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CFP: REVISITING JAPAN-KOREA RELATIONS: TOWARD A NEW ERA


Revisiting Japan-Korea Relations: Toward a New Era

Proposal for a Special Issue: Archiv Orientální (ArOr)


2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of both Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War and Korea’s liberation from Japan. While there have been much political and economic changes, the lingering effects of this historical trauma have yet to be fully resolved in both nations. It remains to be seen whether this date will mark a change in this bilateral relationship or whether old enmities will persist. At this juncture, new approaches will be needed to set a path toward a brighter future that respects the past but is not framed by it.

Navigating the complexities of Japan-Korea relations is a formidable task, given their deep historical roots dating back almost two thousand years and have been characterized by periods of both cultural exchange and political conflict. For example, Korea was crucial for the transmission of culture from the Asian Continent that has been the basis of Japan’s foundation and are still widely vibrant today while military conflicts between Japan and China have always been determined by which power controls the Korean Peninsula as witnessed with the Imjin War (1592-1598) and the Sino-Japanese War (1894). The Japanese annexation of Korea in the early twentieth century and the subsequent occupation until 1945 further underscores the complex nature of this relationship, shaped by politics, economy, society, culture, and their international expansion.

Despite the contrasting experiences between these two countries, negative perceptions stemming from these “memory wars” have persisted and have featured prominently. Such a magnification of the issues has placed this relationship in a precarious situation on numerous occasions. However, we should not forget that there have been several instances of cooperation and exchange aimed at healing historical wounds and fostering a positive future.

While the existing literature often focuses on the difficulties in Japan-Korea relations, few have provided solutions that can lead to meaningful contributions. Among those works that have undertaken such an approach, many are often scattered across various journals and are susceptible to misinterpretation based on the nationality of authors or journals. To overcome this, we propose a special issue that revisits Japan-Korea relations by focusing on innovative resolutions to the more complex issues in this bilateral relationship and consolidating these efforts to maximize impact. The choice of Archiv Orientální, based in Czechia at the heart of Europe, ensures a neutral perspective conducive to fostering a more nuanced understanding of Japan-Korea relations.

In advance of the poignant marking of 2025, this special issue seeks to lay a solid foundation for enhanced understanding and cooperation between Japan and Korea, thereby facilitating further positive academic endeavors. Such a work will attract a large readership including students, scholars, politicians, practitioners, and even the public in both Korea and Japan, as well as those who are interested in East Asia from a different perspective.


Guest Editors

Publication Timeline
  • Submission deadline for the proposal: May 19th, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2024
  • Submission deadline for the entire collection: December 31, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance of individual papers: May 30, 2025
  • Submission deadline for revised manuscript: July 15, 2025
  • Publication: December 2025

Submission

This special issue aims to establish a platform for the dissemination of groundbreaking and original research focused on the cultures, societies, and historical narratives of Japan and Korea, both past and present. We particularly encourage submissions that delve into various aspects such as history of economic relations, international diplomacy, linguistic studies, religious practices, and literary traditions within these regions. Articles based on archival evidence and a comprehensive analysis of primary and secondary sources are highly valued.

Distinguishing itself from conventional articles in the realms of social and political sciences, this special issue seeks to provide unique insights into the historical and cultural dynamics of Japan and Korea. By doing so, we aim to engage not only the academic community but also a broader readership with a keen interest in Japanese and Korean studies.

Please submit your abstract (300 words) and title with 3-5 keywords by April 15, 2024; jimmyn.parc@um.edu.my.

CFP: "M32 - CITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER TWENTIETH CENTURY AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES", EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN HISTORY (EAUH) CONFERENCE




“M32 - Cities and the Environment under Twentieth Century Authoritarian Regimes”, 



Short abstract

This panel focuses on the environmental history of cities with particular focus on authoritarian regimes across the globe. The panel aims to incorporate papers analyzing the history of cities and the environment on both the political left and right starting from the Russian Revolutions until the collapse of the Soviet Union.


