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CFP: SOUTH KOREAN SPECULATIVE FICTION. THE JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS


Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction

 
 
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA), published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in literature, art, drama, film, and popular media. Published three times per year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, JFA’s articles are fully refereed, indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, and searchable in JSTOR. The editorial collective of JFA is currently working to make the journal indexed in SCOPUS and A&HCI as well. In early 2023 JFA plans to publish its first focused issue dedicated to South Korean science fiction and fantasy.

South Korean speculative fiction has a long and rich yet also conflicted history that spans over a century. Building on the legacy of the fantastic in premodern literature while also struggling with colonial drives toward the inculcation of science-technology (kwahak kisul – a compound term devised and systematically promoted as a state-led initiative on industrial development and lifestyle management), creators and readers of Korean science fiction have sought diverse pathways to negotiate the anxiety of influence through critical reappropriation. Taeguek Hakbo’s publication of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (trans. 1907) for instance introduced and framed modern technology as the momentum of progress, whereas Kim Dong-yin’s short story “Dr. K’s Research” (1929) highlighted the limits of a scientific frame of reference through irony. Despite pressures to focus on the problems of the here and now in the form of critical realism, speculative narratives persisted across the mediasphere throughout the turmoil of the Korean War and compressed development; creature/cult/horror films served as an outlet for quirky imaginaries in the ‘60s~’70s, while the comics magazine culture offered a fertile ground for science fiction narratives throughout the ‘80s~early ’90s. The film industry has also embraced speculative tropes as inspiration for hybrid aesthetics after an initial period of struggle (marked by a slew of unsuccessful blockbusters in the early 2000s); television dramas, streaming media, and webtoons are actively embracing the genre as the source of creative momentum; and videogames, in particular, are thriving in the land of the fantastic. In the domain of written literature, fantasy spearheaded the break from the longstanding tradition of critical realism in pace with South Korea’s economic and political stabilization in the ‘90s, and science fiction has become the nursery of feminist breakthroughs to attract global attention over the past decade – an ever-peculiar (yet all the more welcome) state of affairs given the predominantly masculine vector of the genre’s history, paired with the patriarchic underpinning of the kwahak kisul paradigm.

Even as megahit productions such as Snowpiercer (2013), Train to Busan (2016), Space Sweepers (2021), The Silent Sea (2021), and All of Us Are Dead (2022) continue to draw a global viewership, scholarship on South Korean speculative fiction within anglophone academia has been extremely sparse. To address this gap, the editors of this focused JFA issue shed timely and much-needed light on the subject across diverse media. The goal is not to catalogue the genre’s history in South Korea; rather, focus will be laid upon how South Korean speculative fiction writers and creators reverse-engineer the Western concept of modernity through reappropriative maneuvers, taking a deep-dive into the socio-cultural and historical frameworks as innovative aesthetic and discursive ventures. Hence the title, Newtrospection. Newtro refers to a new aesthetic trend in South Korea, which involves reviving and appreciating aesthetic trends from the past. The distinction between retro and newtro lies in that whereas the former veers toward nostalgia in its texture of appreciation, and as such signals contextual significance, the latter is more about challenging existing notions of the hip and/or good in its reconfiguration of trendiness, subverting the idea that the old is passé while disavowing associations between futurity and newness with sleek technicity. Identifying such tendencies in South Korean speculative fiction, the editors believe that the manner in which recent works own and thereby recontextualize longstanding metrics of desirability effectively demonstrate a drive to reverse-engineer the core tenets of anthropocentric, patriarchic, racialized, and colonial paradigms of science and technology.

In addition to scholarly essays on literary texts, the editors also welcome papers about all forms of creative work, including translations, films, television dramas, and new media in the genre of speculative fiction created by South Korean artists or written in Korean. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Comparative definitions, conceptualizations, and historicizations of science, technology, and sociotechnical imaginaries 
  • Modernity, premodernity, and postmodernity 
  • Humanism, posthumanism, and transhumanism 
  • Retrospection, memory, and the newtro
  • Nationalism, coloniality, Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Techno-Orientalism
  • Viruses, microorganisms, zombies, monsters, animals, plants, nonhumans, and sentient beings
  • Robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, genetics, and bioengineering
  • Ghosts, goblins, gods, demigods, myth, folklore, and supernatural beings 
The length of articles generally varies from 5,000 to 9,000 words and ranges from 20 to 30 pages. Please send a title and a 400-word abstract to guest editors Haerin Shin, Korea University (helenshin@stanford.kr) and Sang-Keun Yoo, UC Riverside (syoo015@ucr.edu) by May 31, 2022. Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted soon thereafter and asked to submit full papers by August 31, 2022. All papers will be subject to blind peer review.
 

