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CFP: "COMMODITIES AND ENVIRONMENTS IN EARLY MODERN GLOBAL ASIA, 1400-1800" EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FLORENCE


“Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800”,



The international conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800’ is organized under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Project, CAPASIA ‘The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism’, hosted at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The conference explores the relationship between environments and commodities in early modern Global Asia between 1400 and 1800. It investigates the environmental consequences in these regions of the extraction, production and trade in commodities.

This conference aims to integrate multiple historiographies which have sometimes operated in mutual isolation: (i) the literature on material culture and commodities in global history; (ii) the growing field of environmental history; and (iii) studies in the history of science which have examined how the natural sciences and ethnography served Europe’s quest for trade, profit, and colonial domination.

Papers might approach the conference’s themes from a variety of different angles. Contributions could focus, for example, on one or more of the following areas of research:
  • Knowledge of the environment. What sort of ‘knowledge’ of these environments was produced during the early modern period? To what extent did visual depictions, surveying and mapmaking projects and geographical knowledge help foster commodity extraction, exploitation and trade?
  • Perceptions and imaginaries regarding the environments of Asia and the Indian Ocean World. To what extent did different representational forms condition the way various actors sought to transform, manipulate, develop and commodify these environments? Did these representations foster a political economy of ‘improvement’ of nature?
  • Ecological imperialism. What forms did ecological imperialism take and who were the actors involved in the wider commodification of nature? What commodities were developed and traded? How did the manipulation and transfer of crops and cultures unfold geographically and historically? To what extent did these processes alter the environments of global Asia? In what ways did local actors and local environments react to or resist these processes?
  • Urban environments. To what extent did the long-distance trade in commodities transform urban environments in the regions under scrutiny? What was the impact of the development of a ‘factory’ system on the environments of the cities and ports?
Conference Particulars

This conference, organised within the ERC-funded project ‘CAPASIA’ will take place at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy on 13–15 November 2024. Keynotes will be given by Professor Jakobina Arch (Whitman College) and Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University). We invite proposals from scholars at all career stages, including early career. Papers will be selected on the basis of proposals submitted, and with the aim of ensuring a broad spread of topics for the conference. Submissions of Individual paper proposals should include:
  • Name, affiliation, and contact information
  • Paper title and abstract of 200-300 words
  • A brief CV (2 pages maximum)

Send all submissions by email attachment in a single pdf to: capasia@eui.eu

Deadline for Submissions: 20 February 2024, notification of accepted papers: 20 March 2024

Send all inquiries to: capasia@eui.eu


Stipends will be available for scholars in developing countries and early career researchers to assist towards the costs of travel and accommodation. To apply, please indicate in your application that you wish to be considered, stating the country from which you will be travelling.

Conveners: Guillemette Crouzet, Michael O’Sullivan, Giorgio Riello

This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the ERC grant agreement No 101054345


Contact Information




Contact Email: guillemette.crouzet@eui.eu

CFP: "THE MICRO AS MACRO; NARRATING WORLD HISTORIES OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENT" CONFERENCE


Graduate Student Conference

“The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment”,

UC Santa Cruz Center of World History Grad Student Conference; October 20, 2023


The UC Santa Cruz Center of World History is now accepting applications for papers or entire panels from presenters for our annual graduate student conference, "'The Micro as Macro': Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment," to be held Friday, October 20, 2023 in Santa Cruz, CA. Since the early 2000s, the UCSC Center for World History has fostered a rich set of lectures, conferences, pedagogical workshops, and scholarly conversations in global, regional, and transnational histories. Those interested in presenting should submit a paper title and 300-word abstract. Please email your proposal to cwh@ucsc.edu by August 11.

While world history topics have expanded recently to include diverse areas, the Euro-American experience continues to dominate scholarship and is often treated as the assumed global model. The UCSC Center of World History invites paper proposals for its fourth (almost) annual graduate student conference, which explores non-European places and actors by centering on techno-scientific, environmental, sensorial, and spatial-based themes that reveal how the relationship between “small” subjects like microorganisms have shaped world history in ways that challenge or reimagine conceptions of progress and development. With this in mind, this conference will focus on histories spanning from 1700 to the present that tell global stories through small subjects such as viruses, cotton seeds, and metal alloys. By inviting a wide range of chronological and geographic loci, we hope to expand our definition of world history to one that does not default toward Euro-American experiences.

