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CFP: ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN 2023, SOPHIA UNIVERSITY





The Executive Committee of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the 2023 Asian Studies Conference Japan. Although we were forced to cancel the 2020 and 2021 conferences and move the 2022 meeting to an online-only format, the Committee has decided that conditions will permit a return to the traditional on-site format for 2023. Therefore, next year’s conference will be held on the Yotsuya Campus of Sophia University on Saturday & Sunday, July 1 & 2. As in past years, all presentations are to be delivered in English.

Proposals may be submitted online between September 15 and October 31. Results will be announced by late December. The forms and further information are available here.


For Submission Applicants Outside Japan:

Everyone worldwide interested in Asian Studies is invited to participate.

International organizations are working to (re-)start in-person exchanges and activities, and ASCJ intends to join that trend. At present the Japanese government is not issuing individual tourist visas, nor permitting visitors into the country without a visa. However, the government, though slowly, has been moving steadily and incrementally toward easing entry restrictions into Japan. While we cannot predict future Japanese government responses to COVID-related matters, the Executive Committee has drawn upon these trends to make an educated guess that in-person participation from outside Japan will be possible by next July. Thus we aim to re-establish ASCJ's on-site presence from 2023.

Those interested in traveling to Japan in order to attend ASCJ 2023 should monitor these Japanese government website for updates on its border control policies and entry restrictions:



Unfortunately, we cannot provide visa support, and can only draft letters of invitation for participants scheduled to present papers at the ASCJ.


Submission Categories

Panels are proposed by individual scholars around a common subject. A complete panel includes up to five participants (three or four paper presenters and one or more chair/discussants). Panel proposals should include a 250-word (maximum) abstract from each participant as well as a 250-word (maximum) statement that explains the session as a whole. Only complete panels will be considered for acceptance.

Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the purpose, themes or issues, and scope of the session.

Individual Papers give scholars an opportunity to participate in the conference even if they are not able to put together a complete panel. Papers may be co-authored. However, only the names of registered participants will appear on the program.

The Executive Committee encourages members to submit proposals that, by focusing on more than one region or by drawing on more than one discipline, will attract a broad range of scholarly interest. Suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above are also encouraged. The Executive Committee also strongly encourages graduate student participation and will give favorable consideration to panels that embed students alongside more seasoned scholars.

Since 2014 the ASCJ has awarded the L.B. Grove Graduate Student Paper Prize. For details on this competition please see the “Conference” section of the ASCJ website. To be considered for this prize the student must be enrolled in a degree program at a Japanese university and be accepted as a presenter at the ASCJ 2023 Conference. The deadline for submission of the completed paper is June 15, 2023. The winner will be announced at the time of the keynote lecture.

I and my colleagues on the Executive Committee look forward to seeing you in Tokyo in 2023.


Matthew C. Strecher

ASCJ President

ascjconf@gmail.com

CFP: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN BOOK SERIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA


New Book Series:

Human Rights in Asia from Palgrave Macmillan


ABOUT THE SERIES

This Palgrave Macmillan book series addresses the rising interest in human rights topics in Asia. It focuses on the largely underexplored territory of Asian human rights topics highlighting its empirical manifestations, historical trajectory and theoretical implications. It also goes beyond the problematic dichotomy between "East" and "West" by engaging in rigorous case-specific as well as cross-regional comparisons within South-South context. China's rise in world politics and its emergence as a massive donor, for example, has significant yet troubling implications. The member countries of ASEAN and Northeast Asia, on the other hand, would have different preoccupations and priorities calling for context-sensitive diagnosis and prognosis to promote human right causes. The series is multidisciplinary in nature and open to submissions focusing on international organization, ethics, criminology, development, freedom of expression, labour rights, environment, human/sex trafficking, democratization, governance studies, disability, reproductive rights, LGBT, post-/colonial as well as post-/authoritarian critiques and social movement, among others. The series publishes full-length monographs, and edited volumes.


CONTACT FOR PROPOSALS

Correspondence regarding book proposals should be addressed to Vishal Daryanomel (vishal.daryanomel@palgrave.com)

Series editor: Mikyoung Kim, Indepedent Scholar, South Korea

CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE RELIGIONS JOURNAL "RE-STAGING THE PERIPHERY AS THE CENTER: WOMEN COMMUNITIES IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS"

"Re-staging the Periphery as the Center: Women Communities in East Asian Religions",

Special Issue, Religions Journal


Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the special issue "Re-staging the Periphery as the Center: Women Communities in East Asian Religions" to be published by Religions. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on women’s roles, identities, and communities in a broad range of East Asian religious traditions, lay or monastic, institutional or non-institutional based, communal or voluntary. Therefore, religious traditions involved include not only the more institutionalized forms of religions such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, but also popular/folk/sectarian religions, NRM, smaller-scale village religious communities, voluntary organizations, impromptu religious gatherings, ancestor worship, etc. We look at both the localized forms of female religious communities, and also the transnational movement of religious sisterhoods (e.g., Bhikkhuni movements or regional migration of vegetarian nuns). Particularly welcomed are papers with a focus on:
  • Ethnographies of women’s religious communities (lay or monastic);
  • Female religious lineages, doctrines, networks;
  • Female alchemy in Daoist tradition;
  • Histories of female temples and other religious spaces;
  • Women’s religious communities and material culture (devotional or liturgical objects, images, sacred space, etc.);
  • Women’s religio-kinship networks;
  • Local, regional and transnational religious sisterhoods
  • Women’s communal religious life, activities, rituals;
  • Social life of religious women (i.e., religious women as entrepreneurs, political activists);
  • Domestic life of religious women (i.e., re-centering the family, the household of women, re-enacting kitchen as ritual space);
  • Religious food practices (vegetarianism, culinary piety);
  • Biographies of Bhikkhunis, priestesses, female religious practitioners, performers, Chinese vegetarian nuns (zhaigu), etc.;
  • Textual traditions of female religious communities, and the reception of female-centered texts;
  • Interfaith dialogues;
  • Lay Buddhism/Household Buddhism, lay religiosity;
  • Gender empowerment, gender equality, religious egalitarianism.
Interested authors please submit an expression of interest (with proposed title, abstract of 300 words and a short biography) to the guest editors Dr Ying Ruo Show (arisyr@nus.edu.sg) and Dr Jingjing Li (j.li@hum.leidenuniv.nl) by 30 June 2022. Full length articles of about 8000 words including references are due by 31 December 2022. All papers are subject to double-blind peer review.

