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CFP: "(UN)ARCHIVED: PHOTOGRAPHY AGAINST/ALONG THE GRAIN OF ABSENCE IN GLOBAL ASIAS", DEVELOPING ROOM GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM



“(Un)archived: Photography Against/Along the Grain of Absence in Global Asias”,

Developing Room's 8th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium


The Developing Room, a photography working group at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, announces its eighth graduate colloquium in collaboration with the positions: asia critique journal and New York University.

With a special focus on Global Asias, this year’s colloquium is organized by three PhD students, from Comparative Literature and Art History at Rutgers and East Asian Studies at NYU. We invite doctoral students—at any stage and from any field of study—whose research critically engages with photography in/as/and/against the archive around the issues of Asia and its diasporas. The colloquium will open with a keynote speech, and each graduate participant will give a 20 to 25-minute presentation and engage in a faculty-led panel discussion. Selected papers will also be considered for publication in positions politics, the online platform of positions.

The optical field of photography paradoxically leaves open as much as it forecloses the possibility of interpretive reimagination and speculation. It is this opening, the utterance that draws attention to what the photograph does not show, that lies at the heart of our concerns. With its line of inquiry oriented toward the discourses on historiography, futurities, temporalities, and contingencies in relation to photography, the “(Un)archived” colloquium turns to the archival absence and silence within, on the edge of, and/or in excess of the visual documents. In so doing, we seek to break with the ideology of empiricism and positivist demands of history, instead making room for what Saidiya Hartman refers to as “critical fabulation.” We call on our participants to consider, without limiting themselves to, the following questions:
  • How do absences and silences register in photography?
  • How do we attend to and articulate that which is invisible, yet present, in the photograph? How might we do this by turning to the archive?
  • What are the instances where photography and the archive stand at odds with one another? What can we learn from such dissonances?
  • How do certain photographs activate alternative ways of engaging with the archive?
  • What kind of image emerges when we move away from the optical realm of photography? In other words, how does photography engage extra-visual senses?
  • What is at stake when we embrace imagination and speculation as viable methods in the face of archival absences?
  • How do artists, filmmakers, writers, and other cultural practitioners respond to such absences through photography?
  • How do the material and archival conditions of certain photographs speak to or unsettle our notions of the (un)photographed?
Keynote Speaker

Jae Won Edward Chung is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is also an affiliate faculty of the Comparative Literature program. He specializes in modern and contemporary Korean literature and visual cultures. He has previously taught at the University of Colorado Boulder and Ewha University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Korean Studies, Azalea, Apogee Journal, Boston Review, and Asymptote. He is currently completing a monograph on the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, and art of South Korea’s First Republic (1948-1960), entitled Aesthetics of Abandonment: Literary and Visual Culture of Early South Korea.

Respondent

Lily M Cho is Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (International) at Western University. Her research focuses on diasporic subjectivity within the fields of cultural studies, postcolonial literature and theory, and Asian North American and Canadian literature. Her book, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) is a SSHRC-funded project that focuses on Chinese Canadian head tax certificates known as "C.I. 9's." These certificates mark one of the first uses of identification photography in Canada. Drawing from this archive, her research explores the relationship between citizenship, photography, and anticipation as a mode of agency.

Organizers

Vero Chai is a third-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University and editorial assistant of positions: asia critique. Her research concerns the interplay of film, literature, and photography in relation to the archive, with an emphasis on the Asian diasporas and their sonic, affective, and intersubjective articulations.

Julian Wong-Nelson is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Art History program. Their research interests include Asian-diasporic performance, photography, and video, queer & trans* theory, and cinema studies.

Junho Peter Yoon is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the East Asian Studies Department at New York University. His research mainly focuses on the question of how to rethink ethics in the age of Anthropocene beyond the categorical confines of the human by contextualizing this inquiry through modern and contemporary Korean history, literature, and cinema.


To apply, please submit the following materials to our web form no later than January 15, 2024:
  • an abstract of 250 words or less
  • a summary of your larger project or dissertation progress, 250 words or less
  • a short bio of 150 words or less
  • CV
Contact Information


Contact Email: developingroom@gmail.com

CFP: "CURRENT COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES IN EAST ASIA", CONCENTRIC LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES


“Current Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia”,

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 50 No. 2 September 2024


This special issue seeks articles that address issues related to current comparative literary studies in East Asia, including its establishment as a discipline, institutionalization, historical development, methodological models, critical paradigms, etc., and more importantly, the tendencies within the discipline in the face of the drastic changes in current culture and society. The discipline of comparative literature in East Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and others, was established largely after World War II, although some would argue that it germinated during much earlier historical stages. In other words, the institutionalization of comparative literature in East Asia was greatly influenced by the Cold War geopolitical framework over which the US had the prevailing dominance. This fact also explains why the entire “interpretative community” of comparative literary studies in East Asia has been closely associated with that in North America and followed closely its critical paradigms. As a result, East Asian literatures often become literary examples to attest to “Western theories,” and sometimes are viewed as an integral part of Area Studies from the American perspective.

