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CFP: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCES


East Asian Development Forum 5th International Symposium on

Comparative Study of Village Development: East Asian Experiences


In order to promote academic exchanges among scholars from China, Japan, Korea and other countries engaged in the study of urban and rural social development, we hold the 5th International Symposium on Comparative Study of Village Development. The theme of this conference is "East Asian Experience of Urban-Rural Integrated Development", which is scheduled to be held by The Academy of Korean Studies in Korea, on August 23-25, 2024.

This conference will discuss the following topics:

1. Research on urban-rural relationship and urban-rural development;

2. Research on urbanization and urban-rural Integration;

3. Spatial development of Village change in East Asia;

4. Policy research on Rural revitalization and Urban-rural Integration in East Asia;

5. Rural Revitalization and Urban-rural Governance in East Asia;

6. Entrepreneurship and Local Creators for Rural and Urban Development

7. Other related topics on urban-rural integration in East Asia.


The organizer will provide all participants (paper presenters) with three nights of accommodation and meals during their stay in Korea, but the round-trip transportation expenses should be borne by yourself.

You are warmly welcome to attend this conference!


Sponsors:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Rural Sociology Committee, Chinese Society of Sociology, China


Organizer:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Department of Sociology, Shandong University, China


Organizing Committee:

1. Prof. Do-Hyun Han, The Academy of Korean Studies

2. Prof. Juren Lin, Shandong University

3. Prof. Katsumi Nakao, J.F. Oberlin University, Japan


The official language: English


Please send your application to:
  • Do-Hyun Han (The Academy of Korean Studies), ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

Abstract (100-150 words) and short bio (one paragraph)


Dates:
  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 April, 2024
  • Paper (Draft) Submission Deadline: 1 July 2024

Contact Information


Professor of Sociology

Academy of Korean Studies

ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

CFP: REVISITING JAPAN-KOREA RELATIONS: TOWARD A NEW ERA


Revisiting Japan-Korea Relations: Toward a New Era

Proposal for a Special Issue: Archiv Orientální (ArOr)


2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of both Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War and Korea’s liberation from Japan. While there have been much political and economic changes, the lingering effects of this historical trauma have yet to be fully resolved in both nations. It remains to be seen whether this date will mark a change in this bilateral relationship or whether old enmities will persist. At this juncture, new approaches will be needed to set a path toward a brighter future that respects the past but is not framed by it.

Navigating the complexities of Japan-Korea relations is a formidable task, given their deep historical roots dating back almost two thousand years and have been characterized by periods of both cultural exchange and political conflict. For example, Korea was crucial for the transmission of culture from the Asian Continent that has been the basis of Japan’s foundation and are still widely vibrant today while military conflicts between Japan and China have always been determined by which power controls the Korean Peninsula as witnessed with the Imjin War (1592-1598) and the Sino-Japanese War (1894). The Japanese annexation of Korea in the early twentieth century and the subsequent occupation until 1945 further underscores the complex nature of this relationship, shaped by politics, economy, society, culture, and their international expansion.

Despite the contrasting experiences between these two countries, negative perceptions stemming from these “memory wars” have persisted and have featured prominently. Such a magnification of the issues has placed this relationship in a precarious situation on numerous occasions. However, we should not forget that there have been several instances of cooperation and exchange aimed at healing historical wounds and fostering a positive future.

While the existing literature often focuses on the difficulties in Japan-Korea relations, few have provided solutions that can lead to meaningful contributions. Among those works that have undertaken such an approach, many are often scattered across various journals and are susceptible to misinterpretation based on the nationality of authors or journals. To overcome this, we propose a special issue that revisits Japan-Korea relations by focusing on innovative resolutions to the more complex issues in this bilateral relationship and consolidating these efforts to maximize impact. The choice of Archiv Orientální, based in Czechia at the heart of Europe, ensures a neutral perspective conducive to fostering a more nuanced understanding of Japan-Korea relations.

In advance of the poignant marking of 2025, this special issue seeks to lay a solid foundation for enhanced understanding and cooperation between Japan and Korea, thereby facilitating further positive academic endeavors. Such a work will attract a large readership including students, scholars, politicians, practitioners, and even the public in both Korea and Japan, as well as those who are interested in East Asia from a different perspective.


