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CURSO ONLINE CASA ASIA «NARRATIVA COREANA DEL SIGLO XXI»


Curso online Casa Asia

«Narrativa coreana del siglo XXI»


La expansión global de la cultura surcoreana, conocida como la «ola coreana» o hallyu, ha ido ganando popularidad en todo el mundo a través de la música, el cine, la televisión, la moda o la comida. Aunque en los inicios de este proceso la literatura coreana se había visto relegada a un papel secundario, recientemente ha empezado a suscitar un renovado interés.

Así, por ejemplo, obras como Por favor, cuida de mamá de Shin Kyung-Sook, La Vegetariana de Han Kang o Kim Ji-young, nacida en 1982 de Cho Nam-ju han obtenido amplio reconocimiento internacional. Convertidas en éxitos de ventas, marcan de esta forma un punto de inflexión hacia un prometedor futuro para la literatura escrita en Corea. Este nuevo interés del público por la narrativa coreana ha venido de la mano de la aparición en el mercado editorial de excelentes traducciones y de una diversificación de los géneros literarios susceptibles de ser traducidos y alcanzar un público global.

El presente curso va dirigido a todas aquellas personas que, con o sin conocimientos previos sobre la materia, deseen acercarse a algunos de los autores que se están traduciendo y a las diversas tendencias que tiene para ofrecer la narrativa coreana a día de hoy. A través de la presentación de obras publicadas recientemente en español se ofrecerá en este curso un recorrido por distintos géneros y temáticas, con el doble objetivo de invitar a la lectura y mostrar la riqueza de la literatura coreana más actual.

Programa

• 1ª Sesión: Un acercamiento a la historia coreana a través de la literatura

La historia suele ser una fuente inagotable de inspiración para los narradores; también para los coreanos, obligados a vivir en medio de una convulsa situación social durante gran parte del siglo XX. En esta sesión se realizará un breve repaso de algunos de los períodos históricos más relevantes de la historia reciente de Corea, como la ocupación japonesa o la Liberación, utilizando como referencia la obra Mater 2-10 de Hwang Sok-Yong. Asimismo, se ahondará en la tragedia de las mujeres de consuelo a través de Hierba, novela gráfica creada por Keum Suk Kim.

• 2ª Sesión: Thriller y novela negra

El género negro y el thriller han ido ganando terreno de manera gradual entre los autores coreanos, lo que ha posibilitado la traducción de algunas obras con gran éxito de ventas. En esta ocasión, exploraremos las posibilidades que ofrece este género en Corea a través de las obras El buen hijo de Jeong You-jeong y Los planificadores de Kim Un-su.

• 3ª Sesión: Narrativa queer y visibilidad de la temática LGTBIQ+

Corea del Sur no se caracteriza por ser un país que abiertamente respalde los derechos LGTBIQ+. Sin embargo, de manera gradual, están surgiendo voces que intentan dar visibilidad a la comunidad queer desde diversos enfoques. En esta sesión, exploraremos estos temas a través de dos obras muy distintas: el conflicto generacional presentado en Sobre su hija, escrito por Kim Hye-jin, y la obra post-apocalíptica enmarcada en el género de la ciencia ficción To the Warm Horizon de Choi Jin-young (aún no traducida al español).

• 4ª Sesión: Crítica social a través del humor y el absurdo

Los rápidos cambios sociales y culturales que han tenido lugar en la sociedad coreana actual también han sido fuente de inspiración para una corriente crítica con el sistema. Recurriendo al humor negro y al absurdo, Lee Kiho, en Nos sale bien pedir perdón, y Park Min-gyu, en los relatos contenidos en Aspirina, nos señalan críticamente algunos aspectos menos amables de la sociedad coreana que presentan, en muchos casos, resonancias globales.

• 5ª sesión: Ciencia ficción a la coreana

La ciencia ficción coreana ha empezado a despuntar recientemente gracias, en especial, a la nominación de Conejo Maldito de Bora Chung para el premio International Booker Prize. En esta sesión nos acercaremos a este género de mano de dos autoras bastante eclécticas: la mencionada Bora Chung, cuyos relatos fusionan ciencia ficción, terror y crítica social; y Chung Serang, autora de La única en la tierra, una historia de ciencia ficción que se entrelaza con romance y toques ecologistas. No se requiere la lectura previa de las obras mencionadas en el curso, aunque siempre será bienvenida.

Profesora

Elia Rodríguez es profesora asociada del Departamento de Filología Moderna de la Universidad de Salamanca, donde imparte traducción literaria, lengua y literatura coreanas. Licenciada en Filología Hispánica y Estudios de Asia Oriental por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y doctorada en Literatura coreana contemporánea por la Universidad Nacional de Seúl, también estudió traducción literaria becada por el Instituto de Traducción de Corea (LTI). Sus áreas de investigación abarcan la poesía coreana, así como la literatura coreana escrita por mujeres.

Más información:
  • Fecha: Del 26 de febrero al 25 de marzo de 2023.
    • 5 sesiones de 1,5 horas. Total de 7,5 horas.
    • Lunes, de 18 a 19:30h CET
    • Las sesiones que componen este curso se grabarán y las grabaciones estarán disponibles durante diez días.
  • Lugar: Online.
  • Precio: 56 euros.
Casa Asia entregará por correo electrónico un certificado de asistencia al curso a quien lo solicite y que haya asistido al 80% de las clases.

Las personas desempleadas, personas con diversidad funcional, estudiantes menores de 30 años y jubilados/as podrán acceder a una bonificación de un 10% de descuento.