We hope to solicit individual papers that address the following topics:
  • non-Western case studies that address techno-scientific, environmental, sensorial, and spatial-based themes
  • Small subjects contributing to global histories
  • Small subjects challenging Western epistemologies
  • Small subjects informing/shaping indigenous communities
  • Intellectual ways to challenge Western hegemony
We hope to focus on histories of science, technology, and the environment that highlight marginalized and micro histories. With conference presenters, we hope to apply new and needed insights to the ways in which we understand the past. Dr. David Fedman, Associate Professor of History at UC Irvine and author of Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea, will deliver the keynote address.

We strongly encourage in-person participation, but the conference will have remote options for those who request it. For participants who do not have conference funding from their own institution, we have limited funds for travel support.

The deadline for proposals is Friday, August 11, 2023.

Proposals should include a paper title and 300-word abstract. Please email your proposal to cwh@ucsc.edu by August 11.

We look forward to reading your proposals!

Clara Bergamini, Piper Milton, Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku, Jinghong Zhang (Conference Organizing Committee)

CFP: MEDICINAL ANIMALS AND ASIA WORKSHOP




Medicinal Animals and Asia:

Faunal Medicalization in an Era of Mass Extinction and Zootonic Disease Workshop



Animal parts and tissues have been used traditionally around the world as medicines as well as foods. Yet the incorporation of animals into medical systems based largely on plants is an historical process we still know comparatively little about, even in Asia, where the practice has been widespread. In the present day, most “medicinal animals” are in crisis, the subject of illegal and legal wildlife trading, driving many to the brink of extinction [Still, 2003; Symes et al, 2018 a&b; Van Uhm, 2016]. The process of “faunal medicalization” [Chee, 2021] has also been implicated in the spread of zoonotic disease, even while being promoted in some quarters as a cure. Understanding the historical and contemporary forces that have brought us to this juncture is the subject of this conference. We are particularly focusing on Asia as both a site and a global influence. As a site, certain Asian “traditional” medicines have transformed into “Asian industrial medicines” [Pordie and Hardon, 2015; Kloos and Blaikie, 2022], with animal parts and tissues becoming raw materials for a growing pharmaceuticalization of traditional zootherapies. As an influence, Asian-centered animal trading networks now have global reach, and are likely affecting or inter-mingling with pharmaceutics and zootherapies in other parts of the world. We are thus open to accepting papers that address cases in Asia, or cases elsewhere in the world with strong connections to Asia or Asian cultures. We are particularly looking for papers that are historically-informed, but help to understand and contextualize the current crisis; that work against anthropocentric bias by valuing animal survival and health in its own right; that highlight connections or disruptions in use or scale between pre-modern and modern uses of animals as medicines; that discuss how Asian faunal medicalization practices have affected species and practices across or outside Asian nation-states; and/or that explore junctions between wildlife conservation, animal medicines, and consumerism.

The organizers are historians, anthropologists, and philosophers, but we will accept papers written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Papers should be empirically-based, however, and publishable within the special issue of a top-tier humanities or social science-based journal. Note that this is a workshop, with publication as its goal. Previously published papers or papers destined for publications elsewhere cannot be accepted.

This workshop is part of the project “History and Sustainability of Animal-Based Drugs in Asian Traditional Medicines” funded by a Tier 2 grant from the Singapore Ministry of Education (Gregory Clancey, PI; Liz P.Y. Chee, Co-PI).

The workshop will take place at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, and selected delegates will be funded for travel, hotel, and some meal expenses. The delivery of papers via zoom is also possible for those unable to travel to Singapore.


SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

To participate, please send your paper proposal, which should include a title, an abstract (300-500 words, exclusive of notes), bio note (150-200 words) and a cv to Ms Valerie Yeo at valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg by 31 January 2023. Successful applicants will be notified by mid-February 2023. Questions regarding the theme or subject of the workshop (as opposed to administration details) should be directed to Mr Jason Ng at j.ng@nus.edu.sg.