Guest Editors

Publication Timeline
  • Submission deadline for the proposal: May 19th, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2024
  • Submission deadline for the entire collection: December 31, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance of individual papers: May 30, 2025
  • Submission deadline for revised manuscript: July 15, 2025
  • Publication: December 2025

Submission

This special issue aims to establish a platform for the dissemination of groundbreaking and original research focused on the cultures, societies, and historical narratives of Japan and Korea, both past and present. We particularly encourage submissions that delve into various aspects such as history of economic relations, international diplomacy, linguistic studies, religious practices, and literary traditions within these regions. Articles based on archival evidence and a comprehensive analysis of primary and secondary sources are highly valued.

Distinguishing itself from conventional articles in the realms of social and political sciences, this special issue seeks to provide unique insights into the historical and cultural dynamics of Japan and Korea. By doing so, we aim to engage not only the academic community but also a broader readership with a keen interest in Japanese and Korean studies.

Please submit your abstract (300 words) and title with 3-5 keywords by April 15, 2024; jimmyn.parc@um.edu.my.

CFP: THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EAST ASIA: CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN


The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia:

China, Korea, and Japan


This three-section Handbook provides information on the Catholic Church in East Asia—China mainland, Mongolia, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan—from its beginnings to the present. It aims to offer sufficient material and analysis for the study and research of the East Asian Catholic Church. It follows a chronological framework tracing events from the 7th century to the 21st century.

The editors are seeking authors for the three-section Handbook (the titles of the following chapters can be changed) (each chapter is about 30 pages and 16,500 words)

1. "Bible and Religious Literature Translation and Indigenous Religious Texts: Korea"

2. "Evangelization through Paintings and Sculptures (Images) in Korea

3. Foreign Missionaries, 1900-1945: Japan

4. Colonialism, Imperialism, and Relations with Local Powers: Japan"

5. Foreign Missionaries and the Building of the local Church Hierachy: 1945 to the Present

6. Evangelization through Education from Simple Schooling to Universities: Japan


Contact Information

Professor


AAB 1152,
Academic and Administration Building,
15 Baptist University Road,
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3411 7182

Contact Email: cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk

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.

CFP: III CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL COMPLUTENSE DE ASIA ORIENTAL, VIDA COTIDIANA EN ASIA


III Congreso Internacional Complutense de Asia Oriental: Vida cotidiana en Asia

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, del 16 al 20 de octubre de 2023


En las diferentes culturas de Asia encontramos dichos como 物の哀れ (mono no aware, Japón) o 及时行乐 (Jí shí xíng lè, China), aludiendo a ideas que en las culturas grecolatinas entendieron como el pathos, carpe diem, lacrimae rerum, collige virgo rosas... En definitiva, un canto a disfrutar el momento, a apreciar lo efímero. Empero, que no enturbien nuestra vista los dorados techos en jaspes sustentados, ya que son las pequeñas cosas del día a día nuestro bien más preciado. Son esos olores, esos sabores a nostalgia y costumbrismo los que configuran nuestra experiencia vital y, lejos de despreciarlos, debemos abrazarlos con fuerza para no dejar pasar esos momentos efímeros tan valiosos. Lo cotidiano hace posible lo extraordinario, por eso, nuestro III Congreso Internacional de Asia Oriental, queremos dedicarlo a esas experiencias consuetudinarias, al día a día, al costumbrismo, en definitiva, a lo cotidiano en Asia Oriental. Ya sea dentro de la cultura mueble como de la inmaterial, queremos buscar aquellos objetos, acciones, procesos, tradiciones, ritos y ceremonias que las sociedades asiáticas realizan de manera cotidiana, puesto que, sólo apreciando cada una de las partes, podremos comprender el todo.

