CFP: UNITED NATIONS AND KOREAN WAR (1950-1953): POLITICS, WAR AND PEACE.

United Nations and Korean War (1950-1953):

Politics, War and Peace

After World War II, the geopolitical tension of East Asia, especially the Korean peninsula became critical. The beginning of the Cold War between two different ideologies of Communism and Democracy was eventually visualised through the military conflict of the Korean War (1950-1953). The United Nations (UN) dispatched soldiers from sixteen countries as well as medical support from six nations. Then, what is the relationship between the United Nations and the Korean War? Which countries were involved in the war? What were the political and international issues? How was the war seen to outsiders? What kind of grassroots narratives did the soldiers, families and Koreans have?

The aim of this conference is to explore the involvement of the United Nations for ‘the Forgotten War’ through the various case studies of individual, group, or nation. The theme can be analyzed in a multidisciplinary approach of history, politics, anthropology, sociology, war strategy, human movement, medicine, refugee, POWs, Busan studies, unification policy, education, and human rights. If you are interested or your current research is on the subject or relevant to the Korean War, we invite your paper for the international conference in 2021.

Proposed streams:

1. Policy of the UN for Korean War: The involvement of the United Nations (UN) to the Korean War was significant for South Korea (positively) and North Korea (negatively). How was the decision made so early? Who was involved in the process? How was the policy implemented internationally?
2. Human Movements, POWs and Refugees: The war directly impacted the relocation of the local people (6.3 million). The war also caused many POWs and refugees. How was the geographical landscape of the human movements? What was the situation of refugees? Were the POWs treated fairly?
3. War Strategy and Battles: The various war strategies were applied at the battlers of the Korean War between the army, navy (the marine corps) and air force of China, Russia, UN, North and South Koreas. How was the strategy changed? What was the turning point for each other? Which battles were significant? What about the condition of retrogression?
4. Narratives of Victims and Casualties (Soldiers and families): The war generated many victims (death and wound) which affected the emotional and mental condition of family members. What was the story of individual involvement? How do they remember the East Asian war? What is the post-war life of soldiers? Do they have any story in relation to Korean people?   
5. Human Rights and Welfare (medicine, orphans, and education): Under the military situation of the Korean war, there were various activities of international, public and NGO organisations in the sphere of human rights. How was the medical service provided? How were orphans managed? Was any activity of education continued?
6. Theory and Method in Unification and Peace Process: Since the Korean War has been 70 years and remained as an unfinished war, what kind of theory or method can be adopted for the development of Korean Unification? How can the peace process take a place for the future of both Koreas?

Proposals:

Please send your abstract or panel proposals to David W. Kim (davidwj_kim@yahoo.co.uk) including the following information:

1. Paper title
2. Nominated stream
3. Name and affiliation
4. Contact details (email)
5. Abstract of 150-200 words
6. Biography of 80 words highlighting teaching and research interests and publications (3-4 title and year only).

Proposals for panels of 3 or 4 papers must include the above information for all papers and a brief description of the panel itself of 100 words.

Key dates:

Proposal deadline: 15 June 2021

Notification: 30 June 2021

Registrations open: 14 July 2021

Registrations close: 10 August 2021

Conference: 22-24 October 2021

Registration fees:

• Full-time scholar: $250

• Student/ part-time and unwaged scholar/ audience: $200

• Local Korean scholar: $200

• Publishers: $500

Registration includes participation in all conference sessions, lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea on each day, conference dinner, registration pack, and post-conference tour. Publisher registration includes, in addition, a display desk, an opportunity to address conference delegates, and your logo on the conference program front page.

There will be a limited bursary for some accepted doctoral candidates and early career researchers ($100-$300 each) as well as the award for two best papers ($500 each). The bursary and award will be given away after the conference.

In addition, the selected papers (in a book volume) will be published in the UK or Europe.

Contact Info:

Conference Committee:    

(Chair) Asso. Prof. David William Kim (Australian National University and Kookmin University, Seoul)

(Co-Chair) Prof./Directer Kiseob Kim (Institute for Korean Unification, Pusan National University)

Research Prof. Jihyun Kim (Institute for Korean Unification, Pusan National University)

Contact:

Please address all inquiries to Dr David W.Kim: davidwj_kim@yahoo.co.uk

Contact Email: davidwj_kim@yahoo.co.uk

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CFP: THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES

October issue of the Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

International Academy of Social Sciences (IASS)

 

The Journal of Asia Pacific Studies is calling for papers for its October issue. JAPS is published both online and in print. It is indexed by ebco and there are no publication fees. JAPS welcomes papers with an interdisciplinary approach to regional issues.

