CFP: NAJAKS 2020, 11th meeting of Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies

 NAJAKS 2020, 11th meeting of Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies

University of Helsinki

The 11th meeting of NAJAKS (Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies) will be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on 28-29 May 2020.

We welcome abstracts for papers on any aspect of Japanese and Korean Studies including, but not limited to:

• History
• Philosophy, History of Thought, and Religion
• Political Science and International Relations
• Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
• Arts and Media
• Literature
• Linguistics, Language Education and Translation

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Abstracts should be submitted as a one-sided, single-spaced page, 2.5 cm margins all around, and in Times 12-point font. The length may be ranged between 300 and 500 words. Format can be .pdf or .doc. If your abstract includes any special fonts, please submit your file as a .pdf format and embed the special fonts into the document. The content can be any combination of text, figures, tables, and examples. References can be optionally given on the 2nd page.

Abstracts must be submitted to japan@helsinki.fi for Japanese Studies and korea@helsinki.fi for Korean Studies by September 30th. Then those who are selected will receive the notification of acceptance by October 31st and they should register between January 13rd-April 30th, 2020.

DEADLINE:

30 September 2019

For more information, please visit the NAJAKS 2020 website: here

CFP: CONFERENCE ON THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND ITS IMPACT ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION

 Conference on The End of the Cold War and Its Impact on Nuclear Non-Proliferation

 University of Johannesburg

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, ushering in the collapse of the Soviet Union and an end to the Cold War. These events had far-reaching consequences globally. In Southern Africa, where classic Cold War proxy war scenes had been playing out since the mid-1970s, the geopolitical scene changed dramatically as a result of these events. Soviet support was withdrawn from Africa and with it, the perceived communist threat that dominated the South African Apartheid regime’s policies since the 1960s. The Apartheid regime subsequently became the first country to dismantle and destroy its small indigenously developed nuclear weapons arsenal, which it had developed since the 1970s as a deterrent and as a tool to ensure the survival of apartheid. 

Former Soviet states Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan followed hot on the heels of South Africa. These (now independent) states inherited thousands of nuclear weapons when the Soviet Union imploded, and opted to disarm. By 1996, all strategic nuclear weapons on the territories of these states had been transferred to the Russian Federation. All four states had also joined the NPT and Africa became a nuclear weapons free zone. During those same years, more additional steps towards disarmament were implemented than in any previous period since the beginning of the nuclear age, from the signature of START I in 1991 and START II in 1993 to the Indefinite extension of the NPT at the 1995 RevCon and the signature of the CTBT in 1996.

CURSO: ASIA; DERECHOS HUMANOS, RELACIONES DE GÉNERO Y DESAFIOS DE LA GLOBALIZACIÓN

 Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

INFORMACIÓN GENERAL:

• Fecha: Del 15 al 23 octubre

• Martes y Miércoles: 18.00 - 20.30 h

• Dirigido a: Mayores de 18 años

• Localización: Salas de trabajo

• Inscripción: Del 22 agosto al 07 octubre

• Precio: 40,00€

(Inscripción pendiente apertura)

CFP: SPECIAL ISSUES OF ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: NORTHEAST ASIA IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Northeast Asia in Regional Perspective

Asian Geographer Special Issue Call for Papers

Northeast Asia is a regional imaginary of limited capture among both academics and the general public. Ongoing tensions relating to island claims, sea rights, borderlands, population mobility, and resource access are rarely considered from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. More generally, the region's parameters are highly debated, with some conceptualizations restricted to Japan and Korea, while more expansive considerations include Russia, South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, and Mongolia, or even a maritime borderland in the Asia-Pacific and an Arctic frontier to the north. In an effort to advance scholarly research on Northeast Asia, we are seeking articles for a special issue of Asian Geographer aimed at critically interrogating the region's political, economic, cultural, and environmental dynamics and conditions. Papers may approach the region as a whole or through specific case studies pertinent to relations within or between its composite states, subregions, and stakeholders.

CFP: MAGICAL WOMEN, WITCHES & HEALERS, FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL

FRAMES Cinema Journal

Magical Women, Witches & Healers

Issue 16, Winter 2019

Chief Editors: Ana Maria Sapountzi & Peize Li 

Book Review Editor: Patrick Adamson

Almost every culture on earth contains within its history some form of magic and magical women. From the high priestesses of Ancient Egypt to the oracles of Ancient Greece, the brujas of Latina America to the voodoo queens of the Caribbean and New Orleans, the shamanesses of Mongolia to the mudangs of Korea, the medicine women of Native America to the witches of Medieval Europe, female figures with the ability to harness and utilise earthly, cosmic, and spiritual forces have transcended cultures and proved an irresistible topic in history, myth, and folklore.

CFP: THE 1ST KABS MUJIN WRITING AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

 

The 1^st KABS Mujin Writing Award Announcement

The Korean Association of Buddhist Studies (KABS) invites excellent papers in any discipline of Buddhist Studies to promote pioneering researches of early career scholars. KABS will provide an award of $3,000 each to three papers based on the evaluation by the committee formed of the KABS editors and guest specialists. Awarded papers will be published through KABS’s official journal, Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies (Bulgyohak Yŏngu 佛敎學硏究). KABS will also provide opportunities of publication to outstanding, but not awarded, papers. 

CFP: "ECOLOGIES", MECHADEMIA CONFERENCE ON ASIAN CULTURES; KYOTO 2020

Mechademia Conference on Asian Cultures: Kyoto 2020 "Ecologies"

May 30, 2020 to June 1, 2020. Japan

In the past few decades, media systems have been seen as increasingly complex, interwoven, and global in their scope. One way to approach this complex system is through the growing interdisciplinary discourse of ecology.  “Ecology” encompasses a range of concepts that began in the sciences and have spread to the social sciences and humanities. Scholars have discovered that the use of metaphors from environmental ecologies, such as regeneration, symbiosis, precarities, economies, flows, emergences, growths and disintegrations, webs and networks, and mutual dependencies -- create new methods to develop “new taxonomies, new visualizations, and fresh ways of thinking about how culture operates.” In this vein of thought, we may (re)discover the non-human, engage with its dynamism productively.

CFP: BUDDHIST ACROSS ASIA: A GENEALOGY OF GLOBAL ART (COLLEGUE ART ASSOCIATION, 2020)

 

Buddhist Modernism Across Asia: A Genealogy of Global Art 
(College Art Association, 2020)

Chicago, February 12-15 

Each year CAA members submit session abstract for the Call for Participation. The session listed below have been accepted by the Annual Conference Committee for CAA 2020 Chicago, February 12-15.

CFP: 2019 FALL/WINTER ISSUE YONSEI JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

2019 Fall/Winter Issue Yonsei Journal of International Studies

Yonsei University 
 

The Yonsei Journal of International Studies (YJIS) is a biannual interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Center for International Studies and run by the Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, South Korea. The YJIS welcomes submissions from all scholars, especially graduate students and junior professors that fall within the diverse field of International Studies.