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CFP: “FROM CASES TO CAUSES IN EAST ASIAN SOCIETIES”, FORTHCOMING ISSUE, EXTRÊME-ORIENT, EXTRÊME-OCCIDENT JOURNAL




“From Cases to Causes in East Asian Societies”, forthcoming issue,



Dear colleagues,

Please find below the call for papers for a forthcoming issue of Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident:


From Cases to Causes in East Asian Societies

Legal norms are regularly transgressed, in any society, without arousing collective attention. Those catching it are “cases” (or “affaires” as they are called in French) that originate in the judicial realm but gain a larger dimension through public stances whose types and outlets are subject, over time, to change. Out of these interventions, which are not limited to the space of the press, can emerge “causes” that mobilize more or less. Several disciplines have confronted this phenomenon, including history, sociology, and anthropology. The 1990s work of Élisabeth Claverie on the Calas and Chevalier de la Barre cases pioneeringly analyzed the public response process then initiated by Voltaire to turn both trials into exemplary ones. At the same time in the United States, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold gave birth to the cause lawyering scholarship that deals with the activism of legal professionals and has since expanded as demonstrated by the research of Rachel Stern and Eva Pils for China or Celeste Arrington for Japan and South Korea.

A case (or “affaire”), which must be distinguished from a “scandal” as shown by Cyril Lemieux and Damien de Blic (Politix n°71, 2005), is defined in the 2007 volume Affaires, scandales et grandes causes : De Socrate à Pinochet (edited by Luc Boltanski, Élisabeth Claverie, Nicolas Offenstadt and Stéphane Van Damme) as a moment of test for ordinary categories, such as statuses and values. Based on various case studies from Antiquity to the present day, the book ends by calling for more specialists of non-European cultural areas to join this line of research. As far as East Asia is concerned, one should note that Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan on the one hand, Paul Jobin on the other have participated in the above studies by respectively examining the Sun Zhigang scandal and the Minamata case. Their approach asks what a case alters and not only reveals about a given social order, differentiating itself from the microhistorical tradition that has spearheaded a renewal in the analysis of legal cases and sources over the past decades (among the classics, see Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms, 1976, and Jonathan Spencer, The Death of Woman Wang, 1979).

We offer here to continue interrogating what is at stake for a society in the surfacing of a “case” based on East Asian experiences. We therefore invite contributions from diverse disciplinary and temporal horizons, unrestricted to law or the last two centuries, to investigate the trajectory of single or multiple cases contemplating: How and why some cases but not others engender collective attention? Which move away from the judicial realm to enter the public space? Which go as far as bringing about forms of mobilization? Which categories are then tested and to which extent? In other words, under which conditions does a case become a cause? Which actors are involved in this transformation? Following which logics, not only strategic but also representational? Through which sources, media and discourses? With which effects?

Such are the main questions that this thematic issue of Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident plans to explore. Special awareness will be given to the lexicon deployed in the frame of the selected cases, to be probed in the different contexts under consideration – thus, for instance, the term jiken (Japanese), sakkŏn (Korean), shijian (Chinese), sự kiện (Vietnamese) invariably corresponding to the sinograms 事件.

Proposals for papers, in English or in French, should be addressed to the two editors of the journal: matthias.hayek@ephe.psl.eu and pierre-emmanuel.roux@u-paris.fr, as well as to Justine Guichard: justine.guichard@u-paris.fr, guest editor for this issue.

If you are interested in contributing to this issue, the editors kindly ask you to submit a tentative title and an abstract by September 15, 2023.

Full manuscripts should be submitted no later than January 15, 2024 and follow the submission guidelines outlined here.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. UNITED NATIONS AND KOREAN WAR (1950-1953). POLITICS, WAR AND PEACE




International Conference:

United Nations and Korean War (1950-1953): Politics, War and Peace

21-24 October 2022, Pusan National University, Korea


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 2022.


