CFP: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULISM IN ASIA: THE SAME OR DIFFERENT STORY?

 
The International Conference on Populism in Asia:



ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The studies of populism in North America and Europe have reached an agreement upon the basic nature of populism in the Western liberal democracies. As a “thin” ideology, populism is found to be authoritarian, antipluralistic, welfarism-oriented, and chauvinistic. Populism in the West is related to economic conditions and, because of which, the sense of being deprived among some social groups. Populism in the Asia-Pacific region has not, however, been thoroughly investigated. The extant literature does not agree upon the characteristics of populism in this region, compared with its western counterpart. Some believe that it is the same story as in those North American and West European democracies, others believe not.

The conference is thus to invite the Asia-Pacific experts in the world to get together and exchange their empirical observations and research findings on populism in the Asian-Pacific countries, such as the details of its making, consequences, and implications. We intend to draw a comprehensive picture of populism in Asia and construct a comparative framework to contrast the models of populism in different political systems in the Asia-Pacific with the conventional wisdom derived from the West. Quantitative research based upon innovative data approaches is highly preferred.

An edited book is planned to be published as a result of the conference. The themes for investigation in the conference include, but are not limited to:
  • Populism and Nationalism
  • Populism and Democracy
  • Populism and Social Movement
  • Populism and the Internet
  • Populism and the Middle Class
Papers are now invited from interested scholars for this conference to be convened on 25-26 February 2021 in Hong Kong.

Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2022

Please submit an abstract of no more than 1000 words here.


kyyau@hsu.edu.hk

Tony Yau

CFP: BEYOND WORK FOR PAY? BASIC-INCOME CONCEPTS IN GLOBAL DEBATES ON AUTOMATION, POVERTY, AND UNEMPLOYMENT (1920-2020)

 
Beyond Work for Pay?

Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)


Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022


Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At the same time, and over the past century especially, the idea of payments to citizens without work requirements has found more pragmatic purchase, gaining traction as a way of assuring human rights and well-being at times of high unemployment, structural change, and job-threatening automation. In the 1960s, it also became a centerpiece of social and economic justice movement politics, reaching a height of grassroots support in the Black freedom and welfare rights movements in the United States. By then, basic income proposals had drawn support from ideologically divergent groups of policy intellectuals as a centerpiece of a reformed or re-envisioned welfare state, laying the groundwork for government-staged basic income experiments in the 1970s, though not for basic income itself. Basic income gained renewed and sustained momentum after the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, as debates about the effects of technology and automation on the labor market have continued unabated among economists and in the European and North American public. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment caused by it, such debates have had some political consequences: Switzerland in a 2016 held a referendum on (and rejected) a proposal to provide an unconditional basic income (UBI) for citizens. During the 2019/20 presidential primaries in the US, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang claimed UBI as his signature policy proposal. In the US, a group of 43 mayors is pursuing the idea for their communities. In Korea, the province of Gyeonggi-do in 2019 has implemented a basic income for all of its 175,000 24-year-olds. Meanwhile, international organizations such as GiveDirectly (supported by Nobel-prize-laureate Abihjit Banerjee) since 2017 have run large-scale basic-income trials in African countries such as Kenya.

Against the backdrop of such interest in basic-income concepts, this conference provides an opportunity for historians as well as sociologists, economists, and social scientists in other fields to discuss the emergence and the history of basic-income concepts in the past century.

We invite proposals for papers on a wide range of topics, and especially encourage papers that draw on comparative and/or transnational analysis and that address one or more of the following themes:
  • The intellectual, political, and ideological genesis of the negative income tax and similar basic income concepts deemed to preserve the income-work-paradigm in North America, Western Europe, and eventually in other parts of the world beginning in the 1960s.
  • Basic income and the changing dynamics of “expert” policy-making, amidst the proliferation of regional, national, and global governmental and NGO policy actors and the prominence of contested and often conflicting bodies of economic knowledge in policy debates.
  • The gender, race, citizenship, generational, and broadly intersectional dimensions of basic income concepts and policy proposals, as reflected in social movement politics and in public debates.
  • Basic income and the history of anti-poverty policy, within national frameworks and in the formulation of global development goals.
  • The significance of basic-income concepts in larger cultural, societal, and political shifts that historians have associated with the 1970s and 80s, such as an emphasis on markets, limited government, and the privatization of welfare systems.
  • Automation, basic income, and the shifting political economy of the “full employment” welfare state.
  • The history and normative assumptions shaping basic income “experiments” since their first introduction in the late 1960s and 70s, in the U.S. and Canada and more recently in Finland, India, and Namibia. What is the history of these experiments, and how do their normative assumptions (and the assumptions of the media covering these experiments) preserve a commitment to income-work or abandon it in favor of other life concepts?
  • The shifting nomenclature of basic income and how framing it in terms such as “social dividend,” “basic minimum,” “guaranteed,” or “unconditional” income reflect efforts to reshape public conversation about the parameters of the social contract.
The conveners aim to publish contributions to this conference either as an edited book or as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal.

The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by February 15, 2022, to the GHI Washington’s online portal at here.

Please contact Susanne Fabricius at fabricius@ghi-dc.org at the GHI Washington if you have problems with submitting your information online. Successful applicants will be notified in April 2022.



