CFP: ZOMBIES OF THE FUTURE: THE UNDEAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND


Zombies of the Future:

The Undead in the 21st Century and Beyond. 


Zombies seemed to have shambled into something of a literal “dead end.” With something of an eternal return to similar tropes and similar readings on their way to inevitable apocalypse. But this collection wants to “breath” new life into old undead bodies and focus solely on texts from the past 10 years or those that have used the zombie in unusual and previously unconsidered ways. Consequently this collection will be focused on 4 specific areas:

  • The zombie beyond the zombie (post-zombie zombies)
  • Zombies and new media, e.g. Tik Tok, streaming, gaming etc.
  • Cross cultural zombies—Indigenous, Aboriginal, Indian, African, South Korea etc.
  • Futuristic zombies—zombie bodies in fantasy, sci-fi and visions of what’s to come.

This concerns popular culture in its widest interpretation books, films, games, comics, music, theatre, ballet, performance, art, fashion, etc.

Send 300 words abstracts or expressions of interest to Simon Bacon (baconetti@googlemail.com) by February 28th 2021, with final essays of 6-7,000 words required mid-2023. Bloomsbury Academic has expressed interest in the collection.

CFP: IN AND OUT OF S. KOREA: EXAMINING INTER-ASIAN MOBILITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION


Call for papers, Special issue

“In and Out of South Korea: Examining Inter-Asian Mobilities in Higher Education”


We are seeking papers for a special issue to be published by Globalisation, Societies and Education (GSE).

The special issue, “In and Out of South Korea: Examining Inter-Asian Mobilities in Higher Education,” is based on an October 2020 conference exploring the same topic. We are looking for additional contributors to be considered for the special issue. For more information about the conference: click here.

The special issue will examine South Korea as an important node of the increasing inter-Asian mobility in higher education. Until the twentieth century, the most popular pattern of study abroad was movement from the non-West to the West. However, over the past two decades Asian students have increasingly withdrawn from traditional destinations and moved to other Asian countries for their university education. For instance, the number of international students going to South Korea increased 40 times since 2000. Additionally, in 2019 for the first time the number of Korean students heading to Asian destinations outnumbered those going to North America.

The special issue aims to address several themes. First, it examines the heterogeneous strategies, desires, and practices that individuals, universities, and states deploy in envisioning “opportunities abroad” for youth. Second, it studies the intimate dynamics of “Inter-Asia”—the idea that Asia is multiple and heterogeneous—through the window of higher education. Third, it not only presents Asia as an alternative to the West but critically rethinks global hierarchies and notions of “success” and “failure.”

We seek papers based on empirical research and theoretical exploration that address themes including (but not limited to) students’ desires and strategies, institutional responses and national policies, public discourses, and norms and ethics of globalization. GSE is an interdisciplinary journal and we welcome work carried out from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

The special issue will be co-edited by Jiyeon Kang (Communication Studies and Korean Studies, University of Iowa), Younghan Cho (Korean Studies and Cultural Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), and Le-Ha Phan (International and Comparative Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa).

A full paper of 5,000-8,000 words and an author bio should be submitted to jiyeon-kang@uiowa.edu no later than March 1, 2021.

Authors will be informed about acceptance or rejection by April 1, 2021. All manuscripts are due to GSE by June 1, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact Jiyeon Kang (jiyeon-kang@uiowa.edu) and Younghan Cho (choy@hufs.ac.kr).


Deadline: March 1, 2021


CONTACT INFORMATION:

Name: Jiyeon Kang

Email: jiyeon-kang@uiowa.edu

CFP: CITIES AND FANTASY: URBAN IMAGINARY ACROSS CULTURES 1830-1930 (EDITED VOLUME)



Cities and Fantasy: Urban Imaginary Across Cultures

1830–1930 (Edited Volume)


The long nineteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion and modernization of cities around the globe. It is often also heralded, by critics working with Anglo-American literature, at least, as the starting point for studies of the fantastic. Nonetheless, despite the claims of critics such as Rosemary Jackson and Stephen Prickett that modern fantasy is, in part, a reaction to industrialization, few projects have explored nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fantasies’ engagement with the urban, and fewer still have attempted to address the interteinement of fantasy and the city across cultures, a gap this volume seeks to fill.

Studies in literary works that engage with the city during the period tend to focus on how writers represented, captured, negotiated, or, at times, contested the changes brought about by various modernisation and industrialisation projects that were often related to imperial and colonial expansion or trade and economic initiatives. The emphasis has often been on the realistic, the everyday, and the busy metropolitan space. Critics have explored how cities have become real-and-imagined places in literary works that have been conferred with symbolic and structural values (see, for example, Robert Alter’s Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel). Works such as Jamieson Ridenhour’s Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature contribute to a growing body of work that focuses on the urban gothic, both as a sub-genre and a narrative mode in literature dating from the nineteenth century to the contemporary time. The urban gothic is an important piece of any project on fantasy and urban spaces, including this one. We also hope, however, to include contributions addressing how other forms of fantasy or work in the fantastic mode has been used to engage with the city. Even marvelous nineteenth-century idyllic fantasies usually engage with the unescapable city in some way, or even substantially. We especially seek contributions that explore fantasy and the city in different cultural contexts, or that explore the relationship between the city and fantasy across cultures, such as how fantastic literature can put cities in conversations—in metaphorical, physical or symbolic terms. 