Así, abrimos este Call for Contributions, como siempre, haciendo un llamamiento a todos los ámbitos asiáticos y abierto a todas las líneas de estudio, siempre y cuando conlleve algo de cotidianidad. El congreso se celebrará en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid durante la semana del 16 al 20 de octubre del 2023, y se podrá participar como ponente tanto en formato presencial como virtual, de tal modo que se facilite el intercambio con compañeros y colegas que no puedan desplazarse hasta Madrid durante esas fechas, ampliando así nuestros límites geográficos. En esta ocasión, se requiere el envío de un resumen de unas 5 páginas con bibliografía, de cara a que el Comité Científico del congreso pueda disponer de mayor información a la hora de evaluar la adecuación del tema al nivel y temática del congreso. Una vez finalizado el congreso, los participantes podrán modificar, si lo desean, el artículo presentado, o enviarlo directamente para la evaluación por pares, de cara a su posible publicación en la Revista del área de Estudios de Asia Oriental (REAO).


Envío de Propuestas:
  • Fecha límite de envío de propuestas: 15 de julio de 2023.
  • Las normas para el envío del artículo se pueden consultar en este enlace.

CFP: "NATURAL DISASTER AND SOCIAL (IN)JUSTICE", TRANSNATIONAL ASIA JOURNAL




“Natural Disaster and Social (In)Justice”, 



One hundred years since the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan.

September 1, 2023 will mark the one hundredth year of the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan that killed hundreds of thousands of people and damaged vast areas in the vicinity of Tokyo and Yokohama. 

By the end of that day, 1923, rumors began circulating blaming Koreans for the fire, looting, and rape. As a result, thousands of Koreans in Japan in these areas were hunted down and lynched by Japanese civilian vigilantes. These Koreans were colonial immigrants who moved to Japan seeking work opportunities following Japan’s colonial annexation of Korea in 1910. 

To this day, we often witness disasters that reveal various forms of xenophobia and racial and ethnic discrimination. For instance, following the recent catastrophic earthquake in Turkey, many Syrian refugees who had settled in the disaster-affected areas were harassed and discriminated against when trying to seek assistance. 

In this year of the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the Transnational Asia editorial committee calls for papers that address responses to natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms, floods and famines––responses that are historically conditioned, prioritizing some people and leaving others behind––or worse, eliminating some populations altogether. We interpret “natural disaster” broadly, since more often than not “natural” disasters are not completely natural. Send your 500-word abstract to transnational.asia@rice.edu.

TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES IN EAST ASIA: ACTS OF REMEMBERING THROUGH MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE


Memorial Sites. Acts of remembering through media and visual culture:

Transnational Memories in East Asia


TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR

Discussant: Michael Tsang (Birkbeck, University of London)

  • "Reading the Transformations of Chinese War of Resistance Museums in the Xi Jinping Era through the Visual Analysis"

Markéta Bajgerová Verly is a PhD student in the ERC project Globalized Memorial Museums at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Science, and at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on War of Resistance against Japan museums in contemporary China. In 2020, she obtained an MA degree in China Studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. In China, she led a Dean’s Grant project mapping 30 museums across China devoted to the memory of the War of Resistance and studied its memory politics. This project informed her MA thesis analysing the impact of the discourse on the museum’s domestic audience as well as her current PhD research. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Glasgow in Politics and History. During her early studies, she focused on politics of sacrifice and the affective turn in politics and was a research associate at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.

  • "Investigating Photography Albums of Japanese Soldiers in North-East China. Methodological and Epistemological Challenges"

Jasmin Ruckert is a PhD student at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has studied in Vienna and Paris (Paris VII) and completed two master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. In her master theses, she investigated visual representations of gender and of queerness in Japanese terebi dorama. During her employment in a research-project on Japanese propaganda funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) her academic focus shifted towards historical media and the employment of fascist aesthetics and structuring of media politics in fascist empires. She is currently involved in publishing a volume entitled ‘Gendering Fascism’ (Brill 2024) together with Prof. Andrea Germer (Heinrich Heine University) on transnational entanglements and gendered dynamics in fascist movements and regimes of the early to mid 20th century. In her role as a lecturer at Heinrich Heine University, she has given courses on ‘Photography in Japan’, ‘Methodology in Transcultural Studies’ and on the history of Japanese-Chinese relations. Together with undergraduate students from her cultural studies course on ‘Representations of War’, she recently organised an exhibition on wartime photography.


