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CFP: POPULAR CULTURE REVIEW "ASIAN AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE"


Popular Culture Review

“Asian and Asian American Popular Culture”


Popular Culture Review seeks to publish compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on a variety of topics related to popular culture, both contemporary and from earlier eras. While film, television, literature, and video games are common popular culture subjects, we wish to broaden the journal's exploration of popular culture as well. Examples might include regional popular cultures, popular culture and food, popular culture in previous decades or eras, popular culture and social media, popular culture and music, and the like.

Popular Culture Review comes out twice a year – in the summer and late winter. Our winter issue is a general issue open to all topics related to popular culture and the summer issue is a special issue focused on a particular topic.

Submissions for general issues are due by January 15th for consideration in that year's general issue and by June 10th for that year's special issue. Submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process.

2023 Special Issue in Progress: Black Popular Culture in America - submission deadline has passed

2024 Special Issue: Asian and Asian American Popular Culture - Submissions open and due by June 15, 2024. For this special issue, Popular Culture Review is interested in articles related to all aspects of Asian and Asian American popular culture. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, topics including:
  • art
  • literature
  • music
  • graphic novels
  • animation and anime
  • video games
  • food culture
  • fashion
  • social media culture
  • television and film​
We are interested in articles that consider contemporary popular culture and/or earlier popular culture.

Submission of Manuscripts
  • Submission of an article requires that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • Submissions should be in English, using American spelling and punctuation, and be double-spaced.
  • We accept articles between about 25-30 pages (including notes and citations). We may consider longer pieces if the subject matter and quality of the article warrant a longer length.
  • All figures require a caption and should be referenced in the text. If manuscript is accepted, high-quality files of all photographs, drawings, maps, and other artwork must be submitted as separate attachments.
  • Please submit articles for consideration as a Word attachment, with no identifying information on the attached document, to the Editor at popularculturerevieweditor@gmail.com.
    • In a separate attachment, please include your name, your email address, the article title, a 75-word abstract, a 50-word bio, and a short list of keywords. Please also indicate if the submission is for a general issue or a special issue.
  • All submissions will receive acknowledgment of receipt, and peer reviews with notice of acceptance or rejection.
  • Upon an article being accepted for submission, the author will need to submit a final copy, with any revisions as needed, conforming to the Manuscript Guidelines as indicated in the "Formatting and Style" guidelines in the next section.​
Formatting and Style
  • Please utilize MLA (8th edition) format. Quotes and paraphrased passages must be followed by their citations within the text. The Works Cited should be on a new page, after the last page of End Notes.
  • Please utilize End Notes instead of Footnotes.
  • Please refrain from the use of we, you, or us.
  • Please refrain from the use of the first person in the body of your article. Personal anecdotes or experiences relevant to the article can be included in the End Notes.
  • Please do not announce the paper's main argument with phrasing like "This paper will..." Instead, utilize a compelling and arguable claims or set of claims, as these will draw in readers' interest.
  • The author is responsible for obtaining permissions for illustrations, song lyrics, advertisements, etc., which are to be published with the article.
  • Quoted material should stay within copyright Fair Use guidelines (generally not exceeding one-hundred (100) words in length per quote/extract). See 17 U.S. Code § 107 for guidelines on what qualifies as Fair Use.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2023 (III)



Continuamos con nuestra revisión de los libros académicos relacionados con los estudios coreanos que se han publicado a lo largo del segundo trimestre de 2023. Un listado centrado en diversas y muy variadas áreas dentro de los campos de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, puestos ya a disposición de todos por las diferentes editoriales que facilitamos a continuación:

CFP: "URBAN FUTURES - CULTURAL PASTS", AMPS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA


“Urban Futures - Cultural Pasts”, AMPS International Conference,



Every region of the world has its particular cultural, social and artistic heritage. In urban centres this is at its most pronounced. The city, as we see it today, results from a history of planning initiatives, artistic visions, social forces and engineering projects. In thinking about its future, we are obliged to build on its past and its present: its varied buildings and urban plans; its artistic heritage and craft traditions; its design vernaculars and regional practices; its neighborhood bonds and community ties; its economic conditions and social norms, and more. The city then, is a living question: past, present and future.

When thinking about the future of specific cities we are also obliged to think more broadly – to understand the local and the global context in we live: the transnational forces of globalization, the universal concern for sustainability; and the worldwide trends of consumerist cultures etc. In this regard too, the city is a complex issues: a question of specific responses to global issues. The host city of this event, Barcelona, and by extension the whole region of Catalonia, is a perfect example of this and offers examples of the themes this conference will examine.

