CFP: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL SCIENCES

International Symposium on Social Sciences (ISS20)

June 01-04, 2020. Taipei, Taiwan

After 7 years of changes in technology and social structure, our world is facing unprecedented challenges and many novel issues in the field of social sciences have occurred. In areas such as social and primary care, the justice system, education and business, to name just a few, social science is extremely important, and necessary.

The 8th ISS20 will take place from June 01-04, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.

We encourage a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and the sharing of knowledge through a variety of teaching methods and perspectives.

• Special Session: Human Rights
• Business Management & Information
• Economics & Finance
• Law & Politics
• Education
• Psychology & Sociology
• Communication
• Linguistics& Literature

Topics should be related but NOT limited to the following below:

Human Rights:

• Human Trafficking: A Human Rights Violation
• Business & Human Rights
• Children’s Rights
• International Human Rights Law
• Human Rights Development
• Human Rights Education and Training
• Conflicts and Cross Border Migrations
• Death Penalty
• Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
• Human Rights in the Digital Age
• Refugees' Rights

Education:

• Theoretical Education vs Practical Education
• Preschool Education: Knowledge or Social Skills?
• Does Education Ever Stop or It Continues During the Entire Life?
• Education and Motivation: How To Make Students Interested?
• Education and Modern Technologies:Positive and Negative Impacts.
• What is Considered Basic Education in Different Countries and Why?
• Globalization & Education: International Perspectives.

Business Management & Information:

• Challenges of Small Enterprises
• Franchising VS Opening Your Own Business
• The Effect of Advertisement on Consumer Behavior
• Strategic Management and Productivity
• Staff Motivation and Impact on Productivity
• Managing Conflicts in Work Team
• Moral Principles &Their Effect on Business Decision Making
• Should Companies Exploit the Labor to Maximize Their Profits?
• Investing in Social Media Campaigns &Digital Marketing

Economics & Finance:

• Human Trafficking: A Human Rights Violation
• Accounting and Finance
• Economic Methods &Hypothesis
• Behavioural Finance
• Immigration &Impacts to the Economy
• Impacts of Business Insurance Policies on Small and Medium Scale Business.
• The impacts of Globalization on Public Policy Formulation in Emerging Economies
• Tax Fraud, Evasion and Compliance- Perspectives from Different Countries.
• Increase in Financial Instruments and the Risk Associated.
• Globalization of Trade and the Impacts on the Economy
• What are the Impacts of Stable Economics on the Governance of a Country?
• Impacts of Consumer Behavior on Market Growth

Law & Politics:

• Criminal Law
• Family Law
• Immigration Law
• Commercial Law
• Role of Media in Politics
• Political Science
• History of International Relations.
• International Law
• Employment Law
• Medical Law
• Tax Law
• Border Wall
• Democracy: Pros and Cons.
• Change in Politics at Wartime.

Communication:

• Ethical & Unethical Communication
• Traditional and New Media
• The Discipline of Communication
• Forms & Types of Communication
• Key Communication Relationships
• Public Relations
• Factors Affecting Communication
• Challenges for Communication
• Media as Communication
• Communication as a Profession
• Journalism
• Media Management

Psychology & Sociology:

• Abnormal Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Psychotherapy
• Behavioral Psychology
• Comparative Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Nationality and Ethnicity
• Social Movements& Revolutions
• Beliefs & Rituals
• Children Issues
• Sociological Analysis
• Sociological Aspects of Labor Migration
• Socialization & Individual Freedom
• Social Problems

Linguistics& Literature

• Cognitive Linguistics& Comparative Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics& Applied Linguistics
• A Review of Language in Formal and Informal Settings- Evidence Based on English
• How Does Sociolinguistics Help Understand Language Choices of Multi-Linguals?
• Contemporary literature and Comparative literature
• Poetry and Prose (Fictional and Non-Fictional)

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline

February 05, 2020

Notification of Acceptance

February 19, 2020

Final Payment Deadline

March 30, 2020

ContactEmail : isepst@isepst.org|

Venue : 2, SongShou Road, Taipei, Taiwan

CFP: NORTH KOREAN CULTURE AND CINEMA

Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context Fall 2020 Issue

A SCOPUS-indexed International Journal

“The Personal and the Political in Contemporary North Korean Culture and Cinema”

We invite submissions of full-length essays on the important but largely understudied topic of “North Korean Culture and Cinema” for the September 2020 issue. The existing studies on North Korean cinema have mainly focused on the ideological role of the cinema as a propaganda tool of the state. Given the rapidly changing circumstances of North Korea under Kim Jong-un’s leadership and his ongoing attempts to reform and open the regime, however, we seek to illuminate North Korean cinema from a broader set of perspectives, including thematic, formal and technical approaches to the topic as well as its relationship with other artistic forms and emergent technologies. This special issue will feature articles from the following scholars, and we anticipate that many other scholars will be interested in taking part in this important unfolding scholarly debate.