Call for Book Reviews
 
There is also several books available for review for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. These reviews would be due August 31, 2022.  If you have a completed Master's degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are committed to writing a review for us, please contact the guest editors at the above email addresses, noting your preferred title and your mailing address.  The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000 words and documented in MLA style. 
 

Available Titles
  1. Readymade Bodhisattv
The Journal of Fantastic in the Arts is planning a focused issue on South Korean speculative fiction. The issue signals JFA's drive to broaden its horizon beyond anglophone SF as an ongoing initiative. The editors are excited to invite submissions - including original essays (across media) and book reviews. 
 
  
Contact Info:

Haerin (Helen) Shin, Korea University, helenshin@stanford.kr

Sang Keun Yoo, UC Riverside, syoo015@ucr.edu

CFP: "MAPPING ASIA: CARTOGRAPHY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TERRITORIALITY", CONFERENCE



“Mapping Asia: Cartography and the Construction of Territoriality”, Conference

Centre for Transcultural Studies, Gotha Research Campus, Erfurt University, Germany

24th–25th November 2022


This conference will explore cartography and the construction and contestation of territoriality in Asia from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular we seek to answer the question of how ideas of territoriality were cartographically produced, circulated and interpreted within Asia and between Europe and Asia.

The conference is part of the project "Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800–1945). A Project for the Digitization of Maps of the Perthes Collection Gotha” (KarAfAs). KarAfAs is a co-authored endeavour of the Centre for Transcultural Studies at Gotha and the Perthes Collection of the Gotha Research Library, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. By digitising the maps of the Perthes collection in Gotha, we intend to inspire future projects which see questions of territoriality and spatiality in a fresh light, utilising the source material held at the Perthes Collection. Participants will be invited to a tour of the highlights of the collection’s cartographic material on Asia.

We invite papers which address any of the following themes:
  • The circulation of cartographic knowledge and the territorial imagination
  • The role of Asian and European cartography in nation and state formation
  • Cartography and the making of colonial and post-colonial borderlands
  • Mapping and counter-mapping
  • The construction of the idea of ‘Asia’ and its boundaries
We welcome papers written on any geographical area in Asia which deal with the intersection of cartography and territoriality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

We especially encourage applications from groups underrepresented in the academy. We can offer small grants to reimburse the costs of accommodation and regional travel, with priority given to early career scholars.

Please submit abstracts (in English, up to a maximum of 250 words) together with a short bio to frances.omorchoe@uni-erfurt.de by Sunday 17th April. We will inform applicants of the outcome of their applications by the end of April.

Send inquiries to Claudia Berger at claudia.berger@uni-erfurt.de or Frances O’Morchoe at frances.omorchoe@uni-erfurt.de.


CFP: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKS AND READING IN KOREA


New Perspectives on the History of Books and Reading in Korea

December 8, 2022

Massachusetts, United States


We invite paper proposals for a conference to shed new light on the history of the book and reading in Korea from the Chosŏn period to the early twentieth century.

Ever since Maurice Courant, a French diplomat-turned-scholar, published his monumental Bibliographie Coréenne in 1894, much ink has been spilled on the study of books in Korea. But where is the field headed now? In current research on the history of the book, especially in English-language scholarship, the Korean experience is more often than not written out or treated as an aberration: How was it that a country that had developed and widely used the technology for movable metal type printing as early as the thirteenth century had to wait until the turn of the nineteenth century to witness the rise of commercial printing of vernacular-language materials? The Eurocentric, print-oriented view tends to overlook the historical validity of various non-print forms of the book, as well as the physical instantiation of literacies and practices of writing and reading that flourished in Korea from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

We propose that the Korean historical experience is uniquely positioned to generate exciting new conversations about the global history of the book and of reading because it allows us to de-universalize the teleological narrative of evolution from manuscript to movable-type printing shaped by the European experience. We are interested in exploring the following issues. How can we better perceive the material habitat of written words in Korea by considering the entanglements within, co-existence of, and competition among book-making technologies and diverse forms of “bibliographical documents” (Adams and Barker 1993) in the Korean context—including print (xylography and movable type made of metal, wood, and clay), manuscript, and a plethora of primarily non-codex materials now categorized under the term komunsŏ (lit. “old documents”)? How can we better chart the technologies of literacy that Koreans deployed within a socio-textual universe shored up by the privileged status of Literary Sinitic and sinography? How did written (alphabetical) and spoken vernacular Korean, alongside vernacular reading and compositional methods (kugyŏl/t’o and idumun, respectively), complement and co-opt the textual authority of Literary Sinitic and sinography? How can we better examine the ways in which the materiality of the book as a communicative space—book cover, front matter (title page, table of contents, dedications, and so on), mise-en-page, and binding—was shaped, reoriented, and recomposed not simply as physical containers of text but also as expressive media as object, idea, and interface? What reading and interpretive practices did the physical shape of the book dictate and develop? For heuristic purposes, we adopt Amaranth Borsuk’s (2018) proposal of the book as object, content, idea, and interface, and we are also interested in how the book as a communicative space underscores a variety of somatic and affective experiences—visual-ocular, auditory-oral/aural/vocal, haptic, and olfactory.