In addressing the questions and issues raised by the region, this conference opens debates relevant to cities the world over. Across the Mediterranean issues of sustainable futures are paramount. In Europe more widely, the gentrification of traditional neighborhoods is endemic. In North America and Australasia the respect for Indigenous cultures and crafts is urgently needed. In Africa and Asia, how to sustainably design for growth in existing contexts is a pressing problem. In Latin America and the Middle-East, development that avoids the homogenizing forces of globalization is vital. In these contexts this conference argues that these interchangeable global issues are key to our pasts, but also to our sustainable futures.

In response to this call, we welcome perspectives on these themes from various discipline areas. We seek a wide range of knowledge and insights, whether developed in isolation, or in cross disciplinary collaboration.

Examples of particular research areas of interest to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya include:
  • Community Design & User Autonomy – Challenges & Paradoxes 
  • Material Circularity – Climate Change, & Reuse 
  • Governing the Ecosystem Commons – Governance & Spatial Planning
Other questions of interest to the overall conference include:
  • Urban Futures & Community Pasts – Politics, People & Place 
  • Cultural Pasts & Urban Histories – Gentrification, Heritage & Cities

Event Date: 2024-07-15 to 2024-07-17 

Abstract Due: 2023-07-15


mgt@amps-research.com

Lorraine Gess

CFP: ÁMBITOS FEMINISTAS JOURNAL SPRING 2024 ISSUE 12


Call for submissions, Ámbitos Feministas Journal

Spring 2024 Issue 12


The editors of Ámbitos Feministas invite original and unpublished contributions in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, including essays, translations, creative writing (such as poetry and short stories), book reviews, miscellanea, and artistic creations in the fields of Gender, Queer and Sexualities Studies, Cultural and Film Studies with Gender Gaze, Pedagogy DEIB, Feminist, and Women Studies. Ámbitos Feministas welcomes proposals for special issues. Submissions are encouraged from diverse perspectives and disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the transatlantic perspective of Latin American, Caribbean, Iberian Peninsula, African, Asian, United States, Philippines, and Indigenous studies. Ámbitos Feministas accepts essays at any time, but to be considered for the next spring issue, submissions must be received by September 30.

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

To ensure that your work aligns with the journal’s scope and mission, Ámbitos Feministas recommend reviewing the “Editorial Guidelines (English-Spanish)” carefully, and your submission meet the following general requirements:

a. All authors in all sections must have a current membership to the coalition Feministas Unidas Inc. This can be obtained through Feministas Unidas (http://feministas-unidas.org/) and must be maintained throughout the submission and publishing process.

b. By submitting your work, you confirm that it is original and complies with our “Editorial Guidelines (English-Spanish).” You declare that the work has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication or any other award. Ámbitos Feministas does not consider multiple, concurrent submissions by the same author.

c. To submit your work (special issues are different), please use the corresponding link and follow the instructions to upload the following documents: 1.-A PDF-format CV of no more than three pages; 2.-A PDF-format page containing your personal information, including your name, email, affiliation, position, and the title of your work; and 3.- The anonymous work to be evaluated, which must meet the requirements set out in our “Editorial Guidelines”

LINKS FOR SUBMISSIONS







Please ensure that you are using the correct link for your submission to avoid delays or potential errors in processing. If you experience any issues with the submission process, please contact our editorial team at (aisimon@adelphi.edu) for assistance.

aisimon@adelphi.edu

Organization: Ámbitos Feministas

Event Date: 2023-09-30 Abstract Due: 2023-09-30

CFP: "DEMOCRACY, YOUTH RESISTANCE, AND ACTIVISM IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST ASIA" CONFERENCE


"Democracy, Youth Resistance, and Activism in Southeast and East Asia" 

Conference, New York City, Pace University


Date: Nov. 10, 2023

Place: Pace University, New York, NY

Pace University and the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) are looking for people to participate in a conference the following questions: How is the political landscape in Asia changing based on demands and activities from groups in society? While international observers have lamented the global retreat of democratic governance and civic institutions, Asia stands out as a site of considerable political activism. One notable example is the resilience of the Milk Tea Alliance, a social media human rights platform that netizens from Thailand, Myanmar, Hong Kong and Taiwan which was launched to mobilize grassroots support against autocratic regimes since the widespread protests in 2019, and this alliance has emerged as a youth-led prodemocracy alternative to anti-democratic forces. 2023-24 will also bring elections and other significant developments across Southeast and East Asia and this conference will provide a space to investigate the changing political landscape.

