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 However, over the past two decades Asian students have increasingly withdrawn from traditional destinations and moved to other Asian countries for their university education.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


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