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ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2024



Una vez más, exploramos las publicaciones académicas más recientes en los estudios coreanos, abarcando diversas áreas del conocimiento. Desde las ciencias sociales, donde se abordan temas como la política, la migración y las prácticas educativas, hasta las humanidades, que nos ofrecen nuevas perspectivas sobre la cultura popular, la filosofía y las artes contemporáneas de Corea. Estas investigaciones revelan cómo las tradiciones, las transformaciones sociales y las influencias globales configuran la Corea del presente.

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


“Current Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia”,

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us.

CFP: CONFERENCE AFRICA-ASIA AND THE WORLD; WHAT RELATIONS FOR GLOBAL PEACE, JUSTICE, PROSPERITY AND SUSTAINABILITY?


Africa-Asia And The World:

What Relations For Global Peace, Justice, Prosperity And Sustainability?, 

International and Inter-Trans-Disciplinary Offline and Online Conference


International and Inter-Trans-Disciplinary Offline and Online Conference of: Inauguration of African-Asian and International Studies Institute AFRASI; Commemoration of the 65th Anniversary of the 1958 Accra All-African People’s Conference Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, December 13-15, 2023 


INTRODUCTION

At the beginning of the new millennium, Africa remains a place where economic, geopolitical, and cultural interests from all over the world converge. Diverse summits with Africa have been organized regularly to shape the exchanges of the continent with global players (China-Africa/FOCAC, Japan-Africa/TICAD, India-Africa, Korea-Africa, Turkiye-Africa, Iran-Africa, Indonesia-Africa, Regular Commemorative Conferences of the Asian-African Conference, USA-Africa, EU-Africa, etc.). Another proof of the continent's importance on the world stage is the increasing presence of Asian countries such as China, India and Japan, or the return of historically relevant players such as Russia, not to mention the attempts of former colonizing powers to maintain their influence. Thus, the suspicious views of relations between Africa and Asia (especially China) and Eurasia (especially Russia) presented in the Western mainstream media do not do justice to the historical ties between Africa and Asia/Eurasia since at least the Bandung Conference (April 1955) characterized by their common struggles against colonialism and for independence.

Several points of convergence make it fair to focus on the Africa-Asia tandem. From a historical point of view, these are the continents that, despite European colonial ambitions, have retained their demographic and cultural bases, unlike other areas such as America and Australia, where colonial conquest and occupation were accompanied by the genocide of indigenous peoples, the suppression of their cultures and the installation of European culture, and where the descendants of colonial rulers and European immigrants continue to rule the areas to the present day. Moreover Africa and Asia shared common painful experiences of being colonized by European imperial power and common struggles for their independence at the same historical period (19th-20th centuries). In a world marked by global and diverse crises, Africa, and Asia, being distinctive in term of civilization from Western-dominated ones, have the potential to offer alternatives for rethinking their relationship with the world, based on imaginations, cultures, and development models different from the Western-led globalization. Considering demographic growth, projections predict that 80% of the world's population will be in Africa and Asia by the end of this century; this could be seen as a problem but also as an opportunity to take advantage of a tremendous human capital for the development of Asia and Africa, and concomitantly of the world. In economic terms, Asia has become Africa's leading trading partner. The search for new economic and political partners, particularly in Africa, signals that both continents will strengthen existing ties and find new avenues for cooperation. Convergence between Asia and Africa is also clear since they are confronted with common challenges, which includes poverty eradication and creation of social justice, security issues, the management of ethnic and religious diversity, and exploitation of natural resources for sustainable development and prosperity of people.

The international and inter-trans-disciplinary conference "Africa-Asia and the World: What Relations for Global Peace, Justice, Prosperity and Sustainability?" aims to reflect on these relations between Africa and Asia, as well as those between the African-Asian tandem and the rest of the world. Based on the diversity of approaches and disciplines of the speakers, this conference will be an opportunity to better understand and recommend policies of political, economic, and cultural relations to be developed between Africa and Asia, and with the rest of the world, to build a common future, based on more peace, justice, prosperity and sustainability.


