The Korea Program at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is pleased to host the 4th International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), September 11-12, 2025. The conference will provide a venue for scholars across the globe to come together to share their ongoing projects on Korea and the Korean diaspora. The program will consist of paper presentations that address various issues of sociological significance, including:
Family, Health, and Population (organizer: Jaein Lee and Sojung Lim)
Gender and Sexualities (organizer: Hyeyoung Woo)
(Im)migration, Race, and Ethnicity (organizer: Minjeong Kim)
Stratification and Inequality (organizer: Jung In and Hyunjoon Park)
Political Sociology / Economic Sociology (organizer: Su Yeone Jeon and Paul Chang)
Other topics (organizer: ChangHwan Kim)
Submission
Submission due date: June 9, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (PDT)
Please send any inquiries to koreaprogram@stanford.edu.
The I-CSK Program Committee invites graduate students who have been selected to present their work at the 2025 I-CSK conference to submit their conference manuscript for the Student Paper Award. The I-CSK Student Paper Award recognizes outstanding sociological research on Korea and/or the Korean diaspora.
The graduate student must be the sole or first author of the submitted paper. Published papers or papers accepted for publication will not be considered for the student paper award.
To nominate a student paper, email a PDF file of the paper with “Student Paper Award” in the subject line to: koreaprogram@stanford.edu. Please include in your email a one-paragraph description of how the paper contributes to the sociological study of Korea.
The nomination deadline is August 1, 2025. The awardee will be provided a hotel room for up to 3 nights during the conference hosted by the Korea Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Program Committee
Paul Y. Chang (Senior Fellow at FSI-APARC and Professor by courtesy in the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Stanford University)
Jung In (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Soongsil University)
Su Yeone Jeon (Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
ChangHwan Kim (Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas)
Minjeong Kim (Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University)
Jaein Lee (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arkansas State University)
Sojung Lim (Associate Professor of Sociology, Utah State University)
Hyunjoon Park (Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies and Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
Hyeyoung Woo (Director, Institute for Asian Studies and Professor of Sociology, Portland State University)