MEMORIAL SITES IN KOREA


  • "The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities"

Suzy Kim is a historian and author of the award-winning Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell 2013). Her work has appeared in positions: asia critique, Asia-Pacific Journal, Cross-Currents, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Gender & History. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, and teaches at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, USA. Her newest book is Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell 2023).

  • "Jeju 4.3 – Postmemory Aesthetics of Museal Images"

Hyunseon Lee, Ph.D. habil., is a London based film, media and literary scholar. She is a Privat-Dozent in Media Studies and Modern German Literature at the Department of German, University of Siegen, and a Research Associate at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London. She has lectured and published widely in the fields of German and comparative literature, film, and media studies, and held various scholarships and fellowships at Yonsei University and Seoul National University, Columbia University in New York City, and Chuo University in Tokyo, and at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies/ School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is author of the books Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Interkulturelle Liebschaften zwischen Literatur, Oper und Film [Metamorphosis of Madame Butterfly. Intercultural Love affairs between Literature, Opera and Film] (Heidelberg: University Press Winter, 2020), Geständniszwang und ‘Wahrheit des Charakters’ in der Literatur der DDR. Diskursanalytische Fallstudien [Compulsion to Confess and 'Truth of Character’ in the Literature of the GDR. Discourse Analytical Case Studies] (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2000), Günter de Bruyn – Christoph Hein – Heiner Müller. 3 Interviews (Siegen, MuK 95/96) as well as numerous articles on the topics of German literature, East Asian and Korean peninsula cinema, gender, exoticism, popular culture and media aesthetics. She is co-editor of Murderesses (2013), Akira Kurosawa and His Time (2005), and Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture (2015), and solo editor of two books Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural flows (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2022) and Korean Film and History (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2023/forthcoming). She is currently researching war, gender, and memory in European and East Asian cultures, with a focus on K-culture as well as North and South Korean cinema.

Seminar director: Dr. Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London)


MORE INFORMATION
  • Date: Thursday 30th March, 3-5pm UK time (4-6pm CET, European Central Time)
  • Seminar online. Registration required.

WEBINAR CASA ASIA: COREA EN EL NUEVO SISTEMA DE RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES


Corea en el nuevo sistema de relaciones internacionales,

Webinar Casa Asia


Con el objetivo de mostrar la proyección internacional de Corea se analizará la participación coreana en la nueva configuración de las relaciones intergubernamentales, determinada por el ascenso de China y por la política exterior estadounidense. Se recurrirá a tres espacios geográficos clave: en la península de Corea, mostrando la divergencia creciente de los objetivos de los gobiernos del Norte y del Sur; en Asia del Este, analizando el acercamiento necesario con Japón y, en la región del Pacífico, la tensión ejercida por tener a China como primer socio comercial y a Estados Unidos como garante de la seguridad.

Palabras de bienvenida:
Presenta:
Modera:
Conferencia a cargo de:

Biodata del conferenciante:

Juan José Ramírez Bonilla es doctor en desarrollo económico y social por la Universidad de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne; desde 1993, es profesor-investigador adscrito al Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México; sus líneas de investigación son “Desarrollo económico y social en Asia del Pacifico” y “Procesos de integración económica en la región del Pacífico”. Entre sus publicaciones recientes destacan: La República de Corea ante la influencia de la administración Trump (El Colegio de México, 2020) y 60º Aniversario de la relación Corea-México. Evaluación y objetivos futuros (Embajada de la República de Corea en México, 2021).



Más información:
  • Fecha: Jueves 23 de marzo de 18.00 h a 19.30 h CET
  • Lugar: Online. 24 horas antes del acto las personas inscritas recibirán la información necesaria para acceder. Comprueba tu bandeja de correo no deseado en caso de no haberla recibirlo.
  • Precio: Actividad gratuita.

