in all disciplines and across all time periods, both historical and contemporary. The JKS is committed to articles that engage with a Korea-related topic in a substantial way, take existing scholarship (in Korean and/or other languages) into account, and explore new methodologies and theoretical frameworks that speak to readerships beyond Korean studies. We encourage transnational, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship.

JKS is currently accepting submissions for the special fall 2019 issue (Volume 24, No. 2) entitled “Archives, Archival Practice, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea.” This issue is guest edited by Jungwon Kim (Columbia University). JKS also welcomes submissions year round for publication in the spring issue. For more information please visit jks.weai.columbia.edu and https://www.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/


The Journal of Korean Studies, Fall 2017, Volume 22, No.2

  • Editor’s Note
  • Introduction
  • Articles
    • Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Asia Foundation and 1950s Korean Cinema
      Christina Klein
    • Auteurism as a Cold War Governmentality: Alternative Knowledge and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity
      Han Sang Kim
    • Destination Hong Kong: The Geopolitics of South Korean Espionage Films in the 1960s
      Sang Joon Lee
    • Doubled Over 007: “Aryu Pondŭ” and Genre-Mixing Comedy in Korea
      Evelyn Shih
    • Cold War Mnemonics: History, Melancholy, and Landscape in South Korean Films of the 1960s
      Hyun Seon Park
    • Departure and Repatriation as Cold War Dissensus: Domestic Ethnography in Korean Documentary
      Jinhee Park

    Book Reviews

    • The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy by Stein Ringen, Huck-ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi, Taekyoon Kim, and Jooha Lee and State-centric to Contested Social Governance in South Korea: Shifting Power by Hyuk-Rae Kim
      Reviewed by Jesook Song
    • The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea by Hyun Ok Park
      Reviewed by Cheehyung Harrison Kim
    • Korea’s Grievous War by Su-kyong Hwang
      Reviewed by Nan Kim
    • Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema by Youngmin Choe
      Reviewed by Haerin Shin

     

    Jooyeon Kim
    Managing Editor

    The Journal of Korean Studies

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute

    Columbia University

    420 West 118th Street, Office 907
    New York, New York 10027

    http://jks.weai.columbia.edu/

We are pleased to announce that Eugenia Lean, the Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (on leave AY 2017-18) and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

The NEH grant, announced in December 2017, will support the next six months of Professor Lean’s work on the book project “A Chinese Man-of-Letters in an Age of Industrial Capitalism: Chen Diexian (1879-1940),” which examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of industrialization by focusing on the practices and writings of polymath Chen Diexian, a professional writer/editor, science enthusiast, and pharmaceutical industrialist. Professor Lean is currently developing the project as a 2017-18 member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies.

 by Ross Yelsey

C.V. Starr Library New Acquisition: Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement in Prewar Japan

A new DVD on Documents of the proletarian cultural movement of the prewar Shōwa era (昭和戦前期プロレタリア文化運動資料集) has been acquired and is now accessible through the dedicated Japanese language CD/DVD-ROM workstation in the Starr Reading Room (300 Kent Hall).

This DVD, newly compiled by Shōwa Senzenki Puroretaria Bunka Undō Shiryōshū Kenkyūkai, contains various important resources from various sources.

More details, please refer to the CLIO record: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/12807594

Click on the icons below to view the information brochure:

Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, Japanese Literature & Film, University of Oregon) visited Columbia on the 16th and 17th of November for two talks organized by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. She was voted by the graduate students of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures for her exciting and diverse areas of research. The first talk dealt with the topic of Japanese women who studied in the United States between 1949 and 1966, which was an enlightening account of U.S.-Japan interaction that brought to attention an overlooked postwar history of Japanese female intellectuals, some of whom pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. The personal life stories of these women enable a reading of U.S.-Japan relations during the postwar/Cold War period as well as the role that female intellectuals played within the interplay of foreign policy, all the while living out their individual goals and aspirations. The second talk was a fascinating insight into fights (literary rather than physical) among prominent figures in the Japanese literary circles that caused a promising young writer to leave the literary field. The textual interactions which she calls “snarks” provide new ways of narrating the history of modern Japanese literature and arriving at a new understanding of that history through a study of affective relationships among writers. Over dinner and lunch following the talks, faculty members and graduate students got a chance to discuss the details of Professor Freedman’s research and enjoy her delightful company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written by Stephen Choi

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Professor Theodore Hughes awarded Heyman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019

Professor Theodore Hughes, Director of the Center for Korean Research and Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University, has been awarded a Heyman Center Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Funded by Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts and Sciences, this yearlong fellowship provides course relief, allowing scholars to work on proposed research projects and to participate in the Heyman Center Fellows Seminar. Comprising other faculty and dissertating graduate student fellows and chaired by Mark Mazower, the Seminar Director of the Heyman Center Fellows, this seminar provides the opportunity to present work-in-progress and foster discussion across fields and disciplines in other ways, creating opportunities for collaborative research and teaching in future semesters.