Instead of focusing on one single national context, this edited volume invites contributions from scholars who work with texts that are situated in different cultural contexts and historic moments between 1830 to 1930. The volume seeks to raise new questions surrounding the relationship between the city and fantasy in a period that witnessed an enhanced global connectedness due to wars, advancement in technologies of transportation and communication, and other socio-economic initiatives. The proposed period covers key historic and cultural events that had both local and global significance. These include the Chartist campaign and the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, the Sino-British Opium Wars, the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the May Fourth Movement in China, the early Republican periods in many Latin America states, the First World War, and the transformation of Hong Kong into a crown colony, and an entrepôt. The period also covers the rise of new academic disciplines in Europe and America, including anthropology and folklore, which led to an increased interest in fantastic and marvelous tales from other cultures. Moreover, rising numbers of translations of this literature, as well as increased reading of works in their original languages (a foreign language for the reader), led to new reading audiences and new reception histories for fantastic texts from other countries of origin.

In this volume, we especially encourage contributors to consider topics that engage with more than one city or cultural context, or ones that explore different moments of cross-cultural interaction and contacts. Possible cities include (but are not limited to) Paris, Berlin, Cape Town, Istanbul, Beirut, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, and London. Contributors might consider how writers make use of the fantastic mode to come to terms with new urban realities, or to negotiate their sense of (cultural) identity in the ever-changing metropolitan spaces. Other questions that they can consider include the following: In what ways does an investigation into the fantastic in different urban settings complicate our understanding of its potential in contesting real-and-fictive boundaries that condition or limit people’s ways of life, and their accessibility to different urban spaces because of race, gender and class? How might the fantastic be used as a strategy in literary texts that seek to interrogate or negotiate one’s relationship with the others in cities that were increasingly multicultural in outlook in the long nineteenth century? How might the fantastic be used as a form of resistance against colonial rule, or as an act of writing against the Empire? How might writers invoke the mythic and the fantasized characters from their own literary and cultural tradition when representing or negotiating the urban spaces and the underlying ideological assumptions? In what ways can the fantastic and the everyday co-exist and be used to interrogate new social realities? 

We note that the terms fantasy and the more recently coined urban fantasy are anachronistic and highly contested terms—labels used in retrospect, sometimes in narrowly defined and sometimes in broad senses, to describe existing modes and genres. Contributors to this volume are free to draw on the theoretical accounts of the fantastic that best suit their project and the critical tradition from which they write. Contributors, however, should be consistent in their usage and should note, as needed and to avoid confusion, the varying ways in which their terms have been used.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

  • Types of fantasy that involve the city
  • Imperial and/or colonial cities and fantasy
  • Industrialization, urbanization, and fantasy
  • Border/Boundary/Liminality: how the fantastic mode is being used to confront, mediate or negotiate liminal spaces, or various forms of “borders” and boundaries in different cultural contexts
  • Medievalized cities in nineteenth-century fantasy
  • Periodicals and fantasy
  • Cities in conversation
  • Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century responses to European or American fantasies in areas and regions such as Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and vice versa
  • Different fantastic modes and traditions (such as Zhiguai), and their usage and adaptations in urban contexts
  • Orientalized cities, such as translations of the Arabian Nights in the nineteenth century and their impact on subsequent literary productions
  • The city as a place of publication for fantasy (in periodicals or books); urban readers of fantasy–the types of fantasy they read.
  • Nineteenth-century cities and fantastic Romantic legacies
  • The city and the collection of fairy tales and folklore
  • The Gothic and the City
  • The Everyday and the City: how everyday spaces become sites of fantasy; how the fantastic responds to, or resists against, the everyday
  • Nostalgia, fantasy and the city
  • Fantastic urban utopias and/or fantasy and urban reform
  • Fantasy and cultural identity
  • Urban Typologies, architecture and fantasy
  • Urban palimpsest and fantasy
  • Reading fantastic cities in translation
  • The reception history of a city’s fantasies either within that city and/or in other cities across the globe

If you are interested in contributing to the edited volume, please send a short bio (100–150 words) and a 400-word abstract outlining the topic and the content, including the key authors and/or texts that will be covered in your essay, to the editors, Dr Klaudia Lee (hiuylee@cityu.edu.hk) and Dr Sharin Schroeder (sharinschroeder@mail.ntut.edu.tw) by 15 January 2021.

The deadline for full chapters, 6,000-7,000 words in length (including notes and works cited), will be 30 November 2021, subject to the final decision of the publisher. We look forward to reading your proposals.


Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2021


CONTACT INFORMATION: 

Full name / name of organization: Dr. Klaudia Lee and Dr. Sharin Schroeder

Contact email: sharinschroeder@mail.ntut.edu.tw

CFP: THE HOLOCAUST AND ASIA: REFUGEES, MEMORY, AND MATERIAL CULTURE


The Holocaust and Asia: Refugees, Memory, and Material Culture

March 28–Wednesday, April 6, 2022


Application deadline: Monday, February 1, 2021

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for a research workshop entitled The Holocaust and Asia: Refugees, Memory, and Material Culture. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Kimberly Cheng, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, and Ran Zwigenberg, Asian Studies, History and Jewish Studies,  Pennsylvania State University. The workshop will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. 