ISSUES

The followings are non-exhaustive issues expected to be raised in the conference:
  • Before and beyond hegemony of the West: what were and will be Africa-Asia relations?
  • Africa-Asia and Africa-Eurasia: what convergence and what divergence?
  • Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America: do they continue to be the peripheries of the West?
  • Africa-Asia Business Development: what challenges and what perspectives?
  • MSME (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) in Africa and Asia: what role in national economy and what mutual exchanges are possible?
  • BRICS summit in Africa: what impacts on Africa?
  • NAM, BRICS, Africa, Asia and Latin America: what synergy for a global restructuring?
  • The West and Asia in Africa: what interests and what risks for Africa?
  • The summits of China-Africa, India-Africa, Japan-Africa, Korea-Africa, Turkiye-Africa, Iran-Africa, Indonesia-Africa, EU-Africa, USA-Africa: what perspectives for Africa?
  • FESPACO and BIFF (Busan International Film Festival): what relations are mutually and globally beneficial?
  • African, Asian and American Tropical Forests: what challenges and perspectives for economy and ecology?
  • Black-lives-matter: racism against African and Asian in the West, does it continue?
  • Tradition, Culture and Religion: what role in patriarchy and gender issues?
  • Indigenous and Imported Religions: what challenges and what perspectives for a peaceful co-existence or fusion?
  • Languages and Nations: what place for former colonial languages in national independence and sovereignty?
  • The Afrodescendant in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Pacific and Oceania: who are they and what do they become?
  • Demography, Migration, Urbanisation, Ruralisation: what planning and what mitigation?
  • The G20 and the 20 poorest countries in the world: what relations?
  • The G20 Summits: what impacts on Africa?
Other relevant issues will be welcome.


OFFLINE AND ONLINE PARTICIPANTS

The conference encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences...) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements...) as well as artists, writers, journalists and activists of social and solidarity movements, based in diverse geographical areas (North, South, East, West, Central AFRICA; North, Central, South AMERICA; the CARIBBEAN; AUSTRALIA; North, East, West, Central, South and Southeast ASIA; Central, Eastern, Southern, Northern, Western EUROPE; RUSSIA, PACIFIC, OCEANIA...).


GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTER CANDIDATES

The selection of presenters is based on the abstract and the basic personal data of the presenter candidates in respect to the following dates:
  1. Deadline of abstract (200-300 words) submission: June 30, 2023
  2. Deadline of full paper (2000-3000 words / 5-6 pages) submission: August 31, 2023
  3. Notification for the selected presenters: progressively from June 2023. The earlier an abstract is submitted, the earlier its author will get notified, which is important for a travel planning.
The abstract is to be submitted online here.


FINANCING

The organising committee does not provide travel grant to any participant. The presenters as well as simple participants of the conference are supposed to find the necessary fund for their own participation (visa, international and national transport, accommodation).


Contact Info:

Darwis Khudori, Faculty of International Affairs, University Le Havre Normandy, France

Contact Email:

secretariat-afrasi@e-group.bandungspirit.org

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


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

Transnational Memories in East Asia


TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR

Discussant: Michael Tsang (Birkbeck, University of London)

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

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

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

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


MEMORIAL SITES IN KOREA


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

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

  • "Jeju 4.3 – Postmemory Aesthetics of Museal Images"

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

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


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

CFP: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SINIFICATION, GLOBALIZATION OR GLOCALIZATION?

International Conference Sinification, Globalization or Glocalization?:

Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Transmission and Transformation of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond


The organizing committee for the international conference on “Sinification, Globalization or Glocalization?: Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Transmission and Transformation of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond” cordially invites the submission of related papers. This conference is sponsored by the Glorisun Charity Foundation, administered by the Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies and FROGBEAR at the University of British Columbia, and hosted by the University of Hong Kong. It will take place from August 9 to August 12, 2023 in Hong Kong.

Contacts between the East and West had started as early as the antiquity. Alexander the Great, for instance, brought the Greek culture to India where Greek aesthetics would heavily influence Buddhist — especially Gandhāran Buddhist — art. Similarly, Roman coins circulated to the Chinese capital Xi’an as early as the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD), while Christianity had already spread China in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Within Asia, intense cultural exchanges also took place constantly, notably including the spread of Buddhism to China in the first century CE. Accompanying cultural exchanges are also conflicts. Encounters between Eastern and Western civilizations were especially combustible due to their vast political, economical, linguistic, and cultural differences. Scholars like Samuel P. Huntington even suggest that the primary cause of conflicts in today’s world will not primarily happen between countries, but between cultures or civilizations. According to Hungtinton, cultural differences are so deeply entrenched that they will be the indelible source of conflicts; and that these conflicts will manifest most intensely between the dominant modern Western civilization and other civilizations that share distinct ideologies and cultures. This opinion, however, is somewhat prejudiced in that it portrays civilizational clash as inevitable; and it even runs the risk of becoming a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ worsening the global situation. In reality, conflict is far from the normal mode of between inter-civilizational interaction. To the contrary, the advancement of human civilization is deeply indebted to the exchange and merging of cultures.

At this critical juncture of our own time when globalization faces an unprecedented crisis, history can serve as a mirror for us to understand the nature of inter-civilizational conflict and cooperation. In particular, the history of the transmission of Buddhism from India to China, its subsequent appropriation by Chinese culture, and the transmission of the Sinicized form of Buddhism to the rest of East Asia is especially revealing of the mechanism of cross-cultural interactions.