Panel presenters will be required to submit preliminary drafts of papers (2,000-3,000) words by 1 May 2023. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and discussants in advance. Drafts need not be fully polished. Indeed, we expect that presenters will be open to feedback from fellow participants.


WORKSHOP CONVENORS

Dr Liz P.Y. Chee | Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS


Dr Elizabeth Elliot | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS

A/P Gregory Clancey | Associate Professor, Department of History and Asia Research Institute, NUS


MORE INFORMATION

Date: 

11 May 2023 - 12 May 2023

Venue:
Hybrid (Online via Zoom & AS8 04-04)
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260

Contact Person:


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



The 2021 ELLAK International Conference

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


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

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

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

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

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

  • Crises and disasters
  • Conflict and war
  • Biopolitics
  • Affect, emotion, and body
  • Disease, pain, and trauma
  • Medicine and healing
  • Social distancing and networking
  • Untact and contact
  • Social (in)equality and otherness
  • Race and gender
  • Media and culture
  • Environment and ecology
  • High education and pedagogy
  • Humanity, posthumanity, and transhumanity
  • Digital humanities


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

Proposals may be submitted for either individual papers or sessions.

  • Individual paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short bio.
  • Session proposals should include a one-page proposal with a title and topic for a session of three to four papers, along with individual abstracts and short bios. 

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

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

Important Dates:

  • Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2021
  • Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2021
  • Submission deadline for papers in the conference proceedings: October 15, 2021

Registration Fee:

  • Standard: USD 50
  • The registration fee will be reduced if the 2021 ELLAK International Conference becomes a virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Registration Fee includes:

  • Reception and dinner banquet (December 17, 2021)
  • Three daily refreshment and snack breaks
  • Conference program and proceedings
  • Conference bag and name tag

CFP: MEDICAL CULTURE IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA AND MEDIA



Call for Abstracts:

Edited Volume on Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media


The current COVID-19 global pandemic has inspired renewed attention to the intersection between public health and mass media. With constant media updates of case counts, healthcare guidelines, and preventive strategies, among other public health communications, the boundaries of various imagined communities have been newly established or strongly reinforced. The complex cultural and geopolitical region of East Asia, in particular, has become a center of media attention, following wide circulation of essentialized cultural norms (such as collectivity and uniformity), stereotypical accounts of hygiene habits, racialized discourses surrounding the East Asian bodies, and techno-orientalist narratives of East Asian use of digital means for disease tracing and control. Both personal and public health outcomes thus have become inextricably intertwined with processes of representation and (re)mediation, while the pandemic itself has become a media event inseparable from various audiovisual forms. We are therefore living a historical moment that demands reflection on the precarious socio-political structures revealed through audiovisual media, including health care access and its relation to class, gender, and ethnic hierarchies.

Our edited volume seeks to contextualize such discussions in light of larger historical narratives regarding 20th and 21st century East Asia, with audiovisual media serving as our primary object of study. We welcome submissions that consider medical culture in relation to cinema and media culture in the East Asian context. We understand “medical culture” as a bio-cultural concept that encompasses not only scientific knowledge and practice but also such cultural domains as aesthetics, ethics, politics, and public policy. Some questions that concern us include: How does historical practice of health (in)justice, mediated by audiovisual media, inform our contemporary understandings of public health crises? How can audiovisual media disseminate information about the historical transformation of public health policies and facilitate collaboration and mutual understanding  across local, national, and regional sectors in East Asia? How might East Asian case studies highlight the convergence of film and media theory with the medical humanities?

We invite submission of paper proposals on topics that may include but are not limited to the following. We especially welcome contributions that focus on Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and transregional East Asia.