About the Journal:

The Journal of Asia Pacific Studies aims to serve as an outlet for research dealing with the interdisciplinary field of Asia Pacific Studies. As one of the most dynamic regions in the world, the Asia Pacific is of interest to a vast array of scholars and practitioners from many fields. Interest in the region is no longer limited to a few elite centers in the Global North but rather has spread to Latin America and other regions of the developing world. Moreover, Central America has started to look East as a way to diversify its traditional reliance on the Atlantic and North America. Due to the previously mentioned increased interest in the Pacific and Asia as its hub, the International Academy of Social Sciences (IASS) publishes the Journal of Asia Pacific Studies.

JAPS is indexed and catalogued in the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCOhost, the online Bibliography of Asian Studies of the Association of Asian Studies, and OpenJGate.

Contact Info: 

Dr. Otto F. von Feigenblatt

Editor in Chief, Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

66 West Fragler Street 9th Floor No. 1014

Miami, Florida, 3310

Contact Email: journalalternative@hotmail.com

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CFP: ASIAN LIVES/ASIAN STUDIES IN THE POST PANDEMIC ERA

2021 NYCAS Conference

Asian Lives/Asian Studies in the Post Pandemic Era

In association with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), SUNY-Brockport will host the 2021 NYCAS Conference centered on the theme of “Asian Lives/Asian Studies in the Post Pandemic Era.” The conference is open to all, and will consist of two days of sessions on areas concerning Asian Studies. 

NYCAS 2021 (The College at Brockport, SUNY)

Dates: October 1-2, 2021

​Format: Hybrid

This conference is dedicated to looking forward to post-pandemic life as well as examining the impact of pandemic life - both subtle and profound, positive and negative- on Asian lives and the field of Asian Studies. How did the pandemic impact Asian lives? In what ways did the pandemic change the trajectory of Asian lives and Asian Studies and how should we respond? What factors influenced the field in the past year and how will that affect behavior and research going forward?

Scholars may propose topics on, but not limited to, the pandemic’s impact on Asian lives and the field of Asian Studies (pre, concurrent, or post) or focus on any range of significant and timely concerns such as:

• Politics, Policies, Governing: Globalization and De-Globalization, Regulation and Trade; Authoritarianism and Human Rights; Economies, Finance, Tourism;

• Health and Education: Asian Public Health Responses, Modes of Delivery, Agendas and Curricula, Budgets and Reform

• The Digital: Digital and Technological Acceleration; Digital Consumption; Digital Entrepreneurship

• Culture and History: History and Values; Stigmatization and Discrimination; Arts, Creativity and Imagination; Nationalism, imperialism, colonialism; identity, sexuality, LGBTQ+ rights; Spirituality and religion

• The Environment: Eco-Systems, environmental philosophies and politics, sustainability

Submissions

We welcome proposals for traditional or non-traditional panels, individual papers, roundtables, workshops and educationally-related performances. Graduate student and advanced undergraduate participation is highly encouraged. Please use our proposal submission form found on the Brockport NYCAS 2021 website (below).

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2021

Websites and Contact Information

Conference

Conference Chair:  Natalie Sarrazin nsarrazi@brockport.edu

NYCAS Website

CFP: PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASIA 1839-1939 (ONLINE / ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS (APA), PRAGUE & EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Photography in Asia 1839-1939 (online / Academy of Performing Arts (APA),

Prague & European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology

Proposals are invited for the international symposium: Photography in Asia 1839-1939

Accepted submissions will also be published in a peer-reviewed publication.

Deadline: 7 Jun 2021

The discovery of photography played a key role in the growth of learning about remote areas, as it allowed for the capture and faithful interpretation of reality. Articles and news in periodicals and book publications of travelogues were suddenly completed with shots whose authenticity could not be disputed. Photography, one of the most important inventions of the 19th century, became an important milestone in the knowledge of new regions and their inhabitants, culture and lifestyle.

Only a few years after the creation of the first daguerreotypes, the first attempts at their recreation were made in the Far East. At the same time, European and American photographers made their way there thanks to the so-called “open ports” and set up their own photographic studios, where their assistants familiarized themselves better with the technology of photography. This transfer of knowledge gave rise to a new generation of domestic photographers that was very familiar with the technological possibilities of photography and the contemporary technological methods but also brought new inspiration into their photographic work which followed up on the domestic art tradition.

Photography and visual documentation soon became essential sources of information about Asian countries, the different nations there, and a contemporary testimony about historical events. Photography made it possible to learn about new worlds and find out more about remote regions from the comfort of one’s home. Thanks to travelers, diplomats, merchants, correspondents for European or American periodicals, sailors at commercial ships or warships, or simply just adventurers, the medium of photography gradually made its way to other places around the world, as part of memories of distant journeys or as part of the newly emerging collection fonds. Nevertheless, these activities did not only take place within the colonial powers such as England or France, but they also started to be undertaken more frequently in what were more or less peripheries, such as Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, Italy or Austria-Hungary.