However, the common background and tendency in the development of the comparative literature discipline in East Asia by no means suggests that this region should be considered as having a literary and cultural unity and can be treated uniformly. Instead, different countries and areas in East Asia have developed various ramifications of comparative literature with distinct characteristics based on their own linguistic environments, historical experiences, political conditions, national objectives, etc. Some countries regard comparative literature as an extension of a national literature, whereas others recognize it as a branch of foreign literatures. In a similar fashion, some institutes lay stress on native language and local issues, whereas others emphasize the use of English as a necessary channel to connect to the outside world and to gain better visibility for their local affairs. These diverse and discrete concerns demonstrate precisely one prominent feature of comparative literature in East Asia—i.e., existing in an interspace between East and West, native and foreign, local and global, etc.

Like in other regions, comparative literature in East Asia has always faced challenges that were caused either by the changes in geopolitics or precipitated by paradigm shifts within the discipline. The last decade has witnessed a reform of the discipline in confronting various obstacles, especially the urgency of reconsidering the idea of East Asia. In brief, the idea of “Asia as method” proposed by the Japanese scholar Takeuchi Yoshimi more than half a century ago has been raised once again as a useful reference for reviewing contemporary humanities studies in the region. However, it places an emphasis less on overcoming the so-called Western modernity than on a return to the East Asian context. This quest provides a chance to examine the divergence and diversity of East Asian literatures and cultures, which may deviate from the long-standing Western criteria for comparative studies and also create alternative connections between various areas in the region and beyond. Take, for example, the emergence of Sinophone studies. It provokes a time-space reconstruction of the Sinophone articulation with an emphasis on voicing the minority’s conditions. Clearly, the call for reshaping the social and cultural order in the Sinophone world echoes perfectly the discourse on world literature that promotes a “worlding” process rather than a presumed world order.

At present, comparative literature faces even more challenges than before. The breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our daily lives, means of communication, social relations, and many other aspects of life, not to mention the radical changes in domestic governance and international politics. Literature of our time will focus on and describe these transformations; likewise, comparative literary studies will examine the effect of all these changes on the human condition, e.g., from the perspectives of political economy of affects, mode of bio-politics, and the geopolitical situation, etc. Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, other important developments like the continuing war in Ukraine, the advancement of science and technology, the emergence of cyberspace, the surge of populism in politics, racial conflicts and climate change, to name just a few, are having profound impacts on the environment and human lives. Considering all these challenges, comparative literature in East Asia is no doubt approaching a new phase that requires a more wide-ranging and comprehensive vision.

Please send complete papers of 6,000-10,000 words, 5–8 keywords, and a brief biography to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw by December 30, 2023. Manuscripts should follow the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman. Please consult our style guide.


Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. In each issue of Concentric we publish groups of essays on a special topic as well as papers on more general issues.

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us.

CFP: “NEOLIBERAL ASIA AND ITS PRECARIOUS OTHERS”, 2023 SITUATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


“Neoliberal Asia and Its Precarious Others”,

2023 Situations International Conference

October 20-21, Grand Hyatt Jeju, South Korea


The modern history of Asia has been characterized by rapid and even spectacular growth, as societies that were poor and agrarian became prosperous and advanced through the process of state-led development. But the much-vaunted successes of the developmental state have often served to conceal intractable problems and troubling realities. The neoliberal economic model has exacerbated inequalities across the globe, and Asia has not been spared the pernicious dynamic whereby a few have achieved tremendous wealth while many more have fallen out of the middle class and are confronted with an increasingly gloomy and uncertain future. Precarity has driven these issues to the fore, as the loss of faith in the future has come to unsettle and weaken social cohesion in Asia just as it has dissolved it across the West.

This conference examines the experience of precarity in Asia, past and present. Whether it relates to contract laborers working without benefits, migrants seeking low-wage jobs, the physically handicapped cut off from steady employment, the neuro-diverse negotiating the rules of corporate culture, or gays and lesbians carving out a niche in a traditional society, Situations welcomes papers from a wide variety of perspectives taking on these and other issues related to the worsening instability of social structures and the spread of uncertainty in traditionally communitarian Asian societies. How have members of marginal or disenfranchised groups responded to the predicaments of precarity, and how are views of these groups changing among the general public? What kind of politics are emerging in response to mass disillusionment regarding a better future, and what kind of influence are disenfranchised groups beginning to exert against the forces arrayed against them? Could precarity also provide opportunities for marginalized groups that did not exist in the past?


Invited Speakers:
    • “Democracy or Totalitarianism? Terms of the New Cold War”
    • “Thresholds of Precarity”
    • “The Viscous Return of the Rheol”

Possible topics might include:
  • labor and precarity
  • disability rights
  • migrant workers in Asia
  • precarity and the shaping of biopolitics
  • the crisis of the low birth-rate
  • the emergence of neuro-diversity (such as Extraordinary Attorney Woo)
  • the transformation of family life
  • gender identity in uncertain times
  • cults as a phenomenon of precarity
  • Squid Game and other metaphors of precarity
  • environmental politics and the loss of the future
  • precarity and the experience of deep time
  • the impact of the Old and the New Cold War
  • lives under authoritarian regimes
Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. By 20 August 2023, we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference presentation with its abstract and keywords (the acceptance of the presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited participant will then be expected to turn his or her conference presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to both situations@yonsei.ac.kr and skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr.

Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes.



Notes:

We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose final papers we accept. The presenters will share twin bedrooms.

Contact Info:

situations@yonsei.ac.kr; skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr.

Contact Email:

situations@yonsei.ac.kr

CFP: AMODERN 12 "ALTERNATIVE PRINT TECHNOLOGIES AND REVOLUTION"



“Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution”,

AMODERN 12


What is the relationship of alternative print technologies to revolution? What revolutionary political opportunities and cultural imaginaries are made possible by non-typographic printing? In order to answer these questions, this CFP is interested in papers to join a special issue in Amodern on Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution that explores how non-typographic technologies have shaped cultural and political practices around the world. This special issue will expand upon Amodern‘s interdisciplinary focus on media, culture, and poetics by rethinking assumptions about the relationship of print to technological, political, and social revolution(s). In particular, we call for paper submissions that explore the dynamic interplay between revolution(s), broadly, construed, and non-typographic printing in those parts of the world where typographic printing was considered ill-suited to local writing systems and script cultures, including South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. We are interested in papers that investigate the relationship of non-typographic publishing networks to revolution from the early modern era to the present and how alternative print technologies beyond typography challenge assumptions about mass print culture. In particular, we encourage submissions that explore how marginalized communities deploy print technology and graphic media in unexpected and subversive ways.

Scholars from Area Studies, Art History and Design, the History of Science and Technology, STS, Media Studies, History, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Comparative Literature, among other fields, are welcome to apply. Scholars of all ranks are encouraged to apply. WE ENCOURAGE APPLICATIONS FROM EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARS (ABD PhD students through Assistant Professors).

Please send abstracts to:
  • tsmullaney@stanford.edu
  • amamstutz@ualr.edu
  • amodernjournal@gmail.edu
Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz

300-word proposals due: 31 March 2023

Drafts of 4000-8000 words due: 1 June 2023

CFP: CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (EEAA) 2023




University of Ljubljana. September 13–17, 2023


The Board of EAAA is pleased to announce the new call for papers for the 3rd EAAA conference to be held at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between September 13–17, 2023. The 3rd conference, planned for 2020, that had to be cancelled due to the pandemic will now finally take place. The conference is jointly organized by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Ljubljana and the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia.

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest scientific and research institution in Slovenia; it is also the only institution in the country where the subject of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies can be studied as a full program.

Main aims of the conference are the following:
  • To open a dialogue between scholars of Asian art and archaeology and to offer a platform for the presentation and discussion of recent research;
  • To highlight the significance of Asian art and archaeology research;
  • To focus research on the many collections of Asian art in the European collections and institutions;
  • To revise the historical approach that has been prevalent in the study and research of Asian art and archaeology;
  • To critically engage and elaborate on existing art theories and methodology;
  • To formulate new research vistas, approaches and methods in Asian art and archaeology.

Conference participation

Scholars of Asian art and archaeology from Europe and beyond are invited to submit their proposals for contributions on art and archaeology of China, Japan, Korea, South and Central Asia as well as transregional and transnational studies. The proposals can also focus on art theory, methodology and museum research in the above-mentioned areas. Graduate students are encouraged to submit their proposals.

EAAA board accepts the following formats of participation:
  • Panel format: Panel proposal (max. 250 words), including the name of the panel organizer, the chair, participants and discussant; 3–4 paper abstracts (max. 250 words each)
  • Individual paper format: Paper proposal (max. 250 words)
  • Alternative formats: Session proposal (max. 250 words), including the name of the organizer, the chair, and participants with an explanation of the chosen format: 2–3 sentences, including time frame (e.g. back-to-back sessions) and presentation/contribution abstracts (max. 250 words each)
All applicants are asked to add a short CV of 100 words, their status and affiliation (e.g. PhD candidate, University of Leeds) as well as contact information (address, telephone number, e-mail) to their application.

Applications in WORD format should be sent to conference@ea-aaa.eu by January 15, 2023. Scholars who have submitted their proposals by this deadline will be notified by April 15, 2023. The conference program will be published by May 31, 2023. The language of the conference is English.

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

CFP: TRANS ASIA PHOTOGRAPHY, VOL. 13, NO. 2 (FALL 2023)


Trans Asia Photography, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 2023)



Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue, Volume 13, no. 2 (Fall 2023). The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory, and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary. It welcomes: 
  • articles (5,000–7,000 words) that broaden understanding of Asian photography in transnational contexts
  • shorter pieces (1,000–2,000 words) in formats that include interviews, curatorial or visual essays, and portfolios
Deadline for research articles and shorter pieces: October 31, 2022.

Trans Asia Photography is an international, refereed, open-access journal based at the University of Toronto and published by Duke University Press. It provides a venue for interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia.

Guidance for authors on submissions can be found HERE.

For more information, contact the editors: transasiaphotography@gmail.com

We hope you will share this with your networks.

Sincerely,


The TAP Editorial Team





@transasiaphotography


Related date:

June 25, 2022 to October 31, 2022

CFP: ARS ORIENTALIS VOL. 54, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN


Ars Orientalis journal vol. 54



Ars Orientalis, a peer-reviewed annual journal published jointly by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, invites submissions of original, innovative articles on the arts of the broad geographic area of Asia, from the ancient period to the contemporary.

Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 12,000 words (including endnotes). Ars Orientalis is a digital publication with a print-on-demand option. The digital volume also allows for the incorporation of other media, such as video, sound, and 3D models. Visual material must include permissions for print and online reproduction.

We are currently accepting submissions for volume 54 to be published in Fall 2024. Articles must be received by November 1, 2022 to be considered.

For more information, please visit this web. To submit or request more information, please email managing editor Sana Mirza at ArsOrientalis@si.edu.


Contact Info:

Sana Mirza, Managing Editor, Ars Orientalis

Contact Email:

ArsOrientalis@si.edu

CFP: 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES; BODIES, GENDER, IDENTITIES


16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Bodies, Gender, Identities



The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting proposals for its 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 25–26, 2022 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online via the conference (web)app Whova.

The general theme of the conference this year is “Bodies, Gender, Identities”. We welcome contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and that address an issue related to any of the three sub-themes, such as the variety of experiences of the lived bodies; the governance of life; embodiment and affect; gendered experiences; gender diversity and sexualities; language and body/gender/identity; performance and the construction of identities; gender and naming practices; human life and the environment; social and cultural practices concerning birth and death, food, spirituality, love and intimacy, pain, etc.

We seek both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, religion studies, socio-logy, and other fields in humanities and social sciences.

We invite proposals in the following formats: 
  1. individual papers, 
  2. organized panels consisting of 3–4 papers, 
  3. research posters, and 
  4. alternative formats (e.g., roundtable discussion, book presentation, film screening). 
The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2022. In addition, there is also an option to submit an open panel seeking more panelists. For details regarding each of the above-mentioned formats, the submission process, as well as the organizer and the venue, please see our website.

Questions can be addressed to acas@upol.cz.

We look forward to your proposals.

The Organizing Team of ACAS 2022


Contact Info:

Halina Zawiszová


Contact Email:

acas@upol.cz

ARTISTIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN KOREA AND JAPAN, ONLINE EXHIBITION



Artistic Exchange between Korea and Japan,

Online Exhibition


Posted on behalf of Cynthia Bogel

(Korean and Japanese texts follow the English)

Announcement of an 11-month ONLINE EXHIBITION: Artistic Exchange between Korea and Japan (日韓 美術 交流)

A collaboration between Ehwa Womans University and Kyushu University has resulted in an online exhibition, “Artistic Exchange between Korea and Japan (日韓 美術 交流).” Curated and designed entirely by graduate students in the Art History Department of Ewha Womans University, you will find sections on painting, ceramics, and Buddhist arts that can be viewed in English, Korean, and Japanese. While navigating artworks chosen for the online exhibition, images and accompanying text provide entry points to understanding cultural exchanges between Korea and Japan that continued for more than a millennium. Kindly share this announcement with your colleagues, students, friends, and organizations. Don’t delay: the exhibition will close its virtual doors on January 24th, 2023.

The online exhibition was made possible with funding from the International Research Center for the Humanities, Graduate School of Humanities, Kyushu University and teamwork over several months by thirteen graduate students at Ehwa Womans University.

Professor Cynthea J. Bogel at Kyushu University, and professors Namwon Jang, Soyeon Kim, and Youn-mi Kim at Ewha Womans University facilitated and directed the project.

Please click this link to view the exhibition.

Enjoy!

Please feel free to email (ymkim24@gmail.com) with inquiries.


Contact info:

  • Professor, Japanese art history and Buddhist visual culture in Asia

International MA and PhD Programs in Japanese Humanities.

CFP: ART AND RESILIENCE IN RESPONSE TO THE ASIAN CRISIS, 1997-1998


Art Journal,

Art and Resilience in Response to the Asian Crisis, 1997-1998
  

We are developing a special issue to be submitted to Art Journal, titled Art and Resilience in Response to the Asian Crisis, 1997–1998.

Between 1997 and 1998, a series of currency devaluations in East and Southeast Asia caused an economic crisis that led to the widespread reversal of billions of dollars in foreign investment across Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea. The financial and economic crisis became a multifaceted event which affected governance at all levels—regional, national, and even global—and produced social and political strife in many of the affected countries. For example, the upheaval in Indonesia weakened the Suharto government which had ruled for thirty years. Malaysia did not experience a change in government at the time, but the crisis resulted in protests, political reshuffling, and the emergence of the Reformasi movement. In South Korea, with elections a month away when the crisis struck, the government was unable to act decisively until the opposition party’s Kim Dae Jung was sworn in as president in February 1998. In Thailand, Prime Minister Yongchaiyudh was forced to resign after eleven months in office.

In response to the resulting social and political events in their countries, artists from East and Southeast Asia produced art works and exhibitions. In Malaysia, for instance, in 1998, the artists’ collective Artist Pro Activ (APA) organized the multidisciplinary arts festival APA Fest as a response to the volatile economic and sociopolitical conditions that erupted there. In Indonesia, an exhibition entitled Reformasi Indonesia! (2000) displayed “protest art” produced by twelve contemporary Indonesian artists, focusing on the turbulent period of reformasi. In Thailand, failed finance companies sold off art masterpieces they had collected before the crisis at reduced prices to help meet massive corporate debts. In South Korea, previously planned large exhibitions were canceled, but new alternative art spaces were established, filled with exhibitions by artists who had returned to their home country from Europe and America due to the crisis.