  • traditional and modern medicines
  • personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, and ecological criticism
  • diseases caused by pollution, climate change, and environmental violence
  • medical theory and practice in relation to colonialism/decolonization and racism
  • medical science and technology (x-ray, microfilm, etc)
  • educational/scientific film, medical image-making
  • physical or mental therapy in/as media
  • medical institutions and practitioners, health care systems
  • medical practice in rural areas, distribution of medical resources
  • pandemics/epidemics
  • food and diet
  • disabilities and neurodiversity
  • the cult of youth and anxiety over aging
  • gender, sexuality, and medical culture

We plan to propose the edited volume to Hong Kong University Press for publication in their Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture series. All submissions should be based on original research and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.


Deadlines for submission

Please send your working title, institutional affiliation, abstract (of no more than 500 words), and short bio to eastasianmedicinebook@gmail.com by April 1st, 2021. The editorial team will notify selected proposals by April 30th, 2021. The deadline for first draft submission (between 7000 and 8000 words) is December 1st, 2021.

Editors: Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase College), Yuqian Yan (Washington University in St. Louis), and Pao-chen Tang (University of Manchester).

ENTREVISTA AL PROFESOR KIM WOO-JO: ESTRATEGIAS DE COREA DEL SUR ANTE EL COVID-19



El profesor Kim Woo-joo, del departamento de medicina infecciosa del Hospital Universitario Guro de la Universidad de Corea informa a través del canal Asian Boss Español sobre las diversas investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo sobre el COVID-19 y la estrategia de gestión que se ha tomado durante estas semanas. En estos momentos, Corea del Sur se encuentra ganando la batalla contra la pandemia con datos realmente satisfactorios tan solo un mes más tarde de la detección de los primeros casos. Por ello, el profesor explica cuáles han sido las medidas tomadas y como ha funcionado el modelo sanitario para luchar contra esta enfermedad.

CFP: "TECHNIQUE AND RELIGION: TECHNICAL CULTURES, BELIEFS, CIRCULATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL TODAY", SYMPOSIUM


Technical Cultures, Beliefs, Circulations from Antiquity until Today
Paris, 14th-15th September 2020


The purpose of this symposium is to offer the opportunity and the place to conduct a reflection on the relationship between technique and religion. Until recently, the history of social sciences has reserved a relatively marginal place to technique as a sphere of human activity, instead taking as objects of study areas where the coherence of a collective consciousness is manifest, notably religious practice. A separation was drawn between the primacy that then-emerging sociology granted to the religious fact as a basic social phenomenon (Emile Durkheim) on the one hand, and instrumental practices, which were therefore limited to the infra-social domain of individual organic subsistence, on the other hand. Technique and religion, two fundamental forms of discovery and of constitution of experience, have thus, in the social sciences, given rise to divergent “interests of knowledge” that historically account for the selection and formulation of objects of knowledge. Yet history of techniques and history of religion have never ceased to interact, often in a conflicting manner.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2019 (V)



Nuevamente en esta primera mitad del año, reunimos algunas de las últimas investigaciones de académicos internacionales que han sido publicadas a lo largo de estos últimos meses de 2019. Publicados en formato libro y ya disponibles para su venta, abarcan distintas áreas de las Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales que toman como punto de partida: Corea.



Sonja M. Kim, profesora en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York, nos habla de como a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX en Corea, las prioridades de salud pública en materia de bienestar maternoinfantil privilegiaron la salud reproductiva de la nueva nación y la responsabilidad de la mujer en el cuidado para producir una organización novedosa de servicios en hospitales y prácticas en el hogar. La primera monografía sobre este tema coloca a las mujeres y al género en el centro de las transformaciones médicas modernas en Corea. Describe la profesionalización de la medicina, la enfermería y la partería, rastreando su evolución desde nuevas infraestructuras legales e institucionales en salud pública y educación, e investiga las experiencias de las mujeres como profesionales de la salud y pacientes. Kim recurre a fuentes de archivo, algunas no exploradas previamente, para poner de relieve las formas en que las mujeres enfrentaron los desafíos planteados por los desarrollos irregulares de la medicina, intervinieron en las prácticas dirigidas a ellas y analizaron las opciones en evolución que se hicieron disponibles para promover sus intereses personales, familiares y profesionales. Demuestra cómo la medicina produjo, y a su vez fue producida por expectativas de género atrapadas entre la agenda reformista coreana, la empresa misionera protestante estadounidense y el imperialismo japonés.



