CFP: "FACES OF WAR" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 

"Faces of War" International Conference 

University of London 

The twentieth century, violent and brutal, offers a wide spectrum of material that deserves further analysis. The Great War introduced the first aspects of modern warfare; the Second World War, even more devastating in its atrocities, advanced war further. The Cold War introduced modern society to new methods and technological advancements of warfare, beyond anything our species had seen. The thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Iron Curtain in 1989 altered the balance of global power yet again. Global terrorist attacks and the introduction of electronic warfare have shown us that despite the painful experiences of the past, our world still relies on war and violence to address many of its problems in an endless geopolitical game.

CFP: MUTUAL IMAGES 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY

Mutual Images 8th International Workshop

Japanese Pilgrimages.

Experiences and motivations behind cultural, spiritual, and religious peregrinations from and to East Asia.

Ryukoku University

(Kyoto) 5-8 June 2020

Pilgrimages are a phenomenon as old as humanity with relevant consequences in the social, economic and cultural lives of countries and regions. On an individual level, there are many motivations behind the pilgrim experience where identity aspects such as religious affiliation, spiritual beliefs, tradition or mere curiosity play an important role. In recent years, the cultural industries and tourism industries have also developed sophisticated strategies in order to reach new audiences and gain market share. Content producers have obtained the sponsorship of national agencies in order to develop their products as a way of reinforcing National Branding. National agencies focused on tourism and development have found that representations of cultural heritage through fictional media positively impacts tourism through these Media Pilgrimages (also referred to as Content Tourism or Media Tourism), and media representations become a relevant tool for regional development.

CFP: "COSMOPOLITANISM AND WORLD CITIZENSHIP" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 "Cosmopolitanism and World Citizenship" 
International Conference, London

“I am a citizen of the cosmos” Cynic Diogenes replied in the fourth century BCE when he was asked about his origins. What does it mean to be a global citizen today? Highly complex, multilayered and always contemporary, the concept of cosmopolitanism offers fertile ground and uncharted waters for scholarly interpretations. For millennia, philosophers have theorized on the meaning of global citizenship in an effort to identify who are the “kosmopolites”, the real citizens of “the Small World, the Great” in the words of Nobel laureate Odysseus Elytis.

CFP: "TECHNIQUE AND RELIGION: TECHNICAL CULTURES, BELIEFS, CIRCULATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL TODAY", SYMPOSIUM

Technique and Religion:

Technical Cultures, Beliefs, Circulations from Antiquity until Today

Paris, 14th-15th September 2020

The purpose of this symposium is to offer the opportunity and the place to conduct a reflection on the relationship between technique and religion. Until recently, the history of social sciences has reserved a relatively marginal place to technique as a sphere of human activity, instead taking as objects of study areas where the coherence of a collective consciousness is manifest, notably religious practice. A separation was drawn between the primacy that then-emerging sociology granted to the religious fact as a basic social phenomenon (Emile Durkheim) on the one hand, and instrumental practices, which were therefore limited to the infra-social domain of individual organic subsistence, on the other hand. Technique and religion, two fundamental forms of discovery and of constitution of experience, have thus, in the social sciences, given rise to divergent “interests of knowledge” that historically account for the selection and formulation of objects of knowledge. Yet history of techniques and history of religion have never ceased to interact, often in a conflicting manner.

CFP: CONCURSO DE IDEAS PROMOCIÓN DE INTERCAMBIO COREA-ESPAÑA

Concurso de Ideas

Promoción de Intercambio Corea-España

Para celebrar el 70 aniversario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Corea y España en 2020, la Embajada de la República de Corea organiza un concurso de ideas para promover los intercambios bilaterales. 

CFP: CONSTITUTING BOUNDARIES: IDENTITIES, POLITIES, AND COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CONSTITUTION-MAKING, 1776-2019

Constituting Boundaries: Identities, Polities, and Colonial and Postcolonial Constitution-Making, 1776-2019 

Pembroke College, Oxford 

In their function as frames of government, constitutions draw boundaries of belonging. The act of making a constitution makes a claim for the existence of a political community, and their texts define the terms of citizenship and of political participation in that community, including and excluding individuals based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and religion.