The phenomenon of contemporary Asian photography or photography in the Asian genre or with local themes was not at the center of attention of specialized workers and curators for a very long time. Only over the past 20 years, the phenomenon was rehabilitated and studied more in-depth, especially in Western Europe and America, thanks also to the commercial interests of artistic or antiquarian auctions and jumble sales. However, the region of Central and Eastern Europe has only been involved marginally with this research. That is why the organizers of this symposium have formulated several questions and study topics that could be discussed at the upcoming symposium. They are, above all: How is Asian photographic documentation and reproduction currently evaluated and classified? What is the role of a mediator – curator in the organization and creation of inventory fonds of memory institutions? What is the point of view on this transfer of knowledge resulting from the status of the volatile medium itself? What resonance does this transfer of knowledge have in Asian destinations? Are period photographs really just souvenir items without any artistic value? Who actually were the collectors of these items and for what purpose did they gather them?

We invite any interested experts, collectors or members of the general lay public to attend our international symposium and we welcome not only the aforementioned topics but also new perspectives, impulses and observations. Together with the invited guest speakers, we will “focus” on photography in Asia!

This call for papers welcomes presentations from particular areas of interest and we welcome proposals that explore the following topics related on photography in Asia:

1. Uniqueness and reproduction – visuality and transformation – facticity
2. Archetypes – stereotypes – genres: variability – identity – (re) presentation from Eastern and Western perspective and its interpretation
3. Photographic collections – curators, collectors, travelers and their admirers

The conference will be held in English.

Invited guests and keynote speakers:

Burglind Jungmann (Germany), Zahid R. Chaudhary (USA), Luke Gartlan (GB), Terry Bennett (GB)

Considering the pandemic situation, we expect the symposium to take place in a hybrid or online-only form on one of the web platforms. Streaming of all lectures will be provided.

Accepted submissions will be published in a peer-reviewed publication. The symposium and the publication of a collective monograph are supported from the Project Competition grant of the APA in Prague.

Paper proposals:

An abstract of up to 250 words for 20-minute talks and a short CV (c. 150 words), title, affiliation and contact information (address, telephone number, e-mail) should be sent to: asiaphoto21@gmail.com

• Deadline for submissions: 7 June, 2021

• Notification of acceptance: 20 June, 2021

• Deadline for registration: 24 September 2021

• Conference costs: free

Organization:

     

Filip Suchomel, Prague

Eliška Dušková (collaboration/infodesk)

CFP: THE 2021 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "BEYOND PANDEMICS: REIMAGINING THE HUMANITIES AND THE NEW NORMAL"

The 2021 ELLAK International Conference

"Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal"

The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) is pleased to announce an international conference on “Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal” to be held at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, from December 16 to 18, 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down. In addition to disrupting our day-to-day experiences of how we work, travel, and interact with others, the pandemic has had far-reaching consequences on the economy, educational system, healthcare services, and international relations. As we continue to come to grips with the havoc that the new coronavirus has wreaked on the world, the “new normal” has become an integral part of our vocabulary. However, it is not an entirely new term, for its usage can be traced to as early as 1922. After being increasingly discussed in relation to other major crises such as the 2005 avian flu, the 2008 financial crisis, and the global recession that shortly ensued, the “new normal” has now become firmly enmeshed in our collective discourse and imagination in the post-COVID era. While it can simply refer to our experiences as the pandemic continues to spread and impose drastic changes upon our lives, it can also be employed as a rhetorical means to mitigate the disruptions caused by the virus and normalize our current situation. On the other hand, the “new normal” enables us to shed renewed light on the frailties of the human condition as well as the structural inequalities that prevail in our societies and consequently reimagine the post-pandemic world.

At this critical juncture, in which we are simultaneously experiencing and transitioning to a “new normal,” ELLAK aims to examine how the studies of English language and literature (or more broadly, the humanities) can contribute to the interrogation of this term and thereby help us better navigate the latest in the series of crises to have afflicted the world. It is during such times of crisis and radical change that literary and cultural texts can play a significant role. That catastrophes have a stimulating effect on the mind and imagination is made evident by the plethora of plague narratives, which have accompanied human history. As previous works such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” and Albert Camus’ The Plague demonstrate, literary and cultural texts do more than just provide a compelling imaginative account of the effects that actual and imagined disasters have on humanity and the world. In addition to helping us attain a critical understanding of the dynamics of various political, economic, and social institutions, they lead us to imagine alternative modes of being and thinking as we deal with the exigencies of the present and face an increasingly uncertain future.

By examining the various ways in which literary and cultural texts have responded to not only the current crisis, but also past global and local disasters that date back to the beginning of human history, ELLAK seeks to reimagine what the term “new normal” means and can mean as it relates to all aspects of human life in the past, present, and future. Rather than uncritically accepting and perpetuating the new (or old) status quo, we would like to use this opportunity to explore how the humanities can aid us in not only overcoming the problems and challenges produced by disasters beyond the current pandemic, but also bringing about fundamental change in our respective societies and global community. The 2021 ELLAK Conference organizing committee invites scholars, educators, and students in the humanities as well as other disciplines to submit papers that directly or indirectly address issues related to such an imaginative reconstruction of the “new normal.”