The workshop is scheduled for March 28–April 6, 2022. In the event that it is impossible to convene during those dates due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the workshop will be held in a hybrid format consisting of a series of short online sessions in advance of an in-person program convened at the Museum to be scheduled in the Summer of 2022.

In recent decades, the Holocaust has occupied an increasingly prominent place in Asian cultures of memory. Chinese intellectuals have called the Cultural Revolution their “Holocaust,” and both China and Japan have found and commemorated their own “Schindlers” (Ho Feng-Shan and Sugihara Chiune). Partition refugees in India/Pakistan have compared themselves to Jewish refugees, and memory activists across Asia have invoked Holocaust analogies in the region’s never-ending history wars. Yet the Holocaust’s impact on Asia was not just cultural. Many Asians witnessed the Holocaust firsthand, and tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fled through Asia. In Asia, these Jewish refugees appeared as poor white Europeans, challenging Asians’ conceptions both of the figure of the Jew and of the white man; both for Jews and Asians, their encounters with one another as racial others brought stark questions of identity, race, racism, gender, class, and colonial entanglements to the fore. Whether in the realm of exchange between refugees and local populations, or in mutual learning about the place of artifacts in commemoration, the circulation of material culture only served to deepen these divides.

Surveying the Holocaust-related myths and historical realities in Asia writ large (from China and Japan through Central Asia to Iran), this workshop explores Jewish and Asian involvement in the Holocaust and its memory. Our workshop examines the limits of the term “Holocaust” and its applicability across histories and cultures to account for the multifaceted ways the tragedy has reverberated beyond Europe. In doing so, we intend to delimit the existence of an Asian sub-field or an “Asian turn” within Holocaust studies.

To identify the main lines of inquiry of this burgeoning field, the workshop will consist of presentations and roundtable discussions led by participants along three thematic tracks: 1) the experiences of refugees, 2) Asian cultures of memory, and 3) material culture. Daily sessions will be led by participants, as well as discussions with Museum staff and research in the Museum’s collections. The workshop will be conducted in English.


How to Apply

Applications are welcome from scholars affiliated with universities, research institutions, or memorial sites and in any relevant academic discipline, including anthropology, archeology, art history, Asian studies, Eastern European and Eurasian studies, genocide studies, geography, history, Jewish studies, law, literature, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, religion, Romani studies, and others. Applications will be accepted from scholars at all levels of their careers, from PhD candidates to senior faculty. Scholars working in Asian academies, as well as scholars from underrepresented backgrounds in the field, are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Mandel Center will reimburse the costs of round-trip economy-class air tickets to/from the Washington, DC metro area, and related incidental expenses, up to a maximum reimbursable amount calculated by home institution location, which will be distributed within 6–8 weeks of the workshop’s conclusion. The Mandel Center will also provide hotel accommodation for the duration of the workshop. Participants are required to attend the full duration of the workshop.

The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, February 1, 2021. Applications must include an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the specific project that the applicant is working on, plans to research, and is prepared to present during the program; and a short bio. The application form.


Museum Resources

The Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Documentation houses an unparalleled repository of Holocaust evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others. The Museum’s resources include approximately 110 million pages of Holocaust-related archival documentation; library resources in over 60 languages; hundreds of thousands of oral history, film, photo, art, artifacts, and memoir collections; and the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, which contains about 11.5 million name records and over 44,000 list records. In addition, the Museum possesses the holdings of the International Tracing Service (ITS), which contains more than 200 million digitized pages with information on the fates of 17.5 million people who were subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement as a result of World War II. Many of these records have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to advance the field of Holocaust and genocide studies.


The Museum’s Asia-related collections include:

Participants will have access to both the Museum’s downtown campus and the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. To search the Museum’s collections, please visit the collections catalog.


For More Information

Direct questions to Krista Hegburg, PhD, Senior Program Officer, International Academic Programs Division, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at khegburg@ushmm.org.

This Call for Applications.

CFP: CONTAGION; MATTER, METHOD, AND MEDIUM


Contagion: Matter, Method, and Medium

University of Minnesota,

April 30 - May1, 2021


Details:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference will be held online through Zoom. 

Call for Paper deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020

Organizers: Soyi Kim (kim4190@umn.edu) / Soo Jackelen (leex7096@umn.edu)


Keynote Speaker:

Scott O’Bryan, Indiana University (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Sangjoon Lee, Nanyang Technological University (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information)


This year, global “contagions” reached multiple tipping points, as seen in the COVID-19 pandemic that compounded racialized hatred and Black Lives Matter protests that fanned out worldwide. These cases materially and biologically substantiated the interconnection between racism, pathological discourse, postcolonialism, necropolitics, and media culture. Now more than ever, “contagion” is a dominant form for thought. The biological dimensions of contagion take on social resonances, and vice versa. The unknowability of contagious diseases tends to boost public anxiety over racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities as well as “exotic” animals. On the other hand, social phenomena, like public rioting, Internet vernaculars, and even collective laughter, are often dubbed “contagious.” In science studies, contagion is biological, viral, material. In the humanities and social sciences, it is geopolitical, racialized, and gendered. From an ecocritical perspective, contagion is material and political, as when the ecological impacts of capitalism create new points of contact with viruses. We propose to think through pandemic and post-pandemic epistemologies, adapting contagion as a methodology that productively blurs the boundaries of nation, discipline, media, genre, gender, and race.