From the perspective of the global history, when the teachings of Buddhism first arrived in the heartland of China around the first century CE, East Asia had just started what would become an ongoing exchange with Central and South Asia. Influence from the Han Empire already had spread to Central Asia, and as a result, at least two civilizations communicated with one another through various channels to allow for diverse cultural interactions and fusion. Buddhism, in this context, was one among many players to participate in this rich cultural dynamic.

Buddhism, as a product of a foreign culture from the Chinese perspective, underwent an extended period of adaption and intermingling with indigenous cultures before many teachings were altered by the seventh century, which gave rise to a distinct Chinese Buddhist tradition that embodied the spirit of a new and vibrant host culture. Meanwhile, Chinese Buddhism spread across East and Southeast Asia, generating a novel Chinese Buddhist sphere of influence with the classical Chinese language as its lingua franca. Against this backdrop of world history and globalization, the spread of Buddhism transcends a singular cultural phenomenon in one defined region, and instead represents a grand religious and cultural transformation with profound and far-reaching implications.

The Sinification of Buddhism, or more specifically the Chinese metamorphosis of core Indic cultural elements, transpired within several domains, including philosophy, religious practice, and the construction of Buddhist institutions. During the migration from its homeland in South Asia to China, Buddhism retained many core doctrines, such as the doctrines of independent origination and of the Middle Way, the Four Noble Truths, and the threefold training in discipline, concentration and wisdom. But when it comes to the exegetical traditions that interpreted the many Indian classics, the process of Sinification is evident. In the early period, Chinese Buddhists digested Indian concepts by clumsily relating them to indigenous Chinese terms. Even later on, as Chinese Buddhists developed sophisticated insights about the nature of reality as ultimately unconditioned, they could not restrain a powerful urge to integrate Indian elements into systems of Chinese thought, especially by infusing Buddhism with Confucian and Daoist teachings. Furthermore, Buddhist teachers were often learned masters of both Chinese and foreign traditions of learning and exegesis. These teachers symbolize cultural fusion at a time when the Buddhist teachings were understood with uniquely Chinese characteristics. In addition, for a thousand years after the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE), Chinese Buddhists not only translated and interpreted texts imported from India, but also many composed apocrypha and treatises that in turn generated many original doctrines, institutional codes, and historical narratives. In contrast to the Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur that mostly comprise translated texts, the Chinese Buddhist canons incorporate many texts written originally in the Chinese language. The formation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, therefore, is another key part of the process of Sinification.

Chinese Buddhists were also deeply affected by indigenous popular religious beliefs. Many secular followers were understandably more concerned with worshipping deities than with obscure doctrinal formulations. On this non-elite level, we find intriguing connections between Indian Buddhist and indigenous Chinese practices such as those techniques preached in the Huang-Lao school, and particularly the goal of spiritual immortality and the worship of ghosts and gods. Meanwhile, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and especially the Buddhas of the Three Ages and the four Bodhisattvas, emerged as central objects of worship in Buddhist rituals. After the Tang Dynasty, Bodhisattva cults acquired their own theoretical and institutional bases, and even absorbed the practices of mountain worship to produce a uniquely Chinese sacred geography that attracted not only Chinese pilgrims, but also pilgrims from across East and Southeast Asia and as far as the cradle of Buddhism itself in India. Within the context of this transformation, it seems that the axis-mundi of Buddhism gradually shifted from India to China.

The process of Sinification can be equally applied to the study of Buddhist institutions.

Indigenous Chinese religions did not conceive of any system of monastics, which only came into being during the Liu Song Dynasty (420-479) when Vinaya texts were translated and, with them, the Indian Buddhist institutional rules and regulations were transplanted to Chinese soil. But this relocated system experienced countless problems, of varying severity, within a new cultural milieu, especially when we consider conflicts with the dominant Chinese state. For instance, should monks dine while crouching or should they sit down? Should monastics eat with their hands or with chopsticks? Should they kneel before the ruler? Even trivial habits, such as washing one’s hands, brushing one’s teeth, and relieving oneself generated considerable debates. These examples attest to the drastic differences between the Indic and Chinese cultural environments. But Chinese Buddhists eventually dictated their own terms for monastic life. In Chan Buddhism, for instance, agrarian-influences upon Buddhism can be seen in teachings such as “one day without labouring, one day without eating” (一日不作, 一日不食), which is at odds with Indian monastic codes that explicitly preclude any agricultural work. Though not without controversies and occasional reversals of fortune, the Sinification of Buddhism proved to be inexorable over time.

