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Midwest East Asian Studies Network Doctoral Dissertation Workshop

Building on an inaugural conference at the University of Illinois organized by Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Nancy Abelmann, Heidi Ross (EDUC/EALC) hosted the second meeting of the Midwest East Asian Education Network on Saturday, April 22 at Indiana University 's School of Education. The day-long meeting was designed as a dissertation workshop, in which participating Indiana and Illinois students and faculty discussed one chapter from three students' dissertations. Indiana and Illinois doctoral students served as discussants for each workshop session. This dissertation workshop was made possible through funding from the School of Education, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Office of International Programs.

POSCO TJ Park Foundation NGO Fellowship Program Participants

The EASC will be participating in a new fellowship program generously funded by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation, the philanthropic organ of the Korean steel corporation of the same name. The program is designed to enable key personnel of Korean non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to spend time at leading North American universities gaining knowledge and experience that will further the development of NGOs in Korea.

Indiana University is part of a five member consortium of universities (Stanford, University of British Columbia, Columbia, and George Washington University) that will each host two fellows each year for five years, starting in September 2006.

The first NGO fellows to be hosted by Indiana University, Ms. So-Yeon Kim and Ms. Yu-Seok Chung, were selected this April at the Annual AAS meetings in San Francisco. Kim is Director of the Research Institute of the Citizens' Movement for Environmental Justice. Her fellowship research topic is “Public Policy Conflict and Participation of Citizens,” and she will be working with conflict resolution specialists at SPEA. Chung is Director of the Women's Rights Bureau of the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, and her fellowship project centers around "legal mobilization strategies” in a movement to combat violence against women. We hope the East Asian Studies community at Indiana University will welcome these first fellows in the coming year.

March 2007 workshop: “Monsters and the Monstrous in Premodern Japanese History and Culture”

The East Asian Studies Center has received a grant from the Toshiba International Foundation to hold a workshop titled “Monsters and the Monstrous in Premodern Japanese History and Culture” on March 30-31, 2007. Thomas Keirstead (EALC/HIST) will direct the project, which will bring together scholars from Japan and the United States to consider the cultural work that monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures do and to investigate the place of monsters and ideas of the monstrous in premodern Japanese history and culture. While the primary goal of the workshop is to increase and refine the scholarship on the topic, a set of web-based resources for teaching and learning about Japanese monsters will also be designed as an aid to educators who seek to introduce Japanese ideas about monsters and the monstrous into their curricula.

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