Session content

When historians of technology or the environment have investigated the environmental consequences of authoritarian regimes, they have frequently argued that authoritarian regimes have been unable to produce positive environmental results or adjust successfully to global structural change, if they have shown any concern for the environment at all. Put another way, the scholarly consensus holds that authoritarian regimes on both the left and the right generally have demonstrated an anti-environmentalist bias, and when opposed by environmentalist social movements, have succeeded in silencing those voices.

In contrast, this panel takes as its points of departure that authoritarian societies have developed environmentalist policies of their own, that environmentalism is a protean ideology, and that the sets of structures and priorities prevailing in the West represent only some of many possibilities.

The present panel aims to investigate the above described theory on the environmental history of cities with particular focus on authoritarian regimes across the globe. This panel aims to incorporate papers analyzing the history of cities and the environment on both the political left and right starting from the Russian Revolutions until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the panel's chronology is linked to the existence of the USSR, its focus is not confined solely to socialist cities, rather it aims to facilitate discussion between scholars working with rightwing and leftwing authoritarian regimes across the globe from Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, Africa and Europe.

Suggested themes for individual papers include:
  • Politics and the environment in authoritarian regimes
  • Urban planning under authoritarian regimes (construction/destruction, new concepts) and its environmental dimension
  • Authoritarian regimes, cities and economic growth (impact of industry, commerce and networks)
  • Water and the city (Urban water bodies, Municipal and industrial water and wastewater)
  • Consumption and waste; waste management in authoritarian regimes
  • Urban space, environmental disasters and their solutions in authoritarian regimes
  • War, war preparation and the urban environment
  • Air quality: heating, transport, industry
  • Animals in the city
  • Leisure and green spaces
  • Suburbanization, motorization,
  • City and its surroundings: urban metabolism
Any other theme that fits the proposed methodological and chronological frame of the panel is welcome!

Please submit your proposals by September 30, 2023.

Kindly see the submittal guidelines.


Contact Email

cesh@osu.cz

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: "GUEST-WORKERS OF THE WORLD" 5TH EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORY NETWORK CONFERENCE


“Guest-workers of the World”, Uppsala, 11-13 June 2024

5th European Labour History Network (ELHN) Conference


ELHN’s “Labour Migration History” working group invites proposals for papers for the Fifth European Labour History Network conference. The event takes place from 11–13 June 2024 in Uppsala, Sweden, and is organised by the Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library.

So-called guest-workers programs spread out in many transnational contexts during and after the Second World War through agreements that involved various actors at the national and transnational levels. Much has been done in relation to specific cases, but we aim to bring together the different historical context in which they were developed to draft a picture of guest-worker programs at the global level. We are looking for papers about labor programs established under binational agreements in the period 1942-1973 in any world region.

Empirical works related to this topic are welcome by colleagues of any career level. We invite colleagues working on guest-worker programs from various regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to submit abstracts that addresses one or more of the following themes (but not limited to):
  • process of recruitment and establishing of processing centers;
  • process of mobility and sites of immobilization;
  • negotiation between states;
  • labor contract’s condition under the binational agreement;
  • coercion, indebtment, discriminations and racialization;
  • protests, self-organization of guest-workers and connection with unions;
  • deportation and repatriation;
  • workers’ perspective of life and working conditions abroad;
  • cultures of mobility;
  • national identity making through the guest-worker program;
  • relation between the program and economic transformations (i.e. agrarian reforms, displacement, extractivism, etc)
We are looking for proposals for individual papers of max. 300 words. They should include your name, current affiliation, email address, an indication of whether they are participating onsite or online, and be sent to the coordinating committee by September 5, 2023.