The reason that Buddhism was able to establish such deep roots in China–when China was the source of the teachings of the religion after the seventh century in neighbouring kingdoms–has to do with a mutual attraction that bound the teachings of Indian Buddhism and Chinese culture together. The latter shaped the former in accordance with its philosophy, culture, and institutions, creating a form of Buddhism instilled with myriad Chinese features.

With this conference we are not only inclined to address our contemporary inquisitiveness by returning to the well-trodden path concerning the topic of the Sinification of Buddhism; we will address the process of Sinification against the backdrop of global history. We will also, therefore, reassess the potential uses of the term ‘Sinification’ to serve as a historical precedent that may be able to teach us new lessons relevant to our own time. Today, we are witnessing the trend of globalization being forestalled. Given this challenge, the study of the localization or indigenization and globalization (the so-called ‘Glocalization’) of Buddhism carries an implication beyond academic research, for it could impart historical lessons for our own time that is increasingly threatened by a reversal of globalization and by the hostility between cultures and states. For these reasons, we propose, though not exclusively, the following themes for discussion:
  • Conflicts and Conciliations: Patterns of intercultural/intercivilisational Interactions as Seen from Buddhism’s Crossborder and Transcultural Transformation
  • Indigenization and Globalization of Buddhism as Part of World History;
  • Sinification and Globalization of Buddhism and Reconstruction of Sacred Spaces in Asia;
  • Case Studies Showing Glocalization as a More Dynamic Approach for the Study of Transcultural Transmission of Buddhism;
  • Buddhism’s Transborder Transmission and the Formation and Transformation of Pan-Asian Textual Communities;
  • Buddhism’s Transborder Transmission and Commercial Networks in Asia;
  • Buddhism’s Transborder Transmission and Geopolitical Reshaping in Asia
The organizing committee welcomes all paper proposals related to this conference theme. All conference-related costs, including local transportation, meals and accommodation during the conference period, will be covered by the conference organizers, who—depending on availability of funding—may also provide a travel subsidy to selected panelists who are in need of funding. Please email proposals and CVs to frogbear.project@ubc.ca by April 15, 2023.

A conference volume will collect all the papers in English, plus English translations of several papers written in languages other than English; a volume in Chinese will include Chinese versions for all papers not written in Chinese in addition to those papers contributed by our colleagues based in China. Only scholars who are confident in finishing their draft papers by mid-July and publishable papers by mid-November of 2023 are encouraged to apply.

This conference is planned as part of our annual International and Intensive Program on Buddhism (details TBA).

CFP: "CREATIVE KOREA: EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY KOREAN CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION" CONFERENCE


“Creative Korea: Exploring Contemporary Korean Cultural Industries

and Cultural Production” Conference


Conference Dates: 4 and 5 May 2023

Venue: Department of Arts, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Deadline for proposals: 29 January 2023

Result notification: 15 February 2023


In recent years, Korean cultural industries have established themselves as among the most dynamic and successful at the global level, both artistically and commercially. Supported by a series of worldwide successes, the Korean Wave has become one key example of non-Western cultural production that was able to engage global audiences, to influence the way in which they consume pop culture and to adapt to the transformative changes brought by new social and digital media technologies.

The conference will focus on exploring the different aspects of contemporary Korean cultural production, with an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspective, including the many different sectors that compose the Korean Wave:
  • Film and TV Production
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Visual Art
  • Comics and Graphic Novels
  • Webtoons
  • Animation
  • Videogames and E-Sports
  • Fashion and Food
The aim is to analyze the multiple factors that have made this growth possible, the specific characteristics of cultural industries and cultural production in Korea, the different influences that shaped this production, the socio-political and economic effects and impact of the spread of Korean cultural products both inside and outside Korea.

SUBMISSIONS should include an ABSTRACT (300 words) and a SHORT BIO (100 words) and be sent to CREATIVEKOREA2023@GMAIL.COM before 29 January 2023.

Proposals from PhD students, early career researchers and independent scholars are welcome.

Publication plan: at the end of the conference, we will look for an opportunity to publish an edited volume.

Enquiries can be directed to: Dr. Mary Lou Emberti Gialloreti, University of Bologna, marylou.emberti@unibo.it


The event is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. (AKS-2021-INC-2230003)

CFP: GLOBAL ANTI-ASIAN RACISM FOR ASIA SHORTS


Call for Proposals: 

Global Anti-Asian Racism for Asia Shorts




This special issue of Asia Shorts (Columbia UP and the Association for Asian Studies) focuses on “Global Anti-Asian Racism,” a phenomenon, particularly in the guise of Yellow Peril, that has endured for centuries around the globe. In Europe and the Americas, Asian immigrants and refugees are and were treated as threats to national security, as well as the society/culture of American (whether US, Latin American, Central American, Caribbean or Canadian) and European people. Yellow Peril and anti-Asian racism is also found in Africa, Australia, and New Zealand—wherever Asian immigrants and refugees found themselves, anti-Asian sentiments quickly followed.