Special Issue Information:

In East Asian traditions, women have always been active participants in religious affairs. However, their stories tend to be excluded from the standard historical narrative to consolidate the social norm of inner–outer distinction. Such a narrative chooses not to position women on the central stage of the outer, public domain as their male counterparts, but rather push women to the periphery as secluded members of the inner quarters for their religious cultivation. Recent scholarship has substantially problematized this exclusive narrative. In the burgeoning field that intersects gender and religion, scholars of Chinese history have scrutinized the (often biased) gendered historical representation of women to underscore their subjectivities (Jia, Kang and Yao 2014; Kang 2017; Yao 2021). Indeed, Chinese women not only participated in the Buddhist modernist movement during the 20th century (Travagnin 2017; DeVido [forthcoming 2024]), but also played central roles in the post-Mao religious revitalization (Qin 2000; Sun 2014). In parallel, as shown in the research of Japanese religions, women collaborated to refashion female monasticism, as epitomized by the effort of a group of privately professed women to reinstall the nun’s ordination order in Hokkeiji (Meeks 2010), and the multiple roles of Shin Buddhist temple wives who were not only good wives and wise mothers but also supported priests (Starling 2013). Likewise, studies on the forgotten lineages of Buddhist women in Korea have prompted scholars to reconnect the thriving nun communities in contemporary South Korea with their historical legacy (Cho 2011).

Restaging the periphery as the center, this Special Issue aims to investigate how women in East Asian religions throughout history have harnessed various resources to carve a space for their communities and thus reshape the religious landscape in their societies. In particular, this issue enriches the current discussions on the structure of religious organization, community activities/rituals and networks initiated and maintained by women groups. How are the migration patterns, religious practices, community networks, and kinship resources of East Asian religious women similar or different? Can we put them in dialogue with each other? Are there feminist traits in their history that would be helpful for us to forge regional or transnational connections? A comparative approach to studying religious women in East Asia and in the East Asia cultural sphere (such as countries of Southeast Asia that received significant influence from East Asia) would highlight the interconnectivity of the region and reveals patterns of how gender history and religious history intersect, collide and inter-penetrate. Thereby, we invite empirical and theoretical contributions on women’s roles, identities, and communities in a broad range of East Asian religious traditions, lay or monastic, institutional or non-institutional based, communal or voluntary. Therefore, religious traditions involved include not only the more institutionalized forms of religions such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, but also popular/folk/sectarian religions, NRM, smaller-scale village religious communities, voluntary organizations, impromptu religious gatherings, ancestor worship, etc. We look at both the localized forms of female religious communities, and also the transnational movement of religious sisterhoods (e.g., Bhikkhuni movements or regional migration of vegetarian nuns).

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at here by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

CFP: SOUTH KOREAN SPECULATIVE FICTION. THE JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS


Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction

 
 
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA), published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in literature, art, drama, film, and popular media. Published three times per year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, JFA’s articles are fully refereed, indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, and searchable in JSTOR. The editorial collective of JFA is currently working to make the journal indexed in SCOPUS and A&HCI as well. In early 2023 JFA plans to publish its first focused issue dedicated to South Korean science fiction and fantasy.

South Korean speculative fiction has a long and rich yet also conflicted history that spans over a century. Building on the legacy of the fantastic in premodern literature while also struggling with colonial drives toward the inculcation of science-technology (kwahak kisul – a compound term devised and systematically promoted as a state-led initiative on industrial development and lifestyle management), creators and readers of Korean science fiction have sought diverse pathways to negotiate the anxiety of influence through critical reappropriation. Taeguek Hakbo’s publication of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (trans. 1907) for instance introduced and framed modern technology as the momentum of progress, whereas Kim Dong-yin’s short story “Dr. K’s Research” (1929) highlighted the limits of a scientific frame of reference through irony. Despite pressures to focus on the problems of the here and now in the form of critical realism, speculative narratives persisted across the mediasphere throughout the turmoil of the Korean War and compressed development; creature/cult/horror films served as an outlet for quirky imaginaries in the ‘60s~’70s, while the comics magazine culture offered a fertile ground for science fiction narratives throughout the ‘80s~early ’90s. The film industry has also embraced speculative tropes as inspiration for hybrid aesthetics after an initial period of struggle (marked by a slew of unsuccessful blockbusters in the early 2000s); television dramas, streaming media, and webtoons are actively embracing the genre as the source of creative momentum; and videogames, in particular, are thriving in the land of the fantastic. In the domain of written literature, fantasy spearheaded the break from the longstanding tradition of critical realism in pace with South Korea’s economic and political stabilization in the ‘90s, and science fiction has become the nursery of feminist breakthroughs to attract global attention over the past decade – an ever-peculiar (yet all the more welcome) state of affairs given the predominantly masculine vector of the genre’s history, paired with the patriarchic underpinning of the kwahak kisul paradigm.