For this biennial Graduate Conference on “contagion,” graduate student scholars in East Asian studies are invited to respond broadly to this theoretical concern with contagion across different media, cultures, genres of writing, research methodologies, geopolitical areas, and disciplinary languages. Papers will emphasize East Asian studies. We welcome work in post/neo/colonial studies, biopolitics, ethnic studies, critical racist studies, feminism, queer studies, trans studies, disability studies, cinema and media studies, and more.


Possible topics for the conference may include, but are not limited to: 

  • Disease on media/art/literature
  • Politics/life/media and COVID-19
  • History/Historiography of epidemiology in East Asia
  • Contagion as a methodology in social science and humanities
  • Transnational cinema and media studies
  • Meaning of border crossing / translation in media and literature study 
  • Biopolitics and necropolitics in East Asia
  • Memes, virality, and internet culture
  • Contagious laughter and comedy
  • Translation and perception in humor studies
  • Affect theory and media/art/literature in East Asia
  • Transversality and gender studies (trans, queer, feminist studies)
  • Ecocriticism
  • Public health Issues (epidemics, pandemics, and other contagious diseases) 
  • Anthropocene, posthumanism, animal, etc.
  • Object oriented ontology in East Asian context


We accept submissions from current graduate students from all disciplines whose research interests are in the East Asian area. Please send the abstract (up to 250 words), and a short bio (up to 100 words) to gvkoreabeyond@gmail.com by December 31, 2020.


Host: 

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota

IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, “Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond”


Sponsors: 

Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Institute for Advanced Study


The Imagine Fund

COURSE: POLICY LESSONS FROM SOUTH KOREA'S DEVELOPMENT, WORLD BANK GROUP.


Policy Lessons from South Korea's Development,

WORLD BANK GROUP


Learn about South Korea’s remarkable transformation from a low- to high-income economy in only three decades.


About this course

South Korea presents a compelling story of economic growth. It’s one of few countries that made the transition from a resource-poor, low-income nation to a high-income economy in only three decades. It offers a model for developing countries and in this MOOC, leading experts will explain how South Korea achieved this outcome by implementing an export-led industrial strategy.

This course examines South Korea’s past developmental experience as well as its current strategy and policy initiatives to overcome global and domestic challenges, and sustain economic growth into the 21st century. You’ll have an opportunity to consider and discuss institutional and policy lessons applicable to the developmental challenges facing your own countries.

The course will be of interest to all those wanting to learn how South Korea was transformed into a high-income, with the help of a highly skilled workforce, and the development of high-end manufacturing and services sectors. Also of great interest is Korea’s creation of a futuristic city, Songdo, equipped with smart and green technologies. This MOOC will be of particular interest to policymakers involved in economic development.

The course has been developed by the World Bank Group in collaboration with Korea Development Institute, and is taught by prominent representatives of academic and research institutions in South Korea and the United States.


Details:

  • Length: 4 Weeks
  • Price: FREE. Add a Verified Certificate for €4
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Course Type: Instructor-led on a course schedule

Prerequisites:

Familiarly with basic economics concepts would be helpful but is not required.


More information

COURSE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY



International Politics in the Korean Peninsula,

Seoul National University


Explore the genesis, expansion, projection and challenges of the Chinese World Order in China and East Asia.


About this course:

This course is divided into three parts. First, you’ll learn how the Chinese World Order emerged in the ancient world, focusing on the concept of the "heavenly mandate" (天命) as the ultimate source of political power (1 module). You’ll also learn how the Chinese World Order expanded into the relationship between China and surrounding political entities (1 module) and several challenges when the Qing (淸) Empire replaced the Ming (明) Empire.

Second, this course will review how China tried to project its world order into the relationship with Korea and Korea came to be integrated into the Chinese World Order from the 14th century to the 18th century (4 modules). More specifically, it will show how China intervened in the interstate trade and Korean music.

Finally, it will compare the two trajectories of political thoughts between Korea and Japan since 17th century. Korea fantasized itself as the genuine heir and center of the Chinese World Order, closing its door to foreigners. Meanwhile, Japan overcame the Chinese World Order and eventually converted itself as a modern state (1 module).

The working language is Korean with English subtitles.


Details:
  • Length: 4 Weeks 
  • Effort: 1–2 hours per week
  • Price: FREE. Add a Verified Certificate for €41
  • Level: Introductory
  • Language: 한국어
  • Video Transcripts: English, 한국어
  • Course Type: Self-paced on your time

Prerequisites:

None


COURSE: THE KOREAN STORY: SECRETS OF AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE, SDG ACADEMY. 