This conference seeks scholars and activists working on these themes in various forms; from student protests to religious conservatism; from organized political parties to spontaneous forms of resistance; from underground struggle to exiled lobbying. How can we understand the diversity of actors, groups, and voices? And, how do these acts fit within the larger realm of political contestation? How are groups on the ground and in exile (from Myanmar, Thailand, and Hong Kong) trying to push back against draconian oppression, and how are groups trying to carve out spaces for reform and rights advocacy?

This conference will bring together a wide range of scholars, students, and practitioners such as artists and activists who are interested in these themes in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

The conference proceedings may result in a published volume with Pace University Press.

If you are interested in participating, please send a 250-500 word abstract or description of your work, along with a brief bio to both Prof. Amy Freedman (afreedman@pace.edu) and Prof. Joseph Lee (jlee@pace.edu). Priority will be given to those who submit proposals by May 15th. We have limited funds which may be used to help defray travel costs. Graduate students and those working at underfunded institutions will be prioritized for support. Please indicate in your biography if you are seeking travel support to participate in the conference.
  • Event Date: 2023-11-10 to 2023-11-10
  • Abstract Due: 2023-05-15


afreedman@pace.edu

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: EDITED VOLUME "FAIRYTALE IN EAST ASIAN FASHION"


Fairytale in East Asian Fashion (edited collection)



We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited collection on Fairytale in East Asian Fashion. Stories of yokai (Japan), yogoe (Korea), or yaoguai (China), such as “The Crane Wife” and “The Robe of Feathers,” manifest themselves everywhere in East Asian popular culture these days—from manga, anime / donghua / webtoons, and Pokémon, to fashion. One sees this phenomenon through brands such as Maison Kitsune, yokai-themed collections, street style, cosplay, and of course, traditional ethnic dress. Chapters may cover any fairytale or any fantastical creature that features strongly in Asian fairytale—baku, dokkaebi, kappa, kitsune / huli jing / gumiho, qilin, yuki onna, etc etc. Essays on Chinese and Japanese fashion are particularly needed, but essays on Southeast Asia are also quite welcome. (The editor is writing on yogoe fashion through K-Pop and K-Drama.)

Please send a brief c.v. and 150-200 word abstracts for 6,500 word chapters by June 30, 2023 to Amanda Sikarskie, Ph.D., asikarsk@umich.edu. Dr. Sikarskie is working with Frances Arnold, Acquisitions Editor at Bloomsbury. If selected, finished chapters will be due in early 2024.

CFP: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUATERLY


Call for articles,



University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. The journal welcomes articles, in English or French, on art and visual culture, gender and sexuality, history, literature and literary studies, music, philosophy, theory, theatre and performance, religion, and other areas of the humanities not listed here. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field. The editorial board is especially interested, although not exclusively, in research that addresses topics of particular relevance to Canada. UTQ is therefore enthusiastic about submissions in Asian Canadian Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature, Canadian History, Canadian Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Indigenous Studies. The journal, more broadly, embraces research that engages interdisciplinary sites of scholarly inquiry, such as Affect Studies, Black Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Media Studies, Medical Humanities, Sound Studies, Transgender Studies, and emergent fields within the humanities. UTQ is published by the University of Toronto Press.

Submissions should normally be between 7,500 and 12,500 words in length inclusive of footnotes and bibliographic material. Additionally, all submissions should be accompanied by an abstract (150-250 words). UTQ’s house style is based upon the MLA Handbook (7th edition), so please format submissions in accordance with MLA bibliographic guidelines. Substantive or discursive amplification should appear in judiciously selected footnotes. All text, including footnotes and Works Cited, should be double-spaced. Please do not justify right margins.

UTQ does not accept research that has already been published, nor does the journal accept submissions currently under consideration elsewhere. The journal does not publish poetry or fiction.

Please anonymize submissions by removing all self-identifying information from the article, including acknowledgements and self-citations (reference your own scholarship as you would any other scholar). When saving the file, remove all personal information from the file on save.

UTQ commissions external reports to assess the quality of each submission. The journal receives numerous submissions and only submissions that the editorial board deems most appropriate for the journal, and most likely to receive recommendations to publish from experts, are sent out for peer review. The review process is doubly anonymous. Authors should expect to receive a response in the form of an editor’s report that collates relevant and useful information drawn from 2 to 3 external reports alongside the internal comments of the editorial board. Peer review takes approximately three to four months.