CFP: “THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE”, INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE


“The Rise of Asia in Global History and Perspective”,

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

Paris and Le Havre; February 8-10, 2023


Global crisis: What impacts and what perspectives for Asia and the world?

The war in Ukraine, in all its dimensions, is producing alarming cascading effects to a world already battered by COVID-19 and climate change. Serious damage is being done to the global economy, and particularly to vulnerable people and developing countries.

The United Nations Secretary-General has established a Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance in the UN Secretariat, with the following policy recommendations:

On Food: We urge all countries to keep markets open, resist unjustified and unnecessary export restrictions, and make reserves available to countries at risk of hunger and famine.

On Energy: The use of strategic stockpiles and additional reserves could help to ease the energy crisis in the short term. But the only medium- and long-term solution is to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy.

On Finance: We need urgent action by the G20 and international financial institutions to increase liquidity and fiscal space so that governments can provide safety nets for the poorest and most vulnerable.


The global crisis described above has put Asia to the fore. Among the G20 members, eight of them are Asian and Eurasian: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Turkiye. Some of them are granary of food (Russia, Thailand, Vietnam…), of energy (Russia, Saudi Arabia…), of finance (China, Japan…). With the Pacific countries, Asia has set-up the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade agreement involving Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The 15 member countries account for about 30% of the world's population (2.2 billion people) and 30% of global GDP ($29.7 trillion), making it the largest trade bloc in history. They have the necessary sources to be self sufficient among themselves: raw materials, human resources, technology, finance. The intra-Asia trade and investment have become more important than the extra-Asia ones. The major players of global geopolitics are led by Asian countries: BRICS, NAM, SCO…

So, what are the impacts of global crisis for Asia and the world? How States and societies react to the climate changes, pandemic Covic-19 and Russo-Ukrainian war? What perspectives coming out from the crisis? Will it lead to a new world order? Will the hegemony of the West continue to function? Will a new equilibrium of bipolar world be achieved? Will multipolarism prevail? What roles played by regional and international institutions such as EU, NATO, BRICS, NAM, SCO, ECOWAS, ASEAN, CELAC, MERCOSUR, UNASUR…? What actions taken by social movements and civil society organisations facing the crisis: trade unions, identity-based movements, ethnic and religious movements, indigenous communities, feminists, ecologists, cooperatives…?

It is to discuss about those such questions that the 7th edition of the Rise of Asia Conference Series is organised. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…) as well as artists and writers, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Oceania, Pacific…).



The conference is open to individual and group presentation. 

The deadline of abstract submission is November 30, 2022. 

The call for abstracts and other information are available here.

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: PRE-MODERN EAST ASIA; KENTUCHY FOREIGN LANGUAGE HYBRID CONFERENCE


Pre-modern East Asia:

Kentuchy Foreign Language Hybrid Conference (KFLC), Spring 2023


KFLC is one of the country’s longest-running language and culture conferences and is hosted by the University of Kentucky every spring. This call for papers is for the East Asian Studies division, for a panel focusing on the languages/literatures/cultures of pre-modern East Asia. KFLC is a hybrid conference this year, with this panel being held exclusively online.

Possible topics for papers include the following as they pertain to pre-modern East Asia:
  • Literary studies
  • History and (inter)cultural studies
  • Language studies and linguistics
  • Anthropology
  • Mythology and folklore
  • Art and visual culture
  • Religion, philosophy and history of ideas
Registration for this year's conference is $145.00. The graduate student registration fee is $90.00. For more information, please visit.


Guidelines for submission:

1. The language for presentations will be English

2. Individual presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for discussion

3. If you are interested, please send a short bio, presentation title, and 100-250 word abstract to: joannah.peterson@uky.edu

Call for papers: please submit your proposal materials by October 21st, 2022

Date of conference: Thursday, April 20th 2023 ONLINE


Contact Info:

Joannah Peterson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Japanese




Contact Email:

joannah.peterson@uky.edu

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2022 (I)

 


Una vez más, ofrecemos las últimas novedades académicas que han visto la luz en este segundo trimestre de 2022 entre las editoriales académicas de mayor prestigio en el mundo. Con los estudios coreanos como principal eje común, el siguiente listado de libros ofrecen enfoques multidisciplinares dentro de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades. La siguiente selección ya se encuentra disponible para su compra: 

INTERNATIONAL POSTDOCTORAL WORKSHOP ON THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EAST ASIA AT SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY


International postdoctoral workshop on the history

of christianity in East Asia at Seoul National University


The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College, in collaboration with the Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University, will hold a four-day international workshop in Seoul, South Korea, from November 28 through December 4, 2022. Please note that the working language of the workshop will be English.