The Korean Story: Secrets of an Economic Miracle,

SDG ACADEMY


What can the world learn from the Korean development story?


About this course:

The Korean Story discusses the socio-political and historical context that has shaped the economic growth of South Korea. It probes into how South Korea, post the Second World War, was able to transform its economy within three decades to emerge as a leading innovation and technology center in the 21st century.

It highlights South Korea’s current status in terms of human development indicators and the SDGs and offers insights on how other countries can achieve similar growth stories with structured reform and policy measures.

The course features modules from leading Korean experts in economics, politics, education, health, gender empowerment, rural development, and transportation. The eminent thought-leader in economics and sustainable development, Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, presents the introductory module about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on the Korean experience of setting goals and targets to achieve them.

The Korean Story: Secrets of an Economic Miracle was developed and produced by the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, in partnership with the SDG Academy.


Details:
  • Length: 11 Weeks
  • Effort: 4–6 hours per week
  • Price: FREE. Add a Verified Certificate for €41
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Course Type: Self-paced on your time

Prerequisites:

None

CASA ASIA PRESENTACIÓN ONLINE DEL LIBRO «CÓMO INVERTIR EN COREA: LA EXPERIENCIA DE LAS EMPRESAS ESPAÑOLAS»


Presentación online del libro

«Cómo invertir en Corea: la experiencia de las empresas españolas»

Casa Asia


El libro Cómo invertir en Corea: experiencia de las empresas españolas tiene la importante misión de acercar la realidad de Corea a las empresas españolas, ayudar a identificar oportunidades y servir de guía a aquellas compañías interesadas en invertir en uno de los países más dinámicos de la OCDE. El intercambio entre España y Corea crece anualmente, pero para alcanzar un nivel satisfactorio, habría que aumentar la cooperación empresarial e institucional.


Programa:

9.30 h – 9.45 h – Bienvenida y contextualización
Sr. Amadeo Jensana, director del departamento de Economía y Empresa, Casa Asia.
Sr. Alvaro Hidalgo, presidente del CEIC y profesor de la UCLM
Representante de la Embajada de Corea en España (por confirmar)

9.45 h – 10.00 h – Introducción a KOTRA España y Portugal
Sra. Young-Ju Ahn, directora general de KOTRA España y Portugal

10.00 h –  10.20 h – ¿Por qué invertir en Corea?
Sr. Alvaro Hidalgo, presidente del CEIC y profesor de la UCLM

10.20 h – 10.40 h – La inversión directa española en Corea: resultados empíricos
Sr. Jaewon Lyu, vicepresidente de Apoyo Comercial, KOTRA

10.40 h a 11.00 h – Oportunidades de negocio e inversión en Corea
Sr. Jerónimo Gracián, subdirector de KOTRA España y Portugal

11.00 h – 11.30 h – Cómo hacer negocios en Corea: impresiones de empresarios españoles
Sr. Agustín Ramos, director del CEIC y profesor de la UCLM
Selección de empresarios españoles que han participado en el libro

11.30 h – 11.45 h – Debate y cierre de la jornada


Más información:
  • Fecha: Martes 1 de diciembre a las 9.30 h. Inscripciones abiertas.
  • Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder.
  • Precio: Actividad gratuita.

WEBINAR: «TENDENCIAS ECONÓMICAS EN ASIA ORIENTAL Y ASEAN Y PERSPECTIVAS DE SU RELACIÓN CON ESPAÑA»


Webinar

 «Tendencias económicas en Asia Oriental y ASEAN y perspectivas de su relación con España» 




El Club de Exportadores e Inversores Españoles y la consultora Iberglobal organizan, en colaboración con Casa Asia, el webinar «Tendencias económicas en Asia Oriental y ASEAN y perspectivas de su relación con España», enmarcado dentro de la nueva edición del ciclo de conferencias online sobre internacionalización, y que tendrá lugar el próximo martes, 24 de noviembre, a las 17.00 h.


Presentación a cargo de:

Antonio Bonet, presidente del Club de Exportadores e Inversores.

Javier Parrondo, director general de Casa Asia.


Mesa redonda sobre el posicionamiento de España en la región de Asia Oriental y ASEAN:

Javier Serra Guevara, director general de Internacionalización de la Empresa de ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones.

Tomás González, presidente de Asempea (Asociación Empresarial España-ASEAN) y socio director del departamento de Expansión de Idom.

Iñigo de Palacio, director global de Relaciones Institucionales de Indra.


Moderada por:

Ramón Gascón, coordinador del grupo de trabajo de Asia Pacífico del Club de Exportadores.


Clausura:

Enrique Fanjul, socio director de Iberglobal


Inscripciones gratuitas aquí.

CASA ASIA ENCUENTRO ONLINE SOBRE CINE COREANO


Casa Asia

Encuentro online sobre cine coreano


Los Encuentros sobre cine asiático surgen ante la necesidad de replantear la manera de llegar a nuestros públicos de forma no presencial ante el aplazamiento del Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2020 (AFFBCN) en su formato presencial, entendiéndose como un espacio de encuentro y debate en el ámbito del cine. El AFFBCN cumple este año su octava edición como certamen especializado en cine asiático y Casa Asia ha querido organizar estos encuentros, con expertos en este ámbito, para ofrecer al público una inmersión total antes de la reanudación del festival en las salas de cine.