This Special Issue solicits papers that discuss national social and political responses to the Asian economic crisis in the context of art history and visual culture at large, including art and art history, performance art, film, and media studies. Broadly, it seeks papers on social and political responses to the Asian crisis in the arts and visual culture and its effect on the art market and the creative industry in general.

Papers for this Special Issue may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
  • The study of art and visual culture that expresses the concern with conflicts of national identity and community, cultural knowledge, power, and faith during the precarious times of the 1997–98 Asian crisis
  • How the multilayered crisis intensified or accelerated crucial developments in the arts and visual culture, including the larger scope of cultural and visual history
  • Artistic reactions to the political, social, and economic impact of the Asian financial crisis in terms of art-making, exhibition, creative production, networking, and even regional solidarity
  • How the Asian crisis affected art, visual art, and material culture through the art market and creative industries
Please submit inquiries, 300-word abstracts, and brief CVs to coeditors Sarena Abdullah (sarena.abdullah@gmail.com) and/or Suzie Kim (skim8@umw.edu) by November 20, 2021. Authors will be informed of the acceptance of their abstracts by December 15, 2021. Finished papers are due May 31, 2022, to be e-mailed to the coeditors above. Accepted articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length, including notes, and prepared according to Art Journal style requirements (see this link).

The coeditors will review all papers before submitting them to Art Journal. Please be aware that Art Journal has the right to reject or accept submitted papers through its double-blind peer review process. For further information about the journal, please visit this link.


Contact Info:


CFP: ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE ONLINE STATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IOWA


EncyclopedIA,

the Online State Encyclopedia of Iowa


The Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa is actively seeking contributors for the launch of Iowa’s online state encyclopedia in 2022. This digital resource will explore the history of Iowa, using chronological, thematic, and geographic lenses while also thoughtfully considering the diversity of Iowans and embedding the voices, history, and perspectives of those who have been traditionally underrepresented. Submissions will be peer reviewed by the EncyclopedIA Editorial Board prior to acceptance and publication, and documentation of the peer-review process and digital publication will be provided to item writers to add to their professional portfolio.

Audience and Purpose: EncyclopedIA entries will be written to be accessible to the general public as well as educators responsible for integrating Iowa history into their elementary and secondary school classrooms. The state encyclopedia is an outgrowth of Teaching Iowa History, an award-winning, NEH grant-funded project under the leadership of the Iowa Museum Association that supports K-12 educators teaching Iowa history using primary sources. Topics for primary entries in EncyclopedIA will be drawn from the Iowa History Tagging Framework, supporting the K-12 Iowa Social Studies Standards in Iowa History.

Content and Entries: EncyclopedIA entries will vary in length and scope to explore different elements of the history of Iowa and its many communities and people.
  • A-level entries (approximately 3,000 words) cover Iowa History Eras, Themes, and Counties as referenced in the Iowa History Tagging Framework. These topics consider broad processes, developments, and subjects in state history as they have impacted Iowa and Iowans, some over hundreds of years. See Eras and Themes lists below.
  • B-level entries (1,000-1,200 words) cover topics that examine particular elements of A-level subjects in greater depth and detail. Topics under the Thematic column of the Iowa History Tagging Framework offer examples. For example, nested under the Agriculture theme, topics include Science and Technology of Ag and Farmers and Farm Life. See the list below for details.
  • C-level entries (300-700 words) focus on particular persons, places, things, structures, groups, or events that can be linked to broader topics in Iowa history. For example, if the A-level article is Agriculture and the B-level article is the Science of Ag, a supporting C-level article could be Norman Borlaug.
  • D-level entries (200-500 words) offer descriptions of objects and artifacts in publicly accessible collections in Iowa.

Initial Call:

While we welcome expressions of interest in any potential content area and type, in this first call, we are seeking expressions of interest in contributing A- and B-level entries to facilitate the launch of the project. 

The topics:

A-level (approx. 3,000 words): 19 items

Eras

First Iowans (10,000 BCE-1673)
Native Americans & Europeans (1674-1802)
Territorial Iowa (1803-1846)
Statehood and the Civil War Era (1847-1868)
Statewide Settlement (1869-1896)
Prosperity to the Depression (1897-1939)
World War II to the Urban State (1940-1963)
Expansion, Confrontation & the Farm Crisis (1964-1980)
Iowa in a Global World (1991-present)

Themes

Agriculture
Arts & Culture
Business & Industry
Communities
Education
War & Conflict
Environment
Government
People
Transportation