We invite papers committed to twin projects: critically revisiting existing characterizations of Korea’s book culture while also conducting in-depth bibliographical examinations of original texts that register genres, cultural habits, and institutions. For example, we look forward to receiving proposals that will shed light on questions like the following: What cultural perceptions and attitudes were reflected in books and the wide range of activities pertaining to their production (paper supply, carving, binding, design, illustration, etc.), circulation, collecting, commercialization, transcription, personalization, de- and re-construction, honoring and discrediting, vernacularization, translation, annotation (glossing, marginalia, commentary, illumination, etc.), documentation, note-taking, anthologizing, republication, reprinting, and digitization? What books were involved in the defining events that shaped the materiality of books and changed practices of reading? We accept paper proposals that will venture into terra incognita as well as proposals that aim to rechart well-trodden territory.

The conference will take place on December 8, 2022 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The one-day conference will have three components: a workshop to discuss each paper hands-on examination of select materials held by the Harvard-Yenching Library, and a roundtable discussion. We envision a publication of papers in a journal special issue after the conference.

As we get closer to the conference date, we will coordinate presentation modes with all accepted participants, depending on the Covid-19 pandemic situation.

If you are interested in participating in the conference, please send a paper proposal (250–300 words) accompanied by a CV to Si Nae Park (sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu) and Suyoung Son (ss994@cornell.edu) by March 1, 2022. Selected participants are expected to send in a paper draft by the end of August 2022.


Timeline:

Paper proposals (250–300 words) due on March 1, 2022

Completion of draft papers (6,000–8,000 words) due on August 31, 2022

Conference: December 8, 2022


Thank you very much.


Conveners/Contact:

Si Nae Park, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University (sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu)

Suyoung Son, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, Cornell University (ss994@cornell.edu)


Contact Info:





Contact Email:

sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu

CFP: HEALTH INFRAESTRUCTURE AND ASIA'S EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES WORKSHOP



Health Infraestructure and Asia's Epidemiological Transitions:

Historical Perspective Workshop


This workshop is jointly organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo.

The contemporary syndemic of infectious diseases, chronic health conditions, poverty, rising heat, and the lack of access to education and information has brought into focus the fragilities of existing health care systems primarily based on medical centers and reliant on a small core of professionals. This suggests a need to investigate the historical evolution of not only health care systems but also the infrastructures that underlay them; how they have succeeded or failed to cope with epidemiological and other transitions in the long twentieth century that brought us to the present moment.

“Infrastructure” in Science and Technology Studies draws attention to institutions, materials, spaces, routines, and conventions that come together to shape and enable systems. Sociologists of health have adopted the concept of “care infrastructure” to engage with the interactions between material and social elements of present-day home care and selfcare practices against the backdrop of the perceived transition from the age of pestilence to the age of chronic non-communicable diseases. “Health infrastructure” can also broadly encompass historical variations of the socio-technical relations behind all kinds and scales of routine and emergency health services, with an emphasis on integrating those relations within the larger forces of changing demographics, inequality, environmental conditions, political claim making, and state-society as well as international relations.

This workshop will investigate Asian experiences, and in particular those of East and Southeast Asia, in crafting health infrastructure over the long twentieth century. Asia has long been stigmatized as a source of global contagion, yet relatively little research about the fallout of epidemics in the region is available for an English readership. There has also been relatively little historical examination of the everyday health challenges faced by communities in Asia. With many lower-and middle-income countries in the region having faced epidemiological transitions, especially also due to the increasing impact of climate change, and its extensive internal and international migration and trade networks, Asia provides important ground for the comparison of different health infrastructures, their developments, and their ability to cope with crises.

The workshop seeks to bring together scholars with different geographic foci within Asia to engage in a comparative and connective dialogue, and produce new ways of understanding the dynamics of health and disease under the processes of decolonization and development, but also with an eye to drawing lessons from the past that could lead to formulating better health policies in the present.