A través de la editorial Palgrave, Myoung-Sun Song, profesora asistente en el Departamento de Cultura de los Estados Unidos en la Universidad de Sogang, trae una reflexión fraccionada en siete capítulos en los que examina el hip hop coreano a través de la noción de buran (ansiedad o incertidumbre personal y social) y cómo se manifiesta en las dimensiones del espacio y el lugar, la economía, la producción cultural y el género. Buran, sirve como un estado metafórico para el hip hop surcoreano en el sentido de que evoluciona continuamente en las condiciones de la sociedad coreana. ¿Cómo se ha desarrollado el hip hop surcoreano en las últimas dos décadas como una entidad musical, cultural y artística? ¿Cómo se entiende el hip hop dentro de las matrices históricas, socioculturales y económicas de la sociedad coreana? ¿Cómo se representa el hip hop en los medios coreanos y en la cultura popular? Este libro utiliza métodos etnográficos, que incluyen investigación de trabajo de campo y entrevistas de la línea de tiempo de la vida con cincuenta y tres artistas influyentes del hip hop, para responder a estas preguntas. Explora el significado matizado del hip hop en Corea del Sur, destacando los flujos locales, globales y (trans) nacionales de intercambios musicales y culturales.



La profesora Yu-Min Joo de la Universidad Nacional de Singapur, nos expone cómo en medio de los rápidos desafíos urbanos y de desarrollo, muchos gobiernos asiáticos han estado buscando casos replicables e inspiradores en Asia. Corea del Sur y su ciudad capital, Seúl, se encuentran entre los modelos de referencia frecuente. Sin embargo, el "milagro económico" de Corea del Sur a finales del siglo XX ha sido estudiado principalmente a través de una lente de política económica. Este libro retoma el desarrollo de Corea del Sur observando su dimensión urbana y explorando la ciudad de Seúl como un megaproyecto de desarrollo. Al ofrecer una alternativa al enfoque en las políticas económicas cuando se trata de explicar los éxitos del desarrollo de Corea del Sur, Yu-Min Joo analiza la urbanización y analiza por qué y cómo Seúl pudo emerger como una importante ciudad global asiática, a pesar de su historia relativamente reciente marcada por barrios marginales masivos y pobreza urbana. Este libro proporciona un marco analítico para estudiar el desarrollo moderno de Corea del Sur bajo el capitalismo como un precursor del urbanismo y el desarrollo del este de Asia. Muestra una historia completa de cómo las ciudades han sido política y económicamente importantes para la experiencia de desarrollo de Corea y se están convirtiendo cada vez más en un nuevo modo de desarrollo.


SPORT IN KOREA. HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, de Dae Hee Kwak, Yong Jae Ko, Inkyu Kang y Mark Rosentraub

Los profesores Dae Hee Kwak (Universidad de Michigan), Yong Jae Ko (Universidad de Florida), Inkyu Kang (Universidad Penn State) y Mark Rosentraub (Universidad de Michigan), reúnen todas sus investigaciones en una sola publicación, a cargo de Routledge.

Enfocadas en el despegue del deporte surcoreano este libro reúne disciplinas que incluyen historia del deporte, sociología, periodismo, economía, desarrollo deportivo. y la gestión deportiva para explorar la importancia del deporte en la Corea contemporánea. Al presentar una variedad de perspectivas internacionales, traza la evolución dinámica del deporte en Corea y prevé las posibilidades para su futuro. Cada capítulo se centra en un tema clave de relevancia actual, argumentando que individuos, instituciones, empresas y gobiernos han aprovechado o explotado activamente el deporte para influir en los desarrollos de varios ámbitos sociales, económicos, culturales y políticos, este libro arroja nueva luz sobre la importancia del deporte como un catalizador para el cambio en Corea. Esta es una lectura indispensable para cualquier estudiante o académico con un interés en el deporte, la historia y la cultura en Corea.