CFP: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "MARGINALITY, INCLUSION, AND GENDER IN KOREA: PAST AND PRESENT"

 

International Conference

“Marginality, inclusion, and gender in Korea: past and present”


The East Asian Studies Area of the University of Malaga, Spain is pleased to announce the International Conference “Marginality, inclusion, and gender in Korea: past and present” on March 12th, 13th of 2024.

The Conference is organized as part of the research project Academy of Korean Studies Seed Program for Korean Studies (Advanced Track) “Path to Equality: Korean Studies Network on inclusiveness” (AKS-2021-INC-2250002) the Spanish National project I+D+I ASIA-SLAVES “The road to freedom in the Joseon period in Korea: Slavery and abolitionism in the context of East Asia” (PID2020-116910GB-I00) and the University of Málaga research project “Life Stories of Korean Gisaeng Slaves” (B1-2022_07).

This conference aims to consider the interrelated processes of discrimination and integration of social groups inside Korean society from a broad methodological and thematic perspective. This Call for papers encourages contributions dealing with the analysis of the cultural and institutional process of social discrimination in Korea, as well as political movements and institutional transformations directed to the integration of social groups previously discriminated against. The following topics are of interest, but are not limited to these: nobi system, discrimination against women, the situation of factory workers, disabled individuals, LGBTIQ+ communities, or migrant minorities. It is also considered of interest Korean social movements that through history have advocated for the rights of these marginalized groups, such as democratic unions in the 1970s and 80s, LGBTQ+ activists, or NGOs supporting disabled people and migrants.

The conference is organized in 4 panels to be composed by a maximum of 4 speakers.
  • Panel 1: Gender, voices of women and gisaeng in Korea
  • Panel 2: Slavery, force labour and human trafficking in Korea
  • Panel 3: Social minorities in Korea
  • Panel 4: Social and political activism in Korea
* Conference languages are English and Korean, and online presentations are permitted.


Proposal submissions

To propose an individual presentation, please send a maximum of 300-word abstract on the topic of your presentation (either in English or Korean). The proposals will be sent at the following account asiaoriental@uma.es. The file and subject of the email should include name as follow: Lastname_IntConferenceMIGKorea (ex: Kang_IntConferenceMIGKOREA). Submissions should be sent before November 15th, 2023. 

Abstracts should include:
  1. Name, position and affiliation
  2. Title of the paper
  3. Abstract
  4. Keywords
You will be sent a confirmation that your application has been received. If you do not receive a confirmation within 5 days after you sent it, please, send your application over again.

In the case of being selected, it will be expected to submit a full-paper before the conference with the possibility, after submission, of being selected for the publication in the format of an edited volume.

*Depending on the final budget the organization might support partially attendance expenses.


Important information:

Organizer contact details: asiaoriental@uma.es

Dates of the conference: March, 12th-13th, 2024.

Conference venue: University of Malaga, Spain.

Application deadline: November, 15th, 2023.

Submitting full paper: will be noticed after accepting proposals.

CFP: K-POP AND THE WEST; MEDIA, FANDOM AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS




K-pop and the West: Media, Fandom, and Transnational Politics
 

October 27-28, 2023


The University at Buffalo’s Asia Research Institute will host its second annual Korean studies symposium, “K-pop and the West: Media, Fandom, and Transnational Politics,” on October 27-28, 2023. The symposium aims at creating an opportunity to think about research, pedagogy, and methodologies in our critical study of K-pop in the West. There has been some debate about whether K-pop’s popularity in the U.S. market represents its status as a mainstream—as compared to an ethnic—pop genre. Some would argue that the current success of K-pop be viewed as a collective achievement of K-pop fans. In this view, American fans have, in particular, “fought against” the U.S. media industry’s commercial devaluation of K-pop and their racially discriminatory practices that adversely affect K-pop artists.

The UB Asia Research Institute calls for proposals that critically engage in interdisciplinary dialogues among fields of humanities and social sciences. Drawing from the expertise of our keynote scholars Dr. Dafna Zur, Stanford University, and Dr. Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, the symposium seeks proposals from various disciplines and theoretical approaches addressing, but not limited to, the following questions: How do Western media, fandom, and academia contribute to the formation of K-pop and its global circulation? What are the potentials and limits that we encounter as K-pop scholars in Western academia? How do actors in the K-pop world engage in translocal politics and public discourses in the West?

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

Globalization: music and media circulation; transnational development and localization of Korean popular music; making of the K-pop production system; Western hegemony in K-pop nation branding: postcolonial or Orientalist formation of Koreanness; marketing strategies in the Western market; imagining Korea through K-pop

Fandom: participatory culture in Anglophone K-pop fandom; fan activism; fans as promoters; K-fans and K-media; Koreaboos; K-pop tourism; Korean language and translation

Gender and sexuality: K-pop bodies and Asian stereotypes; understanding K-pop as androgynous, queer, and/or patriarchal; critiques of soft masculinity; Western representation of K-pop “fangirls”

K-pop pedagogy: how to apply participatory culture and ethnography; how to avoid cultural misunderstanding and mistranslation; creative ways to teach K-pop

Race and racial politics: K-pop fans’ engagement in American/Western racial politics; racism in Western music/media industries; circulation and formation of race in K-pop; non-Korean K-pop idols

Western media and Orientalism: critiques of “the dark side of K-pop”; K-pop artists’ social mobility and glass ceiling in Western pop scenes; media ethics; (mis)translation of Korean language and culture

For this symposium, the Asia Research Institute seeks submissions from researchers of all stages in interdisciplinary fields of humanities and social sciences. Presenters must be present at the symposium in person, although the presentations will be livestreamed. To apply, please send your CV with a 250-word abstract in a single PDF file to kpop2023@buffalo.edu. We are accepting proposals until July 15, 2023, and notifications will be sent by mid-August, 2023. The Asia Research Institute will provide local hotel accommodations and meals during the symposium to all participants whose papers are accepted. In addition, there will be a limited number of modest travel grants available by application to those who are in need of further support.

