Korean History / Studies

Korean boy group BTS are the first ever Korean act to perform at Wembley Stadium as part of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. Debuting in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment, BTS initially struggled to gain recognition in Korea as they didn’t come from one of the big three Korean entertainment companies.

Date: Monday, June 24, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) 
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
Speaker: T.W. Kang, Managing Director, Global Synergy Associates 
Admission: Free. Open to the public.
Language: English 
Registration: icas@tuj.temple.edu
* Registration is encouraged, but not required.
      
Overview:

Small Lecture Hall, June 28 – 29, 2019 
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Takustr. 40, 14195 Berlin 

News vom 21.05.2019

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers - MARAAS 2019 

** See below for new details on workshops and keynote address **

“Asian Studies in the Digital Age”

48th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
October 12–13, 2019
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Conference Theme : “Asian Dream - Challenges & Issues ”

ICAS2019 hopes to provide an interesting platform for researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers and  post-graduate students, to share knowledge, exchange ideas and establish academic relationships.

Call for Nominations for

Zhu Kezhen Awards, May 2019

Culture, community and cities in the Pacific Rim.

Outline:

The conference takes a global perspective of the city today and seeks specific regional critiques on life and design in cities in the Pacific Rim region:

Japan, Korea, South Asia, East Asia, Australian, China and more

It is set in the context of the 50th anniversary of new interdisciplinary thinking on life, design and cultures in cities found in the writings of Jane Jacobs’.

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
Admission: Free and open to the public.
Language: English
Registration: icas@tuj.temple.edu * Registration is encouraged, but not required.

Overview:

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 42, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2019‒20. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review.
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. It serves as an international forum for academic publications on East Asian research, with individual research papers making up the larger part of the journal.