For further questions, please contact the coordination committee:

Claudia Bernardi: claudia.bernardi@unipg.it

Anna Batzeli: abatzeli3@gmail.com

CFP: VERGE ISSUE 11.2 “THE ASIAN CENTURY: IDEA, METHOD, AND MEDIA”




Call for Papers for Verge Issue 11.2

“The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media”


What is the Asian Century? Are we living in it? Do its recent invocations—by writers and readers, politicians and pundits, journalists and academics—mark a return to earlier eras of relative Asian centrality on the world stage or announce a future we have yet to inhabit? Is it a paranoid, U.S.-centered discourse of Western decline or a triumphant announcement of Asian economic-semiotic arrival? Is the Asian Century an aspiration or a threat—and to whom?

The term “Asian Century” has more than one origin story. Narrators are multiple, located in both Asia and the West. In a 1988 summit, China’s Deng Xiaoping, alongside Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, may have coined the phrase by calling it into question: “In recent years, people have been saying that the next century will be the century of Asia and the Pacific, as if that were sure to be the case. I disagree with this view.” For Deng, skepticism about the inevitability of Asia’s rise was going to be crucial to the India-China partnership against the “developed” world; his skepticism hasn’t aged well. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared a “pivot to Asia” in “America’s Pacific Century.” Clinton’s emphatic recapitulation of the “Asian Century” revived Western tropes of Asian ascendancy that predated Asia’s contemporary economic rise by more than a hundred years, while betraying American anxieties about the decline of US hegemony. In fact, both Deng and Clinton were responding to a process that had been underway since at least the early-1970s: the “long downturn” or tendential decline in profitability of Western economies that ran alongside the “economic miracles” of many Asian economies, including Japan’s Cold War-era boom and India’s and China’s eventual liberalization. For some, the Asian Century was, or is, a solution. Now, in an era of mounting deglobalization, its contradictions are just as sharply felt as its curious staying power.

What distinguishes the current round of Asian Century discourse is perhaps its mutual construction by “Asians” and “Westerners” alike. When the Asian Century came into wide currency in the 1990s, replacing a then-regnant “Pacific Rim” and “Pacific Century” rhetoric, it remediated a long history of similarly totalizing visions that issued not least from the “Asians” themselves: from Japan’s monstrous pursuit of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere and Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorial imposition of neoliberal programs in the Philippines, to the advertisement of the “Singapore model” and even China’s “century of humiliation,” which continues to vouchsafe its nationalist ressentiment. As Wang Hui’s analysis of the politics of imagining Asia has shown, visions of the Asian Century betray contradictory regionalist and nationalist ambitions that are held in focus by the apparatuses of the state and the culture industries. Thus Asian Century discourse is typically inflected by a nation or speaker’s position vis-a-vis key market and state brokers. Given that the meaning of “Asia” looks different depending on the vantage of Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, or for that matter Saudi Arabia, what is the role of pan-Asian alliances and inter-Asian competition in constituting the Asian Century? Is Asia “one”—or only in the eyes of the West?

This special issue invites critical perspectives from scholars working in and across multiple languages and disciplines. We seek submissions that explore the Asian Century as idea, method, and media, and that examine its genealogies and itineraries from a range of contexts and histories, including of labor, empire, capital, war, technology, pandemics, dispossession, modernization, culture, and aesthetics. With “idea, method, and media,” we intend to inspire, but not circumscribe, the possible range of disciplinary approaches and primary sources that might be enlisted in responding to this call. Indeed, the idea of the Asian Century may very well be predicated on counter-articulations of its impossibility. While the Asian Century may appear at first as periodizing marker or geopolitical diagnostic, we propose that it can also be read across media and cultural forms, as an affective relation to the past, present, and future, as a structure of feeling, and as a visual and sensorial regime. Finally, in proposing the Asian Century as method, we seek to revisit and reimagine the interdisciplinary stakes of the longstanding conversation on “Asia as method.”

