Over the past 5 years, UPEI successfully hosted two major KS conferences at UPEI in late June 2018 and June 2023, and 13–18 prominent and promising scholars in Philosophy, Religious Studies, or History from USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China participated in each of these conferences with  5–6 panels for two days. With the support of Dr. Chung’s KS international project grants (2018–2021 and 2022–25; thanks to one-third of CA$1M for each project funded by Korean Studies Promotion Service, the AKS, Korea), Dr. Chung organized each conference and UPEI’s KS project hosted and funded each conference. A very successful event at UPEI; the first of its kind ever. 

• June 22–23, 2023: The 2023 Asian Studies International Conference “The Mind and Mind Cultivation in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Buddhist, Confucian, Related, and Contemporary Perspectives,” June 22–23, 2023, SDU Main Building, FA Lounge, University of PEI,  Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. See:
  Conference Program & Invitation
  Web Event & UPEI News
• June 22–23, 2018: The 2018 Asian Studies International Conference “Good and Evil on Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality: Buddhist, Confucian, Other, and Contemporary Perspectives,” June 14–15, 2018, SDU Main Building, FA Lounge, University of PEI,  Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. See:
  Conference Program
  Web Event

For both conferences in 2018 and 2023, we thank again the opening keynote speach by Dr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Distinguished Research Professor (formerly Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies), and Founding Director, the Centre for Buddhist Studies and the Centre for Korean Studies, UCLA.

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