Topics may include but are not limited to the following subjects:

• Crises and disasters

• Conflict and war

• Biopolitics

• Affect, emotion, and body

• Disease, pain, and trauma

• Medicine and healing

• Social distancing and networking

• Untact and contact

• Social (in)equality and otherness

• Race and gender

• Media and culture

• Environment and ecology

• High education and pedagogy

• Humanity, posthumanity, and transhumanity

• Digital humanities

To apply for participation in the conference, submit an abstract and short bio to 2021ellak@gmail.com by June 30, 2021.

Proposals may be submitted for either individual papers or sessions.

• Individual paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short bio.

• Session proposals should include a one-page proposal with a title and topic for a session of three to four papers, along with individual abstracts and short bios. 

Each presentation, which can be delivered in either Korean or English, will be no longer than 20 minutes, followed by a discussion and Q&A session.

For further inquiries, please contact the Organizing Committee at 2021ellak@gmail.com.

Important Dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2021

• Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2021

• Submission deadline for papers in the conference proceedings: October 15, 2021

Registration Fee:

• Standard: USD 50

• The registration fee will be reduced if the 2021 ELLAK International Conference becomes a virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Registration Fee includes:

• Reception and dinner banquet (December 17, 2021)

• Three daily refreshment and snack breaks

• Conference program and proceedings

• Conference bag and name tag

CFP: ESPACIOS DE LO SAGRADO EN ASIA ORIENTAL, REVISTA RAPHISA

Espacios de lo sagrado en Asia Oriental,

Revista Raphisa

El próximo número (julio de 2022) estará centrado en el ámbito de los ESPACIOS DE LO SAGRADO EN ASIA ORIENTAL, entendiéndolos e interpretándolos ampliamente desde las perspectivas natural, cultural, social y artística: naturaleza, arquitectura, jardinería, fengshui, pintura, literatura, teatro, etc. Asimismo, en la revista también tendrán cabida otras aportaciones que, fuera del ámbito especificado, también estén relacionadas con el mundo de Asia Oriental.

Por ello, se inicia ahora un llamamiento para contribuciones, que deberán ajustarse de forma necesaria a lo establecido en la web de la revista.

La recepción de artículos para este número estará abierta hasta el día 1 de abril de 2022, admitiéndose textos en español, portugués, francés, italiano e inglés.

Sobre la revista:

RAPHISA, revista de antropología y filosofía de lo sagrado es una revista editada por los grupos de investigación: HUM 394 de la Universidad de Málaga, y  HUM 925 de la Universidad de Sevilla.  En su versión impresa está editada por la editorial Thémata de Sevilla (España).

Es una revista semestral de investigación, reflexión y diálogo sobre cultura, antropología, filosofía y religión en el ámbito de las Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo y en el de Asia oriental destinada al intercambio entre académicos. Invita a todos los académicos de estas especialidades a enviar textos originales para su evaluación y publicación.

RAPHISA publica únicamente artículos originales e inéditos; sus lenguas oficiales son el español, el portugués, el francés, el italiano, el alemán y el inglés y se estructura en seis secciones –las cuales no todas estarán presentes en todos los números–:

I. ESTUDIOS;

II. NOTAS;

III. RESEÑAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS;

IV. INFORMES;

V. TRADUCCIONES;

VI. CREACIÓN;

VII. ENTREVISTAS;

VIII. OBITUARIO.

La recepción de artículos está abierta todo el año. Los números se cierran el 1 de septiembre y el 1 de abril. Los números se publican en junio y diciembre para cumplir con la periodicidad indicada. Si en un caso excepcional, RAPHISA, retrasara la publicación de los artículos seleccionados a un número posterior, los autores serán informados.

Más información:

ISSN-L: 2530-1233

Depósito legal: SE 1467-2016

CFP: MUSIC AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE ASIAN POLITICAL SPACE

Music and Engagement in the Asian Political Space

IGI-Global

Asia has a variety of political systems, religions, histories, huge populations (over half of humanity), and the largest land mass of all continents. Yet, the intricacies of its political affairs and how societies in the continent function are not fully well known or documented, and in fact often misunderstood. One of those unknown, underappreciated and misunderstood issues is the role of music, the arts and other forms of engagement in the Asian political space. This edited book is therefore conceptualized to shed light on this issue by:

Publishing research work entirely devoted to the intersection of music, the arts and forms of political engagement in the Asian political space, mainly by scholars of Asian heritage and ancestry, and in the eclectic tradition of political communication research i.e. from the perspectives of mass communication and journalism, music, political science, sociology, law, linguistics, history, theater and the arts, and related subjects in the humanities. And, doing so from multiple theoretical and methodological approaches to communication research. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Songs and music, musicians, social movements, civil disobedience and mass mobilization for political action.