CONFERENCIA "LA VARIACIÓN DEL YO EN EL JAPONÉS Y SU MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA LITERATURA"

Variación del Yo en japonés y sus manifestaciones en la literatura

日本語における私の変化と日本文学での応用

Conferenciante: Dra. Mizuho Narita

(Profesora de Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

Presenta: Dra. Consuelo Marco Martínez

(Coord. Estudios de Asia Oriental, Filología-UCM)

Miércoles 23 de octubre, 12:30-14:00

Facultad de Filología, Ed. A, A-312

Plaza Menéndez Pelayo s/n

Campus Moncloa-UCM, 28040 Madrid

CFP: CONVOCATORIA III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS

 

Convocatoria III 

Premio Alberto Elena de Investigación sobre cines periféricos

El grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión y Cine: Memoria Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid convocan el III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS. Esta tercera convocatoria continúa con la vocación de premiar el trabajo en castellano en torno al concepto de “cines periféricos” y, en general, a una hipotética periferia audiovisual, con la intención de animar así la que fuera una de las líneas principales en el trabajo como investigador del profesor Alberto Elena.

CFP: LITERATURE AND EVENT: REFORMULATIONS OF THE LITERARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Literature and Event: Reformulations of the Literary in the 21st Century

One-day Interdisciplinary Conference

Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick

Saturday 15th February 2020

Keynote: Prof. Derek Attridge (York); Prof. Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

What is an event? From a theoretical perspective, events are irregular occurrences, moments of great change or interruptions that can potentially alter the already existing course of history, politics and thought. These changes also simultaneously remould, or at least aim to, human perception and language, which makes them an indispensable part of literature and literary thinking. While literature has referred to these calamitous changes directly, by way of description or through diegetic context, on numerous occasions literature has, for various reasons, failed to come to terms with these events or has actively resisted or undercut them. The literary has also been defined, particularly after the post-structuralist interventions, as an event in its own right, with its own strategy and ambitions to affect change. At the same time this relationship has also been entirely dismissed in readings where literature has been thought of as registering the non-events or the micro-events (madeleine cakes for Proust) that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a political or a historical discourse. This conference is addressed to all such relations between literature and its events, but more eagerly to the event that literature itself becomes and the non-event that it said to sometimes emerge from.

CFP: OVER THE HORIZON: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE

“Over the Horizon: Comparative Perspectives on Literature” 

International Conference

As Sarah Lawall stated in her essay, the world-literature perspective is not one, but multiple. By looking at literature comparatively, we can enrich our understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works, to look over the horizon of our own tradition and to see how cultures interact.

The conference will consider the theory and the practice of comparative literature and will discuss the transformations and travels of literary genres and texts across time and space. It will explore the connections of literature with history, philosophy, politics, and literary theory, and study the intersections of literature with other cultural forms such as film, visual arts, music and media.

CFP: GLOBAL HORROR: LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

Global Horror: Local Perspectives

A Progressive Connexions Conference

Saturday 4th April 2020 – Sunday 5th April 2020

Lisbon, Portugal

Horror pervades human experience. It affects us both as individuals and as members of social communities, it is recurrent in pop culture and arguably present in all fields of human knowledge and realms of storytelling, from Cronus eating his own children, to Freddy Krueger’s sadistic murders in A Nightmare on Elm Street to media coverage of war. As a fundamentally paradoxical concept, horror simultaneously repels and fascinates us: we naturally dread it, yet we are drawn to it. We are taught to avoid that which is horrifying, but the appeal of horror, whether in the form of fiction or sensational news, is irresistible. Indeed, we simultaneously narrate, describe, imagine, consume, dread and crave horror in all of its dimensions, and with the most varied goals.

Horror taps into primal emotions of fear and disgust that are universal to the human condition, and finds expression across cultures and historical periods. Yet the texts that shape the ways in which horror is broadly understood historically reflect predominantly Anglo-European and American cultural, social, historical and geographical contexts.

Growing awareness and appreciation of the rich horror traditions of other countries around the world, including Japan, Korean, India, Brazil and Ecuador, has highlighted the importance of considering horror in a global context. Accordingly, the Global Horror: Local Perspectives Project provides a platform for exploring the ways in which horror motifs and themes are expressed through the ‘local perspectives’ that inform the creative practices and daily life of particular nations and cultures.