In the hope that this volume will be widely adopted by specialists and non-specialists alike, as well as serve as a valuable pedagogical resource for teachers, we seek shorter submissions that range in variety—traditional academic essays that have a historical or theoretical orientation or that thematically engage in cross-comparative Asian national perspectives—as well as creative and personal pieces that delve into how people have experienced or witnessed anti-Asian racism and/or Yellow Peril from different vantage points and perspectives. While we are living in an era of profound and violent anti-Asian racism, the volume seeks perspectives that go beyond our current COVID-19 moment to consider the ways in which anti-Asian racism has persisted across time and space.


Logisitcs:
  • October 1, 2022: 1-2 page abstracts due (12 point font, double spaced please)
  • April 1, 2023: Essays due (not to exceed 5,000 words, including all notes and works consulted – if anyone wants to include illustrations/graphics, that’s also fine so long as you have permission)
  • May 1, 2023: Feedback on essays sent out (may happen earlier)
  • July 1, 2023: First revisions due
  • Summer/Fall 2023: Page Proofs
Further questions can be sent to Jennifer Ho: Jennifer.Ho@colorado.edu

CURSO ONLINE CASA ASIA «EL ÉXITO GLOBAL DEL CINE Y LAS SERIES DE COREA DEL SUR»

 
Curso online Casa Asia

«El éxito global del cine y las series de Corea del Sur»


¿Cuáles son las claves del éxito que están cosechando el cine y las series de Corea del Sur? En este curso realizaremos un repaso histórico a estas industrias culturales a partir de la estrategia globalizadora llevada a cabo por el país desde los años 90. A través de este recorrido, recordaremos algunos hechos históricos que marcaron para siempre a estas industrias y, muy especialmente, esas películas y series que han sido importantes para la evolución de la cultura contemporánea de Corea del Sur, permitiéndonos comprender, de esta manera, cómo ha sido la trepidante estrategia de expansión que se ha producido en estos últimos 25 años.

No es necesario tener conocimientos previos, por lo que esta actividad podría ser interesante tanto para quienes disfrutan con la ficción surcoreana como para quienes desean comenzar a conocerla.


Programa:

1ª Sesión: Los inicios de la globalización: el nuevo cine coreano

Desde los años 90, la industria del cine de Corea del Sur experimentó importantes cambios que tuvieron su base en el plan Segyehwa anunciado por primera vez en 1995 por el antiguo presidente Kim Young-Sam. Los efectos de la globalización se vieron reflejados en una nueva ola de cine que acabaría conociéndose entre la crítica especializada y el público como el “Nuevo Cine Coreano”. La Generación 386 de cineastas, encabezados por Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon, Lee Chan-dong, Kim Ki-duk y Hong Sang-soo, obtuvo, de forma inesperada, el mayor reconocimiento internacional.

2ª Sesión: Las últimas tendencias del cine surcoreano

La consolidación de la Generación 386, la proliferación de los nuevos talentos o la experimentación con los géneros cinematográficos han consolidado la presencia del cine surcoreano en el panorama internacional. Así pues, éxitos como Parásitos (Gisaengchung, 2019), de Bong Joon-ho, han permitido dar a conocer a esta cinematografía al público masivo, pero también responden a una estrategia de expansión que comienza a cosechar frutos.

3ª Sesión: Evolución de las series de ficción surcoreanas

La década de los 90, trajo consigo el surgimiento de nuevos canales en la televisión por cable, pero también un incremento en la competitividad en su apuesta por la ficción local. Tras las importantes ventas de la serie What is Love? (Sarangyi Mwogilrae, Park Cheol, 1991-1992) y la consolidación de la ficción surcoreana en la región con Winter Sonata (Gyeoul yeonga, Yun Seok-Ho y Lee Hyung-Min, 2002), los medios de comunicación chinos y japoneses comenzaron a utilizar el término Hallyu para definir el impactante éxito y dominio que aún, a día de hoy, mantiene esta industria.

4ª Sesión: La ficción surcoreana en las plataformas digitales

Por último, finalizaremos nuestro recorrido histórico dedicando una última sesión a la presencia de la ficción surcoreana en las plataformas digitales. Desde 2016, con la participación de Netflix en la superproducción de Okja, de Bong Joon-ho, se ha producido un incremento exponencial en la visibilización del cine y las series de factura surcoreana. De esta forma, se ha facilitado su circulación a escala global, pudiéndose tener acceso a una gran variedad de contenido desde nuestras propias casas.