UTQ regularly publishes special issues on the range of subjects listed above. If interested in proposing a special issue and serving as its guest editor, contact the editor, Professor Colin Hill, at colin.hill@utoronto.ca

Please send all submissions and inquiries to utquarterly@gmail.com

For further information concerning our editorial policies, please refer to this document which provides supplemental information about copyright and images.


utquarterly@gmail.com

Editorial Assistant

CFP: DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES WORKSHOP; BELONGING IN SOUTH AND NORTH KOREAN POPULAR CULTURE


Belonging in South and North Korean popular culture: diverse perspectives Workshop

Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Korean studies, August 30th-31st 2023


The categories of nation and nationalism have been major terms under which the construction of belonging has been explored, especially in earlier film studies. Looking at North and South Korean popular culture, the construction of a sense of belonging is diverse. While there have already been some contributions to gender or ideology and propaganda, other representations of the sense of belonging such as to region, nature, physical or social characteristics of communities are still scarce. The cause for diversity might also be based on the different development within the two states. What are the contexts to a certain sense of belonging? What are the modes of representation?

The conference can be attended on site or online. One night accommodation with half-board will be provided by the organiser. Selected papers will be published in a collected volume after the workshop.

Deadline for abstracts (200 – 300 words): February 15th 2023

For further requests, please contact Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schulz Zinda: yvonne.schulz.zinda@uni-hamburg.de

CFP: "DISABILITY'S HIDDEN TWIN: DISCOURSES OF CARE AND DEPENDENCY IN LITERATURE", EDITED VOLUME


“Disability’s Hidden Twin: Discourses of Care and Dependency in Literature”,

edited volume of critical essays


We are calling for abstracts for papers examining Anglophone imaginative literature (precluding memoirs) that engages in some fashion with care ethics and disability theory. We are seeking a range of representation from different eras and regions.

The title of the volume comes from Jennifer Natalya Fink, who writes that “[c]are work is the hidden twin of disability.”[1] And yet, the relationship between carers and cared-fors is vexed. The question of care is controversial for many disabled self-advocates, who view the practice of caregiving with profound suspicion, since care has frequently been a site of oppression for disabled people, both in institutional and home environments. Yet care is necessary for the survival of people who are dependent on others for dressing, bathing, hygiene, transportation, nutrition, and social interaction. Care relations are also controversial inasmuch as family members, frequently female, are time and again forced into the position of caretaker without training or renumeration, and paid caregivers are often migrants from the global south or lower socioeconomic backgrounds who must leave behind their own cared-fors. How has imaginative literature parsed this relationship? What texts give us insights into disabled cared-fors’ need for agency, or caregivers’ feelings about their charges, or the quality of the relationship between them?

Anglophone literary texts from different periods and regions might demonstrate historically alternative practices and expectations regarding the care relationship. We are particularly interested in representations of care in Indigenous, global, African American, Latinx, and Asian culture, and in eras that predate modern medical professionalism, and we look forward to analysis that draws out the gendered and sexual elements of care. We are also interested in the structure of the care community as it develops in literature against the heteronormative couple and the nuclear family, and look forward to submissions that identify and parse care communities and collectives in literature.

Abstracts of approximately 350 words should be submitted as a word document to Chris Gabbard at cgabbard@unf.edu by January 31, 2023. A CV or bio should be included.

Initial selections will be based on the abstract and will be announced no later than April 3, 2023. The deadline for full papers (6,000-8,000 words) is January 5, 2024. Papers will be subject to peer review.

The volume editors are in conversation with series editors at the University of Michigan Press (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) and Routledge (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies).

[1] Jennifer Natalya Fink, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Beacon Press, 2022.

cgabbard@unf.edu

Chris Gabbard

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2023 (I)



Retomamos un año más nuestros listados con las últimas novedades académicas que han visto la luz en el último trimestre de 2022. Avances publicados en formato libro dentro del ámbito de los Estudios Coreanos, abordadod desde diferentes disciplinas dentro de las ciencias y las humanidades. Todas ellas ya disponibles para todos a través de las múltiples editoriales que también facilitamos a continuación:

CFP: “DISABILITY’S HIDDEN TWIN: DISCOURSES OF CARE AND DEPENDENCY IN LITERATURE”


Disability’s Hidden Twin:

Discourses of Care and Dependency in Literature



We are calling for abstracts for papers examining Anglophone imaginative literature (precluding memoirs) that engages in some fashion with care ethics and disability theory. We are seeking a range of representation from different eras and regions.