The University at Buffalo Asia Research Institute is a multidisciplinary hub and collaborative space for research and education about Asia and its diasporic communities. The institute leverages and amplifies existing UB faculty expertise on many regions of Asia; provides enriching research and experiential learning opportunities for students; and engages with local Asian and Asian heritage communities through educational and cultural programming to promote a diverse and inclusive environment.

This symposium is possible because of funding from the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.


Inquiry:

Stephanie Choi, Postdoctoral Associate: schoi43@buffalo.edu

Bruce Acker, Assistant Director: backer@buffalo.edu

CFP: URBAN UPRISINGS IN ASIA: WOMEN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH


Urban Uprisings in Asia: Women’s Social and Political Activism

in Contemporary Asian Literature in English


From peaceful marches to road blockades and even violence, urban uprisings in Asia have become a powerful way to demand equality, freedom, and recognition. Despite their disruptive nature, they have played a crucial role in shaping political discourse and bringing attention to previously ignored issues. The occupation of streets has long been a common tactic employed by women in liberation struggles and fights for equal rights. In recent years, women’s active role and participation in the formation and development of urban uprisings in Asia have become the subject matter of many literary works, representing a fertile ground for critical attention.

Since the 1960s and especially over the past two decades, cities in Asia have witnessed a resurgence of urban uprisings driven by varying degrees of intensity and political motivations. Defined as "rapid spread of collective action in an urban context, from district to district and/or city to city, which may or may not include violence, looting and torching" (Mayer et al., 2016), urban uprisings in the Asian context have become a prominent and potent way to express disapproval of government policies or social injustice while demanding equality, freedom, and recognition. Over the past few decades, urban uprisings in Asia have led to significant changes such as the overthrowing of authoritarian regimes or policy reforms that address social injustices (Ortiz et al., 2022; Slater, 2009). However, these uprisings have also posed challenges for governments who have often confronted them with harsh crackdowns. Some prominent examples from the continent include: The 1964 race riots in Singapore, The May Incident of 1969 in Malaysia, The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in China, The Taiwan “Yellow Vest” protests in 2018, the 2010s Arab Spring across much of the Arab countries in the Middle East, the Anti-Taliban protests in Afghanistan, continual demonstrations in India and Pakistan over human rights, and the recent wave of unrest in Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Since the late 1960s, women have emerged as prominent figures in many of the major political movements across the continent. Recent events such as the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, the 2022 Hijab protest in India, the 2020 Anti-rape protests in Bangladesh, and the Anti-violence protests in Pakistan are all examples of women's demonstrations against injustice and inequality that have evolved into nationwide urban uprisings. These movements serve as indicators of women's activism in challenging, contesting, and disrupting the social, cultural, and political fabric of their societies. It is important to note that many of these movements, as the sociologist Asef Bayat (2023) observes, are not necessarily "feminist revolutions" or simply revolts of younger generations. Rather, they represent a desire to transform the status quo and reclaim a free and dignified life. Women's rallies and protests in the streets are often triggered by violent police action or met with strong resistance from political authorities. This has led to imprisonment, abuse, and deaths of young women and girls. Despite these challenges, women continue to play a crucial role in shaping political discourse and driving social change (Das, 1990; Roces & Edwards, 2010). Their activism has inspired countless others to join them in their fight for equality and justice.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the literary representation of women's social and political activism in the context of urban uprisings. This emerging genre of literary studies has opened up exciting new avenues for exploring the experiences of women who have participated in these movements, and for examining the ways in which their stories have been told and interpreted. While sociological studies have long focused on urban uprisings, they have tended to overlook the specific experiences of women within these movements (Derichs & Fennert, 2014; Fernandes, 2014). By contrast, literary studies offer a unique perspective on the role that women have played in shaping and driving these movements forward (Tally Jr, 2017). In particular, there is a need for more attention to be paid to the representation of women's activism in Asian countries. This is an area that has been relatively neglected by scholars, but one that offers rich opportunities for focused case studies and comparative analyses. Some of the key topics that could be explored within this field include the ways in which women have enabled and developed urban uprisings; the topographies of women's social movements across Asia; the underlying causes for women's individual and collective activism; the obstacles and challenges that they face; and the accomplishments that they have achieved in terms of transforming social norms and realizing their rights. Overall, this emerging field promises to shed new light on an important aspect of contemporary social and political history.

The book aims to shed light on the diverse forms of women's activism in urban areas throughout the Asian continent. The editors seek to not only comprehend each case as a distinct phenomenon but also to identify commonalities and disparities among them. They are interested in receiving innovative contributions that explore various historical and contemporary examples of urban uprisings in Asia. The editors have three primary objectives. Firstly, they aim to focus on the experiences and representations of women who have encountered, witnessed, or participated in urban uprisings across Asian countries since the latter half of the 20th century. Secondly, they intend to investigate similarities and differences in the experiences, representations, and life stories of successful female campaigners, as well as those who were incarcerated or subjected to physical and mental torture as political activists during or after urban uprisings. Thirdly, they aim to examine how women's active participation affects the success or failure of urban uprisings; their role in intensifying government crackdowns; and their contribution towards bringing about transformative changes in society.