CFP: POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY PANEL, SAES CONFERENCE

 

Postcolonial Literary Panel, SAES
(French Society for English Studies) Conference

Tours (France)

4-6th June 2020

“Renaissance(s) / Rebirth(s)”, the theme chosen for the 2020 SAES conference, is particularly relevant in the context of postcolonial literatures in English. Often called “new literatures” in the early years of their emergence, postcolonial works were – and are – frequently characterised by their attempts to renew literary forms, genres and language. These innovative practices sought, and often still seek, emancipation from European norms and canons, with the risk of creating new orthodoxies, like the primacy of the novel in the Indian postcolonial literary scene. Some writers are challenging these new norms from within by promoting an aesthetics of the mundane or reworking form and genre (Mohsin Hamid mixing the European tale tradition with the Arabian Nights in Exit West (2017), Chimamande Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and other female Nigerian authors’ take on the Bildungsroman, ...) Considering these practices through the notion of renewal begs the question of point of view: who are these practices new to? The renaissance, rebirth or renewal operated through literature cannot but strike us with its problematic undertones.

Behind these ideas of renewal and rebirth lie complex dynamics that this panel seeks to explore: from the colonizers’ point of view, colonies could be seen as being born again under colonial rule which rests on the problematic assumption that the pre-colonisation past of these territories was obscure, uncivilised or in decay; yet, if one thinks of early Orientalism, some Orientalists helped Europeans re-“discover” ancient languages (Sanskrit) or art forms (the ghazal), all of which were to some extent thus reborn. The issue is largely one of perspective: while these cultures might have been seen as reborn from a European point of view, they were always already there for colonised peoples, which brings us to the problematic notion of origin.

CURSO ANUAL DE IDIOMA COREANO A1-1 CASA ASIA

Curso Anual de Idioma Coreano

Casa Asia

A medida que crece el papel político, cultural y económico de Corea del Sur en el mundo globalizado, el interés que despierta en el extranjero aumenta día a día. La demanda de profundizar sobre los estudios coreanos -y en especial en su idioma- ha aumentado significativamente entre los extranjeros en muchos países, incluido España.

Este interés sobre la República de Corea se ha extendido también a otros ámbitos culturales de este país aparte del idioma, como las telenovelas coreanos, su cine, su gastronomía, o incluso su cosmética, así como el K-pop: todo este interés sobre Corea del sur se denomina hallyu (ola coreana).

Actualmente, un total de 1368 universidades extranjeras imparten cursos de estudios coreanos en 105 países. En España, hay 6 universidades que imparten clases de estudios coreanos. (Korea Foundation)

Aprender coreano no es sólo aprender un idioma. Los tres países más representativos de Asia oriental -Corea, China y Japón- comparten gran parte de su historia y cultura a pesar de tener distintos idiomas. Aprender coreano proporciona otro marco para comprender la gran comunidad cultural de Asia y puede ser la puerta de entrada a otros aspectos de su cultura.

A tener en cuenta es el programa Working Holiday entre España y Corea, que brindará valiosas oportunidades para los jóvenes de ambos países. Este programa de movilidad juvenil entre la República de Corea y España, firmado en el día 18 de diciembre de 2017, entró en vigor el 24 de octubre de 2018. El cupo de visados expedidos por este programa será de 1.000 visados anuales por cada una de las partes. Los participantes en el programa podrán beneficiarse de tener una experiencia laboral que ayude a sufragar los gastos de su viaje, a la vez que aprenden el idioma, durante un año de estancia en la República de Corea.

Casa Asia inicia los cursos de idioma coreano en su sede de Madrid, con la intención de continuar hacia el nivel A1-2 en el curso 2020-2021.

A cargo de:

Chaeyeon Park es licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Española por la Facultad de Artes Liberales de la Korea University de Seúl, y máster en Literatura Hispanoamericana por el Departamento de Lengua y Literatura Española por la misma universidad. Actualmente trabaja como traductora e intérprete de coreano y es profesora de lengua coreana en el Colegio Coreano de Madrid desde el año 2018. También realiza labores de doblaje de voz en coreano. Algunos de sus trabajos como traductora incluyen la versión coreana de la audio-guía del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía y de la Sagrada Familia, patrocinadas por la Embajada de Corea. Compagina su trabajo con sus estudios del Máster en Estudios Literarios por la UCM y de Licenciatura en Lengua Coreana por la Facultad de Lenguas Prácticas en la Cyber University de Corea.