The title of the volume comes from Jennifer Natalya Fink, who writes that “[c]are work is the hidden twin of disability.”[1] And yet, the relationship between carers and cared-fors is vexed. The question of care is controversial for many disabled self-advocates, who view the practice of caregiving with profound suspicion, since care has frequently been a site of oppression for disabled people, both in institutional and home environments. Yet care is necessary for the survival of people who are dependent on others for dressing, bathing, hygiene, transportation, nutrition, and social interaction. Care relations are also controversial inasmuch as family members, frequently female, are time and again forced into the position of caretaker without training or renumeration, and paid caregivers are often migrants from the global south or lower socioeconomic backgrounds who must leave behind their own cared-fors. How has imaginative literature parsed this relationship? What texts give us insights into disabled cared-fors’ need for agency, or caregivers’ feelings about their charges, or the quality of the relationship between them?

Anglophone literary texts from different periods and regions might demonstrate historically alternative practices and expectations regarding the care relationship. We are particularly interested in representations of care in Indigenous, global, African American, Latinx, and Asian culture, and in eras that predate modern medical professionalism, and we look forward to analysis that draws out the gendered and sexual elements of care. We are also interested in the structure of the care community as it develops in literature against the heteronormative couple and the nuclear family, and look forward to submissions that identify and parse care communities and collectives in literature.

Abstracts of approximately 350 words should be submitted as a word document to Chris Gabbard at cgabbard@unf.edu by January 31, 2023. A CV or bio should be included.

Initial selections will be based on the abstract and will be announced no later than April 3, 2023. The deadline for full papers (6,000-8,000 words) is January 5, 2024. Papers will be subject to peer review.

The volume editors are in conversation with series editors at the University of Michigan Press (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) and Routledge (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies).

[1] Jennifer Natalya Fink, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Beacon Press, 2022.


cgabbard@unf.edu


CFP: ASIAN POPULAR CULTURE AND THE GOTHIC


Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic



Article proposals are welcome for an upcoming collection on Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic, edited by Li-hsin Hsu, Deimantas Valančiūnas and Katarzyna Ancuta. The collection is planned for submission to the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series.

Popular culture is often described as “the culture of the people,” containing cultural elements related to objects, beliefs, and practices that embody shared social meanings, and regularly produced for and consumed by mass audiences. As an object of investigation, it is mostly conceived of as a study of cultural products and media, such as literature, film, television, radio, games, comics, digital media, or fashion, that have mass accessibility and appeal. In today’s globalised world, more than ever, popular culture is increasingly diverse, expansive, dynamic, mobile, and often transnational, regardless of its point of origin.

In their introduction to the special Asian issue of The Journal of Popular Culture, published in 2016, Lisa Funnel and Yuya Kuchi remonstrate that in popular and critical imagination, “Asian Popular Culture” tends to be limited to selected East Asian genres and media, such as Japanese manga and anime, or Chinese martial arts films (2016, p. 963). Today we can safely add Korean music and television drama to this list but this does not quite change the fact that while we have seen dozens of publications focused on East Asian pop culture, large areas of popular Asian cultural production remain routinely excluded from scholarly examinations. While South Asian popular culture studies are a relatively vibrant discipline, even if the investigation here tends to be focused mostly on India and rarely goes beyond the study of popular cinema, Southeast Asian pop culture, in contrast, has so far received very limited attention, with studies examining the impact of “Japanisation” or Korean wave outshining those on local production. The field of Asian popular culture and its connection to the Gothic remains also an under-examined area.

Recent scholarship on the Gothic has extended the analysis of cultural production beyond the usual references to literature and cinema, and often includes a variety of media forms and practices of public/popular culture, such as television, video games, music, fashion etc. The term has also transcended not only its generic and historical, but also geographical boundaries, becoming a truly transnational phenomenon. The contemporary Gothic manifests in a variety of media forms way beyond the European or American contexts, and the appearance of Asia in the Gothic-related debates is not an oddity anymore. The ongoing decentralisation of Gothic studies and de-westernisation of its methodologies has opened up new possibilities for including cultural productions from diverse geographical locations, and the willingness to accept Asian Gothic as a legitimate category has rapidly increased with most edited collections and companions now carrying at least one chapter discussing Asian texts and contexts.