The editors welcome chapter proposals that explore topics and concepts related to representations of women’s experiences and participation in urban uprisings in Asian countries. Themes for contributions may include, but are not limited to:

1. Women's agency in urban uprisings

2. Gendered violence and resistance in urban uprisings

3. Intersectionality and women's experiences of urban uprisings

4. Women's leadership and participation in urban uprisings

5. Feminist perspectives on urban uprisings in Asia

6. Women's role in shaping the narrative of urban uprisings

7. The impact of urban uprisings on women's lives and livelihoods

8. Women's solidarity and collective action in urban uprisings

9. The role of literature in representing women's experiences of urban uprisings

10. Women's participation in post-uprising reconstruction efforts

11. The impact of state repression on women during urban uprisings

12. The role of religion and culture in shaping women's experiences of urban uprisings

13. Women's experiences of displacement and migration during urban uprisings

14. The intersection between environmental justice and women's participation in urban uprisings

15. The potential for feminist alliances across borders during urban uprisings

16. Foreign (women) role models

17. The importance of the Information communication technology (ICT)


Please submit an abstract of approx. 400 words and a short bionote to Moussa Pourya Asl (moussa.pourya@usm.my) or Henry Oinas-Kukkonen (henry.oinas-kukkonen@oulu.fi) by 30 June 2023 at the latest. Notifications of acceptance can be expected by July 15, and complete manuscripts of 6,000-8,000 words will be due by October 30, 2023.


Editors:

Moussa Pourya Asl, Senior Lecturer on Literary Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Moussa Pourya Asl is a Senior Lecturer of literary studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia, where he also obtained his PhD (English Literature) from School of Humanities. His primary research area is in diasporic literature and gender and cultural studies. He has guest edited two special issues on postcolonial and diasporic literature and theory for the journal of The Wenshan Review. He has edited two books: Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women (2022), and Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East (2023). He has published several articles in the above-mentioned areas.

Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Senior Lecturer of History, University of Oulu, Finland

Henry Oinas-Kukkonen is a Senior Lecturer in History and has a title of docent in the History of International Relations and Information Networks at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is one of the principal investigators in the Transcultural Encounters Research Center (TCERC) at the University of Oulu. Oinas-Kukkonen has worked among others on history of the US Occupation of Japan and the American attempts to re-educate their occupation soldiers to meet Japanese women. His current research interests also include the history of information and communication technology, innovation and social web. He has published five monographs including a co-authored title Humanizing the Web: Change and Social Innovation (2013).

CFP: “GENDER AND MARRIAGE MIGRATION IN ASIA AND EUROPE: WHY DO INTEGRATION MEASURES TARGET WOMEN?”, CENTER FOR MIGRATION LAW RADBOUD UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE


“Gender and marriage migration in Asia and Europe: why do integration measures target women?”,

Center for Migration Law, Faculty of Law Radboud University, Nijmegen

Conference 28 and 29 September 2023


In much of the academic literature, integration measures are framed as a more or less recent phenomenon that can be found in western liberal democracies. (Western) comparative studies regarding integration requirements focus on laws and policies applied in Europe (see, for instance, Goodman 2010, Scholten et al. 2012, Strik et al 2010, Strik et al. 2013, Van Oers 2014). However, such integration measures are also common in other parts of the world, most notably in Asia (see Chiu & Yeoh 2021 for an overview). Within and from this region, marriage migration has been on the rise for the last five decades, eliciting regulatory attention in both sending and receiving countries (Fresnoza-Flot & Ricordeau 2017; Ishii 2016; Kim et al. 2021; Mu & Yeung 2022). This interdisciplinary seminar aims to provide key insights into states' regulatory mechanisms surrounding marriage migration and their gendered dimensions in Asia and Europe in comparative perspective.

Such a comparison is fruitful because in both regions, 1) integration measures are generally targeting family migrants; 2) marriage migration is a highly gendered phenomenon, as most marriage migrants are women, whose rights to remain depend on their husbands or partners (Chiu & Yeoh 2021: 881); and 3) although states in Asia and Europe may have different perspectives of statehood and nationhood, in both regions migration regimes have become increasingly restrictive and family migration has become highly problematized.

As a result, in both the European and Asian contexts, migrant women are the main targets of integration measures. In the Asian context, female marriage migrants are assumed to take on mainly reproductive familial roles; they are depicted as 'deficit' mothers incapable of nurturing their (citizen) children and forming a threat to the nation's population quality (Chiu & Choi 2019, Chiu & Yeoh 2021: 885). In the European context too, marriage migration is seen as 'importing' unemancipated and uneducated wives who are bound to make 'bad mothers' (Bonjour & Kraler 2015; Bonjour & de Hart 2013; Kofman et al. 2011; Muller Myrdahl 2010). Narratives based on this gendered problematization have become institutionalized, found their way into the mission statements of NGOs focusing on the emancipation of female migrants from ethnic communities, and presumably into the curricula of the integration programmes offered to marriage migrants. However, most studies on integration seem to fail to take gender into account, thereby ignoring how central gendered discourses have been in the development and implementation of integration policies (Kofman 2022).