CURSO TRANSITION OF THE ASIAN COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Transition of the Asian Community in the 21st Century

Una oportunidad de obtener un certificado y 3 créditos con el curso

Este curso ofrece: Un conocimiento general y multidisciplinario sobre Asia Oriental en temas de historia, cultura, economía, política y relaciones internacionales. 

• Duración: 36 horas presenciales. (Reconocimiento de 3 créditos)
• Fechas: del 31 de enero al 24 de abril de 2020. (9 semanas)
• Horario: viernes de 16 a 20 h. 
• Matrícula: 0 €. (subvencionada)
• Lugar: aula 201-II Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
  

CFP: THE 10TH ASIAN CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (ACAS2020)

The 10th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2020)
May 27-30, 2020 | Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, this international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue. This event will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.

Since its founding in 2009, IAFOR has brought people and ideas together in a variety of events and platforms to promote and celebrate interdisciplinary study, and underline its importance. Over the past year we have engaged in many cross-sectoral projects, including those with universities (the University of Barcelona, Hofstra University, UCL, University of Belgrade and Moscow State University), a think tank (the East-West Center), as well as collaborative projects with the United Nations in New York, and here, with the Government of Japan through the Prime Minister’s office.

With the IAFOR Research Centre, we have engaged in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives we believe will have an important impact on domestic and international public policy conversations. It is through conferences like these that we expand our network and partners, and we have no doubt that ACAS2020 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and best practice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.

The 10th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2020) will be held alongside The 10th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2020). Registration for either conference will allow delegates to attend sessions in the other.

The ACAS Organising Committee welcomes submissions from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following streams:

Streams

• Indian and South Asian Studies
• South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)
• Central Asian Studies
• Chinese Studies
• Japanese Studies
• Korean Studies
• Middle Eastern Studies (including Assyria, Iran, Egypt, Turkey)
• Islamic Studies
• Hebrew and Judaic Studies
• Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies

Publishing opportunities

For enquiries: acas@iafor.org

Submit your abstract.

When: Mar 27, 2020 - Mar 30, 2020

Where: Tokyo, Japan

Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2020

Notification Due: Dec 20, 2019

Final Version Due: Mar 10, 2020

Submit your abstract by January 7, 2020 in order to be considered for Grants & Scholarships.

CFP: ASIAN DIASPORIC LITERATURE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

2020 International Conference on Literature:

Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future

Universiti Sains Malaysia

29-23 July 2020

We would like to invite you to the 2020 International Conference on Literature: “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future”. The conference is organized by the Postgraduate Students’ Club of the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and takes place on 29-23 July 2020, in Penang, Malaysia.

In the 2020 conference we want to pay special attention to emerging directions and practices on/in Asian diasporic literature and theory. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the world has witnessed important changes in social, political, cultural and economic landscapes. The shifts have in turn pushed diaspora studies to expand beyond their origins in literary studies and their primary focus on ‘representation’ to an engagement with epistemological, ethical and political questions. Through ICL, we want to respond and contribute to current critical and theoretical debates by moving toward the study of world literatures and global theoretical, aesthetic and cultural practices. The conference also aims to trigger a debate about the future of the discipline, and thus reinvigorate and pioneer certain dimensions of the areas.

ICL seeks to provide a platform for those interested in interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural approaches to push diaspora studies into new domains to meet, discuss, and to explore contemporary debates, and to revisit the ‘classic’ issues to interrogate them. Topics to be addressed by the papers and sessions at the conference will cover a broad spectrum of research questions, but with a specific emphasis on contemporary and future challenges for Asian diasporic literature and theory. Proposals are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• The Legacy of the Asian Diaspora
• Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives
• Shifting Perspectives on Race and Gender
• New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility
• Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
• Rethinking the Family, Class, and Ethnicity
• Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Health, and Wellness
• War, Violence and Terror

Or any other aspect of diasporic literary studies.

Submissions:

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the theme of the conference. Abstracts for proposed oral presentation (200-250 words; excluding author names and affiliations) should be submitted via the online submission system. For guidelines on abstract writing, please click here. Selection of oral presentations will take place and speakers and presenters will be informed by December 15, 2019. Authors are expected to submit full papers by 30 April 2020.

Publication opportunity:

Selected high-quality, original submissions will be published as an edited volume in a prestigious publisher or in a well reputed literary journal indexed in Scopus and ESCI (WoS).

Please note that ICL only publishes manuscripts in English. For guidelines on full paper submission, please click here.

The publication outcome of previous ICL (2018) is available here.

Deadline for submissions: July 29, 2020

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Contact email: icl@usm.my

CFP: THE TRAVEL WRITERS WORKSHOP - ASIA 2020

Call for Submissions:

The Travel Writers Workshop - Asia 2020

Applications are now open for the annual instalment of The Travel Writers Workshop - Asia (TTWW - Asia), an intensive week-long outdoors camp and writing fellowship which aims to create spaces for Asian and non-Asian travelers and emerging travel writers.