En esta primera sesión de los Encuentros de cine asiático, contaremos con la participación de Roberto Cueto, miembro del Comité de Selección del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, donde ejerce como delegado de Corea del Sur, y Ángel Sala, director del SITGES Festival International de cine Fantàstic de Catalunya, los cuales nos ofrecerán perspectivas complementarias sobre el panorama del cine coreano actual.

Este encuentro se realiza en el marco del 70 aniversario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre España y Corea y, además, estas sesiones se plantean ante la necesidad de llegar al público del Asian Film Festival Barcelona. En este encuentro, Roberto Cueto y Ángel Sala hablarán sobre los éxitos de taquilla surcoreanos: Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003), The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2007), Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016), Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) y Parásitos (Bong Joon-ho, 2019). Las aportaciones de estos cineastas han supuesto una presencia inédita del cine coreano en el mercado nacional e internacional, y los ponentes tratarán de reflejar los cambios que se han producido en la industria y en su aceptación.

Roberto Cueto (Madrid, 1965) es profesor de Comunicación Audiovisual en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, miembro del Comité de Selección del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, donde ejerce como delgado de Corea del Sur, y miembro del Consejo de Redacción de la revista Caimán Cuadernos de Cine. Es autor de varios libros de temas cinematográficos como: Cien bandas sonoras en la historia del cine (1996), Drácula: de Transilvania a Hollywood (1997), El lenguaje invisible: Entrevistas con compositores del cine español (2003), Arrebato… 25 años después (2006), Otras miradas de Carlos Saura (2009) y 62 Donostia Zinemaldia (2014). Además, ha sido colaborador de los volúmenes: Seúl Express: La renovación del cine coreano (2004), Nuevo cine coreano (2007), Asia Noir: Serie negra al estilo oriental (2007) o Japón en negro: Cine policíaco japonés (2008). Ha sido asesor y redactor de textos en Cine Coreano-Arco 2007, en el marco de la Feria de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO, y ha sido nombrado Korean Culture Supporter 2016 por el Centro Cultural Coreano en España, con el que colabora habitualmente.

Ángel Sala (Barcelona, 1964) es director, guionista, crítico de cine y el actual director del SITGES Festival International de cine Fantàstic de Catalunya desde 2001 hasta el momento actual. Se licenció en Derecho por la Universidad de Zaragoza, pero no tardó en dedicarse a la crítica cinematográfica. Además de colaborar en diferentes revistas y periódicos, como el Periódico de Catalunya o como asesor de programación cinematográfica en TV3, ha escrito más de treinta libros entre los que cabe destacar los siguientes títulos: Cine fantástico y de terror alemán. 1913-1927 (2005), Universo Lynch (2006), El demonio en el cine (2007), American Gothic. El cine de terror USA. 1968-1980 (2007), El cine de ciencia ficción. Explorando mundos (2008) o Profanando el sueño de los muertos: Una historia oculta del cine fantástico español (2010). No obstante, además de crítico de cine también ha sido guionista de películas como Rottweiler (2004), Beneath the Still Waters (2004) y Nunca he estado en Poughkeepsie (2013), que también dirigió.

Ponentes:

Roberto Cueto, miembro del Comité de Selección del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián.

Moderadora:

Menene Gras Balaguer, directora de Cultura y Exposiciones de Casa Asia.

Detalles:
  • Fecha: Martes 24 de noviembre a las 19.00 h. Inscripciones abiertas.
  • Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder.
  • Precio: Actividad gratuita.

CASA ASIA WEBCAST «EL K-POP Y K-CULTURE: MÁS ALLÁ DE LA CULTURA»


 Webcast Casa Asia

«El K-pop y K-Culture: más allá de la cultura»


El fenómeno de la cultura coreana no es producto del azar sino de una estrategia muy bien planeada por un país que supo transformarse políticamente, convirtiéndose en una consolidada democracia, y económicamente para convertirse en todo un referente en Asia y en el mundo como una de las economías más modernas.

La transformación social y cultural no podía ser ajena a ese proceso y el movimiento hallyu o «la ola coreana», apareció por primera vez a mediados de la década de los 90, después de que Corea estableciese relaciones diplomáticas con China en 1992 y de que las series de televisión y la música pop ganasen gran popularidad entre la comunidad china.  Unos años después, en 2003, la ola coreana llegaba a Japón de la mano de sus series de televisión.

Para 2017 ya eran casi 100 países en todo el mundo los que se habían impregnado de este fenómeno que va más allá de la música y que incluye la gastronomía, la literatura e incluso la lengua coreana.

A partir del planteamiento de Jung (2015) observamos la elasticidad del hallyu y la multidimensionalidad de la K-Culture, que abarca múltiples ámbitos de la vida cotidiana. Se plantea un interesante “viaje”, o flujo de contenidos tomando el K-pop como punto de partida para dar a conocer este fenómeno surcoreano que no conoce de fronteras y va más allá de la propia cultura.