We invite theoretical and empirical papers from different disciplines that may relate to, but are not limited to, the following issues:
  • State integration policies and the power of gender: How gendered are integration policies in migrant receiving countries in Europe and Asia? To what extent do such policies reflect and/or reinforce the gender ideologies and norms in the countries concerned? How does the gender dimension of integration policies evolve through time and why? How do integration policies portray, represent, or view migrant women? Which specific figure (e.g., single women, mothers, nationals from economically developing countries, ...) of migrant women has been the focus of these policies and why? What forms of femininities are valorized, devalued, or challenged in this process? How do the countries of origin of migrant women react to, challenge, or align their migration policies vis-à-vis the integration policies of their citizens' receiving countries?
  • The integration policies are developed in a political and geographical context in which power hierarchies of race/ethnicity, gender, and class are central. How have state laws and policies shaped identities of gender, intersecting with 'race' and 'ethnicity' in developing and justifying integration measures? How was it determined who had to integrate and who not and how can this be analysed from a critical postcolonial or decolonial and gender perspective?
  • The role of non-state and private actors in the multi-level governance of integration measures. The state policies under discussion are often implemented at the local level, e.g. by municipalities and NGOs, but also private companies such as language institutes or matrimonial agencies, developing course materials and offering courses. How and in what ways is the curriculum of integration tests and courses informed by gendered ideologies of gender, nation and motherhood? What role do (feminist) NGOs play in integration programs and integration narratives targeting female family migration?
  • Agency of female marriage migrants. How have integration measures impacted the sense of belonging of female family migrants? How have they benefited from them? How do family migrants and activists respond to integration measures? How do they negotiate the different social dynamics and power relations ingrained in integration policies? How have they challenged or resisted the host state's patriarchal integration projects and calmed the power to define themselves?
We intend to stimulate an interdisciplinary, thematic approach in researching the role of gender in integration policies and practices in comparative perspective. The call is therefore aimed at researchers from Asia and Europe and from various academic backgrounds. To list some but not all:
  • Legal scholars in the field of migration law;
  • Migration scholars from various other disciplines such as history, social sciences, political science, etc. researching immigrant integration or inclusion policies;
  • Researchers at any stage of their career are welcome;
  • Theoretical, empirical and/or legal/normative studies are welcome; and
  • Both national studies and comparative studies are welcome.
Paper abstracts should be about 400 words in length and include the following information: a title, a summary (aim, central question, methods, key findings), and a short biography of the author(s).

Please send your abstract to: dr. Ricky van Oers (ricky.vanoers@ru.nl). A selection of the presented papers will be part of a Special Issue for a peer reviewed international journal.
  • Deadline for Abstracts: 26 May 2023
  • Information on selection: 14 June 2023
  • Submission of full draft papers: 1 September 2023
Please note that we will ask the participants to present and comment each other's papers. Timely submission of the full papers is, therefore, a must.


The seminar will take place on 28 and 29 September 2023 at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. For those who are unable to attend the meeting, a possibility to join online will be provided. Contact Ricky van Oers (ricky.vanoers@ru.nl) for questions regarding the covering of travel expenses.


Organisers:

Dr. Ricky van Oers (Radboud University): ricky.vanoers@ru.nl


Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): asuncion.fresnoza@ulb.be


This seminar has received funding from the Standing Committee "Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research" (GenSeM) of IMISCOE.

CFP: “IN LIVING COLOR: EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITIES OF COLORISM WITHIN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD IN THE 21ST-CENTURY”, THE JOURNAL OF COLORISM STUDIES

“In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and

Around the World in the 21st-Century”, The Journal of Colorism Studies


The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)


Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)


I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)


Wherever you are reading this from, you probably heard this ad nauseam: “We do not see race.” With remarkable ease, this well-intentioned phrase is invoked by media pundits, politicians, and citizenry worldwide as a justified public defense against accusations of racism but also as a political tool for refashioning grand narratives about the declining significance of race and racism. These incredulous claims of nonracialism and post-racialism illuminate the significant social phenomenon and philosophy of color-evasiveness. This race-neutral ideology purports race and racism are nonfactors in shaping people’s life chances (Bonilla-Silva, 2006). Seemingly the social construction of race and racism would disappear if people stopped seeing it. This vapid sentiment is disingenuous because color-coded ethnoracial inequalities shade almost every facet of social life in the United States (and globally) due to the pernicious manifestations of the color line (Du Bois, 1900).

While formal racial classifications and the overarching racial caste system were constructed during the Age of Enlightenment, the valorization of white skin, straight blonde hair, and Eurocentric physical features are rooted in antiquity (Ware, 2013). As such, the denigration of dark-complexioned people–a byproduct of this valorization–is a ubiquitous pathology exported through the European colonization of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, permeating the colonized psyche. Delineating between white/nonwhite and Black/nonBlack, the racial calculus (Hartman, 2008) of the color line stratifies people’s life chances, trajectories, and outcomes, based on their approximate possession of light or dark skin (Monk, 2021). Even as societies stride toward mixed-race futures (Sexton, 2008), the permanence of racial hierarchies will endure in the 21st century because skin tone will continue to serve as a proxy to race. In this racial order of things, color and colorism will employ the same hierarchy governing racism (Ware, 2013) because colorism is the sine qua non to racism.

Race matters (West, 1991), but so does skin color. Colorism is a hidden gatekeeper augmenting life outcomes across many significant social domains, such as education, criminal justice, immigration, healthcare, employment, banking, and marriage (Monk, 2021; Ware, 2013). While scholars have long recognized skin complexion as a determinant of social conditions (Du Bois, 1899, 1903; Frazier, 1957; Johnson, 1934; Davis, Gardner, & Gardner, 1941; Myrdal, 1944; Fanon, 1952; Banks, 2000; Hall, 2008, 2010), it was Alice Walker (1983) who first coined colorism and conceptualized the social construct as the “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color” (p. 3). Several scholars have further conceptualized colorism through various terms such as being color struck (Brown, 1965), the color complex (Russell, Wilson, & Hall, 1992), skin color discrimination (Hall, 2010; Hochschild, 2006; Rondilla & Spickard, 2007), color consciousness (Monroe, 2016), color stratification (Keith & Monroe, 2016), and skin color bias (Hunter, 2016). As a vestige of colonialism, colorism is as injurious as racism (Ware, 2013). While race and color are related conceptually and interchangeably used in history (e.g., colored people, color barrier), they are not synonymous. Colorism is focused on actual skin tone rather than racial or ethnic identity (Hunter, 2007). In this formulation, skin color substitutes race as a social marker for enthoracial categories (Monk, 2021). Light and dark skin serves as a proxy for a superior or inferior race, preserving similar social pathologies and racial quality-of-life outcomes (Hall, 2018). Therefore, as Jones (2009) denoted, “while racism may affect an individual regardless of the person’s color, two individuals belonging to the same ethnoracial category may face differential treatment due to their varying skin tones” (p. 223).