Profesora:

Sonia Dueñas Mohedas, becaria predoctoral PIPF en el departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y miembro del grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión-Cine: Memoria, Representación e Industria). Ha sido becaria Korea Foundation Field Research en la Korea National University of Arts en 2021. Su tesis está centrada en Planet Hallyuwood, la industria cinematográfica de Corea del Sur en la era de la globalización, labor que también combina con el proyecto de investigación «Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad en el Atlántico Hispánico» (CSO2017-85290-P) y la docencia. Es miembro fundador de la Asociación de Difusión de Estudios y Cultura Coreana en España (ADECCE).


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CFP: PEACE & THE MANAGEMENT OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC PLURALISM IN ASIA


Call for Chapters for a Collective Publication:

Peace & the Management of Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia


In his quest to elevate his fields of expression, mankind adopts various paths that reflect his visions and his philosophy and through which he strives to give distinctive and specific characteristics to his movement in time/history and place/geography. These characteristics are essentially intertwined with the roles associated with individuals, societies and nations and the human relations between and among them. These relations are renewed and transformed based on the shifts in the collective needs and interests during different stages of civilizational advancement.

Our contemporary world is witnessing developments and transformations that express a new phase of human history, a phase which reformulates many of the statements and visions that founded human actions and experiences in the arenas of cultural, religious, economic, political, and strategic advancements. Every civilization and nation seek to be in a position of influence in one or some of these arenas, or all of them. For this purpose, each nation mobilizes its capacities, capabilities, and heritage, so that it does not find itself on the sidelines of contemporary transformations.

In fact, our contemporary world offers new opportunities for interaction between and among civilizations and nations which adds a new brick in the common human edifice. But at the same time, some developments and events in our contemporary reality have unfortunately led to the emergence of conflict and negative competition. The rising conflicts may destroy the lasting efforts that worked to build the common human edifice of many generations across multiple centuries.

Pluralism and diversity are a fixed and an undeniable religious, cultural, and ethnic reality in our world. For as long as this is the case, it is the ethical responsibility of members of different religions and of different cultures and races, to build creative ways in managing this diversity, in order to prevent or resolve conflicts of all kinds. When observing global geography in general and the geography of Muslim settlement, we find elements of commonalities between Muslim communities and others. These commonalities differ in their form and content depending on the historical and civilizational circumstances of each community and the cross-cultural impact and influence among them.

The Asian continent constitutes the most rich and diverse geographical area for Muslims in view of the global demographic map, and this geographical area is a key determinant for measuring global power balances and their future developments. This is particularly relevant with the multidimensional rise of China and India on cultural, economic, political, and strategic grounds. In other words, world peace depends greatly on stability in Asia whereas the possibilities of cooperation and/or conflict within the continent can easily migrate to other regions of the world, whether in Africa, the Arab region, Europe, or the American continent.

The current realities of Muslims and their future in Asia cannot be separated from the historical formation of other nations and other religions and civilizations in the region, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Christianity, and others. Given the diversity of racial and linguistic identities of Muslims in the region, it is only natural that Muslims hold many commonalities with people of similar race -albeit being of different religious backgrounds- since Muslims form a big part of the ethnic map of neighboring religions and philosophies. For example, across the tribes of Central Asia, Tibet, and China there is a significant number of followers of the Buddhist religion and within the same community many follow the religion of Islam, Confucianism or Hinduism. The different historical and geographical contexts in which communities in Asia have developed has also caused differentiation lines within followers of the same religion. This differentiation and division can also be explained in terms of the efforts of different ethnic and religious groups to achieve their water security, food security, and energy security.

Religious considerations are not the main or the only factor in the outbreak of conflicts, whether in Asia or other regions of the world, but religion is sometimes used to achieve other goals. Therefore, it is necessary to search for the specifics of each crisis in Asia and to look at it in its political, socio-historical, and socio-economic contexts, with its impact within and beyond the countries of conflict.

Within this framing vision, Al-Hokama Center for Peace Research launched the project of “Studies on Civil Peace in Asia” with the aim of tracing the roots of erupting or expected crises in Asia. The program is foregrounded in an approach that aims to build a theoretical vision about the religious and socio-economic transformations and interactions that are either a cause of conflicts or the basis for peace and coexistence in Asia. The program takes into account the factors of time /history and place / geography in tracking these transformations, not only in order to understand the ongoing conflicts in the regions of Asia, but also to monitor and foresee the factors that may lead to the emergence of new conflicts in the future.