B-level (1,000-1,200 words): 64 items
  • Science & Technology of Ag, Farmers/Farm Life, Ag Economics, Agricultural Products/Types, Early Agriculture (nested under “Agriculture” theme)
  • Civil Rights, Health & Wellness, Sports & Recreation, Religion, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Destinations/Attractions, Cultural Events, Media/Communication (nested under “Arts & Culture” theme)
  • Early Business and Industry, Types of Business and Industry, Workers (nested under “Business & Industry” theme)
  • Towns, Cities, Rural Life, Suburbs (nested under “Communities” theme)
  • Before Formal Education System, One-room Schools, K-12 Education (Development of High Schools), Higher Education (nested under “Education” theme)
  • Early Wars, 1763-1848, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Gulf War II / War on Terror, The Military in Iowa (nested under “War & Conflict” theme)
  • Geology, Plants & Animals, Weather, Environments, Natural Disasters (nested under “Environment” theme)
  • Path to Statehood, Judicial System, Forms of Government, Lawmaking, Political System, Services (nested under “Government” theme)
  • Ancient Iowans, Native Americans, Immigrants, Settlers / Pioneers, Early Explorers, Disaster and Crisis, African American Experience, Women’s Experience, Aging Population, Communal Groups, Innovators (nested under “People” theme)
  • Early Transportation, Rail, Automobiles and Trucking, River, Air, Road Systems (nested under “Transportation” theme)
Contributor Proposals:

We welcome expressions of interest in authoring entries on these topics that celebrate, explore, and recover/uncover the rich history of the state and its many different communities and peoples. In addition to established academics, we encourage proposals for contributions from those in early stages of their careers (including graduate students and postdocs) as well as from public history professionals and independent scholars. For additional information and to express interest in contributing content, please contact Dr. Jennifer McNabb, Head of the UNI Department of History, at iaencyclopedia@uni.edu

If interested in contributing, please submit the following:
  • a current C.V.
  • a description of qualifications in Iowa history
  • proposed entries from the A- and/or B-level topics you would like to contribute. Special attention will be paid to proposals that indicate the intention of centering the diversity of Iowa history and its untold stories.

Contact Info:

Jennifer McNabb, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Department of History, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-0701


Contact Email:

iaencyclopedia@uni.edu

CFP: OMNES THE JOURNAL OF MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 12 (1)


OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 12(1)

ISSN: 2093-5498 (Print) / 2671-969X (Online)


We are currently accepting manuscripts for OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society Vol.12 No.1 that will be published on January 31, 2022. To be considered for the upcoming issue, OMNES 12(1), please submit your manuscript by October 31, 2021.


About the Journal

OMNES, meaning “everyone” in Latin, is a peer-reviewed biannual publication. We welcome manuscripts that deal with themes concerning the global movement of people, human security related to migration, multicultural or multiracial society, cultural diversity, refugees, social integration, nationalism, culture, identity, civil rights and other relevant topics. We are seeking an interdisciplinary approach in the area of politics, economy, society, culture, language, literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

OMNES publishes rigorous theoretical or empirical research articles, review articles, research notes, and book reviews. The editors invite submissions from researchers in all fields of social science and humanities.

OMNES is indexed and abstracted in Korea Citation Index (KCI) as of 2016.


Contributor’s Guide

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Date of Publication: January 31, 2022

Subject area: General topics within the scope of OMNES

Manuscript style: The 6th edition of the APA Style

Submission: Submissions should be made via e-mail (omnes@sm.ac.kr) or submission system.


Authors are requested to submit four files: 1) A blinded manuscript without any authors’ names and affiliations in the text, 2) a cover letter, 3) authors’ checklist, and 4) a copy of the plagiarism check result (less than 10%). Authors’ checklist can be downloaded from our website.


Contact Info:

For further details, please contact the managing editor at omnes@sm.ac.kr.

Tel. No. 82-2-6325-3156

Details are available on our website.

Please refer to the Notes for Contributors for specific information.

Contact Email: omnes@sm.ac.kr

II SEMINARIO DE DOCTORANDOS EN INVESTIGACIÓN EN ESTUDIOS COREANOS

  

El pasado 25 de junio de 2021 se celebró el II Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos en la Facultad de Estudios Sociales y del Trabajo de la Universidad de Málaga (Avenida Francisco Trujillo Villanueva, s/n, 29010, Málaga). El evento fue organizado por la Asociación de Difusión de Estudios y Cultura Coreana en España (ADECCE) en colaboración con Korea Foundation, la Universidad de Málaga (UMA) y el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Estaban invitados a participar alumnos cuyo trabajo final de grado, master o tesis doctoral se centre en el ámbito de Estudios Coreanos.

Tras el reparto de las correspondientes credenciales y las palabras de agradecimiento por poder realizar de nuevo estas jornadas pese a la situación de pandemia en la que nos encontramos, el seminario se inició con la presentación de los moderadores el Dr. Antonio J. Doménech del Río, Vicepresidente de ADECCE y profesor del Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental-Corea en la Universidad de Málaga; la Dra. Mihwa Jo, directora del Instituto Sejong de Barcelona y profesora de Traducción e Interpretación en el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; y la Catedrática Mª Aurelia Martín profesora de las Áreas de Antropología Social y de Estudios de Asia Oriental-Corea en la Universidad de Málaga.