• The use of music and other forms of arts for the promotion of civil, human, political and other rights.

• Exploring music and other forms of art as historical forces for change in society, including socio-political criticisms, challenging power and privilege, and also as used by the elite in power for their ideological self-preservation and perpetuation of control.

• Other issues related to, but are not explicitly mentioned above

Submission Procedure & Deadlines:

• Abstracts of 150-200 words should be submitted on or before May 31, 2021.

• Submissions should be done through IGI-Global publisher’s online submission manager here. Approvals will be done in June, 2021.

• Full manuscripts are expected by September 30, 2021.They will undergo a rigorous, double-blinded peer review process.

Contact Info:

Dr. Uche Onyebadi (corresponding editor)

Dr. Mohammad D. Hossain

Contact Email: onyebadi@yahoo.com

CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE, ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

Special Issue - Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Organizing Organization for Responsible Innovation in Asia, 

Guest Editors:

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Ph.D.

School of Business, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

Email: profsanjaysingh16@gmail.com 

Manlio Del Giudice, Ph.D.

University of Rome “Link Campus”, Rome, Italy

Email: m.delgiudice@unilink.it

Arvind Malhotra, Ph.D.

Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Email: Arvind_Malhotra@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

Ann Majchrzak, Ph.D.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Email: majchrza@usc.edu 

Background and focus:

Responsible innovation (RI) refers to taking interest in future through collaborative management of science and innovation in the present context (Stilgoe, Owen & Macnaghten, 2013). RI has focused on socio-ecological needs & challenges and committed to continuously engage relevant stakeholders to anticipate potential problems, mutual learning and improved decision-making (Wickson & Carew, 2014). Thus, the technological innovation needs to have any harmful consequences for the well-being the society and the environment at large (Swierstra & Jelsma, 2006). However, the evidences suggest for time lag between development of technology & understanding their positive & negative impacts, if any, on the health and the environment (Owen, Baxter, Maynard, Depledge, 2009). This suggests the need to invest in technological forecasting (Deuten, Rip & Jelsma, 1997) to minimize if any, the harmful effects of technological innovation. At the same time, we also find a mention of the inherent limitations associated with the regulatory frameworks and the risk management techniques to minimize the harmful consequence of technological innovation. To overcome these limitations, it has been suggested that the actors engaged in technological innovation act virtuously to realize the idea of responsible innovation (Pandza & Ellwood, 2013). Therefore, the business organization engaging in the process, service, & product innovation(s) while leveraging scientific research and technological developments in the field should be responsible for its potential negative consequences, if any, on the human being, the society, and the planet. In other words, responsible innovation asks agents involved in technology innovation to follow regulatory & societal rules, norms, and principles (Pandza & Ellwood, 2013).

The collective role of innovators and/or innovating organization(s), especially as social actors, needs to be responsive to each other from ethical, sustainable and societal desirability perspectives.  Responsible innovation is not a new concern but remains an important theme of research and innovation practice with different framing across the time and the place (Genus & Stirling, 2018; Stilgoe et al., 2013). The literature on responsibilities, risk, and governance of science & technology goes back many years (Jonas, 1984). However, the four key dimensions of responsible innovation - anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness (Stilgoe et al. 2013), require a fresh thinking and requires unpacking of theorizing responsible innovation in the context of organizing innovation-focused organizations in to address the triple bottom line (i.e., the people, the profit, and the planet) so as to satisfy concerns of all relevant stakeholders.

According to Stilgoe et al. (2013), anticipation (i.e., the systematic proactive thinking for socially robust risk research), reflexivity (i.e., the moral responsibility that asks for openness and leadership), the inclusion (i.e., inclusion of all impacted stakeholders), and the responsiveness (i.e., addressing grand societal challenges) is required for the governance of science & innovation. Extant literature suggests that organizations with focus on responsible innovation deploy innovative structures to engage with its stakeholders (Malhotra, Majchrzak & Niemiec, 2017), practices environmentally focused HRM practices (Singh, Del Giudice, Chierici & Graziano, 2020). Furthermore, the previous literature suggest responsible innovation to depend upon corporate ethical policies (Singh, Chen, Del Giudice & El-Kassar, 2019), use knowledge management tools (Santoro, Thrassou, Bresciani & Del Giudice, 2019) and proactively addressing the dark side of innovative business model (Malhotra & Van Alstyne, 2014).