The research axe “Studies on Civil Peace in Asia” within the Asian Studies Project seeks to publish a collective publication titled: Peace & the Management of Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia. The book project stems from a philosophy which centers the material and moral dimensions of human survival to prevent violence, aggression, and the human right to life. In other words, dismissing these dimensions inevitably leads to the spread of fear and then unrest and wars. The moral and immaterial existence of the human being is expressed through the cultural, religious, and symbolic affiliations of societies, but these affiliations are in turn subject to a transformation process. These transformations either occur for internal reasons such as the emergence of new interpretations or fundamentals of a single unified identity, or for external reasons, such as cultural clashes or cross-cultural exchanges with other identities. In both cases the constant remains: diversity and pluralism are a prominent feature of human life throughout history, and as long as this truth is absolute and cannot be overridden, it is the ethical responsibility of mankind to preserve this diversity, to wisely manage this pluralism, to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for the exchange among all the cultural, religious and civilizational components of human societies.

The collective publication proposes several themes through which it seeks to study the experiences and challenges of civil peace in different regions of Asia, namely:

I. Indian Subcontinent

1) Peaceful coexistence and religious pluralism in India.

2) Religious and ethnic pluralism in India: Keys to understanding the formation of the self.

3) A Sociological Approach to Islam in Indian Consciousness.

4) Peaceful coexistence and religious and ethnic pluralism in Pakistan.

5) Rebuilding civil peace in a plural society: the case of Sri Lanka.


II. Chinese Region

1) Managing religious and ethnic pluralism in China.

2) China and Islam: Analysis of a specific vision.

3) The religious influence of China in Asia.


III. Central Asia

1) Peace and Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Central Asia.

2) Ethnic and religious pluralism in Uzbekistan.

3) Ethnic and religious diversity in Tajikistan.

4) Ethnic and religious diversity in Afghanistan.

5) Ethnic and religious diversity in Kyrgyzstan.

6) Ethnic and religious diversity in Turkmenistan.


IV. Southeast Asian Region

1) Religious and Ethnic Coexistence in Southeast Asia: The case of Cambodia.

2) The role of Muslims in peaceful coexistence in Thailand.

3) Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Thailand: Possibilities and Challenges.

4) Religious and Ethnic Coexistence in Myanmar: Obstacles and Opportunities.

5) The prospect of religious and ethnic coexistence in the Philippines.

6) Peaceful Coexistence in Singapore: Analysis of Diversity Management

7) The Indonesian Experience in Managing Religious and Ethnic Pluralism.

8) Civil peace in Malaysia and Religious and Ethnic Pluralism.


V. Asia-Pacific Region

1) Interaction of Japanese Religious Consciousness and Islam

2) Managing Religious Pluralism in South Korea.

3) Societal vision of Islam in Korea.

4) Islam and South Korean Elites.

5) The Australian Vision on Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia.

6) The New Zealand Vision on Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Asia.


VI. A Comparative Approach to the Prospects of Civil Peace in Asia

1) Policies For Managing Diversity in Ethnically and Religiously Diverse Asian Societies

2) Policies for the Inclusion of Ethnic Groups in Decision-Making

3) International Legal Standards for Managing Diversity and Recognition of Pluralism

4) The Roles of Local and International Actors in Diversity Management: A Reading of Asian Experiences


1. Al-Hokama Center for Peace Research is inviting prospective participants to submit research proposals to Asian.st@alhokama.com according to the following requirements:
  • Interested participants are invited to submit research proposals (approx. 700 words) and a short biography, accompanied by an academic CV, in English or Arabic or French, no later than 10th of May 2022, with acceptance replies within three weeks thereafter.
  • All research proposals should include the following sections: the research question(s), a basic hypothesis, the methodological and theoretical frameworks, and approaches/results, with a list of references.
  • The paper should bear the following: Title of the Paper, Author(s) Details, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion, References.
  • Papers can be submitted in Arabic or English or French.
  • Researchers whose proposals were approved by the scientific committee should send their complete papers (6000-10000 words), no later than 15 September 2022.
  • A specialized organising committee will review the research, and the committee is obligated to inform the researcher of the decision to approve, decline or request any amendment to the paper no later than 30 September 2022.
2. Selected papers will receive a financial award after publishing, authors of excellent papers will be invited to attend the International Conference that will be organized in November 2022 in Rabat (Morocco) to present their papers. Al-Hokama Center  will cover all expenses related to travel, lodgings, and transportation of the selected participants during the conference.


For any further information, please visit our website or contact the Coordinator of Asian Studies Program (Hamza Mrabett) at this email: H.mrabett@alhokama.com.