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 waralso 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 with Korean people?
  5. Human Rights and Welfare (medicine, orphans, and education): Under the military situation of the Korea war, there were the 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:
  • Paper title
  • Nominated stream
  • Name and affiliation
  • Contact details (email)
  • Abstract of 150-200 words
  • 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 2022
  • Notification: 30 July 2022
  • Registrations open: 05 August 2022
  • Registrations close: 30 August 2022
  • Conference: 21-24 October 2022

Registration fees:
  • Full-time scholar: $300
  • Student/ part-time and unwaged scholar/ audience: $250
  • Local Korean scholar: $200
  • Publishers and Bookshops: $400
Registration includes participation in all conference sessions, lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea on each day, conference dinner, registration pack, and post-conference tour (a half or one day). Publisher registration includes, in addition, a display desk, an opportunity to address conference delegates, and your logo on the conference program front page.


Bursary and Award:

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


Post-conference Publication:

The selected papers (in a blook volume) will be published by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing in UK.


Conference Committee:

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

(Co-Chair) Prof. Kiseob Kim (Director, 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

CFP: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE


Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture


UPDATE: Deadline Extended 1 May 2022

We welcome chapter proposals on Native American cultural syndromes and their representations in popular culture. Please see the above call for chapters for more information. We are also open to suggestions regarding the table of contents and wish to include more culture-bound syndromes. Thank you. Apologies for crossposting.


Dear colleagues,

You are invited to submit an abstract for the upcoming edited collection Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture. The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, covering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels.

What does a culture-bound syndrome mean? The concept has come to define a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups.

"Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture" takes its readers on a journey across (popular) cultures and introduces them to an entirely new subfield of studies, at the conjunction of medical anthropology and popular culture, focusing on folk illnesses.

Thus, this book covers a broad range of case studies, subjects, texts, and cultural practices that lie at the intersection of folk illnesses and cultural studies and include national, transnational, and international media representations, with an accent on the reception and interpretation of the phenomenon from the perspective of its original space.

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars specializing in all areas of media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, social/cultural geography, and other relevant research fields to propose a book chapter on an individual culture-bound syndrome and its representations in popular culture. Both single and multiple-authored works will be considered. All work should be original and previously unpublished.

We are also very interested in hearing open proposals for possible chapters about other cultural syndromes from any other country if the Table of Contents strikes you as improvable in any way.

Please make sure to refer to a specific cultural syndrome (or more) in your abstract and title.

Chapters might explore but are not limited to:


SECTION 1 East Asia and India
  • Zou huo ru mo (China)
  • Dhat syndrome (India)
  • Hikikomori (Japan) Already taken!
  • Taijin Kyofusho (Japan) Already taken!
  • Hwabyeong (South Korea)
  • Pa-leng (Taiwan)

SECTION 2 Southeast Asia
  • Lanti (Philippines)
  • Latah (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Amok (Malaysia)
  • Koro (Singapore)

SECTION 3 Latin America and Native American culture
  • Locura
  • Mal de pelea
  • Nervios
  • Susto
  • Saladera (Peruvian Amazon)
  • Windigo Psychosis (Native American)

SECTION 4 Africa and the Middle East
  • Zar (Israel, Ethiopia)
  • Ufufuyane, Saka (Kenya)
  • Voodoo death (Haiti, Africa, Australia)

Routledge has expressed keen interest in the volume for their Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series.


Key dates

Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2022 (after this date, please contact the editor to check if submissions are still possible)

Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2022

Full chapter submission (max 8000 words): 1 November 2022

Publication: January 2023

Please send in a working title, abstracts of max 500 words, and a brief biographical note of 150 words to:

prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

Please feel free to contact the volume’s editor (Irina Pelea) with any questions or queries. I look forward to receiving your abstracts.

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


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

March 28–Wednesday, April 6, 2022


Application deadline: Monday, February 1, 2021

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

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

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

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

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


How to Apply

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

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

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


Museum Resources

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


The Museum’s Asia-related collections include:

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


For More Information

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

This Call for Applications.