Having said that, we know little about how to organize organization in Asian context to have reflexive character, engage in inclusive dialogues with key stakeholders, and be responsive to both present and future grand societal challenges. Similarly, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) argues for “most critical shift” necessary to attain ambitious 2030 Agenda that calls for integration of ‘people’, ‘planet’, and ‘prosperity’ components of sustainable development “in and through” science, technology and innovation (STI) policy (UNESCAP, 2016). UNESCAP (2016) makes it a point for the Governments in Asia and Pacific region of the world to institutionalize action-orientated STI programs in sync with the development strategies to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Of course, it goes without saying that organizations across industry in Asia are mandated to organize themselves in a manner suited well to integrate ‘people’, ‘planet’, and ‘prosperity’ components of sustainable development goals of the UN through responsible innovation. In other words, the UNESCAP (2016) calls for contextualized management research with Asia relevance towards global contribution to scholarship on responsible innovation. Therefore, while building on bridging policy studies and innovation (Kern et al. 2019), digital transformation of innovation (Nambisan et al. 2019), inter-organizational relationship (Zhou, Wu & Li, 2019) and the bright & dark-side of political ties (Wang, Zhang, & Shou, 2019), this special issue focuses on questions that investigate how to organize an organization for responsible innovation in Asia. Adding to policy issues and digital transformation related to innovation, this special issue also aims to explore governance issues related to responsible innovation in Asia. Possible questions that this special issue intends to explore, but is not limited to, are:

• Does responsible innovation in an organization in Asia require responsible leadership across all the levels and the functions to be responsive to the grand societal challenges? And, if so, what kind of leadership is required for responsible innovation in organization in Asian context?

• How can an organization in Asia reinforce a shift in responsible thinking amongst the actors wherein they reflexively and proactively consider what not do to more responsibly, going beyond just focusing on what to do, especially when it comes to the design of processes and products?

• How should an organization be organized in Asia to absorb creative tension between technically feasible and societally viable innovation? Should an organization in Asia provide guidelines and frameworks for deployment and use of innovatively designed processes and market offerings to minimize negative societal impacts? What should such guidelines and frameworks be in Asia?

• How can an organization be organized to anticipate societal impacts and making tradeoffs between commercial interests and societal interests in Asia? What are some of the processes and practices that enable proactively and reflexively making such tradeoffs in Asia?

• What characterizes responsible HR systems in organization in Asia context to attract, develop, sustain, and retain talented actors who crave for openness and responsible leadership within cultures of science and innovation, especially in a multi-generational workplace, whereby each generation has a different notion of what is responsible innovation?

• What dynamic capabilities help an organization in Asia to adjust its course of actions in response to new knowledge in the field, emergent viewpoints, and norms, and rapidly changing external context?

• What kind of leadership and organizational culture develop and sustain systematic thinking to increase resilience, to decipher new opportunities for responsible innovation in Asia and to shape schemas for socially robust risk research?

• What makes a value-sensitive organization in Asia that encourages the culture of openness and transparency to serve the aim of responsible innovation?

• What organizational culture frameworks inculcate and strengthen social, ethical and political stakes of the organization in Asia that accompany techno-scientific advances?

• What organizational design promotes institutional reflexivity in the governance of science and innovation in Asia?

• What techno-structural interventions should an organization in Asia engage in to preempt the detrimental consequences of new technologies and new processes on the people and the planet?

• Which organizational design in Asia encourages and sustains continuous engagement with relevant stakeholders and even inclusion of “non-experts” on scientific advisory boards with a clear purpose to expand the inputs to and delivery of governance of science and innovation?

Submission Processes & Deadline:

• The paper submission deadline is June 30, 2021.

• Submissions be prepared as per Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) submission guidelines.

• All submission to undergo APJM’s standard reviews & revisions after initial scree by the Guest Editors.

References:

Deuten, J.J., Rip, A., & Jelsma, J. 1997. Societal embedding and product creation management. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 9(2): 131-148.

Genus, A., & Stirling, A. 2018. Collingridge and the dilemma of control: Towards responsible and accountable innovation. Research Policy, 47(1), 61-69.

Jonas, H. 1984. The imperative of responsibility: In search of an ethics for the technological age. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Kern, F., Rogge, K. S., & Howlett, M. 2019. Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies. Research Policy, 48(10), 103832.

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Bio of Guest Editors:

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Management in College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). His research interests include HRM, knowledge, innovation, performance, sustainability and ethics. Dr. Singh has published in Journal of Business Research, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Personality and Individual Differences, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Information Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and International Marketing Review. He can be reached at sanjay.singh@adu.ac.ae

Manlio Del Giudice, Ph.D. is Professor of Management, University of Rome “Link Campus” in Italy. He is affiliated as Research Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Paris School of Business, in Paris, France. His research interests include knowledge management, entrepreneurship, Innovation, technology transfer, and cross-cultural management. Professor Del Giudice has published in Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, R & D Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer, and International Marketing Review. He can be reached at m.delgiudice@unilink.it

Arvind Malhotra, Ph.D. is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His area of research focus on crafting innovation problems, open innovation approaches, crowd creativity, crowdsourcing for innovation, using crowds to solve complex societal problems and the future of work. Dr. Malhotra’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Academy of Marketing Sciences, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Knowledge Management and Communications of the ACM. He can be reached at Arvind_Malhotra@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

Ann Majchrzak, Ph.D. is Professor of Data Science and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business, CA, USA. She researches on knowledge integration, digital and open innovation. Dr. Majchrzak has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information System, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Science, Human Resource Management, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, and Long Range Planning. She can be reached at majchrza@usc.edu

CFP: MEMORY AND VISUAL CULTURE IN 20TH AND 21ST C. EAST ASIA

Call for papers

Memory and Visual Culture in 20th and 21st c. East Asia. 