 

 

SESIÓN 1

Carla Alastrué Vidal, de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, fue la encargada de abrir las jornadas con la presentación de su trabajo final de máster con título “Nacionalismos cultural y político en Corea”. Su investigación atiende a una evolución del concepto de nacionalismo en Corea desde el periodo de la ocupación japonesa, pasando por la separación del país en Norte y Sur, para poder responder a la pregunta de cómo se ha conformado la identidad coreana, su posible homogeneidad y qué factores destacan y la hacen diferente a otros tipos de nacionalismos. Para poder responder a estas cuestiones la ponente plantea un método histórico y comparativo entre Corea del Sur y Corea del Norte usando la complementación que aportan entre sí el nacionalismo político y el cultural.

 
A continuación, Margarita Postrelova, de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, expuso la evolución de su tesis, con título provisional, “Influence of National Culture on Organizational Culture and Globalization in South Korea Socio-cultural Conditions of Korean Economy”. Su investigación está basada en un estudio de campo que está realizando mediante el uso de, originalmente, entrevistas y posteriormente modificado a encuestas online, puesto que la situación de pandemia dificulta este medio para la obtención de datos. A través de una serie de preguntas a distintos trabajadores de empresas coreanas en las que ella había trabajado con anterioridad, está estableciendo parámetros para poder argumentar si dentro del mundo de la empresa se puede encontrar un reflejo del carácter nacionalista de la sociedad. Para ello, su metodología se fundamenta en el análisis de sus características y particularidades.

 

 

SESIÓN 2

La encargada de abrir esta nueva sesión fue Yaiza Otero Padilla, de la Universidad de Salamanca, quien expuso su trabajo final de máster, titulado “La Guerra Imjin: estudio de los elementos causantes de su resultado”. Mediante una metodología multidisciplinar de examen histórico y de análisis de fuentes historiográficas bajo un enfoque interpretativista, la ponente planteó cómo diferentes historiadores, según su procedencia, tienen diferente opinión y aportan matices o puntos de vista diferentes independientemente de la disciplina en la que investiguen (las técnicas y estrategias bélicas, diplomacia, política, etc.). Por ello, su presentación ofreció un interesante resultado historiográfico final tras hacer converger dichas fuentes.


Posteriormente, Luis Miguel Machín Martín, de la Universidad de La Laguna, presentaba la evolución de su tesis doctoral, “Cine criminal coreano contemporáneo (2000-2020): Características temáticas, estéticas y narrativas”. Ante el auge del cine coreano en las últimas décadas, el ponente trata de responder a una compleja pregunta:¿cuáles son las características principales del cine criminal coreano contemporáneo? Para ello, ha conformado una serie de criterios de inclusión y exclusión de selección de películas sobre las que analiza una gran diversidad de parámetros temáticos y narrativos con el objetivo de hallar los elementos característicos y diferenciadores que tiene este género cinematográfico en Corea del Sur.


 

 

SESIÓN 3

La tercera sesión comenzó con un cambio de moderadores, el Dr. Luis Alberto Botella Sánchez, profesor en el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental en la Universidad de Málaga, tomó el relevo de la Catedrática Mª Aurelia Martín. A continuación, Ángel Manuel Pacheco Suárez, de la Universidad de Málaga, desarrolló “La cuestión afectiva en el pensamiento neo-confuciano de Corea: una revisión analítica de los principios Li (理) y Qi (氣)”. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es atender a las aportaciones metodológicas acerca del estudio de la constitución moral del individuo expuestas en el debate entre los pensadores Toegye (퇴계) y Kobong (고봉). Por este motivo, el ponente propuso a los asistentes un recorrido histórico desde la dinastía Chosŏn a través de los puntos más significativos dentro del debate que llevaron a cabo ambos autores con el fin de dar respuesta a cuestiones de primer orden, tales como la naturaleza humana, la virtud de sus pensamientos y su correspondencia última con el universo.


Por su parte, Olga Fernández García, también de la Universidad de Málaga, explicó brevemente “El nunchi en la era de las redes sociales”. En su exposición profundizó en el concepto del nunchi desde su origen en el confucianismo hasta la actualidad. Una de las curiosidad que la ponente argumentó fue que este concepto se puede encontrar en elementos tan sorprendentes como los emoticonos del Kakao Talk. Debido al uso más frecuente de Internet, explicó que algunos autores consideran que el nunchi se está perdiendo en la comunicación por mensajería telefónica. Por ello, a través de este trabajo, quería lograr los objetivos de constatar si el nunchi sigue siendo relevante para la sociedad coreana y si este se usa de manera consciente en las relaciones dentro del contexto coreano.


 

SESIÓN 4

Una nueva sesión se iniciaba con la intervención de Salua El Jammal, de la Universidad de Málaga, que, a partir de su trabajo fin de grado “Guemnam Pyohaerok. El viaje como relato”, introdujo a los asistentes en este diario de viaje coreano del siglo XV en el que se narra el viaje a la deriva por el mar Amarillo de un alto funcionario coreano, Ch’oe Pu (1454-1504), quien, en su trayecto de vuelta a su tierra natal, para llorar la muerte de su padre, acabó en el sureste de la China Ming. Por medio de esta fuente primaria, la ponente analizó no solo diferentes aspectos y temas que aparecen en el diario sobre la política, economía y sociedad China durante la dinastía Ming, si no también la alteridad entre la sociedad china y la coreana.