Contact Info:


Contact Email:

fabricius@ghi-dc.org

CFP: COMMON THREADS: BLACK AND ASIAN BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Common Threads:

Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo

Dates: 21st-23rd July 2022

Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN) at the University of Brighton in 2014, we are pleased to announce the second international conference on Black and Asian British Women’s Writing. This conference celebrates the fact that so many Black and Asian women writers have emerged in the last two decades and acknowledges the significant impact their writing has made on publishing and the media since 2015. Black and Asian women’s writing has transformed Britain’s cultural landscape and provoked urgent conversations about nation and identity, home and belonging. Their work challenges the control white, British canonical writers have asserted over what qualifies as literary, where meaning is located in literary culture, and whose voices are privileged. The last couple of years have been particularly exciting for Black and Asian British women writers with Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, the first Black British woman to do so, and several debut authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge topping the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts in 2020-21, and receiving substantial attention and recognition. The recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Black British and Asian Writing (edited by Deirdre Osborne), and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein) bring together over 400 years of Black and Asian British writing. 2022 also marks the 21st anniversary of the landmark ‘Write Black, Write British’ conference at the Barbican (organised by Kadija George), and of the publication of the anthology Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry. Common Threads aims to celebrate this rich cultural heritage while at the same time exploring how Black and Asian British Women’s Writing enables us to re-imagine the nation otherwise in the context of the unsettling, hostile environment of post-Brexit Britain.

The organisers welcome submissions from academics, postgraduate and early career researchers, teachers, publishers and literary activists. We welcome individual papers and panel proposals on any genre and topic related to writing by Black and Asian British women and queer people of colour. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Intersections and Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing in the era of Black Lives Matter and post-Brexit Britain
  • Teaching Transformation: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing and Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing, Screenwriting, Journalism, Popular fiction, Radio drama, Short fiction/flash fiction, Non-fiction
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Poetry and Spoken Word Performances
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Drama and Performance
  • Critically neglected writers/new writers
  • Black and Asian Women’s Writing and the School Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Children’s Literature and storytelling
  • Black and Asian British Queer Writing
  • The 2018 Windrush Scandal
  • The matter of bodies, politics, place and diaspora
  • Making Space/Reconfiguring space: real and imaginary spaces, online, publishing and other spaces, worlds turned upside down
  • Regional and rural writing
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and brief bio by 31st January 2022 to commonthreads2022@gmail.com. The notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2022. Online presentations/panels welcome. More details will be provided once notifications have been sent. Common Threads is an in-person event, but a limited number of online presentations can be accommodated.

The conference organizers will be working toward the publication of presented papers in a journal Special Issue in 2023.


Organisers: 



commonthreads2022@gmail.com

KOREAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, 2022



Becas de apoyo del gobierno coreano

para estudiantes internacionales, 2022


El Gobierno de Corea invita a los candidatos a formar parte de las Becas de Apoyo. Todos los candidatos con talento pueden solicitarlas para la sesión académica 2022-2023.

El objetivo principal del programa es motivar y apoyar a los solicitantes que se enfrentan a dificultades financieras.

El Gobierno de Corea del Sur es una república democrática centralizada con tres poderes principales: ejecutivo, legislativo y judicial.

¿Por qué deberías solicitar este programa? Ayuda y anima al becario a llevarlos hacia una amplia gama de oportunidades de empleo para ti. La economía surcoreana es enormemente constante; te asegura un futuro financieramente seguro.

Plazo de solicitud:

Las solicitudes están abiertas para la sesión académica 2022/2023.

Breve descripción:
  • Universidad u Organización: Gobierno de Corea
  • Departmento: N/A
  • Nivel del curso: Grado Universitario 
  • Retribución: Máximo 5,000,000 wones por mes
  • Número de plazas: Aproximadamente 250
  • Modo de Acesso: Online
  • Nacionalidad: International
  • La beca puede ser recibida en Corea del Sur
Eligibility:
  • Países beneficiarios: Se aceptan aplicaciones de todo el mundo.
  • Curso o asignaturas disponibles: Cursos de grado en todas las materias ofrecidas por la Organización.
  • Criterios de elegibilidad: Para ser elegibles, los solicitantes deben cumplir con todos los criterios siguientes / dados:
    • Los estudiantes deben estar matriculados en una universidad nacional (incluidos los institutos de formación profesional) en el segundo año o superior según el año académico aplicado.
    • Los solicitantes deben tener una media de 80 puntos o más sobre 100 puntos durante todo el periodo de inscripción.
    • Deben tener un promedio de 80 o más sobre 100 puntos en el semestre anterior en el que las calificaciones se introducen en base a 100 puntos. Y también, aquellos que han redondeado 80 puntos no pueden aplicar.
    • Debe haber superado el nivel 4 o superior en el TOPIK
Cómo aplicar:
  • Cómo presentar la solicitud: El formulario de solicitud completo tiene que ser rellenado en línea para la admisión.
  • Documentos complementarios: Los solicitantes deben tener una copia del formulario de solicitud impreso del sistema después de una solicitud en línea y una copia del pasaporte. Certificado de matrícula y expediente académico, una copia de la puntuación del TOPIK. En el caso de transferencia, también se debe presentar el expediente académico completo emitido por la escuela anterior (universidad nacional).
  • Requisitos de admisión: Los solicitantes deben tener un certificado de grado anterior con un excelente rendimiento académico.
  • Requisito de idioma: Si el inglés no es su lengua materna, deberá acreditar su capacidad lingüística en inglés: IELTS, TOEFL u otra prueba aceptable.
Beneficios:

El Gobierno proporcionará el fondo de un maximo de 5.000.000 wones al mes a todos los solicitantes internacionales.

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