[HERITAGE-LIST] Conference(s): Korean language teachers, SUNY-Binghamton, June 2008

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

Two Major Conferences on Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy Held at SUNY, Binghamton

Binghamton University's Korean Studies Program will play host to the 13th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) and the 16th International Conference of Korean Linguistics (ICKL).
The four-day event, scheduled June 26-29, is to disseminate Korean studies not only in the United States, but also in Korea and Europe.

The conference chair, Sungdai Cho, associate professor of Korean and linguistics in Asian Studies, expects 200 scholars from around the world to attend.
The AATK conference consists of an annual conference, professional development workshop and sessions for exchanging teaching materials and ideas. Two scholars are invited for the conference, Heidi Byrnes at Georgetown University and Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku at the University of California, San Diego.

The ICKL conference consists of an annual conference and four invited speakers, Gregory Iverson at the University of Maryland at College Park (phonology), Yoonjung Kang at the University of Toronto (phonology), William O'Grady at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (language acquisition) and James Yoon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (syntax).

The conferences are supported by the Provost's Office, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Research Division, Office of International Programs, Department of German, Russian Studies and Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Korea Foundation and The Academy of Korean Studies.
For details or to register, contact Cho at sundy at binghamton.edu or 777-3950, or visit the following website, http://greal.binghamton.edu/korean/events.html