Even as megahit productions such as Snowpiercer (2013), Train to Busan (2016), Space Sweepers (2021), The Silent Sea (2021), and All of Us Are Dead (2022) continue to draw a global viewership, scholarship on South Korean speculative fiction within anglophone academia has been extremely sparse. To address this gap, the editors of this focused JFA issue shed timely and much-needed light on the subject across diverse media. The goal is not to catalogue the genre’s history in South Korea; rather, focus will be laid upon how South Korean speculative fiction writers and creators reverse-engineer the Western concept of modernity through reappropriative maneuvers, taking a deep-dive into the socio-cultural and historical frameworks as innovative aesthetic and discursive ventures. Hence the title, Newtrospection. Newtro refers to a new aesthetic trend in South Korea, which involves reviving and appreciating aesthetic trends from the past. The distinction between retro and newtro lies in that whereas the former veers toward nostalgia in its texture of appreciation, and as such signals contextual significance, the latter is more about challenging existing notions of the hip and/or good in its reconfiguration of trendiness, subverting the idea that the old is passé while disavowing associations between futurity and newness with sleek technicity. Identifying such tendencies in South Korean speculative fiction, the editors believe that the manner in which recent works own and thereby recontextualize longstanding metrics of desirability effectively demonstrate a drive to reverse-engineer the core tenets of anthropocentric, patriarchic, racialized, and colonial paradigms of science and technology.

In addition to scholarly essays on literary texts, the editors also welcome papers about all forms of creative work, including translations, films, television dramas, and new media in the genre of speculative fiction created by South Korean artists or written in Korean. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Comparative definitions, conceptualizations, and historicizations of science, technology, and sociotechnical imaginaries 
  • Modernity, premodernity, and postmodernity 
  • Humanism, posthumanism, and transhumanism 
  • Retrospection, memory, and the newtro
  • Nationalism, coloniality, Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Techno-Orientalism
  • Viruses, microorganisms, zombies, monsters, animals, plants, nonhumans, and sentient beings
  • Robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, genetics, and bioengineering
  • Ghosts, goblins, gods, demigods, myth, folklore, and supernatural beings 
The length of articles generally varies from 5,000 to 9,000 words and ranges from 20 to 30 pages. Please send a title and a 400-word abstract to guest editors Haerin Shin, Korea University (helenshin@stanford.kr) and Sang-Keun Yoo, UC Riverside (syoo015@ucr.edu) by May 31, 2022. Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted soon thereafter and asked to submit full papers by August 31, 2022. All papers will be subject to blind peer review.
 

Call for Book Reviews
 
There is also several books available for review for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. These reviews would be due August 31, 2022.  If you have a completed Master's degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are committed to writing a review for us, please contact the guest editors at the above email addresses, noting your preferred title and your mailing address.  The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000 words and documented in MLA style. 
 

Available Titles
  1. Readymade Bodhisattv
The Journal of Fantastic in the Arts is planning a focused issue on South Korean speculative fiction. The issue signals JFA's drive to broaden its horizon beyond anglophone SF as an ongoing initiative. The editors are excited to invite submissions - including original essays (across media) and book reviews. 
 
  
Contact Info:

Haerin (Helen) Shin, Korea University, helenshin@stanford.kr

Sang Keun Yoo, UC Riverside, syoo015@ucr.edu

CFP: VERGE STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS ISSUE 10.1



Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 10.1:

Special Issue: brown/ness(es)


Edited by Neelofer Qadir (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Naveen Minai (University of Toronto), and Tina Chen (Penn State).

Deadline: August 15, 2022

Feeling brown, feeling down. Feeling down, being brown. A name for law, a name for affect, a name for ontology, a name for relation, a name for not relation, a name for antagonism, a name for empire(s), a name for capital, a name for an accusation, a name that can be convenient, a name that does not work, a name that can stop working, a name for shades, a name for fantasy.

This proposed special issue considers both when brown might be useful and may be used to do the work of relation, inquiry, theory—and when brown does not work (Macharia 2013, 2016, 2019). Crucially, we reorient questions about brown and brownness away from frames centered in the continental northern Americas (Prashad 2000, Bald 2013) — and the American academy, and borders thereof in particular. We turn towards sites, relations, and geohistories imagined through terms such as (but not limited to) Indigenous, Afro-Asia, Asian- and/or African Latin America (Kim 2017, Kantor 2018), Indian Ocean, Global Asias, Inter-Asia, and more (Chen 2010). We think through how brown is shaped and weighted by different cartographic modes, for example, the Levant, Latin America, Africa, and archipelagos across Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.

We consider race and ethnicity as co-constitutive logics and forms of difference across different geohistories, including the ways in which these logics form, transform, transfer, congeal -- or not. We ask after brown, black, yellow, red, and white (and bright) as codes for difference, as metaphors of color made to matter through the matter of different bodies. We prompt reflection on how race, religion, ethnicity, and caste overlap and congeal into one another, troubling normative vocabularies of difference and relation.

We invite critical perspectives from scholars working in and across multiple languages, and provocations of brown as rubric, methodology, disorientation device (Ahmed 2006). Submissions might explore the politics that brown/ness(es) are heavy with, and their attendant contradictions, confusions, and frictions, including those between. Writers may think through these terms as names for cartographies of intimacy, violence, capital, memory, labor, culture are shaped by multiple empires — Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Dutch, American, Russian, Safavid, Mughal, Ottoman, Qing, Byzantine.

Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by August 15, 2022 and prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors' names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author's name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author's previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

CFP: PEACE & THE MANAGEMENT OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC PLURALISM IN ASIA


Call for Chapters for a Collective Publication:

Peace & the Management of Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia


In his quest to elevate his fields of expression, mankind adopts various paths that reflect his visions and his philosophy and through which he strives to give distinctive and specific characteristics to his movement in time/history and place/geography. These characteristics are essentially intertwined with the roles associated with individuals, societies and nations and the human relations between and among them. These relations are renewed and transformed based on the shifts in the collective needs and interests during different stages of civilizational advancement.