Palabras de bienvenida:

Rafael Bueno, director de Política, Sociedad y Programas Educativos de Casa Asia

A cargo de:

Julia Rodríguez, doctoranda por la Universidad de Málaga en el programa de Comunicación, Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas. Realizando la Tesis: El K-Pop y la interacción parasocial en España: el fenómeno fan en Instagram

Detalles:
  • Fecha: Jueves 26 de noviembre a las 19.00 h. Inscripciones abiertas.
  • Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder.
  • Precio: Actividad gratuita.

CASA ASIA WEBCAST «EL SISTEMA DE SALUD COREANO Y LA INDUSTRIA BIOSANITARIA DE COREA DEL SUR: RESPUESTAS A UNA GESTIÓN EFICIENTE DEL COVID-19»

Webcast Casa Asia

«El sistema de salud coreano y la industria biosanitaria de Corea del Sur:

respuestas a una gestión eficiente del COVID-19»


Con motivo de la conmemoración de los 70 Años del establecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas entre España y la República de Corea, abordaremos las características del sistema de salud coreano, las reformas realizadas en el mismo desde el año 2000, y las principales actuaciones llevadas a cabo en salud pública.

Se analizarán, además, los planes de modernización e impulso que se han llevado a cabo en la industria biosanitaria de Corea del Sur y todos los aspectos relacionados con la inteligencia artificial, big data y real world evidence sobre la gestión sanitaria del COVID 19 en el país asiático. Del mismo modo, se hará una breve reseña de las relaciones en aspectos sanitarios entre España y Corea.

Palabras de bienvenida:

Rafael Bueno, director de Política, Sociedad y Programas Educativos de Casa Asia.

A cargo de:

Álvaro Hidalgo, director del grupo de investigación de Economía de la Salud de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) y presidente del Centro Español de Investigaciones Coreanas y la Fundación Weber.

Detalles: 

  • Fecha: Jueves 19 de noviembre de 19.00 h a 20.30 h. Inscripciones abiertas.
  • Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder.
  • Actividad gratuita.

CFP: "WORLDS OF IMAGINATION: MEDIA, PLACE AND TOURISM IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD" ONLINE CONFERENCE


"Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World"

April 7th- 9th 2021

Online conference / Erasmus University Rotterdam


Keynote speakers:


In today’s globalized, transnational and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which the ties between people’s worlds of imagination and the real worlds they inhabit are made tangible through place. 

This conference highlights the interconnections between media, tourism and place and aims to bring together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in this process while focusing on critical issues accompanying this multifaceted phenomenon. We venture off the beaten track by adopting a decidedly global perspective and putting emphasis on the exploration, analysis and comparison of cases from around the world. Consider Bollywood, which produces more films, for a larger audience, than Hollywood does every year, and how Chinese, Indian and Russian travellers increasingly determine the face of international tourist flows. This conference aims to broaden the horizons by including and comparing research into, for example, Bollywood films, Brazilian telenovelas and South Korean K-pop culture. 

We proudly present the following keynote speakers: Prof. Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University), editor of Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media (2020) and author of Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies (2019);  Prof. Sangkyun Kim (Edith Cowan University), editor of Food Tourism in Asia (2019, with Ian Yeoman and Eerang Park) and Film tourism in Asia: Evolution, transformation and trajectory (2018, with prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders); Prof. Mimi Sheller (Drexel University), author of Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (expected 2020) and Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018); Prof. Peter U. C. Dieke (University of Nigeria), editor of Research Themes for Tourism (2011, with Peter Robinson and Sine Heitmann) and The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Africa (2000); Prof. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading), author of Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (expected 2020) and Brazil on screen: Cinema Novo, new cinema and utopia (2007), and Prof. Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield), author of Fan Cultures (2002) and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event (2015).

This year the current Corona crisis has hit the world hard, also with regard to its media and tourism industries. The lockdown has seriously hampered filming and all other media production practices both on location and in the studio. At the same time, the tourism industry as a whole is suffering a disastrous year after a virtually constant annual growth since the late 1950s. At the time of writing there are modest signs the media and tourism industries are finding answers to the current crisis. It is clear, though, that the need to find more sustainable ways to deal with the interrelation between popular culture and tourism is even more relevant now that the Corona crisis has become part of the global agenda. This conference also aims to address this issue.

We seek to bring together scholars across disciplines, including, but not limited to, media studies, cultural studies, cultural geography, fan studies, tourism studies, and development studies. We invite papers that address all themes around media, place and tourism, such as:

  • Media tourism
  • Popular culture and heritage
  • Film location production
  • Film (and) tourism policies
  • Impacts of filmmaking and tourism on locations and communities
  • Imaginative geographies in media and tourism
  • Fan re-enactments
  • Place identity and belonging
  • Media tourist experiences
  • Theme-parks and tourism
  • Critical issues in media tourism
  • Comparative studies on media tourism
  • (Interdisciplinary) theories on media tourism

Creative presentation formats are welcomed. Moreover, we warmly encourage participation by scholars from the Global South, early career researchers and filmmakers working at the intersection of media, place and tourism. The conference aims to include a special (online) movie screening session, where filmmakers are invited to showcase and discuss their work on this topic. 