As a hegemonic mainstay within the Black/White racial dichotomy, colorism has deep societal underpinnings in the United States, dating back to chattel slavery (Monk, 2021), as skin color (and kinship) determined an enslaved person’s work assignment (Ware, 2013). Those with darker skin worked in the farm or fields, while those with lighter skin worked in the enslaver’s house because they had direct kinship ties to the enslaver through sexual violence (Monk, 2021). In the afterlife of slavery (Hartman, 2008), color stratification ended no more than racism did, as intra-group colorism and white supremacist political-juridical structures determined the social and occupational status of light- and dark-complexioned Black people (Jones, 2009). This foreclosure on social mobility resulted in intergenerational dis/advantages (Monk, 2021) and negative cognitive biases (Maddox, 2004). Though colorism was rendered a Black-White issue, skin tone stratification is not exclusive to Black people in the United States (Rondilla & Spickard, 2007; Hunter, 2007) because it is a global phenomenon (Hall, 2018). Despite verbal assertions of people not seeing race, there is no shortage of examples showcasing the geographic reach of skin tone stratification, as cases exist in India (Melwani, 2007), Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan (Li, Min, & Beck, 2008); Mexico (Hernandez, 2001), Brazil (Nascimento, 2007), and the Dominican Republic (Roth, 2008). The idealization of light skin as the zenith of humanity highlights that color discrimination is a cultural and political fact worldwide (Hall, 2018).

Despite the evidence of colorism permeating all facets of social life, the attempts to characterize this multifaceted and complex social phenomenon has fallen secondary to social science research due to the primacy and gravity of race. The academic shading of color obscures the analysis of how skin color is relevant to ethnoracial life chances and outcomes. Coupled with the colorism’s media (in)visibility and lack of political recognition, this foreclosure is quite concerning (Monk, 2021). What is to be done about this absurd drama that surrounds us? It is imperative that we theorize in living color to address these enduring and pernicious attitudes surrounding skin tone to mitigate and improve ethnoracial inequalities. As guest editors of this special journal issue in The Journal of Colorism Studies, we invite you to illuminate the continuously unfolding and multifaceted manifestations of skin tone stratification in the U.S. and worldwide. Moreover, we invite you to explicate how skin tone discrimination is situated, operationalized, and machinated by structures of anti-blackness, setter colonization, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, ableism, and classism.

While this special issue may not provide formative solutions, we are interested in perspectives and analysis that will allow us to “rise above” (even temporarily) the absurd drama of colorism. Towards that end, we want to be quite intentional about who this special issue is for and/or about with our three declarations. Our first declaration is that this special issue seeks perspectives on colorism and skin tone stratification within and beyond the mainstream hegemony of the Black/White racial dichotomy. To suspend the damage (Tuck, 2009), our second declaration is that our project is centered on dissonance as a corrective mode of truth-telling (Lozenski, 2016) to illuminate the persistent and multifaceted colonial ideologies that situate color prejudice and color evasion. The third and final declaration is that this political project is not aiming to seek if the U.S. and the global world participate in structural color discrimination but is centered on the how and why motivations of structural color discrimination.

The Guest Editors welcome and encourage submissions from emerging faculty of color, as well as graduate students whose work primarily lies at the intersections of colorism and/or: Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Thought, and Popular Culture.


Specific subtopics may include, but are not limited to:
  • Skin tone as a post-colonial racialized hierarchy and the policing of ethnoracial boundaries
  • ‘‘Blanqueamiento’’ and the globalization of skin whitening (the Bleach Syndrome) as ideology and practice
  • Blood quantum, racial purity, and one-drop rules
  • The psychodynamics of colonialism, color, and desire
  • Skin tone, law, and immigration
  • The complexity of identity within biracial and multiracial people
  • Miscegenation laws, interracial relationships, and the endowment of skin tone
  • Critical Skin Theory (see Hall, 2018)
  • Colorism, sexuality, and gender expression
  • Color Struck, Racial Passings, and “honorary white people”
  • Colorism within popular culture, sports, and social media
  • Colorism, employment, and labor
  • Colorism and criminal justice
  • Skin tone and self-hate racial pathology
  • Race-shifting, Blackfishing, and Pretendians in education and society
  • Anti-Blackness and people-of-colorblindness (see Sexton, 2010) in the tri-racial order (see Bonilla Silva, 2006)

Proposals:

Proposals should be a word document containing the following: (a) tentative manuscript title, (b) author(s)’ names, affiliation(s), and email(s), and (c) a proposal (~500 words) of the planned contribution that includes: a summary of the critical issues regarding skin color stratification or questions the paper will address and its relevance to the special issue. Note: Authors who do not submit a brief proposal by the February 16, 2023 deadline may still submit a full manuscript by the May 26, 2023 deadline (however, we cannot guarantee full consideration of these submissions). Please email your proposal to Amir Gilmore (amir.gilmore@wsu.edu) and Vikki Carpenter (carpenter_v@heritage.edu).


Manuscripts:

Manuscripts should generally be 4,000-7000 words (all inclusive) in length, 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, APA-style, with 1-inch margins. Manuscripts should be written for an audience that has a vested interest in colorism studies and cares about the matterings, survivance, and life outcomes of those marginalized by skin tone stratification. The Guest Editors and the editorial team will preliminarily review manuscripts submitted to this special issue. Those deemed suitable for journal publication will be sent anonymously to external peer reviewers.