For example, what humanistic and social scientific methods can best track the concept’s intellectual and institutional emergence, circulation, and mediation, including well before the 21st century? How might regional Asian rivalries shape the supply chains and the capital flows of emerging trade blocs like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? How have cultural production and intellectual exchange furnished the cognitive and affective frameworks for these blocs, and for Asian visions of global expansion like China’s “Belt and Road” initiative, South Korea’s cultural exports, and Taiwan’s advanced semiconductor industry? Given the increasing salience of the Asian Century as a concept for periodizing the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism, how might we trace its effects and iterations in and beyond political economy? What was the Asian Century, understood as visions and projections of Asia’s rise promoted by those who stood to benefit from such characterizations? What of the legacy and future of Third World decolonization and Indigenous struggles when Asian peripheries become, or have threatened to become, global powers? Rather than take for granted the rise of Asia as such, we seek to understand how and why Asia’s ostensible ascendance has seen not a lessening but rather a retrenchment of the conditions of planetary inequality.
Convergence Feature Proposals

One of Verge: Studies in Global Asias’ distinctive features is an opening section called Convergence, where we curate a rotating series of rubrics that emphasize collaborative intellectual engagement and exchange. Each issue features four of the following rubrics: A&Q, a responsive dialogue, either in interview or roundtable format, inspired by a set of questions; Codex, a collaborative discussion and assessment of books, films, or exhibits; Translation, for texts, primary or secondary, not yet available in English; Field Trip, reports from various subfields of the disciplines; Portfolio, commentaries on visual images; and Interface, texts exploring the resources of the print-digital world. We welcome those interested in these features to submit a Convergence proposal for the issue.

Proposals should be 1–2 pages in length and indicate what kind of feature is being proposed; demonstrate an awareness of the formats utilized by the journal; include an abstract and, if collaborative, a list of proposed contributors; and include a short (2 pg) cv.

The Convergence proposals deadline is September 8, 2023, however, we encourage those interested in submitting to contact co-editors about their ideas in advance of this date. Please direct all inquiries and submissions to verge@psu.edu.

Essay Submissions:

Essays (between 6,000–10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by May 1, 2024 and prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors’ names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author’s name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author’s previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

Please direct all inquiries to verge@psu.edu.

Deadlines
  • Convergence proposals: September 8, 2023
  • Essays: May 1, 2024
A PDF of this call is available here. For questions, contact verge@psu.edu.

CFP: "FRAMING SUSTAINABLE SECURITY ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA", NUMBER 5, KOREA EUROPE REVIEW


“Framing Sustainable Security on the Korean Peninsula”,

Number 5, Korea Europe Review


Guest editor: Francesca Frassineti 

The Korea Europe Review (KER) is an interdisciplinary platinum open access, peer-reviewed journal specialising in Korean Studies and encompassing the social sciences in a broad sense. While the primary focus is on the Korean peninsula, the journal’s perspective aims to transcend the traditional boundaries of Area Studies in its mission to integrate scholarship on Korea in a multidimensional context of regional as well as global social, cultural, and political discourse.


The Korea Europe Review is now inviting submission proposals for Issue 5 forthcoming in November 2023.

July 2023 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement. Still, the Korean peninsula continues to be one of the major security hotspots in East Asia, stuck in repeating action-reaction cycles. In addition to a high concentration of military assets for deterrence purposes within a geographically limited space and the ensuing increased escalation risk, broader competition between great powers has continually constrained and overridden local dynamics, which further complicates the already precarious status quo on the peninsula.

Beyond concerns over power imbalances across the conventional and nuclear domain, Koreans have also been faced with new, non-traditional security challenges. The regime of Kim Jong Un appears unwilling to ease isolation any time soon regardless of the international community warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in North Korea, further exacerbated by more frequent extreme weather events. Rather, Pyongyang has sought to take advantage of Washington’s tense relationship with Russia and China in the context of the war in Ukraine to progress towards a number of military development goals with relative impunity.