Our contemporary world is witnessing developments and transformations that express a new phase of human history, a phase which reformulates many of the statements and visions that founded human actions and experiences in the arenas of cultural, religious, economic, political, and strategic advancements. Every civilization and nation seek to be in a position of influence in one or some of these arenas, or all of them. For this purpose, each nation mobilizes its capacities, capabilities, and heritage, so that it does not find itself on the sidelines of contemporary transformations.

In fact, our contemporary world offers new opportunities for interaction between and among civilizations and nations which adds a new brick in the common human edifice. But at the same time, some developments and events in our contemporary reality have unfortunately led to the emergence of conflict and negative competition. The rising conflicts may destroy the lasting efforts that worked to build the common human edifice of many generations across multiple centuries.

Pluralism and diversity are a fixed and an undeniable religious, cultural, and ethnic reality in our world. For as long as this is the case, it is the ethical responsibility of members of different religions and of different cultures and races, to build creative ways in managing this diversity, in order to prevent or resolve conflicts of all kinds. When observing global geography in general and the geography of Muslim settlement, we find elements of commonalities between Muslim communities and others. These commonalities differ in their form and content depending on the historical and civilizational circumstances of each community and the cross-cultural impact and influence among them.

The Asian continent constitutes the most rich and diverse geographical area for Muslims in view of the global demographic map, and this geographical area is a key determinant for measuring global power balances and their future developments. This is particularly relevant with the multidimensional rise of China and India on cultural, economic, political, and strategic grounds. In other words, world peace depends greatly on stability in Asia whereas the possibilities of cooperation and/or conflict within the continent can easily migrate to other regions of the world, whether in Africa, the Arab region, Europe, or the American continent.

The current realities of Muslims and their future in Asia cannot be separated from the historical formation of other nations and other religions and civilizations in the region, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Christianity, and others. Given the diversity of racial and linguistic identities of Muslims in the region, it is only natural that Muslims hold many commonalities with people of similar race -albeit being of different religious backgrounds- since Muslims form a big part of the ethnic map of neighboring religions and philosophies. For example, across the tribes of Central Asia, Tibet, and China there is a significant number of followers of the Buddhist religion and within the same community many follow the religion of Islam, Confucianism or Hinduism. The different historical and geographical contexts in which communities in Asia have developed has also caused differentiation lines within followers of the same religion. This differentiation and division can also be explained in terms of the efforts of different ethnic and religious groups to achieve their water security, food security, and energy security.

Religious considerations are not the main or the only factor in the outbreak of conflicts, whether in Asia or other regions of the world, but religion is sometimes used to achieve other goals. Therefore, it is necessary to search for the specifics of each crisis in Asia and to look at it in its political, socio-historical, and socio-economic contexts, with its impact within and beyond the countries of conflict.

Within this framing vision, Al-Hokama Center for Peace Research launched the project of “Studies on Civil Peace in Asia” with the aim of tracing the roots of erupting or expected crises in Asia. The program is foregrounded in an approach that aims to build a theoretical vision about the religious and socio-economic transformations and interactions that are either a cause of conflicts or the basis for peace and coexistence in Asia. The program takes into account the factors of time /history and place / geography in tracking these transformations, not only in order to understand the ongoing conflicts in the regions of Asia, but also to monitor and foresee the factors that may lead to the emergence of new conflicts in the future.

The research axe “Studies on Civil Peace in Asia” within the Asian Studies Project seeks to publish a collective publication titled: Peace & the Management of Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia. The book project stems from a philosophy which centers the material and moral dimensions of human survival to prevent violence, aggression, and the human right to life. In other words, dismissing these dimensions inevitably leads to the spread of fear and then unrest and wars. The moral and immaterial existence of the human being is expressed through the cultural, religious, and symbolic affiliations of societies, but these affiliations are in turn subject to a transformation process. These transformations either occur for internal reasons such as the emergence of new interpretations or fundamentals of a single unified identity, or for external reasons, such as cultural clashes or cross-cultural exchanges with other identities. In both cases the constant remains: diversity and pluralism are a prominent feature of human life throughout history, and as long as this truth is absolute and cannot be overridden, it is the ethical responsibility of mankind to preserve this diversity, to wisely manage this pluralism, to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for the exchange among all the cultural, religious and civilizational components of human societies.

The collective publication proposes several themes through which it seeks to study the experiences and challenges of civil peace in different regions of Asia, namely:

I. Indian Subcontinent

1) Peaceful coexistence and religious pluralism in India.

2) Religious and ethnic pluralism in India: Keys to understanding the formation of the self.

3) A Sociological Approach to Islam in Indian Consciousness.

4) Peaceful coexistence and religious and ethnic pluralism in Pakistan.

5) Rebuilding civil peace in a plural society: the case of Sri Lanka.


II. Chinese Region

1) Managing religious and ethnic pluralism in China.

2) China and Islam: Analysis of a specific vision.

3) The religious influence of China in Asia.


III. Central Asia

1) Peace and Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Central Asia.

2) Ethnic and religious pluralism in Uzbekistan.

3) Ethnic and religious diversity in Tajikistan.

4) Ethnic and religious diversity in Afghanistan.

5) Ethnic and religious diversity in Kyrgyzstan.

6) Ethnic and religious diversity in Turkmenistan.


IV. Southeast Asian Region

1) Religious and Ethnic Coexistence in Southeast Asia: The case of Cambodia.

2) The role of Muslims in peaceful coexistence in Thailand.

3) Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Thailand: Possibilities and Challenges.

4) Religious and Ethnic Coexistence in Myanmar: Obstacles and Opportunities.

5) The prospect of religious and ethnic coexistence in the Philippines.

6) Peaceful Coexistence in Singapore: Analysis of Diversity Management

7) The Indonesian Experience in Managing Religious and Ethnic Pluralism.

8) Civil peace in Malaysia and Religious and Ethnic Pluralism.


V. Asia-Pacific Region

1) Interaction of Japanese Religious Consciousness and Islam

2) Managing Religious Pluralism in South Korea.

3) Societal vision of Islam in Korea.

4) Islam and South Korean Elites.

5) The Australian Vision on Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia.

6) The New Zealand Vision on Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia.


VI. A Comparative Approach to the Prospects of Civil Peace in Asia

1) Policies For Managing Diversity in Ethnically and Religiously Diverse Asian Societies

2) Policies for the Inclusion of Ethnic Groups in Decision-Making

3) International Legal Standards for Managing Diversity and Recognition of Pluralism

4) The Roles of Local and International Actors in Diversity Management: A Reading of Asian Experiences


1. Al-Hokama Center for Peace Research is inviting prospective participants to submit research proposals to Asian.st@alhokama.com according to the following requirements:
  • Interested participants are invited to submit research proposals (approx. 700 words) and a short biography, accompanied by an academic CV, in English or Arabic or French, no later than 10th of May 2022, with acceptance replies within three weeks thereafter.
  • All research proposals should include the following sections: the research question(s), a basic hypothesis, the methodological and theoretical frameworks, and approaches/results, with a list of references.
  • The paper should bear the following: Title of the Paper, Author(s) Details, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion, References.
  • Papers can be submitted in Arabic or English or French.
  • Researchers whose proposals were approved by the scientific committee should send their complete papers (6000-10000 words), no later than 15 September 2022.
  • A specialized organising committee will review the research, and the committee is obligated to inform the researcher of the decision to approve, decline or request any amendment to the paper no later than 30 September 2022.
2. Selected papers will receive a financial award after publishing, authors of excellent papers will be invited to attend the International Conference that will be organized in November 2022 in Rabat (Morocco) to present their papers. Al-Hokama Center  will cover all expenses related to travel, lodgings, and transportation of the selected participants during the conference.


For any further information, please visit our website or contact the Coordinator of Asian Studies Program (Hamza Mrabett) at this email: H.mrabett@alhokama.com.


Contact Info:

(Hamza Mrabett) Asian Studies Program Coordinator at ALHOKAMA center for peace research

Contact Email: asian.st@alhokama.com

CFP: THE DIGITAL ORIENTALIST’S VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2022


The Digital Orientalist’s

Virtual Conference 2022


We are pleased to announce that the Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022 will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022. In 2021, we switched from a Twitter conference format to a full-day Zoom event, dedicated to the discussion of digital research methods.

This year the focus of the virtual conference will be “Infrastructures” in the context of digital humanities in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research and data are organized, stored and shared; what are the considerations behind starting and coordinating DH projects; and what could institutions do to accommodate such projects.

As such, we will prioritize submissions that address one of the following topics:
  1. Databases.
  2. Topics include, but are not limited to: Tutorials, discussion of emerging projects, construction and limitations, and decolonization of databases.
  3. Institutional organisation of/around DH.
  4. Topics include, but are not limited to: Institutional support and organisation of DH projects, teaching digital skills, their role in the academic job market.
  5. DH research design.
  6. Topics include, but are not limited to: Structuring DH research, new methods and questions.
  7. Switching to digital research in the pandemic.
  8. Topics include, but are not limited to: Overcoming the limitations of travel bans, gaining remote access, digital ethnography as a critical method, digital versus physical archives.
Submission

Please submit your 250-word abstract here by May 1, 2022. If selected, presenters will submit a draft of their paper (no more than 5 double spaced pages, or in PowerPoint format) by June 11th.

Format

The conference will be held in Zoom on June, 25/26 (we will finalise the program in later stages, depending on the location of presenters).

Each presenter will be allocated a 20-minute time slot. After each session, there will be time for some Q&A and discussion. Please note that the event will be recorded, and will be made available for online sharing pending presenters’ consent.

Enquiries

Questions can be forwarded to the Digital Orientalist’s conference organisers either through email digitalorientalist@gmail.com or DM on Twitter (@DigiOrientalist).

Abstract deadline: 1 May

Paper submission deadline: 11 June

Date of the conference: 25 June

CFP: THE JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY, VOL. 19-1




The Journal of Northeast Asian History, Vol. 19-1



Dear Colleagues,

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 and possible publication in Winter 2022. 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 July 31, 2022 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.


Editorial Board of Journal of Northeast Asian History (JNAH)

Contact Email:

jnah@nahf.or.kr

CFP: GREEN CITIES BEYOND FAILURE: TOWARDS HOPEFUL EPISTEMOLOGIES OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN FUTURES IN ASIA



Green Cities Beyond Failure:

Towards Hopeful Epistemologies of Ecological Urban Futures in Asia


As more urban areas across the world adopt green visions, more case studies are conducted to document how these projects have yet to deliver on their environmental promises. Together, the dominant discourses reinforce a recurring and deterministic view that without radical reforms, existing political-economic structures will doom green city experiments to failure. Since such wholesale structural transformations seem far-fetched in most societies, the saturation of existing criticisms inevitably conjures up a bleak outlook on ecological urban futures. Repetition of similar criticisms is prone to overgeneralize the drawbacks of green city experiments, especially when the dominant discourse overshadows contextualized and differentiated outcomes. As a result, green cities are often viewed as ecological utopias that disguise state or market rationale to capitalize on nature, and urban scholarship on green cities seems to have hit a cul-de-sac of universal disapproval. Focusing on Asia, we acknowledge the importance of scholarly critiques of green cities but also seek to nudge the discourse beyond conclusions of inevitable failure.