Tentative Manuscript Timeline:
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: February 17, 2023
  • Special Editor’s Response: February 24, 2023
  • Submission Deadline for Full Manuscripts: May 26, 2023
  • First decisions regarding submitted manuscripts: June 30, 2023
  • Revised manuscript submission deadline: August 4, 2023
  • Publication: Mid August/Early September 2023
If you have any queries or questions about submission, please email the guest editors: Drs. Amir Gilmore (amir.gilmore@wsu.edu) and Vikki Carpenter (carpenter_v@heritage.edu).


Thank you again for your interest, and we look forward to receiving your proposal!

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: COMMON THREADS: BLACK AND ASIAN BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Common Threads:

Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo

Dates: 21st-23rd July 2022

Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN) at the University of Brighton in 2014, we are pleased to announce the second international conference on Black and Asian British Women’s Writing. This conference celebrates the fact that so many Black and Asian women writers have emerged in the last two decades and acknowledges the significant impact their writing has made on publishing and the media since 2015. Black and Asian women’s writing has transformed Britain’s cultural landscape and provoked urgent conversations about nation and identity, home and belonging. Their work challenges the control white, British canonical writers have asserted over what qualifies as literary, where meaning is located in literary culture, and whose voices are privileged. The last couple of years have been particularly exciting for Black and Asian British women writers with Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, the first Black British woman to do so, and several debut authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge topping the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts in 2020-21, and receiving substantial attention and recognition. The recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Black British and Asian Writing (edited by Deirdre Osborne), and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein) bring together over 400 years of Black and Asian British writing. 2022 also marks the 21st anniversary of the landmark ‘Write Black, Write British’ conference at the Barbican (organised by Kadija George), and of the publication of the anthology Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry. Common Threads aims to celebrate this rich cultural heritage while at the same time exploring how Black and Asian British Women’s Writing enables us to re-imagine the nation otherwise in the context of the unsettling, hostile environment of post-Brexit Britain.

The organisers welcome submissions from academics, postgraduate and early career researchers, teachers, publishers and literary activists. We welcome individual papers and panel proposals on any genre and topic related to writing by Black and Asian British women and queer people of colour. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Intersections and Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing in the era of Black Lives Matter and post-Brexit Britain
  • Teaching Transformation: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing and Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing, Screenwriting, Journalism, Popular fiction, Radio drama, Short fiction/flash fiction, Non-fiction
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Poetry and Spoken Word Performances
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Drama and Performance
  • Critically neglected writers/new writers
  • Black and Asian Women’s Writing and the School Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Children’s Literature and storytelling
  • Black and Asian British Queer Writing
  • The 2018 Windrush Scandal
  • The matter of bodies, politics, place and diaspora
  • Making Space/Reconfiguring space: real and imaginary spaces, online, publishing and other spaces, worlds turned upside down
  • Regional and rural writing
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and brief bio by 31st January 2022 to commonthreads2022@gmail.com. The notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2022. Online presentations/panels welcome. More details will be provided once notifications have been sent. Common Threads is an in-person event, but a limited number of online presentations can be accommodated.

The conference organizers will be working toward the publication of presented papers in a journal Special Issue in 2023.


Organisers: 



commonthreads2022@gmail.com

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2021 (I)

Retomamos un año más nuestros listados con las últimas novedades académicas que han visto la luz en este primer trimestre de 2021. Estamos ante investigaciones internacionales de gran magnitud en el ámbito de los Estudios Coreanos, abordado 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: 2021 KOREA RESEARCH COLLABORATORY: EMOTIONS  ATTACHMENT AND CONNECTION IN KOREA’S PAST AND PRESENT (KOREA RESEARCH CENTRE AT UWA)


2021 Korea Research Collaboratory

Emotions — Attachment and connection in Korea’s past and present

(Korea Research Centre at UWA)


Terms such as han (한), jeong (정) and perceived practices such as injeong juui (인정주의), yeon-go juui (연고주의) and inmaek (인맥) have been claimed (by some) as distinctly Korean experiences of attachment and connection that have created a dynamic sense of self that is relational, interdependent, and interconnected. Most often these terms have been studied in psychological, therapeutic, pastoral and sociological contexts. With this collaboratory, we wish to broaden the analysis of such concepts and their lived experiences to analysis within the arts, literature, media, historical and contemporary social practice, by focussing particularly on their expressive forms.

We aim to explore how such experiences of attachment and connections are expressed in a range of practices, textual, material, visual, social, in Korea’s past and present. Participants may wish to consider:

  • The nature of expressive practices purposed for specific contexts, and how they change over time
  • How gender shapes expressive practices
  • Expressive practices in educational contexts/settings
  • How religious and spiritual practices shape expressive practices
  • How expressive practices can both represent and enact experiences of attachment and connection

Collectively we hope to investigate changes and continuity in expressive forms over time and their implications for experience of attachment and connection.

Collaborative research laboratories (collaboraties) are intensive research workshops designed to foster communication and advancement around a key theme in modern Korean society and scholarship. They involve leading researchers participating over the course of these 1-2 day events.

Papers of the participants will be pre-circulated to the collaboratory participants and discussion in the workshop will focus on preparing the papers for publication as a peer-reviewed scholarly edited collection or journal special issue. The collaboratory discussions will be open to wider audiences.

As we anticipate that travel restrictions will still be in place in February 2021, the first Korea Research Collaboratories will be held virtually, via Zoom link.

Participation in the collaboratory will be limited. Successful applicants will receive travel funding to visit the Korea Research Centre at an agreed time in the future. Applications for participation in the Collaboratory should include a title, abstract and short cv of the applicant. These should be sent to krc@uwa.edu.au by Friday 2 October 2020.