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and fierce competition between the US and China, Seoul – on the other hand – has been progressively drawn into the middle of new fault lines, particularly with regards to the technological field. In the midst of global protectionist trends and efforts to securitise supply chains, the South Korean government has increasingly turned to new and emerging technologies to address the far-reaching implications of lower birth rates and a shrinking workforce. Although intensive digitalisation could push sustainable economic growth, it has already made South Korea a more vulnerable target of an ever-expanding and increasingly sophisticated spectrum of cyber operations that have been largely ascribed to North Korean state-sponsored actors. Besides using the cyber domain to carry out interference and espionage activities, the impacts of longstanding sanctions and COVID-19 induced blockades have led to a surge in Pyongyang’s alleged cyber activism aimed at generating illicit income. Faced with the specter of evolving and increasing cyberattacks, South Korea is forced to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure and take cooperation with the United States, European Union and NATO to the next level.

The issue titled “Framing Sustainable Security on the Korean Peninsula” seeks to approach the evolving security environment on and around the Korean peninsula from a holistic perspective, which encompasses politico-military, economic, environmental, and human factors. Besides the regional level, the aim is to shed light also on the challenges pertaining to the resiliency of local communities. Therefore, we are interested in original and unpublished studies that critically engage with the changes and ideas of security from traditional to non-traditional challenges in all fields related to Korea.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

a) Human security (i.e. economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security)

b) Demographics with main focus on citizenship

c) The relationship between new media and subjective well-being and emotions (including cyber bullying, fake news, internet activism)

d) Economic security, economic coercion, technology, and innovation

e) South Korea’s contribution to regional and global security and cooperation with like-minded partners such as European and NATO countries (including overseas development assistance, health diplomacy, maritime security, territorial disputes)

f) Crisis management and contingency planning on the Korean peninsula (including alliance politics, defense industry, conventional and non-conventional military capabilities, strategic doctrine)


Please be sure to submit full-length articles no later than April 30, 2023. You are also welcome to discuss your ideas with our editors or equally send in an abstract prior to this date.

If you have any queries concerning your proposal as regards focus or thematic scope, please contact the issue’s guest editor Francesca Frassineti (University of Bologna and Ca’ Foscari University Venice) at francescafrassineti7@gmail.com. For all other inquiries as regards the publication process, author and stylistic guidelines, please contact editors@korea-europe-review.org

A note on article processing charges (APCs): At no stage of the publication process will The KER charge author fees for publication. All publication services rendered, e.g. peer review, editing, formatting etc., are completely free to our authors.

Please also note that in addition to calls with particular thematic foci, the Korea Europe Review also welcomes submissions on a continual year-round basis.


More Information:

Korea Europe Review (KER) ǀ ISSN: 2750-4832


Contact: editors@korea-europe-review.org

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. UNITED NATIONS AND KOREAN WAR (1950-1953). POLITICS, WAR AND PEACE




International Conference:

United Nations and Korean War (1950-1953): Politics, War and Peace

21-24 October 2022, Pusan National University, Korea


After World War II, the geopolitical tension of East Asia, especially the Korean peninsula became critical. The beginning of the Cold War between two different ideologies of Communism and Democracy was eventually visualised through the military conflict of the Korean War (1950-1953). The United Nations (UN) dispatched soldiers from sixteen countries as well as medical support from six nations. Then, what is the relationship between the United Nations and the Korean War? Which countries were involved in the war? What were the political and international issues? How was the war seen to outsiders? What kind of grassroots narratives did the soldiers, families and Koreans have?

The aim of this conference is to explore the involvement of the United Nations for ‘the Forgotten War’ through the various case studies of individual, group, or nation. The theme can be analyzed in a multidisciplinary approach of history, politics, anthropology, sociology, war strategy, human movement, medicine, refugee, POWs, Busan studies, unification policy, education, and human rights. If you are interested or your current research is on the subject or relevant to the Korean War, we invite your paper for the international conference in 2022.