All participants will be expected to arrive by Monday, November 28 and depart on Sunday, December 4, 2022. They are required to attend all workshop-related activities and sessions. All participants are required to follow the COVID protocols set forth by airlines, respective governments, and other local institutions before, during and after the workshop.

The Ricci Institute relocated from University of San Francisco to Boston College in late 2021. We are inviting post-doctoral level scholars and junior faculty members whose research focuses on Christianity in East Asia and who are currently preparing a book manuscript for publication to apply. This workshop is part of a four-year project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation in New York City. The project is entitled, “Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia: Bridging a New Generation of Scholars and Scholarship” and is administered by the Ricci Institute. For more information about the various initiatives that are part of the project, please visit: this website. For information about previous workshops, please visit the above website as well as: this one.

The workshop has three primary components.
  • [1] First, through a series of lectures and seminars by senior scholars from Seoul National University and other universities, participants will have the opportunity to confer with specialists from around the world regarding the interpretation of complex primary source materials, including manuscripts and early printed books from different historical periods composed in a variety of East Asian and Western languages (e.g. classical Chinese, classical Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, etc...). Another primary focus of the workshop will be reflecting on research methodologies and historiographies, how they developed, and the ways in which they were expressed through different scholarly traditions. The training offered will be further enhanced by visits to local archives and museums with specialized collections pertinent to the history of Christianity in East Asia, as well as to important Christian historical sites in Seoul.
  • [2] Secondly, participants will have the opportunity to interact with a Senior Acquisitions Editor from Brill Academic Publishers in Leiden, The Netherlands, and with other scholars regarding the entire editorial and publication process of a scholarly monograph (with any major academic press).
  • [3] Thirdly, participants will be personally mentored by invited senior scholars who are well known internationally for their contributions to the study of Christianity in East Asia. These scholars will critique and discuss the participants’ draft manuscripts in view of their preparation for publication. This will take place in an open forum together with fellow participants. Participants will be required to submit their manuscripts well ahead of time, so that the scholars will have sufficient time to read them carefully.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have completed their doctoral studies and dissertation defense in order to be eligible to participate in the workshop.Post-doctoral candidates must have completed their doctoral degrees within the past five years and have been involved actively in teaching and/or research (as a post-doctoral fellow, an independent scholar, or a junior faculty member).


Requirements:
  • (1) a most recent Curriculum Vitae;
  • (2) an 8~10-page double-spaced statement in English that summarizes the manuscript (also in English) the candidate is currently preparing to submit for publication. The theme of the manuscript should be related to some aspect of the history of Christianity in East Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. This can be either in the Catholic or Protestant tradition (16th-early 20th centuries) and may focus on one or more aspect from a wide range of historical topics (e.g. the history of philosophy, theology, science, missionary translation, art, architecture, music, local Christian community life and culture, etc…).
    • This statement should include a synopsis of the manuscript, a detailed description of the research methodology employed, plans for additional research and writing to complete the project (if any), and a proposed timeline for the submission of the manuscript to a publisher.
  • (3) two up-to-date letters of recommendation (preferably from senior scholars familiar with the candidate’s work).

Expenses:

The Ricci Institute will cover the following expenses for all successful applicants:
  • (1) Transportation: return economy airfare from your city/country of residence as well as local public transportation to and from Incheon International Airport/Gimpo International Airport to the hotel reserved for the workshop participants;
  • (2) Lodging in Seoul from November 28 until the morning of December 4, 2022, including most meals during the workshop (Note: lodging will be pre-arranged by the workshop organizers).