Fecha: 23/10/2019 > 10/06/2020

Horario:

• Primera parte:

Desde el miércoles 23/10/19 al miércoles 19/02/20 (15 sesiones de 2 horas, Total de 30 horas). Las clases se interrumpirán por Navidades el miércoles 18 de diciembre de 2019 (última clase del año) y se reanudarán el miércoles 15 de enero de 2020 (primera clase del año).

• Segunda parte:

Desde el miércoles 26/02/20 al miércoles 10/06/20 (15 sesiones de 2 horas, Total de 30 horas). NO habrá clase los días: Miércoles 08 de abril de 2020: FESTIVO

Lugar: Centro Casa Asia-Madrid, Palacio del Marqués de Cañete, c/ Mayor 69, 1º planta, Aula 2, Madrid

Entrada:

• Curso completo: 430 euros En caso de desear abonar el curso completo, deben realizarlo por TPV a través del enlace "Inscripciones abiertas" en la pagina web.
• Pago fraccionado: En caso de preferir abonar el curso en dos veces (215 euros antes del 23/10 y 215 euros entre el 01 y el 20/0220) deben enviar un email a formacionmadrid@casaasia.es indicándolo, y se les facilitará un numero de cuenta para poder realizar las transferencias.

Organizador: Casa Asia

DIPLOMA EN RELACIONES COREA-NORESTE ASIÁTICO, ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA - UMA

¿Quieres formarte como especialista en relaciones internacionales y comerciales con el Noreste Asiático? ¿Te gustaría ampliar tus conocimientos sobre la cultura coreana?

La Universidad de Málaga, a través de la Oficina UMA-ATECH Puente con Corea, se complace en presentar el nuevo Diploma de Especialización en Relaciones Corea-Noreste Asiático, España y Latinoamérica. Este nuevo título, tiene la intención de formar expertos que puedan entender, analizar y desarrollar relaciones entre estas tres regiones, de forma que fomenten la interconectividad entre ellas.

El contenido del Diploma se ha estructurado en 5 módulos fundamentales para el máximo aprovechamiento académico por parte del alumnado, de una forma transversal e interdisciplinar. De esta forma, queda en la mano del estudiante orientar sus contenidos al ámbito profesional, en el marco de las relaciones Noreste Asiático-Iberoamérica, o adentrarse en el panorama de la investigación en Estudios de Asia Oriental.

Los módulos que componen el diploma son:

• Módulo 1: Relaciones Internacionales y Transculturales.
• Módulo 2: Las dos Coreas en el Contexto de Asia Pacífico.
• Módulo 3: Relaciones Económicas y Comerciales.
• Módulo 4: Industrias Culturales de Corea en el Contexto de las nuevas tecnologías.
• Módulo 5: Investigación en Estudios Coreanos y del Noreste Asiático.

Información General

Modalidad: Online (directo)

Duración: 300h (30ETCS)

Periodo: desde el 11 de noviembre de 2019 al 5 de mayo de 2020

Preinscripción: hasta el 21 de octubre 2019

Matrícula: 22 al 29 de octubre de 2019

Horario de clases: de lunes a jueves, de 16:00-20:00h

Plazas: 30 estudiantes

Precio: 690€

Más información sobre el profesorado y el curso.

También puedes consultarnos en corea@uma.es o 951952773

CFP: SITUATIONS EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD, YONSEI UNIVERSITY

Call for Papers

Situations Emerging Scholar Award

Yonsei University

Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, a SCOPUS-indexed journal published at Yonsei University, is pleased to announce its second annual competition for its Emerging Scholar Award, which will be given to the best submission about any aspect of Asian culture written by a graduate student or a post-doctoral researcher. 

To be considered for the award, which comes with a cash prize of US $1,000 and the publication of the winning article in the 2020 spring issue of Situations, please send a manuscript of 6,000 to 8,000 words and a curriculum vitae to Terry Murphy (tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr) and Suk Koo Rhee (skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr) by December 31, 2019.