Proposed streams:
  1. Policy of the UN for Korean War: The involvement of the United Nations (UN) to the Korean War was significant for South Korea (positively) and North Korea (negatively). How was the decision made so early? Who was involved in the process? How was the policy implemented internationally?
  2. Human Movements, POWs and Refugees: The war directly impacted the relocation of the local people (6.3 million).The waralso caused many POWs and refugees. How was the geographical landscape of the human movements? What was the situation of refugees? Were the POWs treated fairly?
  3. War Strategy and Battles: The various war strategies were applied at the battlers of the Korean War between the army, navy (the marine corps) and air force of China, Russia, UN, North and South Koreas. How was the strategy changed? What was the turning point for each other? Which battles were significant? What about the condition of retrogression?
  4. Narratives of Victims and Casualties (Soldiers and families): The war generated many victims (death and wound) which affected the emotional and mental condition of family members. What was the story of individual involvement? How do they remember the East Asian war? What is the post-war life of soldiers? Do they have any story in relation with Korean people?
  5. Human Rights and Welfare (medicine, orphans, and education): Under the military situation of the Korea war, there were the various activities of international, public and NGO organisations in the sphere of human rights. How was the medical service provided? How were orphans managed? Was any activity of education continued?
  6. Theory and Method in Unification and Peace Process: Since the Korean War has been 70 years and remained as an unfinished war, what kind of theory or method can be adopted for the development of Korean Unification? How can the peace process take a place for the future of both Koreas?

Proposals:

Please send your abstract or panel proposals to David W. Kim (davidwj_kim@yahoo.co.uk) including the following information:
  • Paper title
  • Nominated stream
  • Name and affiliation
  • Contact details (email)
  • Abstract of 150-200 words
  • Biography of 80 words highlighting teaching and research interests and publications (3-4 title and year only).
Proposals for panels of 3 or 4 papers must include the above information for all papers and a brief description of the panel itself of 100 words.


Key dates:
  • Proposal deadline: 15 June 2022
  • Notification: 30 July 2022
  • Registrations open: 05 August 2022
  • Registrations close: 30 August 2022
  • Conference: 21-24 October 2022

Registration fees:
  • Full-time scholar: $300
  • Student/ part-time and unwaged scholar/ audience: $250
  • Local Korean scholar: $200
  • Publishers and Bookshops: $400
Registration includes participation in all conference sessions, lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea on each day, conference dinner, registration pack, and post-conference tour (a half or one day). Publisher registration includes, in addition, a display desk, an opportunity to address conference delegates, and your logo on the conference program front page.


Bursary and Award:

There will be limited burary for some accepted doctoral candidates and early career researchers ($100-$300 each) as well as award for two best papers ($500 each). The bursary and award will be given away after conference.


Post-conference Publication:

The selected papers (in a blook volume) will be published by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing in UK.


Conference Committee:

(Chair) Asso. Prof. David William Kim (Australian National University and Kookmin University, Seoul)

(Co-Chair) Prof. Kiseob Kim (Director, Institute for Korean Unification, Pusan National University)

Research Prof. Jihyun Kim (Institute for Korean Unification, Pusan National University)


Contact:

Please address all inquiries to Dr. David W. Kim: davidwj_kim@yahoo.co.uk

CFP: 2022 SITUATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS




2022 Situations International Conference for Graduate Students

Antagonism in Asia: The Fault-lines of Conflict in an Interdependent World

Jan. 28 -29, 2022 Venue: Online Zoom


It has been commonly thought that bringing the peoples of the world together through free trade and communications technology would create the prosperity that would in turn reduce conflicts between nations and between ethnic and racial groups. Instead, war and uprisings have plunged much of the Middle East into Chaos, while geopolitical rivalry has intensified between the two superpowers, the US and China. Furious and impassioned protests against China over an extradition law erupted in Hong Kong in 2019. Taiwan has sought to strengthen its ties to the US out of mounting fears of a military invasion from the mainland. Ethnic and religious conflicts have come to the forefront in Myanmar, where the crisis over the Rohingya people was a factor in both the country’s decision to ally with China and the coup that toppled its democratically-elected government.

We are looking for papers dealing with literary and cinematic representations of conflict — ideological, ethnic, racial, religious, or even sexual — in Asia. How have fiction writers and filmmakers dealt with this emerging landscape of conflict? What do efforts to grapple with the historical legacies of violence and atrocity, such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or the massacres in Indonesia under Suharto, reveal about contemporary global and regional predicaments?

