Penn Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter

1. University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
   
2. Regional East Asia Events
   
3. Employment and Internship Opportunities
   
4. Fellowship and Award Opportunities
   
5. East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
   
6. Conferences and Workshops

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A member of the Washington, DC Asia Team, the Asia Programs Coordinator (APC) is responsible for providing information, oral and written, to students and faculty; managing program application files and student-related communication for CET's Shanghai, Harbin, Hangzhou, Vietnam, and Fulbright programs as well as the Middlebury School in China; preparing pre-departure and alumni mailings; maintaining and improving website applications; and training and managing the summer support staff and interns who will work on Asia programs

Recent college graduates or students graduating in May would be perfect candidates for this position. Study abroad experience in China and Chinese skills are requirements for the position. The complete job description may be found at:

http://cet.studioabroad.com

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We are pleased to inform you that we are recruiting  30 full-time lecturers for TESOL at Sook Myung University (in Seoul), in which they would train  primary and secondary English teachers in Korea.

Applicants' qualification requirements and employment condition are as follows:
1. Qualification requirement:
a. M.A. degree in TESOL or equivalent level.
b. Native American or English citizen.
c. No criminal record.

2. Condition of employment:
a. Period of Employment : one ye ar. The employment could be extended to 2 year and 3 year under the agreement between the employer and employee.
b. Job duty : lecturer in TESOL.
c. Teaching hours: 16 hours per week  and at least 3 office hours per week.
d. Salary and Overtime:
   -  Annual Salary: W 36,000,000( approximately U$ 36,000).
  -  Overtime pay for teaching: University Pay Rate.
  -  Signing bonus: Won 1,000,000 ( approximately U$ 1,000): At each additional one-year contract.
   -  Annual salary will be increased by 4% at the second year contract and by more than 4 % at the third year contract.
e. Housing
  -  housing allowance: 440,000 won (Approximately U$ 440) per month or housing facility(one single-occupancy at the International House) provided by the University.
f. Medical Insurance
  - Medical benefits under the National Health Insurance Corporation and its costs will be borne by the Employer and Employee.
g. Vacation
  - One month paid vacation each in summer(August) and in winter(Feburary) respectively. However, the employee in the first contract year shall be required to report
to work during the 1st month of employment (either August or Feburary) in order to prepare for the first semester. Therefore, there will only be a single month paid vacation during the 1st contract year.

The  qualified applicants may submit their resume in detail to our office by Fax or E-mail not later than May 20, 2008.
They may be requested to have an interview with a Director of Sook Myung TESOL.

We hope that you post the foregoing job position to your graduating students and alumni as they explore careers.
If you have any question, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,

Young Woon Ahn
President, English Tutor Resources Center
              Onnuri Emigration Corporation
              Onnuri Overseas Education

*Call for Papers
International Conference on “Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and
Socioeconomics”
To be held in Hong Kong, December 12-13, 2008
Co-Sponsored by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington University in St. Louis

Along the recent trend of globalization, perhaps one of the most
significant focal points is the study on issues related to “Greater
China,” a notion that originally entails potential economic integration
of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (including Macau) and has lately been broadened to include Singapore, Southeast Asian Chinese communities, and overseas Chinese in other countries. Despite some political repercussions, Greater China has become an indisputable economic reality today. But economy is not the strongest element at play; rather, a more prevalent and consequential factor is culture and the underlying formal institutions and informal social customs.

This conference is designed to study the causes and consequences of globalization from cultural, institutional and socioeconomic
perspectives, focusing more on topics related to Greater China. It
invites scholars to investigate:
• What perspectives can we deploy to investigate the different and yet
similar cosmopolitan cultures of Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing,
Singapore, Macau, Shenzhen, and others?
• How do cultures of these cities work in practice and how are they
embedded in everyday-life situations as locatable phenomena?
• What approaches can we use to explore the experience of place and
space, the dynamics between local and global, culture and economy, and the dilemmas of knowledge?
• How do states, empires and nations, corporations, shops and goods, literature, music, film, etc., figure in our examination of the cultures of consumption and production?
• How do places develop meanings for people? What are the struggles over defining who belongs in a place?
• What role do travel, information technology, and other means of
communication play in shaping a global city network among these three cities and beyond?

