CFP: "LIVING A GOOD LIFE: HAPPINESS, MENTAL HEALTH, AND LONGEVITY IN ASIA", ASIA PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES JOURNAL

"Living A Good Life:
Happiness, Mental Health, and Longevity in Asia”

Asia Pacific Perspectives

USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies

Asia Pacific Perspectives, the open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the call for papers for its next special issue, “Living A Good Life:  Happiness, Mental Health, and Longevity in Asia.” 

With this special issue, the Center aims to promote research and interdisciplinary academic exchange and discussion on issues related to happiness, mental health and longevity in Asia both historically and today.

Proposed themes include definitions of happiness, health and wellness, mental health, the impact of globalization and wealth on happiness, the happiness index, the search for immortality, secrets of a long life, health policy, and so on. Submissions may explore happiness and longevity as inter-related, or they may focus on happiness or longevity as a discrete topic.

CFP: "ASIAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND FILM", ANNUAL CONVENTION

Asian Comparative Literature and Film

2019 RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) Annual Convention

Hotel Paso del Norte, El Paso, Texas

October 10-12, 2019 

We welcome paper proposals exploring the broad theme of “Memory, Margins, and Motion.” Papers might, for example, consider how works of literature and/or film address historical, cultural, or personal memory. Alternatively, papers might examine movement across or between national and/or cultural borders as well as genres. We encourage contributions from a wide variety of fields on topics that may include but are not limited to the following:

• Transculturation, reconstruction, and/or preservation of history and memory
• Intra-Asian or East-West intercultural communication, conflict, encounters, translation, and/or adaptation
• Interdisciplinary connections between literature, film, performance, and/or related genres
• Social, personal, or collective memory related to activism (for example, climate change)
• Memory and trauma
• Intertextuality within and beyond Asia
• Border studies, esp. cultural collaborations investigating or traversingnational boundaries
• Power dynamics between Asian texts and global cultural discourses, including regionalism, pluralism, and globalism
• Political and familial memory and/or migration
• Language, dialect, and accent
• Digital humanities, media, and technology
• Critical analysis of postcolonial and diasporic identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and/or ecocriticism

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a short biography to both xiaoxue@ucsb.edu and blint@mansfield.edu by March 15, 2019. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent out in April.

Chairs:

Wendy Sun, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California Santa Barbara

xiaoxue@ucsb.edu

Brad Lint, Department of English and World Languages, Mansfield University

blint@mansfield.edu

CFP: 2019 JANGSEOGAK HANMUN SUMMER WORKSHOP

2019 Jangseogak Hanmun Summer Workshop 
1st - 19th of July, 2019

(Intensive Literary/Classical Chinese Training Course for Students and Junior Scholars)

The Jangseogak Archives at the Academy of Korean Studies is accepting applications for 2019 Jangseogak Hanmun (Classical Chinese) Summer Workshop, a three-week intensive on-campus language course from 1st July to 19th July, 2019. We welcome application from undergraduate students, graduate students or advanced degree holders of Korean Studies and/or East Asian Studies. Applicants must have studied at least one year of Classical Chinese or completed comparable course in Asian Studies.

The workshop will run for 6 hours from Monday to Friday for three weeks (morning lectures and afternoon practicum for translation), and will also include field trips to explore historic sites related to the reading materials addressed in the workshop.

The workshop aims at creating a global knowledge-building community of Korean studies. All lectures and discussions at the workshop will be conducted in English; at the same time, it will require translation of the original sources into English. Apart from the translation project, each participant will write a no more than ten-to fifteen-page introductory article on one primary source of his/her own choice from a list of fifty texts derived from the Archives (to be completed within six months from the completion of the workshop). The fifty texts will be carefully selected by the scholars of the Archives in consideration of the participants’ expertise and interests. The authorship of each translated piece and article will be accredited to the individual contributor; however, both the translated sources and the introductory articles will belong to the public domain of Korean studies and be published online for academic purposes.

CFP: VIII FEFU INTERNATIONAL KOREAN STUDIES CONFERENCE, FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

VIII FEFU International Korean Studies Conference

17th – 18th of May, 2019

Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russian Federation

The Center for Korean Studies (Institute of Oriental Studies – School of Regional and International Studies, FEFU) is pleased to announce VIII FEFU International Korean Studies Conference hosted by the Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Oriental Studies – School of Regional and International Studies (located in Vladivostok, Primorsky Region of Russian Federation) with support of Russian Association of Academic Koreanology.

The conference is organized by Center for Korean Studies and supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of the Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2015-OLU-2250003).

The Conference will focus on a broad range of topics related to Korean history, politics, economy and culture. The Conference organizers invite papers and presentation proposals relevant to Korean Studies. A paper with any of the following or related subjects would be appropriate for presentation:

Current issues of Korean Peninsula.