Some possible topics:
  • The rise of China as a world power
  • The meaning of communism in an age of global markets
  • The legacies of the Cold War
  • Migrant labor in Asia
  • A Pan-Asian future: utopian or realistic?
  • Inter-ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia
  • The war on terror in Asia
  • The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the West
  • Views of Imperial Japan across Asia
  • The Vietnam War reconsidered
  • Feminism, gay rights, and geopolitics
  • Religious persecution in Asia

Early inquires with 200 word abstracts are appreciated. We invite you to submit 4,000 word essays with abstracts by January 17, 2022. All correspondence should be sent to bk21eng-edit@yonsei.ac.kr.

Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes. For further details about the citation protocols, refer to our journal website.


Contact Email: 

bk21eng-edit@yonsei.ac.kr


POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE IMJIN WAR (KOREA)


Postdoctoral Researcher in the Aftermath of the Imjin War (Korea)

Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación y de Estudios de Asia Oriental

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


La posición:

Se invita a presentar solicitudes para un puesto posdoctoral de tres años en historia de Corea como parte del proyecto financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 (H2020-ERC StG 758347) en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. El candidato seleccionado trabajará sobre las consecuencias de la Guerra de Imjin en relación con Corea, desde la perspectiva de uno o más de los tres temas del proyecto Aftermath: medio ambiente, tecnología o sociedad.  Se aconseja a los solicitantes que se familiaricen con la descripción del proyecto Aftermath que figura en el sitio web y que consideren cómo su investigación propuesta contribuiría a los objetivos del proyecto.

El candidato seleccionado tendrá acceso a un entorno de investigación estimulante como parte de un equipo establecido de investigadores, así como una generosa financiación para el trabajo de campo, la compra de libros y los viajes de conferencias.  El idioma de trabajo del proyecto es el inglés y no se requiere que los candidatos hablen español o catalán.  Sin embargo, se animará al candidato seleccionado a que adquiera una competencia básica en uno de estos idiomas durante su estancia para poder participar en los eventos organizados localmente.

Beneficios:

Ofrecemos un puesto de investigación a tiempo completo de hasta 3 años (sujeto a una evaluación después de los primeros 12 meses) en un proyecto de investigación innovador financiado dentro del prestigioso marco del Consejo Europeo de Investigación. El puesto está regulado por un contrato laboral postdoctoral para personal investigador de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Rango salarial 21.180- 28.180 euros (para EURAXESS R2) o 28.180- 34.180 euros (para EURAXESS R3).  El límite superior de este rango salarial es negociable, dependiendo de la experiencia y las habilidades del candidato seleccionado.

Tenga en cuenta que los paquetes de empleo españoles proporcionan automáticamente acceso a la asistencia sanitaria pública y pagan las contribuciones a la pensión pública, además del salario citado anteriormente.

Además, el candidato dispondrá de una asignación de investigación de 4.000 euros al año para el trabajo de campo, la compra de libros y los viajes a conferencias. Es posible que el proyecto ofrezca más financiación en función de cada caso. El candidato seleccionado dispondrá de un espacio de oficina en la oficina compartida del proyecto en el campus principal de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,y dependiendo de la situación de COVID-19, se espera que esté presente regularmente en la oficina para trabajar con otros miembros del equipo.


Cómo aplicar:

Para más detalles sobre el puesto, y para solicitarlo, haga clic aquí.

Este proyecto ha recibido financiación del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) en el marco del programa de investigación e innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea (acuerdo de subvención nº 758347). 


Contacto:

Prof. Rebekah Clements. rebekah.clements@icrea.cat.

Website


Datos generales:

Fecha de inicio: 1/04/2021 (negociable)

Rango salarial: 21.180 € - 34.180 € (negociables) más 4000 € de asignación para investigación

Tipo de contrato: Plazo fijo, tiempo completo.

Ubicación: Barcelona, España.

Fecha de cierre de solicitudes: 11 de febrero de 2021

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