There is, by now, a large and valuable body of critical urban scholarship on green and sustainable urbanisms in various parts of Asia. In particular, Asia’s eco-cities have been subjected to considerable scrutiny, resulting in rich insights about how and why these and related experiments have failed (e.g. Chiu-Shee, 2021; de Jong et al., 2016; Joss & Mol, 2013; Rapoport, 2014; Shwayri, 2013; Sze, 2015; Williams, 2017). In contrast, this workshop encourages participants to leverage existing critical insights and identify promising roadmaps towards alternative urban ecological futures. We invite scholars who have examined “green” or eco-city developments in Asia to share experiences and reflect on ecological urban futures in ways that move beyond the generation of yet more critical case studies.

Centered on Asian cities, the dialogues that we envisage should generate new perspectives that address questions including, but not limited to:
  • In what ways can academic work on “green,” “eco,” or “sustainable” experimentation retain a critical edge while also contributing to hopeful epistemologies (Pow, 2015) in urban studies?
  • Rather than adding new research on the failure of green city experiments, can future research clarify what constitutes success and how to achieve it?
  • Rather than viewing Asia’s existing green cities as sites and vehicles of capitalist growth or as symbols of untenable green futures, what lessons can we draw from Asia that would encourage more genuine green transitions?
  • In more nuanced examinations of Asia’s green cities, are there promising shifts in the diverse processes and outcomes that counter the view of a dismal or dystopian future? What progress has been made in Asia’s green cities that might be expanded to enable hopeful transitions?
  • Assuming that pro-environmental experimentation will (and should) continue in cities, what are the domains and types of intervention that can contribute to meaningful progress?
  • In academic research on rethinking ecological urban futures, how to generate methodological/theoretical breakthroughs and forward-looking insights to nudge policy and action in progressive directions?
  • What are some existing responses to academic critiques in design, planning, and policy practices? What could be some responses to academic critiques?
  • Given that COVID-19 has shaken up human-nature relationships in cities and fomented debates about green recovery, what lessons does the pandemic offer for rethinking ecological urban futures in (and from) Asia?

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission by 24 April 2022. Please also include a statement confirming that your paper has not been published previously, it is not committed elsewhere, and that you are willing to revise your paper for potential inclusion in a special issue submission (in collaboration with the workshop organizers and other participants).

Please submit your proposal using the provided template to Sharon at arios@nus.edu.sg. Successful applicants will be notified by the beginning May. Panel presenters will be required to submit drafts of papers (2,000 words) by 18 July 2022. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panellists and discussants in advance. Indeed, we expect that presenters will be open to feedback from fellow participants.


WORKSHOP CONVENORS







Contact Info:

Sharon Ong (she/her)


Contact Email:

arios@nus.edu.sg



CFP: "MAPPING ASIA: CARTOGRAPHY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TERRITORIALITY", CONFERENCE



“Mapping Asia: Cartography and the Construction of Territoriality”, Conference

Centre for Transcultural Studies, Gotha Research Campus, Erfurt University, Germany

24th–25th November 2022


This conference will explore cartography and the construction and contestation of territoriality in Asia from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular we seek to answer the question of how ideas of territoriality were cartographically produced, circulated and interpreted within Asia and between Europe and Asia.

The conference is part of the project "Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800–1945). A Project for the Digitization of Maps of the Perthes Collection Gotha” (KarAfAs). KarAfAs is a co-authored endeavour of the Centre for Transcultural Studies at Gotha and the Perthes Collection of the Gotha Research Library, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. By digitising the maps of the Perthes collection in Gotha, we intend to inspire future projects which see questions of territoriality and spatiality in a fresh light, utilising the source material held at the Perthes Collection. Participants will be invited to a tour of the highlights of the collection’s cartographic material on Asia.

We invite papers which address any of the following themes:
  • The circulation of cartographic knowledge and the territorial imagination
  • The role of Asian and European cartography in nation and state formation
  • Cartography and the making of colonial and post-colonial borderlands
  • Mapping and counter-mapping
  • The construction of the idea of ‘Asia’ and its boundaries
We welcome papers written on any geographical area in Asia which deal with the intersection of cartography and territoriality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

We especially encourage applications from groups underrepresented in the academy. We can offer small grants to reimburse the costs of accommodation and regional travel, with priority given to early career scholars.

Please submit abstracts (in English, up to a maximum of 250 words) together with a short bio to frances.omorchoe@uni-erfurt.de by Sunday 17th April. We will inform applicants of the outcome of their applications by the end of April.

Send inquiries to Claudia Berger at claudia.berger@uni-erfurt.de or Frances O’Morchoe at frances.omorchoe@uni-erfurt.de.


CFP: KOREAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING




November 11-12, 2022


The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way resonance can open up and connect Korean literary studies to the broader human world across disciplinary boundaries, historical periods, geographical borders, and linguistic systems.

Resonance—derived from its Latin roots resonare (resound) and resonantia (echo) and the French résonance—refers to a sound or a quality of a sound. Yet as The OED lists, resonance also means the power to evoke images, memories, and emotions; a sympathetic response; and allusions, connotations, and overtones. Although the specifications vary, the overarching concept of resonance involves movement through either vibration, oscillation, wave, or amplification that leads to a response—another movement, which together can produce meaning and value. Using these broad definitions as a starting metaphor and a springboard for creative extensions, we hope that the theme of “Resonance” allows us to explore Korean literature by embracing myriad forms, modes, and mechanisms that are both intimately and distantly connected to what constitutes Korean literature’s legacies and transformations. In this way, this conference aims to reconceptualize resonance as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies.