EAST ASIAN ART HISTORY IN A TRANSACTIONAL CONTEXT, de Eriko Tomizawa-Kay y Toshio Watanabe

Centrada en la historia del arte de Asia oriental y a cargo de la CRC Press, la publicación de los profesores Eriko Tomizawa-Kay y Toshio Watanabe ambos de la Universidad de East Anglia, construye un análisis estructurado en tres partes y doce capítulos que pasa a convertirse en el primer estudio completo en inglés de la historia del arte de Asia oriental en un contexto transnacional que desafía los paradigmas geográficos, temporales y genéricos existentes que actualmente enmarcan la historia del arte de Asia oriental. Este estudio pionero propone un nuevo marco importante que se centra en la relación entre China, Japón y Corea. Al reconsiderar los conceptos existentes de "Asia oriental" y al examinar la porosidad de los límites en la historia del arte de Asia oriental, el estudio propone un nuevo modelo para comprender la producción artística translocal, en particular la mecánica de las interacciones, a finales del siglo XX.



El profesor Christopher Lovins del Instituto Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de Ulsan, Corea, nos presenta el primer análisis detallado en inglés de monarquía y gobierno en Corea durante el reinado del rey Chŏngjo. Lovins plantea si fueron los países de Europa los únicos que fueron “modernos tempranos” o si fue la modernidad de Asia cortada por el colonialismo. Los académicos que examinan la Eurasia moderna temprana aún no han explorado completamente las relaciones entre el gobierno absoluto y la modernización política en el mundo moderno altamente disputado. Utilizando una perspectiva comparativa que coloca a Chŏngjo, rey de Corea de 1776 a 1800, en contexto con otros reyes coreanos y con los gobernantes contemporáneos de China y Europa, examina el balance cambiante de poder en Corea a favor de la corona a expensas de Aristocracia durante el período moderno temprano. A través de un análisis detallado de los registros oficiales y las cartas privadas, incluidas las 297 "cartas secretas" de Chŏngjo recientemente descubiertas, Christopher Lovins muestra que, a diferencia de suposiciones anteriores, los monarcas coreanos de finales del siglo XVIII no eran débiles e ineficaces, sino que estaban en el proceso de construir un gobierno absolutista.



El profesor emérito de la Universidad Británica de Columbia, Canadá, Chang Yunshik, fallecido recientemente, realizó este texto para su posterior publicación bajo la editorial Routledge. Este libro revisa las experiencias de kŭndaehwa (modernización) de Corea del Sur, o cómo ponerse al día con Occidente, con un enfoque en tres grandes proyectos históricos como la expansión de la nueva educación (occidental), la industrialización y la democratización. Dados los esfuerzos que se iniciaron en el último trimestre del siglo XIX, ahora Corea del Sur se ha transformado por completo en una sociedad industrial urbana. En este libro se exploran los tres problemas principales que surgen del proceso de kundaehwa en Corea: ¿Cómo fue posible la transformación histórica en el entorno personalista ?; ¿Qué tan personalista es la Corea moderna ?; ¿Y qué tan difícil es construir un dominio público ordenado en la Corea personalista moderna y cómo responden los coreanos a este dilema de la modernización?
Como un examen de la modernización, así como de Corea, este libro atraerá a estudiantes y académicos de estudios sobre sociología, política e historia coreanos.



Bajo la editorial Palgrave, Wook-Dong Kim, profesor emérito de la Universidad de Sogang de Seúl y actual profesor del Instituto Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de Ulsan, pone a disposición “Translations in Korea. Theory and Practise”.  Este libro explora los enfoques prácticos y teóricos de la traducción en Corea desde el siglo XVI en adelante, examinando una variedad de traducciones hechas en Corea desde una perspectiva diacrónica. Al ofrecer una discusión de la metodología para traducir el Xiaoxue (Aprendizaje menor o elemental), un libro de texto principal para el confucianismo en China y otros países del este de Asia, el libro considera los problemas relacionados con la traducción de la Biblia en coreano en general y el Cuestionario de términos en particular. Examina a James Scarth Gale, uno de los primeros misioneros protestantes de Canadá en Corea, como uno de los notables traductores del idioma. El libro además compara tres versiones en inglés de la Declaración de Independencia de Corea de 1919, argumentando que las diferencias significativas entre ellas se deben tanto a la visión política de los traductores para una Corea independiente como a sus carreras. El libro concluye con un análisis detallado de la traducción en inglés de Deborah Smith de "The Vegetarian" por Han Kang, que ganó el Premio Internacional de Ficción Man Booker 2016.