Participants are encouraged, but not limited, to using historical studies and ethnography to discuss the following thematic questions:
  • Are there particular types or elements of health infrastructure that we can characterize as more common or characteristic of this part of the world, and if so, what were their historic drivers and outcomes?
  • How was health infrastructure shaped by the political claims and rights of different social groups (e.g., migrants, minorities)? How has it been influenced by demographic and epidemiological shifts and complexities?
  • How have forces operating at a global level influenced the construction and operation of local health infrastructures?
  • How did encounters between indigenous and foreign medical knowledge and methods of health provision reshape the meaning of health infrastructure in postcolonial Asia?
  • How have health infrastructures developed under decolonisation, the Cold War, geopolitical tensions, the rise of Third Worldism, and neoliberal globalisation?
  • What health conditions were highlighted within Asian health infrastructures and how were they measured? What do those choices tell us about assumptions about the health issues that were of importance and relevance in Asia?

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Submissions should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email contact. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. By participating in the workshop, you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organisers.

Please use the paper proposal form and send it in doc/docx format to Sharon at arios@nus.edu.sg by 31 October 2021. Successful applicants will be notified by end November. Once accepted, a completed draft paper (5,000-8,000 words) will be due by 13 March 2022. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and organisers in advance. Drafts need not be fully polished. We expect that presenters will be open to feedback and willing to revise their papers for potential inclusion in a special issue submission (in collaboration with the workshop organisers and other participants).

COVID-19 related note: We intend to hold this workshop on location in Singapore. Accepted participants will be provided a subsidy for a round-trip economy-class airfare to Singapore, lodging, and some meals. But under some circumstances remote participation may also be a possibility. Should travel to Singapore be impossible due to the virus, we plan to proceed with the workshop remotely.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Assoc Prof Kavita SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, Associate Professor in Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University


WORKSHOP CONVENORS



Assoc Prof Gregory CLANCEY

Contact Info:

Sharon Ong (she/her)
Senior Executive, Events

Contact Email:

arios@nus.edu.sg

CFP: KOREA EUROPE REVIEW ISSUE 2 «IMPOSSIBLE TRIANGULATION»


Korea Europe Review,

Issue 2 «Impossible Triangulation»


The Korea Europe Review is now inviting submission proposals for Issue 2 forthcoming in May 2022.

The issue is titled “Impossible Triangulation” in which we seek to explore the complex and increasingly multidimensional field of regional, international and global discourses, networks, alliances and power shifts afflicting the Korean peninsula.

We are especially interested in:

a) an evaluation of present developments of new old and new forms of political, cultural, social, economic, and epistemic hegemony in South-East Asia, both on a theoretical-conceptional level as well as in terms of concrete phenomena of transregional, international and indeed global power structures. This also includes the critical assessment of the possible future impact of these developments for the Korean peninsula but also for the larger (and indeed international) context of the so-called South-East Asian “security triangle”.

b) on a soft-power level, the creation of new boundaries through the appropriation, translation and reconfiguration of linguistic, cultural and religious practices and techniques as well as historical narratives throughout South-East Asia and its wider neighborhood (e.g. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, India’s “Act East Policy”, Taiwan’s “New Southbound Policy”, South Korea’s “New Southern Policy, or the “Indo-Pacific Vision of Japan, the US and Australia).

The deadline for submissions for the second number of the Korea Europe Review has been extended. We welcome your abstracts for articles until 15 October 2021 and full articles by 15 January 2022.

If you have any queries concerning your proposal or are unsure whether it fits KER’s thematic scope, please contact our editors at editors@korea-europe-review.org

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

For more information, please visit our website.

CFP: ASIE-SORBONNE WORKSHOP: THE TREE THAT HIDES THE FOREST



The tree that hides the forest

Workshop organized by the



Hamedine Kane & Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, The School of Mutants, 2020. Film still. Courtesy of the artists. (Filmed in the forest near the abandoned buildings of the National Taiwan Ocean University Campus in Keelung).

The Asie-Sorbonne Association organizes a two-days’ workshop with the aim of reflecting on the dynamics of the relationship with trees—and beyond, with nature—in East and South Asia by comparison with the West. Our starting point is the Japanese practice of immersion in a forest called Shinrin-Yoku or “forest bathing” (or sylvotherapy).

The practice which emerged in the 1980s at the same time as the benefits of “green” landscapes was developing in the United States (Wilson 1984), has been examined exclusively from a physiological and psychological point of view by Health Scientists. 

We postulate that this practice is part of a paradigmatic relationship with nature that is determined not only by organic factors but also by an imaginary of the tree, memories associated with the landscape, and cultural practices. It has therefore both universal and relative foundations that we feel it is necessary to examine.