We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century East Asia, originating from a 2021 College Art Association annual conference session of the same name.

In twentieth and twenty-first century East Asia the establishment of modern nations and the shared experiences of wars, political conflicts, the colonial period, and Cold War tensions, among other historical events, contributed to sites and images of memory as widely produced, reproduced, and circulated. These sites and images, commissioned and produced by diverse agents, played a central role in constructing national narratives and collective identities, controlling or mediating domestic and international politics, crystallizing and visualizing forgetting and loss into material forms, and sustaining, intervening in, and resisting collective memories.

In Transposed Memory we seek to foster cross-cultural dialogues on memory and to illuminate geographical and cultural dynamics in East Asia by inviting chapter contributions on the range of site markers and visual signs of memory produced in modern and contemporary East Asia, from the traditional forms of monument, memorial, and museum to more recent forms such as participatory memorials, counter-monuments, and contemporary artists’ critical responses to collective memories. We welcome work from a variety of approaches, looking at a wide geographic and temporal spread, and considering diverse mediums, visual forms, and topics of memory construction.

Potential chapter topics may include, but are not limited to, the following examples: How do monuments and memorials shape, institutionalize, and reconstruct collective memories and national identities? How do sites and images of memory undergo transformation and gain new social contexts with periodical and political changes? How do visual forms and materiality shape collective remembering and forgetting? What is the viewer’s engagement with and lived experiences of sites and images of memory? What role does memory have in visual culture and politics in East Asia? How does collective memory forge East Asian relations, represented by the recent “memory war”?

Proposals should be 250-300 words, accompanied by a CV. Chapters will be in the 6,000-8,000 word range. Please email proposals to ajmiller@sewanee.edu and eunyoung.park2@case.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is June 1, 2021.

Edited by:

Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art, images of the Japanese empress, and gender in visual culture.

Eunyoung Park is Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in contemporary Korean art, with a research focus on issues of identity, globalization, and contemporaneity.

CFP: INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ASIA SCHOLARS

"Crafting a Global Future"

International Convention of Asia Scholars

ICAS 12 goes virtual! 24-28 August 2021

The ICAS Secretariat and Kyoto Seika University, together with all its partners, warmly welcome you to the first virtual edition of ICAS!

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is a biennial meeting platform for academics, cultural and civic actors from all over the world to discuss and share new insights on Asia and in 'Asian Studies' in a multidisciplinary, transsectorial context. ICAS events embrace a wide range of topics in Asian Studies research and Asian affairs in general. They draw from a humanistic social science interest that can include other areas and forms of knowledge, including the arts as well as scientific, policy and practitioners' experiences. 

ICAS's first-ever virtual meeting is expected to bring together over 1,500 international participants who are eager to exchange ideas, discuss innovative and emerging fields of study, and develop collaborations in the field of Asian Studies.

Join and connect with participants from around the world! This virtual ICAS 12 is available at our fingertips to Join and connect with participants from around the world! This virtual ICAS 12 is available at your fingertips to access multiple presentations, panel and roundtable discussions, poster presentations, documentaries, cultural activities and networking opportunities. We would like to give you a glimpse of the online conference platform that will be used for the live experience, Elevent.ly. To get an impression of the variety of possibilities on the platform, please view this impression flyer that we have prepared for you. The platform will be fully customized and transformed to give an ICAS 12 Kyoto look and feel.

Take a virtual dive with us and join our online adventure in the immersive virtual.

ICAS 12 world where you will have the opportunity to present your work, meet and engage in discussions with your colleagues during panel/roundtable sessions and informal meetings, establish new connections and enjoy arts- and crafts events and documentaries on Asia.

Call for Late-Breaking Submissions ICAS 12 is now accepting a limited number of Late-Breaking paper, panel and roundtable proposals for inclusion at ICAS 12.

The ICAS 12 Organising Committee would like to invite proposals in the Late- Breaking track on new research, recent developments and trending topics in Asian Studies that have arisen during the one-year period prior to ICAS 12. This Late-Breaking track offers an opportunity for discussion and exchange on novel and high profile research for which timeliness of sharing this research with the Asian Studies community is important. All topical areas spanning the Asian Studies filed are encouraged to submit, including cross-cutting topics and those that reach beyond disciplines traditionally represented at ICAS. 

Proposals should be submitted in our online proposal system before Monday 31 May 2021, 23.59 JST. 

We warmly welcome you to be part of the ICAS 12 spirit! 

For more information on ICAS 12, please visit the ICAS 12 website.