All authorized expenses will be paid as a reimbursement on presentation of official receipts, in compliance with the travel policies of Boston College and the terms stipulated by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Incidental expenses of a personal nature (e.g. travel insurance, phone/SIM card, data purchase, and other incidentals, etc.) are not reimbursable.


Medical Insurance:

Please note that all participants are responsible to arrange their own valid medical insurance for the duration of their stay in South Korea.


Visa:

If you are required to apply for a visa to enter South Korea, please contact the local South Korean Consulate for more information on the documentation you will be expected to provide. To support your visa application, the Institute of Humanities at the Seoul National University will be able to issue successful applicants with an official invitation to participate in the workshop. For more information and the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Deadline

All required documents should be in English and submitted via email no later than August 15, 2022 to Dr. Xiaoxin Wu at: xiaoxin.wu.2@bc.edu with the subject line: “2022 Seoul Workshop Application”. Letters from the recommenders must be sent directly to the above email address by the same deadline. The preferred formats for the letter attachments are PDF or MS-WORD. Inquiries regarding the application and the workshop should also be sent to the above email address.

Application results will be announced by September 2, 2022.

For more information about the Ricci Institute at Boston College, please visit: this website or visit our Facebook page.


Contact Info:

Xiaoxin Wu, Ed.D. 

Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, Boston College, Boston, MA 02135, USA


Contact Email:

xiaoxin.wu.2@bc.edu

CFP: A PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CRITICAL POSTMEDIA STUDIES IN KOREA


A Pervert’s Guide to Critical Postmedia Studies in Korea

China Media Research Special Section


This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines and methodologies to submit manuscripts on the theme of A Pervert’s Guide to Critical Postmedia Studies in Korea.

In this special issue on critical postmedia studies in Korea, playfully entitled A Pervert’s Guide to Korea, our intention is to theorize the “eruption” or flooding of media which has recently emerged in the Korean context. From a postmedia perspective, our special issue aims to comprehensively diagnose and understand social and psychical phenomena that occur in the flooding media situation across Korea. It is clear that the archipelago has witnessed rapid societal change due to the development of new technologies and the transformation of the industrial base but the psychic changes are in some ways difficult to fathom and find in other countries. The psychical effects of this need to be understood as the changes and effects are fundamental to the crisis of desire in the schizzed archipelago. Of course, as the social demand for convergence is high, it cannot be said that there are no studies on the relationship between technology and the humanities with a view to postmedia in Korea but as the theoretical investigation to synthesize these studies is relatively insufficient our critical postmedia special issue will comprehensively analyse the aspects of informatization that are taking place in Korea as a major aspect of “media flooding”.

We are concerned with the question of contact and the plight of the hikikomori or social recluse (引きこもりhikikomori – [eundoonhyeong oiteollie - 은둔형 외톨이]・[히키코모리・hikikomoli] - in the Korean context and are thinking about the idea of contact as a kind of skin, an epidermis between sense and nonsense, contact and contactlessness. Is the hikikomori the expression of a kind of contactlessness or what one might call a deadly ipseity of desire? If so, what has happened to desire? Do we abide in an indeterminate paralysed contact zone of mediatic social rules where former rules no longer make sense? If so, the contact zone becomes a kind of non-place, atopia, a state of contactlessness. Where is the desire for contact in Korea and what does it mean to resist contact, to be without contact, to be without desire? What does it mean to risk contact, to risk being tactile with the other, to risk affirming one’s desires? We are making the case for a chaosmosis of skin and contact and shall use several concepts to think about the phenomenological experience of crisis as a zone of indeterminacy between contact and contactlessness. We desperately want to know what has happened to desire, to its promise and possibility and why it is so difficult to anticipate or forecast what is to come. How can we account for the contemporary vibrations, flows, schizzes, and, importantly, knots of desire? Why so much perversion of pleasure and desire? How can we write a schizoanalysis and ecosophy of Korea focused on the critical postmedia analysis of Korea’s media terrain? Where is the revolutionary potential of madness in Korea when the schizo has become an “autistic rag” - separated from the real and cut off from life? What has caused the drop in intensity to the BwO of the autistic? Is autism the “exceptional, marginal reaction to the acceleration of the info-sphere”? Our intention is to critical contest the psychopathologic litany of semiocapitalism - exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, ADHD, panic, depression, and in extremis suicide – to look beyond the prevalent sense of mental implosion and “chaosmic spasms” which loom on the horizon of Korea.