A later call will be made for those who wish to connect to the event as attendees.

More detail can be found here.

CFP: LONELY NERDS? SPECIAL ISSUE OF EXCHANGES. THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL


Call for papers: Lonely Nerds?


We are seeking expressions of interest in contributing to a special issue of Exchanges. The Interdisciplinary Research Journal.

We are looking for contributions to our special issue exploring fictional representations of nerds and loneliness across various media and cultures.

Traditionally associated with a particular niche culture, nerds entered the mainstream through popular formats such as the highly successful TV show The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) in the early 21st Century. Besides, the pervasiveness of the popular image of nerds has crossed linguistic borders and depictions of nerds are frequent beyond the Anglo-American context, as attested by the term “nerd” being widely used in languages such as Italian or German.

Although nerds are a frequent subject of cultural representations, and academic studies on them are slowly increasing, there is still a dearth of comprehensively structured comparative studies. Most studies on nerds remain firmly anchored in North American culture: Kathryn E. Lane’s recent anthology Age of the Geek (2018), for example, analyses the influence of television, film, and social media on spreading the stereotype in the US and asks the question why American culture can accept a geek character in the media but not in real life. Whilst Lane claims that “the nerd stereotype is accepted as is” it becomes clear that nerds nonetheless often occupy the position of the “other”. This suggests that the term “nerd” is used as a “label” for shifting perceptions of what is deviant from the norm, which correlates with Kam's analysis of the germane Japanese notion of otaku (2015). Our issue will identify relevant parallels with other marginal identities across cultures and explore them in a comparative transnational context and across different media.

The second main premise of the special issue is to challenge the perception of the nerd as the lonely “other”. The 2016 entry in the Oxford English Dictionary defines a “nerd” as “an insignificant, foolish, or socially inept person; a person who is boringly conventional or studious. Now also: specifically a person who pursues an unfashionable or highly technical interest with obsessive or exclusive dedication.” Although more specific definitions are up for debate, it is clear that nerds are closely associated with anti-social behaviours, isolation, obsessive interests (especially for technology and popular culture) or mental pathologies. Within nerds’ supposed confinement and isolation, loneliness is an aspect that is often associated with their interaction with and consumption of technology, particularly since the rise of the tech industry in the 1980s and 1990s. At the turn of the 21st century, technological advancements such as the rise of the internet, Artificial Intelligence and advancements in robotics have complicated notions of loneliness in the context of human-machine interaction. On the one hand, people are constantly tethered together in machine mediated interactions, but are still feeling lonely; on the other, Sherry Turkle argues for a “robotic moment” (2011), when people are ready to accept machines as partners and mediators so that technology becomes the tool with which loneliness can be defeated. This conflicting assessment of technology’s potential to solve the central societal issue of loneliness mirrors the broader polarised discussion of whether machines will solve problems or lead us down a dystopian path (Husain 2017).

Through its analysis of artistic takes on nerds, our issue aims to intervene in the debate about technologies' and popular media’s influence on social bonds, with a particular focus on loneliness. We suggest a broad understanding of loneliness that includes a wide range of societal issues such as stances vis-à-vis society, the positionality of nerds within or outside of it, their intergroup behaviour dynamics and belonging, their feeling of loneliness both derived from physical and/or emotional isolation, or even conceptualised as loneliness within a group.

The issue will hence analyse varying cultural representations of the nerd’s relationship with society in order to critically discuss how various art forms approach the notion of the “lonely nerd”. We want to ask questions such as: Can we still find common characteristics in representations that are not overtly about nerds? Is loneliness inextricable from any representation of nerds, or do we see narratives where nerds actually become, quite anti-canonically, the centre of their community, as small as it may be? And if so, what do these representations tell us about their culture? Are they representational? If this is the case, how can it be used to interrogate relevant phenomena of isolation and loneliness in general?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, fictional explorations of nerds and loneliness in relation to gender, ethnicity, (mental) health, genius, social status and space, as well as their questioning of traditional cultural representations and genres.

Abstracts of up to 300 words and queries should be submitted to lonelynerds2021@gmail.com by 18th May 2020. Articles should be written in English. Please note: We are also planning a preparatory workshop for accepted submissions, that will be held at SOAS (London) in spring 2021.


Contact information:

Name: Dr Filippo Cervelli - Senior Teaching Fellow in Japanese (SOAS, University of London)
Email: fc15@soas.ac.uk

Email: benjamin.schaper@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Other contact email: benjamin.schaper@t-online.de

CFP: "QUEER FIRE: LIBERATION AND ABOLITION" DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS


“Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Modes of imprisonment not only pervade historical and contemporary life but, more substantively, structure the grounds of sociality. Calls for justice, then, must have at their fundament abolition, and abolition must be understood as the complete obliteration of modes of imprisonment so as to create a world which would sustain life through forms of justice not conceived through violence. This would entail a radical reorientation to life and living. This reorientation must attend to gender, as gender is one of the chief forms of imprisonment—in the double sense that gender, it can be asserted, is a kind of prison; and the institutions of prisons have at their centers the regulatory (re)production of the gender binary.
 

CFP: GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN ASIAN CINEMAS


Genders and Sexualities in Asian Cinemas

The circulation, commodification, and repression of discourses on genders and sexualities within and among Asian countries has been a constant feature of regimes of modernization, from colonial through neocolonial and postcolonial periods. Aptly enough, it is mainly through the modern vehicle of cinema where these discourses play out. Kritika Kultura will be initiating a forum on the filmic representations of issues on genders and sexualities in the Southeast Asian region, in line with its commitment to the pursuit and development of cultural and media studies, slated for the journal’s February 2021 issue. 
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