I JORNADA DE ESTUDIOS COREANOS

Desde ADECCE, tenemos el placer de anunciar la I Jornada de Estudios Coreanos que celebraremos el próximo viernes 21 de mayo de 11:30h a 13:30h de manera virtual a través de la plataforma Zoom en colaboración con la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Álvaro Trigo Maldonado, de la Universidad de Salamanca, se encargará de moderar cada una de las presentaciones. Este evento tiene como objetivo la puesta en común de las últimas investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo dentro del área de los Estudios Coreanos en España. En esta ocasión, tendremos la oportunidad de compartir cuestiones sobre relaciones internacionales, literatura, arte contemporáneo, cine y religión. La asistencia al evento requiere de un registro previo por medio de este formulario.

CFP: JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY VOL. 18

Call for articles,

Journal of Northeast Asian History Vol. 18.

The Northeast Asian History Foundation continues to expand its interaction with scholars specializing in Asian history and related fields outside East Asia. The Foundation is also strengthening its ties with leading institutions and scholars by encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to research on geopolitical, cultural, educational, and other issues in East Asia.

The Foundation publishes the Journal of Northeast Asian History (JNAH), a peer-reviewed semi-annual English-language journal that focuses on history-based approaches to Asian politics, cultures, economy and other fields to shed light on the historical realities of the Asian World. The Journal's geographical scope extends to other parts of the world which have significant relevancy to Asian history, thus charting globalism and localism from global perspectives.

In particular, we will welcome two topics that concern (1) Korea-China Relations and Historical Configuration in Northeast Asia and (2) US-China Relations and Historical Issues in East Asia, both of which will help explore further how inter-state and intra-state matters were and are liked together to the historical development of continental East Asia and how the confluence of these external and internal factors have been making vital impact on the various mode of regional interaction in modern East Asia and beyond.

The Journal of Northeast Asian History calls for the submission of outstanding and unpublished papers for review. We invite colleagues to consider the Journal when seeking to publish ongoing research since we believe this can be an impetus for further scholarly collaboration in the future. For full consideration, please submit manuscripts by September 15, 2021 for Winter Issue.

Please contact us at jnah@nahf.or.kr or jnah.nahf@gmail.com should you have any questions regarding the journal, its submission process or subscription to it.

Thank you in advance for your attention and contributions.

COLOQUIO: «MUJER Y FAMILIA. UNA VISIÓN DESDE AUTORAS COREANAS»

Coloquio Casa Asia

«Mujer y Familia. Una visión desde autoras coreanas»

Hoy por hoy asistimos a una creciente reivindicación de las mujeres surcoreanas sobre su lugar en la sociedad, lejos del papel pasivo que tradicionalmente se les había asignado.  

En el contexto de los movimientos de denuncia actuales, son cada vez más numerosas las voces que abogan por un replanteamiento de roles en la familia, y la literatura coreana escrita por mujeres está siendo una ventana más para conocer la realidad y las contradicciones de una sociedad en cambio. 

Tomando como hilo conductor obras como Por favor cuida de mamá, de Shin Kyung-sook y Kim Ji-Young, nacida en 1982, de Cho Nam-joo, entre otras, se debatirá sobre los cambios que supuso la transición urbana, las expectativas sociales, la maternidad y la repercusión del feminismo en este país asiático. 

Presenta:

Carmen Díez-Orejas, directora del Centro Casa Asia-Madrid

Participan: 

Ester Torres es doctora en Traducción y Estudios Interculturales por la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Barcelona (URV) y licenciada en Traducción e Interpretación (inglés, japonés) por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Tras haber sido docente en la Chonbuk National University (República de Corea), la Universidad de Yonsei (República de Corea), la Universidad Europa del Atlántico y la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), actualmente coordina el Máster de Traducción Profesional en la URV y centra su investigación en la circulación de literatura coreana y la traducción indirecta. Desde 2020 es la secretaria de la Asociación Española de Estudios de Asia Oriental.

Patricia Chica es coordinadora de Proyectos de la Oficina Puente con Corea de la Universidad de Málaga, desde 2013, y desde 2018 es colaboradora docente en el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental en la UMA. En la actualidad está finalizando su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Málaga sobre el “Modelo de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo de Corea del Sur con perspectiva de género”. Es responsable de la iniciativa de la Unidad de Igualdad de la UMA «UMA Feminista: La Ola Coreana» desde 2018 e imparte seminarios sobre «Mujeres en Asia Oriental» de manera trasversal en varias asignaturas del Grado de Estudios de Asia Oriental de la UMA. Ha realizado estancias de investigación en Incheon National University y University of London-School of Asian Studies (SOAS).

Podrás seguir también este webcast en Youtube en esta misma página el día y hora indicados.

Más información:

• Fecha: Martes 18 de mayo de 19.00 h a 20.30 h

• Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder.

• Actividad gratuita. Reserva aquí.

• Organizar: Casa Asia