CONVOCATORIA 2019 PROGRAMA DE BECAS DEL GOBIERNO DE COREA (KGSP)

 

El Instituto Nacional para la Educación Internacional (NIIED) de Corea ha abierto la convocatoria Programa 2019 de Becas del Gobierno de Corea (Korean Government Scholarship Program, KGSP). Desde la Embajada se realizará el proceso de selección inicial y propuesta de candidatos a KGSP. 

La beca Global Korea está diseñada para brindar a los estudiantes internacionales la oportunidad de estudiar en instituciones de educación superior en Corea, lo que mejorará el nivel internacional de intercambio educativo y profundización de la amistad mútua entre Corea y los países participantes.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2018 (III)

Continuamos con nuestra revisión de los libros académicos relacionados con los estudios coreanos que se han publicado a lo largo del segundo semestre de 2018. Un listado centrado en diversas y muy variadas áreas dentro de los campos de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, puestos ya a disposición de todos por las diferentes editoriales que facilitamos a continuación:

CONVOCATORIA I SEMINARIO DE DOCTORANDOS EN INVESTIGACIÓN EN ESTUDIOS COREANOS 2019

CONVOCATORIA 2019

I Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos

28 y 29 de junio de 2019

Casa Asia Madrid (Palacio de Cañete, Calle Mayor, 69, Madrid)

La Asociación de Difusión de Estudios y Cultura Coreana en España (ADECCE), con la colaboración de Korea Foundation, la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Casa Asia Madrid y el Grupo de Estudios Internacionales: Europa-Asia (GEINTEA) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) convoca el I Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos dirigido tanto a estudiantes de máster como doctorado que estén realizando su trabajo final o tesis doctoral en Estudios Coreanos.

CFP: "DIGITAL ASIAS", 2019 PENN STATE GLOBAL ASIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE

Penn State University invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 3-7, 2019. This year’s Institute, co-directed by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (UC-Irvine) and Jonathan E. Abel (Penn State), focuses on the topic of “Digital Asias.”

Institute participants spend a week reading and thinking about the annual theme, as well as significant time workshopping their work in progress. Particularly strong work will be considered for publication in an upcoming special issue of the award-winning journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias (https://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/journals/verge-studies-in-global-asias).

Penn State will cover housing and meals, and offer an honorarium to help defray travel costs (USD 400 from the East Coast, 600 from the Midwest, 800 from the West Coast; USD 1000 from Europe; USD 1350 from Asia). Applicants must have completed their PhDs no earlier than June 2014, or be advanced graduate students who are completing their dissertations.

CFP: DAOIST STUDIES 2019 AAR ANNUAL MEETING, SAN DIEGO

Daoist Studies Unit of the AAR, San Diego, November 2019

The Daoist Studies Unit offers the most stable platform for sharing research on Daoist materials anywhere in the Western world. We are guided by a vision with three main goals: to reach into the vast recesses of the largely unstudied Daoist tradition; to reach out in conversation with the wider American Academy of Religion; and to promote the Annual Meeting of the AAR as an international venue for sharing and vetting research by all levels of Daoism scholars.

The Daoist Studies Unit of the AAR invites proposals for individual papers and paper sessions concerning all aspects of Daoism from any period, geographical area, or methodological and theoretical approaches to be presented at 2019 AAR Annual Meeting in San Diego. 

We especially welcome proposals for 90-minute paper sessions (3 papers, presider, and/or respondent) and 180-minute paper sessions (4+ papers, presider, and respondent).

CFP: XIX CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

XIXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

August 16 to August 21, 2020

Seoul National University, Korea

The International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) is an association dedicated to contribute to the development of Buddhist studies in terms of conferences, symposia and publications. This association wants to encourage scholarly cooperation and in order to do so, it helps to organize regional conferences and thematic sypmposia as well as the international congress. Its objectives are as follow: scientific research and communication. Its first conference was held from September 15 to 17 in 1978.

General Information:

This congress is the principal forum for scholars of Buddhism studies to present their research results and it is held every three years. In order to participate, all the applicants need to have paid their membership for the year 2020 (More information). However, apart from the membership all the participants must pay $300 for the registration fee and an optional fee of around $200 in case they want to participate in a three days tour around famous monasteries in Korea. Those who want to receive all the new information about the XIXth Congress please fill the form.

CONVOCATORIA CDTI Y KIAT PARA LA COOPERACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA INTERNACIONAL ESPAÑA-COREA

@CDTIoficial y el Korea Institute for the Advancement of Technology (KIAT) han lanzado la nueva llamada conjunta, dentro del programa Eureka, para la presentación de propuestas entre empresas de España y Corea del Sur para 2019.

El CDTI y KIAT se comprometen a promover, apoyar y financiar proyectos de cooperación tecnológica, realizados entre empresas españolas y coreanas, cuyo resultado sea un producto, proceso o servicio innovador orientado al mercado. Las propuestas pueden versar sobre cualquier tecnología que tenga una aplicación civil.

La llamada incluye una fase de solicitud internacional y otra de financiación para las empresas españolas que estén interesadas en participar.