North Korea

Library Of Congress: Asian Reading Room

The Library's Asian collection began in 1869 with a gift of 10 works in 933 volumes from the emperor of China to the United States. Spanning a diversity of subjects from China, Japan, Korea, the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Library's Asian collections have become one of the most accessible and comprehensive sources of Asian language materials in the world. For further information about the collection, visit the Asian Division's Web site at http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/

Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship for 2009

The Asian Division Friends Society announces the Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship for 2009. This fellowship is made possible by a generous donation of Florence Tan Moeson, for 43 years a Chinese Team cataloger in the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division before she retired in 2001.

The purpose of the fellowship is to give individuals the opportunity to use the Asian collections in the Library of Congress, which are among the most significant outside of Asia and consist of nearly 2.8 million books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts and microforms in the languages of East, South and Southeast Asia.

Researchers wishing to submit applications should go to this Web site: www.lcasianfriends.org/fellowship.

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Travel Grant Program for the 2008-2009

TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM
HARVARD-YENCHING LIBRARY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The Harvard-Yenching Library’s Travel Grant Program is designed to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of Harvard-Yenching's collections for research. Priority consideration is given to those at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East Asian languages, and no major East Asian library collections are available nearby.

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EAS Graduate Conference 2010 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor, desire is a concept that intersects with and imbricates a range of complex issues operating on the level of the libidinal as well as the material economy. Nationalism and imperialism, genders and sexualities, aesthetics and consumer culture, and the politics of alterity are but a few, yet are all significant to the study of East Asia.

North Korea Research Group

Greetings on behalf of the North Korea Research Group. Event information below:

1. Oct. 21 3-5 108N (Munk Center) Info Session

This information is for all interested undergraduate and graduate students who would like to be involved with NKRG this year. The session is highly recommended for anyone interested in researching with NKRG as we will talk about our research topics this year, some information about the group, and information regarding the application process.

2. Oct. 27 4-6 208N (Munk Center) Info Session

This information session is for those who could not make the previous one.

3. Oct. 30 12-2 108N (Munk Center) Luncheon Talk with Ambassador Chan-Ho Ha

The RoK ambassador to Canada will be conducting a short talk and Q&A session.

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To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations

The Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto is pleased to have Dr. Tania Li as one of its featured guests for this semester's Intersections Speaker Series.

Dr. Li will give a talk titled "To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations" on Oct 23 (Fri), 2-4pm in Sidney Smith Room 2125 (100 St. George).

Please see attached poster for abstract and more information.

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Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

13th Annual Edition

November 11-15, 2009

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) will celebrate its 13th year as Canada’s premier showcase of contemporary Asian cinema November 11 to 15, 2009. Presenting 49 East/Southeast Asian titles from around the world, from 14 countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States of America, this year’s line-up includes a number of highly anticipated Canadian premieres, internationally acclaimed features, as well as shorts that hit close to home (12 World Premieres, 7 Canadian Premieres, 17 Toronto Premieres and over 35 guests in Attendance).