What is the “psychic tourniquet” acting upon the Korean socius and what form of “existential gangrene” infests the Korean BwO? What is the nature of the “truly immanent dimension” of the Korean unconscious?” Contra Han Byung-Chul, what explosive and unusual concepts are available to us to rethink the question of desire in Korean society? What interrupts the process of schizophrenic desire in Korea and what is the mass psychopolitics of Korean capitalism?

We shall address concepts such as flooding, eruption, flow, streaming, inhibition, vegetative stasis, to understand the hikikomori problem. Why is there such a specific shutting off from the world which we find in many Asian countries such as Korea and Japan. If there is such a thing, what is the nature of the Korean unconscious and how is it connected with “ontological security,” with violence, with the loss of eros? Is the unconscious structured like the Internet, like the smartphone? If so, how has the smartphone become a new body part in the Korean context? How does desire continue to desire its own repression? How is desire tied to the flows of capitalism? What is the specific nature of Korean capitalism? How is pleasure and desire imperiled by burnout, fatigue, addiction, intoxication with technology, stress, anxiety as well as shame and guilt? What is the BwO of Korean youth? What therapeutic practices are available to the social recluse? To what extent does the sedentary territory of the hikikomori grant us exemplary access to the fundamental shifts in affectivity and corporeal organization produced and commanded by technology and semiocapitalism in the Korean context?

CMR invites scholars to submit their original manuscripts that investigate the above provocations. In addition to philosophical and theoretical manuscripts, this special section also welcomes rigorous media-related case studies that report on Korea. Emerging and experimental research approaches from film studies, aesthetics, medical humanities and the social sciences are strongly encouraged.

Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1000 words) must be received by June 8, 2022, or a complete paper received by October 8, 2022.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including charts, figures, references, and tables. All manuscripts will undergo the standard blind review, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision within three months of the submission. CMR is a quarterly journal, which publishes both print and online versions.

Sample styleguide is here.

Send your questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editors, Prof Dr Joff P. N Bradley, Prof Dr Woosung Kang, Prof Dr Alex Taek-Gwang Lee.

Contact Joff P. N Bradley in the first instance joff@main.teikyo-u.ac.jp


Contact Info:

​Bradley Joff P.N. Professor


192-0395 359 Otsuka, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo

Office: + 81-42-678-3493

Email: joff@main.teikyo-u.ac.jp

DISCOVERING CHOSÔN KOREAN POTTERS IN TOKUGAWA



Discovering Chosŏn Korean Potters in Tokugawa

Japan, Virtual Exhibition
 
La Prof. Rebekah Clements (ICREA), del Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación y Estudios de Asia Oriental de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, presenta una exposición en línea acerca de las experiencias de los alfareros coreanos capturados de Chosŏn, que fueron llevados a Japón durante las Invasiones de Corea de Toyotomi Hideyoshi (la Guerra de Imjin). "Stories of Clay: Discovering Chosŏn Korean Potters in Tokugawa Japan" es un proyecto de historia digital que combina el estudio de piezas y herencias, junto con pruebas documentales, con el fin de rastrear la vida y las obras de los alfareros coreanos en el suroeste de Japón después de la Guerra de Imjin.

La exposición ha sido comisariada por Seung Yeon Sang y Rebekah Clements como parte del proyecto “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. El sitio web de la exposición incluye investigaciones originales y estudios actuales, hojas de trabajo descargables para educadores y una serie de vídeos online de charlas de expertos. En los próximos meses se añadirán más vídeos al sitio web.

La Prof. Rebekah Clements es Investigadora Principal del proyecto ERC Horizon 2020 "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598". Este proyecto ha recibido financiación del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) en el marco del programa de investigación e innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea (acuerdo de subvención nº 758347).
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