The conference will feature several distinguished keynote and
plenary-session speakers, including Nobel Laureate Douglass North and Professors Frank Dikotter, Robert Hegel, Chang-Tai Hsien, Gordon Mathews, Hui Wang, and Shaoguang Wang. All sessions will be held on the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus, while the conference dinner will be housed at the world-known Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Although we prefer complete papers, submissions of long abstracts will be considered. Submissions of organized sessions are also welcome. All submissions must be made through e-mail to all the co-chairs of the program committee no later than May 31, 2008: Lingchei Letty Chen (llchen@artsci.wustl.edu), Ann Louise Huss (ahuss@cuhk.edu.hk), Laikwan Pang (crsdept@cuhk.edu.hk), and Ping Wang (pingwang@artsci.wustl.edu).

We anticipate having the preliminary program posted by June 15, 2008.

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Call for Applications- 2008 HPAIR Academic Conference!

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is
pleased to present its 2008 Academic Conference, and is now accepting applications from university students around the world.

The HPAIR academic conference is an annual international conference that brings together top students from elite universities across the world to engage in high-level discourse on economic, political, humanistic, cultural, and social issues affecting Asia and the world. It is Harvard's largest annual event in Asia.

The conference approaches its goal holistically, and features rigorous
academic workshops and lectures led by renowned professors, scholars, government officials, and private sector practitioners from all over the world. Additionally, the conference features opportunities for student paper presentations, interactive activities, field trips, and social & networking events (including the famous annual "International Night" cultural extravaganza as well as the elaborate gala dinner closing ceremony). 

Notable past speakers at HPAIR conferences include: Kim Dae-jung (Former President, Republic of South Korea), S. R. Nathan (President,
Singapore), Kim Young-Sam (President, Republic of South Korea), Norodom Ranariddh (Prime Minister, Cambodia), Bai Ki-moon (Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Korea), Fred Hu (Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asia), Tu Wei-Ming (Professor of Confucian Philosophy, Harvard University), Richard Cooper (Professor of Economics, Harvard University), and Jeffrey Sachs (Professor of Economics, Columbia University). http://www.hpair.org/about/history/speakers.aspx

This year, the 2008 HPAIR Academic Conference will be held from Aug 21-24, 2008 at the Hilton Kuala Lumpur Hotel in Malaysia.

The application system is currently open. Applications from students
will be accepted at http://www.hpair.org/conferences/aconf/  until May
15th. For more information on HPAIR, please visit www.hpair.org.
Questions may be directed to help@hpair.org.

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In addition, limited space is still available for HPAIR 2008 Business
Conference:

Details about the HPAIR 2008 Business Conference are as follows:
Theme: Emerging into Focus: Asia Incorporated
Venue: JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Date: August 14 – 17, 2008

Plenary Sessions:
  **Ties that Bind: How Corporate Governance Affects the Business
Climate
  in Asia
  **East Meets West: Global Integration of the Business World

Panel Topics:
  *Financial Services
  *Family-owned Conglomerates
  *Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds
  *Energy and Natural Resources
  *Foreign Direct Investment
  *Media and Entertainment
  *Luxury Goods
  *Real Estate

Workshop Topics
  *Enhancing Board leadership and Value
  *Consumer Branding and Marketing
  *Law and Regulations
  *Managing and Recruiting Talent

To learn more about the HPAIR Business Conference, please visit
http://www.hpair.org/conferences/bconf/ or join our facebook group:
http://harvard.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6656141237

**Due to high demand, application will still be accepted based on
discretion, please visit www.hpair.org **

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