 

Después fue el turno de Yasmine Bonjoch Luna, de la Universidad de Salamanca, y su trabajo fin de máster, titulado “La traducción infantil del coreano al español: ¿un juego de niños?”. Su investigación supuso una introducción a la práctica de la traducción del coreano al español, teniendo como objeto de estudio los cuentos infantiles de origen coreano. Su presentación abarcó tanto cuentos clásicos tradicionales como literatura más contemporánea. Con ello pretende analizar hasta qué punto es posible lograr una traducción atractiva para el lector infantil manteniendo elementos culturales propios de una cultura tan diferente, puesto que, al fin y al cabo, la finalidad de la literatura infantil es que los niños disfruten con la lectura a la vez que aprenden.

 

 

SESIÓN 5

Adriana Mendoza Vacas, de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra, abría la sesión de la tarde con la presentación de su trabajo de fin de máster titulado “Voces frágiles: La creación del imaginario literario feminista contemporáneo coreano”. Su objeto de estudio se centra en el auge de escritoras surcoreanas, que comenzó en los años 90, y el espacio que fueron creando en sus obras para contrarrestar los discursos patriarcales monolíticos y homogéneos. Dentro de este marco, su investigación se enfoca principalmente en dos autoras, Han Kang, altamente aclamada por los críticos occidentales; y Hwang Jungeun, menos conocida en el ámbito internacional, pero clave en la nueva ola de feminismo en Corea del Sur. Por medio de la labor realizada por ambas, la ponente ofreció un análisis de la teoría sexual, de género y la deconstrucción que aparecen intrínsecas en sus obras.


Seguidamente, Irene Morales Alonso, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, explicaba brevemente la evolución de su tesis doctoral “El nuevo feminismo. Una visión transnacional entre España y Corea”, centrada en el ámbito del ciberfeminismo. La ponente expuso los problemas que estaba encontrando a la hora de poder entablar una comparativa entre ambos países sin caer en el etnocentrismo y la problemática que supone tomar en consideración los parámetros de las olas feministas que los académicos occidentales dan como únicos y verdaderos. Por esta causa, contextualiza su estudio en la cuarta ola feminista, puesto que permite solventar dichas cuestiones mediante un análisis mixto cualitativo y cuantitativo analizar ambos países al tener un carácter igualitario e interseccional.


Por último, Emma Cabal Santesmases, también de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, expuso su trabajo final de grado “Un nuevo impulso internacional al movimiento feminista. El movimiento #MeToo en España y Corea del Sur”, basado en un análisis comparativo entre ambos países y la influencia que han recibido por parte de Estados Unidos. Por consiguiente, la ponente partió para su estudio de artículos académicos, leyes y normativas, artículos periodísticos, bases de datos internacionales y gubernamentales y páginas webs como metodología, atendiendo a una serie de casos mediáticos relativos al #MeToo para hacer un análisis más completo y comparativo, como ocurre con el Caso de la Manada o el Caso de la fiscal Seo Ji-Hyeon.


 

 

SESIÓN 6

La jornada concluía con una última sesión, iniciada con la exposición de Arturo Cosano Ramos, de la Universidad de Málaga, que narraba su interesante trabajo de campo por medio de su investigación titulada “La presencia coreana en España. Un estudio de las comunidades coreanas en España”. Partiendo del 70º aniversario del inicio de las relaciones internacionales entre España y Corea y ante la escasa información acerca de las comunidades coreanas que se encuentran en nuestro país, su investigación tiene como objetivo adentrarse en el conocimiento de dichas comunidades partiendo de un análisis histórico. De esta forma, analiza las comunidades coreanas presentes en España atendiendo a cuáles son sus principales actividades laborales o cómo se desarrolla su ámbito familiar, entre otras cuestiones, mediante un cuestionario y la realización de varias entrevistas para poder obtener una aproximación a la percepción personal de los residentes coreanos.


Finalmente, Bárbara Sarmentera Vázquez, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, cerró la jornada con la presentación de su trabajo final de máster, titulado “Japón en la internacionalización del arte contemporáneo surcoreano: El caso del Dansaekhwa”, a través del cual explicó el papel de Japón en la internacionalización del arte contemporáneo en Corea del Sur y el surgimiento de ese supuesto movimiento artístico monocromático, tan aclamado por la crítica nipona y surcoreana, conocido como Dansaekhwa. Partiendo de Park Seo-bo y Lee Ufan, dos de los artistas más relevantes del país, la ponente realizó una revisión histórica de los intereses y relaciones artísticas entre ambos países en las décadas de 1960-1970. Además, explicó su metodología de análisis de las piezas expuestas en la muestra de 1975 "Korea: Five Artists, Five Hinsek (White)" realizada en la Tokyo Gallery, considerada origen del movimiento.


 

 

Este II Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos sobrepasó las expectativas de ADECCE. Seguimos manteniendo presente la conexión entre el alumnado interesado en Estudios Coreanos, independientemente de la universidad de procedencia; y el profesorado especializado. Creemos firmemente que este evento comienza a consolidarse en España y esperamos que se celebren muchas ediciones más. Nuestra cita anual con todos los jóvenes investigadores de Estudios Coreanos está siendo más vital que nunca. Gracias a todos los participantes, asistentes, moderadores, compañeros de organización y entidades que han colaborado para que este seminario esté más vivo que nunca.


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