Contact Info:

(Hamza Mrabett) Asian Studies Program Coordinator at ALHOKAMA center for peace research

Contact Email: asian.st@alhokama.com

“THE IBERIAN EMPIRES IN ASIA: POLITICAL TENSIONS AND IMPERIAL KNOWLEDGE”, PERMANENT SEMINAR IBERIAN WORLDS AND EARLY GLOBALIZATION


“The Iberian Empires in Asia: Political Tensions and Imperial Knowledge”,

Permanent Seminar Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization


Next Tuesday, March 22 at 18:00 (CET) it will take place a special session of the permanent seminar "Iberian worlds and early globalization" promoted by the project PID2019-111081RJ-I00 “MIBER – Mobility and Integration in the Iberian Colonial Systems” and the research group PAI HUM 1000 group "History of globalization: violence, negotiation and interculturality".

The session entitled "Los imperios Ibéricos en Asia: tensiones políticas y saberes imperiales/ The Iberian Empires in Asia: Political Tensions and Imperial Knowledge" will feature presentations by Professors Federico Palomo del Barrio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Joan-Pau Rubiés (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

The structure of the session will be as follows:

18:00 | Welcome

  • “Una religiosa castellana en el Macao portugués del siglo XVII: entre visiones místicas, estrategias políticas y anhelos apostólicos”
  • “A Castilian nun in 17th-century Portuguese Macao: Between mystical visions, political strategies and apostolic yearnings”
  • “El Códice Boxer en una perspectiva comparada: saberes imperiales en las Indias de Castilla y Portugal”
  • “The Boxer Codex in comparative perspective: Imperial knowledge in the Castilian and Portuguese Indies”
19:05 | Debate

19:35 | Closure

If you wish to attend, you can do it in person (Sala de Telepresencia, Edificio 6, UPO) or through Zoom by entering the following credentials:

MEETING ID: 355 187 9965


The full program of the activity and information on all our activities is also available on the PAI HUM 1000 "History of Globalization: Violence, Negotiation and Interculturality" website.


I hope the session will be of interest to you.


Contact Info:

Área de Historia Moderna
Otra. Utrera km. 1
41013 Sevilla

Contact Email: ipertos@upo.es


CFP: CONFERENCE ON INFLATION AND DEFLATION IN ASIA


Conference on Inflation and Deflation in Asia

Sejong, Republic of Korea (Virtual Meeting Only)

29 Apr 2022



Description

Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management (KDI School) is delighted to invite professors, policymakers, and experts to submit papers under the theme of Inflation and Deflation in Asia. KDI School welcomes the submission of high-quality original research papers. Selected papers will be presented during the Conference, which will be held on April 29, 2022 in Korea and online. The conference will be organized in collaboration with the East Asia Institute of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society in Germany.


Outline of the Conference:

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the world’s leading economies have been struggling with deflationary tendencies. Inflation on the other hand, even in the face of unprecedented monetary easing by central banks, appeared like an “extinct volcano”. This gave even rise to an alternative branch of economic thought called “New Monetary Theory”, which claims that monetary stability can be maintained, even if high and further increasing public debt is routinely supported by monetary easing.

Recently, however, the possibility of a return of inflation has come into focus. One driver is the COVID-19 pandemic, which causes supply side restrictions on the one hand side and pent-up demand on the other. Furthermore, researchers like Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan have pointed out that trends in demographic development and a less free environment in global trade also support inflationary pressures. A return of sustained inflation would certainly be a “game changer” in international economic policy, as central banks would be unable to fight the trend and still continue to support public debt sustainability by government bond buying programs.

Countries in Asia have their own distinctive experience with the issue of inflation and deflation. Japan for example is struggling with deflation ever since the 1990s with no imminent change in sight, whereas China, Korea, and the ASEAN countries have often faced the need to arrest inflationary pressures during their development. General price-stability issues in Asia may furthermore arise from the fact that many countries in the region have pegged their currency against the US Dollar or a basket of other currencies. Focusses on a certain country in the region are welcome as well as comparative perspectives.


Submission Details:

All papers must be written and presented in English. Original complete papers should be submitted to the conference organizer (Ms. Dabin Song) through email at dabinsong@kdis.ac.kr by March 18, 2022. Papers selected for presentation will be notified based on committee decision before March 31, 2022. The criteria for selecting papers are relevance with regards to the conference themes and the academic quality of the research. A maximum of ten authors will be selected, and those who present the paper and discuss an assigned paper at the online conference will be awarded an honorarium of USD 1,500. After the conference, selected papers will be invited to a book publication by Springer. It is optional whether you wish to accept this invitation to the book chapter contribution.

When submitting an abstract and a manuscript, please email the following information as well:
  • First and last name / Institutional affiliation / Position
  • Email address / Phone number (incl. country code)
  • Names and affiliation of co-authors (if applicable)

Important Dates:

Complete Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2022

Result Notification date of Submitted Papers: March 31, 2022

Date of the Event: April 29, 2022 (Online)




dabinsong@kdis.ac.kr

Dabin Song
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