Of particular interest to this endeavor will be discussions on how and where Korean literature resonates. How might we analyze, interpret, and ground resonance within Korean literature’s history and its contemporary making? How can we use resonance as a framework for transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work on Korea? How is Korean literature embedded in the practices of the larger humanities and other fields, such as in the social sciences and STEM and vice versa? How might the resonances of Korean literature challenge the long-established theoretical practices and contribute to the ongoing making of global aesthetics? What are the places, moments, and instances of dissonance rather than resonance which nevertheless allow Korean literature to intervene in knowledge building and problem-solving and illuminating human conditions?


Topics could include but are not limited to the following:
  • Sound and sonic culture in Korea
  • Technologies and techniques of writing, reading, listening, seeing
  • Adaptation, Transemdiality, Intermediality
  • Premodern and Modern East Asian literary connections
  • Korean diaspora and Global Korean aesthetics
  • Digital humanities or Humanizing digitalization
  • Public humanities and Korean literature

The KLA seeks submissions from graduate students and faculty at any stage of their careers who are interested in presenting papers at the Conference. Individual as well as organized panels are welcome. Humanities and the study of literature have often been construed as an individual endeavor rather than a team effort, in this call for proposals, we are especially interested in seeking projects that bring teams of researchers together in demonstrating collaborative building of Korean literary studies. We are currently planning an in-person conference at the University of Oregon.


The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2022. 

Please send your 300-word abstract and a short CV to Jina Kim at jinak@uoregon.edu

CFP: "MOBILITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES", 2022 GLOBAL MOBILITY HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (GMHC) 


"Mobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities",


Seoul, 28th – 29th October 2022



From its earliest days, mobility studies has been intensely concerned with “the infrastructure of social life,” (Urry 2017, 13). Mobility might be seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social while it is undergirded by infrastructures of systems that enable and disable mobilities. Notably, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility infrastructure came to be recognized as indispensable for human life itself, while brutely materializing its geographical inequality and acutely strengthening racial, sexual, and class discrimination and their intersections. But which infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and information; that makes possible not only the socialities of everyday life but the circulation of power and wealth, especially as they have undergirded the formations and afterlives of empire and settler-colonialism (Cowen 2020)? For example, logistics, roads, railways, ports, sea routes, transportation networks, pipelines, and the like have been taken into consideration by many researchers in the mobility studies field. So too have internet servers, mail and postage systems, under-sea cables, charging points, bike docking stations, as well as churches, cafes and corner-shops, bodies and practices as ‘arrival’ infrastructures for mobile subjects (Jung and Buhr 2021; Meues et al. 2019). What, then, might count as a mobility infrastructure?

Many narratives of infrastructure, and indeed mobility, suggest their invisibility . Where it is only in their breakdown that we are forced to see the usually sunk or hidden qualities of infrastructures beneath our feet. Studies of infrastructure often involve staying with, following, and especially maneuvers of looking beneath and (un)concealment (Hetherington 2019). Sometimes these seek to reveal the political and power relations infrastructures perform and reproduce, and the (often mobile) lives and livelihoods that service and labour the infrastructures we depend upon. Might we foreground mobility infrastructures, then, if (in)visible and unthought, ‘deep’ or ‘under’, in the way they are unearthed by the (im)mobile practices of research that elicit, know, reveal, uncloak, surface, dig, spotlight, or perhaps write, draw, envision, revision, among other modalities of looking, sensing, writing and creative expression?

The 2022 GMHC is to be a platform to discuss mobility infrastructures in its technologies, geographies, histories, cultures, as well as its social being, ethics, justice, and affects from the mobility humanities perspective. Indeed, as the humanities are challenged not only by COVID, but structural changes in academia and its funding in many contexts, the conference might reflect upon what new infrastructures and (im)mobilities are possible and necessary in the Humanities? Given the emphasis on (virtual) labs, digital platforms, networks and emerging practices to share and collaborate and engage publics in new spaces (Eccles 2021), what might mobility infrastructures offer for a Humanities under threat?

This conference presents an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of mobilities studies and humanities, transcending the sometimes conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities and the arts. The conference theme, “Mobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities,” enables scholars to engage with the mobility humanities from different academic disciplines. With the advent of a ‘high-mobility’ (Viry and Kauffmann 2015) society, infrastructures come to have more far-reaching power, but are perhaps even more taken for granted. Wary of the dangers that they are assumed as universal and taken as ungrounded or uncritically, we encourage studies that contemplate geographic variation, difference and specificity of context across different global regions, national contexts, locations and places.

Topics may include but are not limited to:
  • Philosophies of Mobility Infrastructures
  • Infrastructural Reading of Literary and Cultural Texts
  • Infrastructures of Knowledge Circulation and the Mobility of Things
  • Visibilities and Invisibilities of Mobility Infrastructures
  • Bodies, Practices and Social Infrastructures
  • Creative Responses and Approaches to Mobility Infrastructure/Creative Practices as Mobility Infrastructure
  • ‘Coming Community’ and Mobility Infrastructure Ethics
  • Mobility Infrastructure Justice
  • ((Post)Colonial) Histories of infrastructures
  • Emotions and Affects of Mobility Infrastructure
  • Cultural infrastructures from antiquity to the future
  • Failing or fracturing mobility infrastructures
  • Other Related Issues

We welcome submissions of individual papers and panels for this conference.