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


Policy Lessons from South Korea's Development,

WORLD BANK GROUP


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


About this course

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

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

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

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


Details:

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

Prerequisites:

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


More information

CFP: HISTORIC AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION AND COLD WAR MATERNALISM IN THE US


Call for Chapters: Historic and Current Perspectives on International 
Adoption and Cold War Maternalism in the US
University of Minnesota - Duluth


Historian Molly Ladd-Taylor defines maternalism as a politicized ideology that combined a uniquely feminine value system of care and nurturance with a woman’s capacity for motherhood and duty to properly raise future generations of citizens. Other scholars have referred to maternalism, and therefore motherhood, as an institution, a form of government. They have asserted the white, Christian, and modern aspects of motherhood, especially with respect to nation-building. 

"LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL SISTEMA INTERNACIONAL EN ASIA-PACÍFICO", CLUB FINANCIERO GÉNOVA




El Profesor Antonio Marquina Barrio, Catedrático de Seguridad y Cooperación en las Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, presentó su ponencia titulada “La transformación del sistema internacional en Asia-Pacífico” el pasado 22 de enero en el Club Financiero Génova. Los primeros minutos de su intervención contextualizaron la ruptura del status quo en la región, en la que especialmente ha interferido Estados Unidos durante los últimos 15 años. Sin embargo, ¿cómo ha sido este proceso? 

Con el estallido imprevisto de la Guerra de Corea, Estados Unidos tuvo que cambiar su planificación militar, empleando la mayor parte del gasto en este conflicto en detrimento de sus intereses, relacionados con la remilitarizacion de Alemania. De esta forma, con la llegada de la Guerra Fría, Estados Unidos se vio sin medios y con la necesidad de forjar nuevas alianzas. Marquina recordaba al respecto la lucha contra el comunismo, su derrota en Vietnam y el cambio en su posicionamiento con la llegada del presidente Nixon al gobierno, durante el cual se produjo un cambio evidente en las relaciones con China en la contención soviética. Tal punto de inflexión provocó que Estados Unidos tuviera que debatirse entre dar prioridad a China o a Japón. Nixon no tardaría en trazar una estrategia chinocéntrica, estableciéndose un sistema apoyado en un conjunto de pilares, militar, económico y diplomático; para formar una potencia dominante. Desde esta perspectiva se podía limitar la competencia económica de Japón como principal competidor tras la Guerra Fría. En poco tiempo, China será el principal mercado de la región asiática.

CFP: 2019 IM CONFERENCE OF KOREAN CHRISTIANITY



 
The UCLA Center for Korean Studies is pleased to announce that the 2019 Im Conference of Korean Christianity will be held at 10383 Bunche Hall on April 26 – 27, 2019.

The conference aims to give scholars in all Korea-related and world-Christianity fields an opportunity to present their researches on Korean Christianity, especially on the topics related to 
  1. Christianity in North(ern) Korea
  2. Colonialism and Christianity, 1910-1945, and 
  3. Christianity, Nation Building, and US-Korea Relations, 1945-1965.

CONFERENCIA-DEBATE 4ASIA, "COREA DEL NORTE ¿LA GUERRA QUE VIENE?"



 

Corea del Norte sigue siendo noticia en la agenda internacional y, por eso mismo, un evento como la Conferencia-debate celebrada por 4Asia, en el Hotel NH del Paseo de la Habana de Madrid el pasado viernes 1 de diciembre, resulta una cita indispensable para estar al día con respecto a una cuestión que, por desgracia, involucra a todos los países. Con la presentación de Julio Trujillo, editor de la publicación y redactor en el Área de Salud de Unidad Editorial, “Corea del Norte, ¿la guerra que viene?” plantea diversas perspectivas diplomáticas sobre un conflicto ciertamente paralizado desde el punto de vista más conciliador. Para ello, se ha contado con la presencia de expertos en derecho, política y economía, para desarrollar varios frentes abiertos que determinan su futuro, como el papel de Estados Unidos y China, las últimas novedades en armamento norcoreano y las previsiones sobre su capacidad nuclear.

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