TTWW - Asia welcomes travel writings and its various permutations — travel essay, travel memoir, and travel narrative. Other creative nonfiction subgenres such as place studies, city essays, nature writing, narrative history, and mini-ethnographies, or their hybridization, are also welcome. Limited slots are given to travel-themed poetry and short fiction manuscripts.

Travel writings may topically extend into a raft of themes and topicalities that include alterity; (counter)cartographies; cultural and psychic geography; displacement/diaspora; ecology; ethnoreligious/ideopolitical conflicts; the flaneur; ‘foodways’/gastronomic culture; gendered routes and borders; globality; landscape/seascape aesthetics; liminal spaces; nature/culture divide (or the ‘naturalcultural’); nomadism; nostalgia/solastalgia; place mutualism; psychogeography; sodalities and subcultures; spatio-temporal (im)materialities; tourism; topology and topophilia; and transnationalism/transregionalism. Other muted but compelling issues that add novelty to — or counter the dominant discourse in — the historical archive and contemporary corpus of travel literature are also welcome.

Submissions should be set or based within Asia.

An outdoors writers workshop, TTWW - Asia will be held in Siargao Islands, Surigao del Sur in the Philippines. Apart from free board and lodging, and domestic transportation allowance, TTWW - Asia offers its travel writing fellows a study on the craft and techniques of travel writing across genres through lectures, discussions, critique, mentoring, and writing exercises as well as inputs on publishing, arts project management, and travel photography, while touring in partner establishments and tourist spots in Siargao.

There are ten (10) writing fellowships available. Only shortlisted applicants will receive a response via email. Manuscripts in English (or translated into English from any Asian language) — original and previously unpublished — may be any of the following:

• Creative nonfiction and essays: 2 to 3 pieces (1500 to 5000 words each) in the nonfiction subgenres mentioned above;
• Short fiction: a sequence of 2 to 3 travel-themed short fiction (1500 to 5000 words each);
• Poetry: a suite of 5 to 7 travel-themed poems; or
• Chapbook/book-length collection of travel writings: unpublished manuscript of 6 to 10 creative nonfiction pieces.     

Include a personal/(auto)critical essay (2 to 3 pages) on travel poetics with the prompt “Why I travel.” Send manuscripts, essay on travel poetics, cover letter, and curriculum vitae/resume to thetravelwritersworkshop@gmail.com on or before 05 January 2020.

Asian writers (or writers with Asian origin) who wish to be part of the workshop’s teaching panel may send in a letter of intent and their body of works in travel literature (both published and unpublished) to the same email address.

TTWW - Asia’s 2020 instalment is scheduled on the third quarter of 2020.

thetravelwritersworkshop@gmail.com

F Alex San Juan

2020 KOREA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

2020 Korea Foundation Fellowship

For Postdoctoral Research in Australia and New Zealand

Resumen del programa:

La beca de KF de investigación postdoctoral está diseñada para apoyar la investigación a tiempo completo de los académicos en ascenso que recientemente han obtenido un PhD en un tema relacionado con Corea en una universidad u organización para la investigación situada en Australia o Nueva Zelanda.

Elegibilidad del solicitante:

Académicos en ascenso con un PhD reciente en el campo de las humanidades, ciencias sociales, artes o cultura en un tema relacionado con Corea deben cumplir cada uno de los siguientes requisitos:

CFP: MYTHOLOGICAL EQUINES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Call for Book Chapters on

Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature

Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on the theme: Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature for an edited collection of the same name in the series Equine Creations: Imagining Horses in Literature and Film, edited by Rachel L. Carazo (Northwestern State University).

All areas of study, with a common goal of representing the cultural, social, philosophical, and material impacts of mythological equines in children’s literature are invited to participate.

Francisco LaRubia-Prado recently edited a collection about horses in film and literature. There are also several single essays and general books about horse-themed works. Nevertheless, there have been no other collections on specific themes regarding the cultural, social, material, and philosophical impacts of mythological equines in literature. Thus, even though this particular collection regards mythological equines in children’s literature, other themes will be considered in studies about horses that will follow the completion of this collection.

CFP: TURNING POINTS: INTERPRETING THE PAST, EXPLAINING THE PRESENT AND IMAGINING THE FUTURE

 

Turning points: "Interpreting the past, explaining the present and imagining the future" International Conference

22-23 May - Athens, Greece

organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Why "Turning Points"? Because amid history's relentless unfolding come singular years of change. Come fulcrums in time when a genuinely new tomorrow takes hold among people, nations, and states.

"Do not call it fixity, where past and future are gathered" as the poet wrote, "there is only the dance". Why? What's at work? What's the momentum? Why the decisive moment? Who or what drives the forces that make history's twists and turns happen in the dance of the past to the future? The attractions, the repulsions, the needs?

This issue is now of particular relevance in light of the recent advanced analysis in the social sciences, history, the humanities and other pertinent domains regarding the hinges of profound alteration that occurred in 1918, 1948, 1968, 1978 and 2018 -- our key case study years. Our Turning Points conference attempts to gather together and expand this work to a new level now that scholarship has achieved an advanced stage of understanding key socio-economic, cultural and policy issues for these times.

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