The EALAC Department hopes you join us in congratulating Professor Hughes on his tremendous achievement.

Confucius Institute Call for Research Proposals

Dear Colleagues,

I write to solicit research proposals for the Confucius Institute for 2018.

The Arts and Sciences of Columbia University signed an agreement with Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarter in Beijing in 2013 to help enhance Columbia faculty’s collaborations with Chinese scholars in teaching and research.  Vice President for Arts and Sciences David Madigan now serves as the chair of the board of directors.  I have been asked to chair Program Committee to select projects to receive funding from the Hanban grant.  The other members of the Committee this year are Myron Cohen, Eugenia Lean, Lening Liu, and Lydia Liu.  Haruo Shirane, the chair of EALAC, serves as ex officio member.

According to the agreement signed by Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters, Hanban will provide funding for “Confucius Institute Research projects” related to the study of Chinese history and Chinese culture.  This program has been expanded to include research projects on interactions between China and other East Asian countries.

On behalf of the Program Committee, I am writing to solicit proposals for conferences, workshops or other programs on any of the above subjects.  Because this grant is designed to foster closer collaborations between Chinese and Columbia scholars, preference will be given to projects that involve Chinese scholars.  Renmin University of China is currently our designated partner university so the inclusion of faculty from this institution is desirable, but it does not preclude inviting scholars from other institutions in China or the U.S.  We are also open to programs that can be held in Beijing or take place at the Beijing Global Center.

We invite proposals for projects or conferences/workshops that are scheduled to take place between February 1, 2018 and December 31.  Requests for funding may not exceed $23,000.

When submitting a proposal, please include the following:
Cover Page including
Name of the Project
One paragraph abstract
Key organizers at Columbia and in China with affiliations
Start and end date
Total amount of money requested

The “Proposal” describing the purpose of the program, its intended contribution to our understanding of China and the product that the program will produce should not exceed 3 pages.  In addition, you must include a detailed budget.  In planning workshops and conferences please include support for logistical staff/student assistants, etc. as these services cannot be provided by existing departmental or institute staff.  You may combine funding from Hanban with other funding.

The deadline for all proposals is December 10th, 2017.

Please send applications to:
Hanban/Confucius Institute Program Committee
c/o Shang, Wei
626 Kent Hall
Or email them to ws110@columbia.edu

Sincerely Yours,

Shang, Wei
Department of EALAC
Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture
Columbia University

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Center for Korean Research AKS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies, 2018-2019

The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University invites
applications for its 2018-2019 Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Center is
searching for a scholar who conducts Korea-related research in any discipline in the humanities or social
sciences. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work is interdisciplinary and connects
Korea to broader East Asian and global issues or concerns. The Fellow will teach one course each
semester in her/his area of expertise as well as pursue her/his own research. The Fellow will be provided
the opportunity to organize events related to her/his research interests and will participate actively in
programs and events sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, the Weatherhead East Asian
Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and other relevant units at Columbia.

The fellowship will cover a 12-month period beginning September 1, 2018 and ending on August 31,
2019. The fellowship comes with a total compensation of $60,663, shared office space, and access to
libraries and resources at Columbia University.

Eligibility
·  Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements (completed and filed the
dissertation) between July 2015 and July 2018.

Application Procedure
·  Completed Application Cover Sheet
·  Updated Curriculum Vitae, including a list of classes taught (if any)
·  Course evaluations for classes taught (if any)
·  Two course proposals or syllabi (for courses to be offered to undergraduates and advanced
undergraduates/M.A. students)
·  3 letters of reference (signed and sealed) that include an evaluation of the applicant’s research,
proposed courses, and prior teaching experience.

Application Deadline:
All application materials (including letters of reference) must be received on or before February 1, 2018.
Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Candidates may be invited for an interview to be
held by phone or in person. All evaluations made in connection with applications received are
confidential.

For the Application Cover Sheet, please click here.

Center for Korean Research AKS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies, 2018-2019
ATTN: Jooyeon Kim
Center for Korean Research
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, Room 907
New York, NY 10027

For more information about the Center for Korean Research AKS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean
Studies, please contact Jooyeon Kim, Assistant Director at jk2857@columbia.edu.

Complete information and an application details are available at http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/.

This fellowship is supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of
Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean
Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2250006).

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Consortium Workshop Award – Fumiko Nazikian and Jisuk Park

This year’s winning proposal for a workshop funded by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning is titled “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the pedagogy of language teaching” and was submitted by Fumiko Nazikian, senior lecturer in Japanese language and Jisuk Park, lecturer in Japanese language, at Columbia University, New York.

The proposal outlined the pedagogical rationale on which SNA is grounded and put forward an argument in support of its instructional uses, particularly in light of the frameworks of global communities within which students operate, and the intercultural component of their engagement with global issues.

The workshop has been awarded 5,000$ and will take place at Columbia University during Fall 2018. In addition to workshop sessions that will allow instructors of all languages to discuss the incorporation of  SNA, the workshop will include a keynote address by Prof. Tohsaku of the University of California, San Diego.

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