La editorial Palgrave presenta la investigación de Hyun Kyung Lee perteneciente al Centro de Investigación en Artes, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad de Cambridge, Reino Unido y la Escuela Superior de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Seúl, Corea. Este libro explora las respuestas de Corea del Sur a la arquitectura de la ocupación colonial japonesa de Corea y las formas en que la arquitectura ilustra la relación entre el difícil patrimonio y la formación de la identidad nacional. Al detallar el caso específico de Seúl, Hyun Kyung Lee investiga cómo los edificios se destruyen, conservan o reconstruyen selectivamente para establecer o desafiar la identidad cultural de los lugares a medida que se desarrollan nuevos órdenes políticos. Además, ella ilumina el concepto tradicional coreano de feng shui como un marco indígena central para entender la relación entre espacio y poder, ya que está asociado con los procesos de construcción de la nación y la herencia. Al proporcionar un estudio detallado de un caso poco conocido fuera de Asia Oriental, 'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building, ampliará el marco de la investigación del patrimonio centrada en Occidente mediante la introducción de nuevas perspectivas asiáticas.



Este volumen editado por Rowman & Littlefield y escrito por el profesor Gregg A. Brazinsky de la Universidad de George Washington, reúne un conjunto de ensayos que exploran las dimensiones globales de la historia y política recientes de Corea por un grupo de los más talentosos y jóvenes académicos. Los ensayos buscan responder dos preguntas interrelacionadas: ¿Cómo han impactado los desarrollos internacionales en Corea? ¿Y cómo ha influido Corea a su vez en los acontecimientos y tendencias mundiales? El libro demuestra que los problemas más importantes en la historia posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial de Corea no pueden entenderse sin hacer referencia a las interacciones globales del país. Los ensayos incluidos empujan los límites de varios subcampos diferentes abriendo caminos al introducir nuevos materiales de archivo y revelar detalles importantes sobre la diplomacia pasada de los dos coreas. Otros consideran aspectos de la influencia estadounidense en Corea que se han ignorado anteriormente, como el impacto de los Estados Unidos en el desarrollo urbano y el consumo de alimentos. Al traer nuevas voces en Estudios Coreanos a la vanguardia, este volumen cambia la forma en que entendemos el papel de Corea en el mundo.

CFP: NOMINATIONS FOR THE ZHU KEZHEN AWARDS & JUNIOR AWARD OF THE ISHEASTM


Call for Nominations for


The International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM) would like to solicit nominations for the Zhu Kezhen Awards. The Zhu Kezhen Award and the Zhu Kezhen Junior Award were both established in 2002 through the generosity of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IASTAM 40TH ANNIVERSARY PRIZE, 2019


Announcement of the IASTAM 40th Anniversary Prize, 2019

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine, we cordially invite academic researchers, practitioners of Asian medicines with recent academic publications, graduate students, and post-docs to submit an original, unpublished paper to be considered for this prize.
All manuscripts received will be considered for acceptance in the society's journal Asian Medicine. They should apply methods from anthropology, history, or any other academic discipline to the critical study of Asian medical systems in context, focusing on any period up to the present. Manuscripts must be in English. The target length is 8,000–12,000 words. Please follow the journal style guidelines in all other regards. 

PROGRAMA DE BECAS INTERNACIONALES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE MUJERES EWHA




La Universidad de Mujeres Ewha (EUMC), situada en Seúl, es una de las universidades privadas más prestigiosas de Corea del Sur y el instituto educativo femenino más grande del mundo. Su Centro Médico invita a los solicitantes a su Programa de Becas Internacionales. Los principales objetivos de estas ayudas son compartir conocimientos y proporcionar capacidades médicas a doctores de todo el mundo a través de varios de sus departamentos.

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