CFP: "MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA", 4TH INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia

4th International Interdisciplinary Conference

9-10 December, 2019 

In our modern world, which some have argued to be disjointed while immersing itself ever deeper in crisis, the turning back towards “the olden days” and the ensuing nostalgia constitute a noticeable phenomenon, both individually (the memory of biography) and collectively (the memory of History). Another important – and seemingly also quite noticeable – phenomenon  is the longing for something vague, indefinite or never existent.

CFP: ISBASS 2020: FINTECH AND THE NEW BUSINESS LANDSCAPE

ISBASS 2020

Fintech and The New Business Landscape

7th-9th January, 2020; Seoul. 

Fintech is reimagining the traditional role of business and financial services. It can apply to any innovation in how people transact business, from the invention of digital money to double-entry bookkeeping. Since the internet and smartphone revolution, Fintech has grown explosively. It originally referred to computer technology applied to the back office of banks or trading firms, now describes a broad variety of technological interventions into personal and commercial business. 

2020 ISBASS creates a platform for researchers, professionals and students to present their recent and latest researches and to share their thoughts and to discuss the future development in, but not limited to the fields of Business and Social Sciences. Join us on the 7^th-9^th of January, 2020 in Seoul, Korea. 

We encourage a cross-disciplinary exchange ideas and share knowledge through a variety of teaching methods and perspectives. Topics should be related but not restricted to:

Topics:

Special Session – Fintech

• Fintech & Policies Changes
• Fintech Security: Challenges & Solutions
• The Development of Fintech
• Fintech & Regtech
• The Fintech Revolution in Insurance
• Disruptive Innovation in Digital Banking

Social Sciences Sessions

• Business & Management
• Communication
• Finance & Economics
• Law & Politics
• Education
• Psychology & Philosophy
• Literature & Linguistics
• Humanities & Culture

Important dates:

• Submission Deadline: October 10, 2019

• Notification of Acceptance: October 14, 2019 

• Registration & Payment: November 14, 2019

• Conference Date: January 7-9, 2020

Contact:

ISBASS Secretariat: isbass@isbass.org 

CFP: “EUROPEAN STUDIES IN ASIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY”, EAAA MONOGRAPH SERIES

EAAA 3rd Monograph Series Volume

“European Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology”


Published by EAAA and BRILL

The EAAA Monograph Series “European Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology” offers in-depth and peer-reviewed scholarly contributions to topics relevant to Asian Art and Archaeology that consider subjects in a broader Asian context. The goal of this series is to analyze and interpret the social and artistic histories and heritages in Asian societies from ancient to contemporary context. This series, therefore, contributes a deeper understanding of the cultural, philosophical, political, religious and ideological values of Asia.

The Editorial Board is currently inviting proposals for the third volume. We seek an innovative book proposal that will raise new research questions as well as challenge or open up innovative theoretical and methodological pathways in the fields of art history and Asian Studies.

The first volume of “European Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology”, “Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects on East Asian Lacquer Wares” (Brill, 2018), focused on various aspects of Asian lacquer art ranging from the 2nd century BC to the 17th century AD. Authors in this volume addressed recent excavations of lacquer ware from tombs in China, the distribution of lacquer objects throughout the Eurasian hemisphere, the significance of lacquer ware in everyday life, the technical aspects of lacquer production in Korea and the appreciation of Japanese lacquer in Asia and Europe. The second volume, “China in Europe: Performance, Material Culture and Display 1600-1900,” deals with the introduction of Chinese objects to Europe, their reception and, consequently, their imitation known as chinoiseries. Various topics being studied include kraak porcelain, tin-glazed tiles with Chinese imagery, masqued balls at Louis XIV’s court, the ambiguity of representations à la Chinoise, illusionist wall- painting, garden planning and Cantonese export paintings. etc. The volume will be published in 2020.

Scholars of Asian art and archaeology from Europe and beyond are invited to submit their proposals that engage the fields of art and archaeology of China, Japan, Korea, South and Central Asia as well as Asian transregional and transnational studies.

 
Proposals should include an abstract of the volume, name of authors (+ affiliation, a short CV of max. 100 words), titles and abstracts of individual papers/chapters.

Proposals should be sent to Hans Bjarne Thomsen: thomsen@khist.uzh.ch by 31 October 2019.

The language of publication is English.

Deadline: 31 October 2019