Asia has long been regarded as a vital hub of production and consumption of popular culture, with an extensive variety and spectrum of media forms and topics. However, the Gothic aspect of popular culture of Asia has not been addressed in a systematic and extensive way. Therefore, this collection for the first time invites papers to explore the ways Gothic manifests in popular culture and its consumption in Asia. By the term “popular culture” we imply both a variety of media forms of everyday consumption – video and digital games, comic books, television, music etc., as well as forms of everyday public culture and practices, associated with festivals, fashion, rituals, ceremonies etc. We also invite papers that explore the issues of knowledge production and cultural reception in Asia, rethinking the social and political role the Gothic might play in the circulation and transmission of popular culture in an Asian context, and how Asian popular culture might redefine or reshape the Gothic mode / aesthetics as we know it.

We invite proposals that consider the Gothic not as a fixed western-centred generic category, but as a fluid and shifting conceptual framework through which distinctive local cultural practices, historical and social traumas, anxieties, collective violent histories and diverse belief systems are expressed and discussed. In this sense, the Gothic can be read as a distinctive aesthetical and narrative practice, where conventional gothic tropes and imagery (monsters, ghosts, haunting, obscurity, darkness, madness etc.) are assessed anew, and disseminated and consumed through the many forms of popular culture. We also encourage approaches that rethink the affective power of the Gothic, and how its heterogeneous, transmedia, transcultural and transnational complexity is manifested in Asian contexts.

We are interested in examining a number of broader issues highlighting the appropriation of Gothic tropes and conventions in popular culture texts that engage with representations of colonial legacy, wars, conflicts, and historical trauma, gender / class / race issues and various forms of social critique. We would like to encourage the examination of the relationship between popular Asian Gothic texts and the audience / the marketplace, as well as the contexts of production and reception of such texts. We are keen on receiving proposals exploring the connection between Asian Pop Gothic and authorship / celebrity culture and possible political contexts related to the use of popular Gothic themes and motifs, for instance in relation to propaganda and censorship.

Below is a list of themes the edited collection is willing to address. It is not an exhaustive list and is intended as a guide, not as a set of limitations. We welcome suggestions and proposals on related topics and various media forms.
  • Gothic/Horror elements in B-movies and popular cinema (e.g., HK Cat III movies, Ramsay Brothers horror films, Japanese splatterpunk and tokusatsu eiga)
  • Popular Asian gangster films (e.g., the Japanese yakuza/ninkyo films, HK Triad films, or Korean kkangpae films)
  • Horror comedies / comic Gothic
  • Gothic/Horror elements in popular / pulp fiction (e.g., supernatural romances, light novels)
  • Popular Asian crime fiction (e.g., honkaku and henkaku mysteries, or gong’an crime-case fiction.
  • Asian horror television series and game shows
  • Serial killer television series
  • Mediums, shamans and ghost detectives in supernatural crime procedurals
  • Gothic cyberpunk / post-human in manga and anime
  • Eco-Gothic approaches to manga and anime
  • Horror comics in Asia
  • Asian ghosts and monsters in popular culture
  • Sentimentalism and sensationalism in Asian ghost story
  • Asian pop culture adaptations of Gothic texts (e.g., Dracula in Asian texts, Japanese reworkings on Chinese zhiguai, Rebecca in India)
  • Vampires in Asian music videos
  • Visual Kei and post-punk / Goth music
  • Gothic/Horror elements in Asian heavy metal music
  • Gothic/Horror and gaming cultures
  • Survival video games and survival game films and TV shows
  • Horror-themed RPGs and ARGs inspired by Asian folklore
  • Gothic/Horror themes in user-generated fiction and Internet-based lore
  • Ghosts, curses and viral videos
  • Ghost-hunting and paranormal radio broadcasts / podcasts
  • Gothic/Horror in popular theatre (e.g., kabuki plays, likay, Chinese/Taiwanese opera, Tamasha, Jatra)
  • Gothic/Horror in puppet theatre (e.g., budaixi, nang yai, wayang kulit, kathputli)
  • Gothic traditions and (religious) festivals
  • Asian Gothic folklore and urban lore
  • Ghost storytelling and oral lore
  • Asian Horror fandom and audiences
  • Gothic Lolitas and Gothic cosplay
  • Asian Goth subcultures / Gothic fashion
  • Gothic/Horror-themed merchandise
  • Gothic/Horror-themed attractions (e.g., haunted houses, amusement parks, escape rooms)
  • Ghost tours and dark tourism
  • Gothic media personalities / TV and radio hosts
Proposals of approx. 300 words accompanied with a short biographical note of max. 150 words should be sent to the editors at asianpopgothic@gmail.com by 31 October 2022.