Due to governmental measures regarding COVID-19, the conference will take place predominantly online. We plan on organizing some live events in the city of Rotterdam (such as public lectures), but these will also be livestreamed for those preferring to participate fully online. The conference is organized by the ‘Worlds of Imagination’ research group consisting of Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders, dr. Emiel Martens, Débora Póvoa, Apoorva Nanjangud, Henry Chow and Rosa Schiavone, and sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC). 

Please submit your abstracts of max. 300 words and a short biographical statement (max. 50 words) to info@worldsofimagination.eu before December 1st, 2020. For more information, please access our website. 

Kind regards,

Worlds of Imagination Organizers 


Contact Info: 

The Worlds of Imagination research group: 

Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders, dr. Emiel Martens, Débora Póvoa, Apoorva Nanjangud, Henry Chow and Rosa Schiavone


Contact Email: info@worldsofimagination.eu

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MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL DEGREE PROGRAM IN KOREAN STUDIES


Master’s and Doctoral Degree Program in Korean Studies

Graduate School of Korean Studies,

Academy of Korean Studies


The Graduate School of Korean Studies, the Academy of Korean Studies, is pleased to announce international student recruitment for 2021 spring semester. Those who aspire to widen and deepen their knowledge of Korea by joining a Master’s or a doctoral degree program are very welcome to apply. It'd be greatly appreciated if you disseminate the news to those who are interested. Should you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact the Graduate Office at admission_intl@aks.ac.kr or +82-31-730-8183.


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Why Study at the Graduate School of Korean Studies, the Academy of Korean Studies?

As an educational institute established and funded by the Korean government with the aim of promoting Korean studies, we provide international students with excellent educational and living environments as follows:

    • Tuition fees are fully waived for the whole coursework period for all international students.
    • 66.7% of international students benefit from the Government Grant, a monthly stipend of $650 for a year, renewable upon evaluation.
    • A 5:1 student-faculty ratio enables close one-to-one guidance by professors.
    • Korean language courses are offered free of charge to assist international students with academic writing, presentations, and discussions.
    • Various programs such as tutoring, writing clinic, cultural activities and airfare subsidy for presentation abroad, etc. support students’ academic performance.

Currently, approximately 300 students including about 150 international students from 30 different countries are enrolled in our Master’s or doctoral degree program in the fields of humanities and social sciences pertinent to Korea.

  

The Program 

  • Coursework period is 2 years for a Master’s degree program and 3 years for a doctoral degree program.
  • An academic year consists of two semesters and courses are provided for 15 weeks per semester. A spring semester begins in March, and a fall semester in September.
  • Most courses are taught in Korean, while courses in Korean Culture and Society major are provided in in English.
  • Students earn 3 credits per each course. In order to graduate, students of a Master’s degree program should complete 24 credits, and a doctoral degree program 36 credits, other than mandatory Korean language courses which are non-credit. Both Master’s degree and doctoral degree students should write a thesis.

 

Entry Requirement

  •  A keen interest in Korean studies, coupled with an undergraduate degree (for a Master’s degree program) or a graduate degree (for a doctoral degree program)
  • English language proficiency equivalent to or higher than TOEFL iBT 80, IELTS Academic Module 6.5, or TEPS 301 for applicants for Korean Culture and Society major
  • Korean language proficiency equivalent to or higher than TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) level 4 for applicants except for Korean Culture and Society major

  

Application Deadline

We recruit twice a year. Application for 2021 spring semester will be open from 20 October to 9 November 2020. 

Applications for 2020 fall semester will be sought in March 2021.

 

How to Apply

To apply, visit gradaks.recruiter.co.kr and complete the online application form. A soft copy or a scanned copy of the following documents should be uploaded on the application website:

    • Personal Statement
    • Research Plan
    • A graduation certificate and official transcripts
    • A score report of TOFEL iBT, IELTS Academic Module, or TEPS (if applicable)
    • A TOPIK certificate (if applicable) 

In addition, a letter of recommendation should be sent by registered mail or by email.

 

Selection Process 

Document screening is held for applicants who meet all the application requirement. Then for selected candidates, a video interview is scheduled to be conducted on 11 December 2020.

 

Contact Us 

If you have any queries about the program or the application process, please contact us at admission_intl@aks.ac.kr or +82-31-730-8183.

 

Type/role

Master’s Degree or Doctoral Degree Program

 

Subject areas

    • Korean History
    • Diplomatics and Bibliography
    • Philosophy
    • Korean Linguistics · Korean Literature
    • Anthropology · Folklore
    • Religious Studies
    • Musicology
    • Art History
    • Cultural Informatics 
    • Human Geography
    • Political Science
    • Sociology
    • Education
    • Korean Culture and Society (Only available for Master’s degree program)

  

Location

Seongnam City - South Korea

Perched on the side of Cheonggye Mountain, 30km south of the center of Seoul, the campus provides a fantastic setting for the academic pursuits of students with its peaceful atmospheres and natural environments. Also, students can reach dynamic youth culture of Gangnam area within 30 minutes by bus as well as artistic and historic heritage of Seoul city center within an hour.

 

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