How to submit your paper/panel proposal:

For panels supposed to be composed of more than four presenters, a 200-word outline of the theme of the whole panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each paper and the details of each presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted via email to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by 30th April 2022: GMHC2022@gmail.com

For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, together with the details of the presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by 30th April 2022: GMHC2022@gmail.com

All panel and paper submissions must be in English. Submissions in languages other than English will not be considered.


Key dates:

All submissions must be sent by email by 30th April 2022 and will receive an acknowledgement. Any submission received after the deadline will not normally be considered for presentation.

All panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed by two members of the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC. We will contact you at the end of May 2022 to inform you as to whether your panel/paper has been accepted.

Please note that, by being accepted to this conference, your abstract will be automatically considered to be included in the GMHC’s conference proceeding in due course. Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the subject heading “2022 GMHC Inquiry” if you have any questions and concerns.


Registration fee:

Online registration runs from June 2022. Information on registration will be made available on the conference website which will go live on April 2022.

An early-bird discount by registering before 1st August 2022. The early-bird fee is US$ 150. After that date, the registration fee is US$ 200.

A student discount: The early-bird fee (registration before 1st August 2022) is US$ 100. After that date, the registration fee is US$ 150.

Registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials, coffee/tea breaks, and a farewell dinner reception.

Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the subject heading "2022 GMHC Inquiry" if you have any questions and concerns.


Contact Info:

Jin Suk BAE, Ph.D.


E-mail: bae.jinsuk@gmail.com

Contact Email: GMHC2022@gmail.com

CFP: “HOW ZEN BECAME CHAN: PRE-MODERN AND MODERN REPRESENTATIONS OF A TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN BUDDHIST TRADITION”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


“How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian

Buddhist Tradition”, International Conference.


July 29-31, 2022 | ONLINE, in collaboration with Yale University


The FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia, with the assistance of the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies at Yale University, cordially invites proposals for an international conference on “How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition” to be held online, via Zoom. The conference is made possible with generous support from the Glorisun Charitable Foundation, based in Hong Kong.

Scholarly and popular publications in English and other European languages since the early-20th century more often refer to Zen Buddhism than Chan (alt. Ch’an) or Seon (alt. Sŏn) or even Thiền Buddhism, thereby promoting—at least subtly—the notion that Japan, rather than China, Korea, Vietnam, or Tibet, figures most prominently in the history of this tradition of East Asian Buddhism. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of English defines “Zen” as either “a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation” or “a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort.” Chan, Seon, and Thiền are not included as entries. Yet scholars and practitioners of Chan, Seon, Thiền, and Zen Buddhism have made it clear that the foundational texts studied and the monastic regulations and daily rituals followed in monasteries across East and Southeast Asia, as well as in Europe, North America, and Oceania, originated primarily in China. Localizing much of our research, scholars regularly refer to Chinese Chan, Japanese Zen, Korean Seon, and Vietnamese Thiền. Yet the overreliance on Zen as the preferred rubric to encompass a broader narrative about this tradition of East Asian Buddhism persists. This conference explores not only how we think about and refer to Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền Buddhism in terms of historiographical, textual, archaeological, philological, philosophical, political or socio-economic analysis, but also what it means in the 21st century to use one of these pronunciations instead of another about a tradition with the well-known 10th – 12th century Chinese maxims about “a special transmission outside the teachings” (jiaowai biechuan 教外別傳) which does not “establish words and letters” (buli wenzi 不立文字). Various narratives about the early, middle, or modern history of Buddhist meditative practice and the monastic traditions of East and Southeast Asia emphasize trans-cultural, multi-ethnic and cross-regional production and transmission of texts, practices, rituals, and even teachers that contradict what is conveyed when we restrict ourselves to using either Chan or Zen or another single label. Yet even when investigating a tradition sometimes represented as fundamentally opposed to words and letters, we know that words, conveyance, and spaces matter. 

Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to, studies of:
  • Buddhist meditation in premodern East or Southeast Asia;
  • The Chinese or Tibetan Buddhist tradition known as Chan;
  • The Japanese Buddhist tradition known as Zen;
  • The Korean Buddhist tradition known as Seon;
  • The Vietnamese Buddhist tradition known as Thiền;
  • The production and/or preservation or transmission of scriptures or books related to Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền Buddhism;
  • Editions of Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền Buddhist texts included in or occluded from the so-called East Asian Buddhist canons;
  • Comparative approaches using Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền Buddhist texts excluded from manuscript or printed editions of the so-called East Asian Buddhist canons;
  • Editions of scriptures or ritual manuals that speak to performances or practices, histories, or other Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền texts;
  • Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền individuals and communities who produced or maintained editions of Buddhist texts or epigraphical records in premodern East and Southeast Asia;
  • Comparative codicological, paleographical or doxographical studies of Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền books and the exchange and/or production of editions of these books in East and Southeast Asia;
  • Collections of exceptional editions of Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền Buddhist texts—or “canons”—at specific sites in East and Southeast Asia;
  • Editions of works in multilingual manuscripts or collections;
  • Studies of newly discovered Buddhist materials related to the history of Chan/Zen/Seon/Thiền in East or Southeast Asia
The organizing committee welcomes paper proposals related to any aspect(s) of the multidisciplinary, inter-cultural, and cross-regional study of Buddhist epigraphy in Central and East Asia. Please email proposals and CVs to frogbear.project@ubc.ca by April 15.

The conference will produce two volumes, one in English and the other in Chinese. The English volume will collect most of the papers in English, plus the English translations of several papers written in non-English languages, while the Chinese volume will include the Chinese versions for some non-Chinese papers in addition to those papers written in Chinese. Draft papers needed by mid-July to share with other panelists, and revised papers are needed by the end of October for those who plan to publish their papers.

This conference is planned as part of our annual International and Intensive Program on Buddhism [details here].
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