Contact email: kancuta@gmail.com

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2022 (I)

 


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

CFP: OF (HU)MAN AND MONARCHS: HUMANNESS AND THE FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MONARCHS IN LITERATURE, ARTS, POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA


Of (Hu)Man and Monarchs:

Humanness and the Fictional Representations of Monarchs in literature,

Arts, popular culture and Media. University of Gafsa


He wrapped himself in regal garments and fastened the sash.

When Gilgamesh placed his crown on his head, a princess Ishtar raised her eyes to the beauty of Gilgamesh.

When Gilgamesh rejects the advances of Ishtar and refuses to follow in his father's footsteps (as Gilgamesh himself was the son of a goddess), he renounces the status of the chosen lover and champion of the Goddess and (unwittingly) decides to be fully human. The death of Enkido soon sets him on a doomed quest for immortality. This quest can be read as an attempt to regain the former status he renounced. He desires to reestablish his connection with the divine but on his own terms. The final defeat of Gilgamesh establishes mortality as the inevitable fate of men and monarchs. The epic of Gilgamesh, like other epics, announces the severing of the connection between the divine and the human in the political realm. After Gilgamesh, the biographies of Mesopotamian rulers started to seem more human despite the formulaic presence of the divine. In ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, Monarchs were either gods or descendants of gods. In the Medieval age, he divine right of kings replaced the old myths about the divine lineage of monarchs.

But, as humanness became a more secular concept, kings started to be defined and judged in different terms. Machiavelli's realpolitik and the advent of Renaissance humanism put the concept of divine right in question. The human rather than the divine started to define the monarchs in the West. In the East, however, while Europe was restricting its monarchs and consigning them to ceremonial roles, the Meiji restoration reestablished the emperor at the center of the political system in Japan after centuries of nominal rule. This shows that the history of Monarchy is not universal. Even in Europe, the return of Monarchy in Spain after Franco's death shows that this system is not considered outdated or unthinkable (On the contrary, it is sometimes a viable solution that safeguards democracy).

The triumphs and failures of human monarchs may inspire contemporary historical literature but the posthuman monarch has a stronger sway over the realm of the imagination. In recent years, the gothic and horror genres have gained remarkable popularity in cinema and popular culture. In contemporary gothic fiction across the established and emerging narrative media, the figures of the Mummy and the vampire are usually depicted as monarchic figures that seek revenge for past wrongs. Throughout the history of literature, revenge is closely related to the theme of royalty. In classical and Renaissance, modern and contemporary revenge narratives, for example, loyalty to a deceased patriarch gives legitimacy to the actions of their heirs. Indeed, revenge narratives in Shakespeare and beyond are generally based on father-son emotional dynamics. These emotional dynamics are described as monarchic by Martha C Nussbaum in her book Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice. In Victorian and contemporary horror fiction, the father-son dynamics are more complex as the royal father is the past self of the revenant. Many iconic science fiction works depict monarchs and regal figures such as Thanos, Palpatine and even Brainiac. Many of these figures, like the gothic monsters and revenants, are posthuman figures with immense power and ambition.

This collection seeks to study the depiction of royalty in works of fiction on the page, canvas, the stage and the screen. It seeks to identify recurrent archetypes and structural paradigms that make the theme of royalty (seem) universal. It also seeks to discover whether this universality is cross-cultural or whether it is a manifestation of hegemonic (mainly Eurocentric) cultural and discursive patterns. This collection is interested in works that depict royalty as central to their thematic structure. This collection's initial vision is to be centered on the humanness of the monarch. It will study the prehuman monarch of myths and sacred texts and then show how monarchs were humanized (and the extent to which they were/are perceived as human). Finally, it will deal with the posthuman alien and AI monarchs of science fiction.

We have covered all the aspects mentioned above but we wish to balance the different sections of the book (though the publisher does not require it, we feel that it is better to have the same number of articles in every section) this is why we need a single article on each one of these topics:
  • The representations of Ottoman or other Muslim rulers in contemporary Cinema
  • Monarchic figures in Science fiction (We are very interested in an article about Palpatine)
  • Contemporary superheroes and supervillains as royalty and monarchic figures
  • Thanos as a monarchic villain
  • Monarchist literature
  • The Originals
  • Disney princesses
We have articles about ancient Egypt, sumer, India and Persia so we would be interested in one article about ancient China, Japan or Korea. We also had two abstracts one about the representations of Muslim rulers in Bollywood (especially their foreignization - Sultan of Delhi and the Mughal as visaully foreigner) and the other about Camelot 3000 but the authors failed to deliver them, we believe that they can be useful so we woud appreciate full articles about them.

We are also interested in interviews with major artists and writers from the Marvel comic universe (Jim Starlin could not be contacted but maybe others will respond or my email just ended up in the spam folder). Interviewing them about interviewed about the monarchic paradigms underlaying some of their creations and getting their opinion on the subject would be a great addition to the book (we can finish the collection with an interview)

Please send your contributions along with a 150 word abstract and a 200 word bio note (the bio will not be sent to the peer reviewers) to crowncollection436@gmail.com

If you have any queries please contact the editor Dr. Nizar Zouidi through email at nizarzouidinizar@outlook.com.

All contributions will be peer reviewed twice (by the editor's reviewers and by the publisher's reviewers to ensure quality).

It is highly recommended to make sure your article contains no typos or errors.

It should also be noted that while we accept epigraphs for the papers, we prefer that they do not exceed a stanza or two if they are in verse or 5 sentences if they are in prose (the shorter the better).

While illustrations and visual materials will certainly strengthen the argument of the chapter, the author should be prepared to delete them or replace them with references (which might prove a challenge, but sometimes the production phase can require such changes). The article should be complete without the illustrations (they should be optional). I will try to get them printed but I may not be able to convince the publisher so be prepared to make do without them. Even if we get them published, they will probably be black and white. Moeover, the authors should be very careful with copyrighted third party materials and remain within the boundaries of fair use.

The publisher may only provide limited proofreading this is why the editor recommends Anthony Wright as a professional proofreader that will reliably correct and format your manuscript after acceptance Home | Anthony Wright - Editor, Proofreader, Author (ajpwright.com). He helped with the previous collection on villainy and evil and the result is quite satisfying Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media | SpringerLink. The editor does not take part in any of the transactions you make with the recommended proofreader or any other proofreader you choose. Of course, you may not need any help from a professional proofreader but either way, the editor hopes that your very first draft is already in a publishable shape so we can discuss any changes that would help connect it to the rest of the book.

The concepts of the human, posthuman, and the pre-human (divine, heroic and mythological) are central to this collection, therefore we highly recommend that your article at least deals with one of them. These concepts are dynamically fluid and this collection wishes to reflect this dynamism.

Finally, please note that while this book cannot avoid being political, it does not seek to overtly or covertly promote or serve any political agenda or ideology. Any biased views about real sitting or deceased monarchs (especially his majesty king Gilgamesh of Uruk) will not be accepted.

We cannot extend the deadline because it is not a necessary addition. The current version is deemed acceptable and the feedback we received so far says that we can go ahead with the current version.

deadline for submissions:
May 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:

contact email:
crowncollection436@gmail.com

CFP: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE


Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture


UPDATE: Deadline Extended 1 May 2022

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


Dear colleagues,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapters might explore but are not limited to:


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

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

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

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

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


Key dates

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

Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2022

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

Publication: January 2023

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

prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

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

CFP: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE (ROUTLEDGE EDITED COLLECTION)


Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture

(Routledge edited collection)

February 3, 2022 to April 15, 2022


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

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

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

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

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

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


Chapters might explore but are not limited to:

SECTION 1 East Asia and India
  • Zou huo ru mo (China)
  • Dhat syndrome (India)
  • Hikikomori (Japan) Already taken!
  • Taijin Kyofusho (Japan) Already taken!
  • Hwabyeong (South Korea)
  • Pa-leng (Taiwan)
SECTION 2 Southeast Asia
  • Lanti (Philippines)
  • Latah (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Amok (Malaysia)
  • Koro (Singapore)
SECTION 3 Latin America and Native American culture
  • Locura
  • Mal de pelea
  • Nervios
  • Susto
  • Saladera (Peruvian Amazon)
  • Windigo Psychosis (Native American)
SECTION 4 Africa and the Middle East
  • Zar (Israel, Ethiopia)
  • Ufufuyane, Saka (Kenya)
  • Voodoo death (Haiti, Africa, Australia)
Routledge has expressed keen interest in the volume for their Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series.


Key dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2022

Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022

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

Publication: January 2023


Please send in a working title, abstracts of max 500 words, and a brief biographical note of 150 words to: prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

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


Contact Info:

Professor Irina Pelea, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania.

Contact Email:

prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

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.


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