In Japan, the practice may have animist (Knight 2009), Shinto (Knight 2010; Rots 2014) or even Buddhist roots. Since the mainland is identifiable with mountain, forest is practically synonymous with mountain, the place of epiphanisation of the spirit. A wood is quite often a sanctuary and considered a hill, a mound or even a mountain even if it is on the plain and not high.

In Korea, Won Sop points to the traditional association of wood, stone and water to explain the health benefits of forest bathing (Won Sop et al. 2010).

In Taiwan holistic indigenous practices see people as part of an interdependent environment, as an Umwelt (Lushan tribe 2018).

The Chinese concept of qi (in Japan ki), i.e. the vital energy shared between man and nature, as well as the specific perception of trees in Chinese (Bao et al. 2016; Escande 2011; Ke 2019) and Japanese philosophy, can be called upon to support this implicit cultural dimension.

The forest as a place of enlightenment is also essential for Buddhists and Jains, and the representation of Yaksha and Yakshini testifies to the role of the tree as a source of life, sometimes ambivalent, in the Indian tradition, where certain tree species are still considered sacred today. Such representations existed in the West before the Industrial revolution, and then in reaction to it, e.g., in the Gothic, and in European Romanticism (Harrison 1992) or in American Transcendentalism (Egerton 2011).

The workshop addresses a double question: How do cultural, artistic, religious, classical or popular, traditional or contemporary practices, as well philosophical/aesthetic theories bear witness to a certain view of the forest; and how do they potentially pre-condition the actual experience of forest immersion? The question will be approached in the context of East and South Asia, or, by comparison, in the West.

Our motivation is not only theoretical. We postulate that in a “post-anthropocene”, ecological perspective, it is necessary to “re-enchant” our relationship to the forest, to the tree, to the soil. Let us cease to look at the tree, its essence, its size, to perceive the forest in which it lives, the clouds, the streams, the animals that surround it, in a holistic way, imbued with a living, poetic dimension that integrates but goes beyond the scientific and naturalistic approach (Latour 2021, 2015; Descola 2005; Alexander 2004).

 
Practical details

The conference will take place from 19 to 20 November 2021 in person and by videoconference at the INHA (Paris). The 20-minute papers may be in French or English. Contributions from artists and poets are welcome, including in the form of a performance.

An abstract of 300 to 500 words must be received by 30 August at the latest at secretariat@asie-sorbonne.fr. Selected participants will be notified on 15 september.

A publication of a selection of the papers is planned.


Please note:

A three-hours immersive experience in a forest of Ile-de-France under the guidance of a naturalist and psychologist trained in Shinrin-Yoku will be organized for a limited number of interested participants (50€/pers.). For organisational reasons, registration must be made by 30 August at the latest. It is not refundable.

Asie-Sorbonne is an association of researchers working on Asian humanities whose headquarters are located within the Creops, Department of East and Southeast Asian Art History of the University of Paris-Sorbonne. 

The contributions will be evaluated by an ad hoc scientific committee. 

Bea Bien–U, The pine forest at Kyungju, 2010. C-Print- © Gallery X. Courtesy of the artist.

 
Contact Info: 
 
Secretariat Asie-Sorbonne

Contact Email: secretariat@asie-sorbonne.fr

CFP: MUSIC AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE ASIAN POLITICAL SPACE


Music and Engagement in the Asian Political Space

IGI-Global


Asia has a variety of political systems, religions, histories, huge populations (over half of humanity), and the largest land mass of all continents. Yet, the intricacies of its political affairs and how societies in the continent function are not fully well known or documented, and in fact often misunderstood. One of those unknown, underappreciated and misunderstood issues is the role of music, the arts and other forms of engagement in the Asian political space. This edited book is therefore conceptualized to shed light on this issue by:

Publishing research work entirely devoted to the intersection of music, the arts and forms of political engagement in the Asian political space, mainly by scholars of Asian heritage and ancestry, and in the eclectic tradition of political communication research i.e. from the perspectives of mass communication and journalism, music, political science, sociology, law, linguistics, history, theater and the arts, and related subjects in the humanities. And, doing so from multiple theoretical and methodological approaches to communication research. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Songs and music, musicians, social movements, civil disobedience and mass mobilization for political action.
  • The use of music and other forms of arts for the promotion of civil, human, political and other rights.
  • Exploring music and other forms of art as historical forces for change in society, including socio-political criticisms, challenging power and privilege, and also as used by the elite in power for their ideological self-preservation and perpetuation of control.
  • Other issues related to, but are not explicitly mentioned above

Submission Procedure & Deadlines:
  • Abstracts of 150-200 words should be submitted on or before May 31, 2021.
  • Submissions should be done through IGI-Global publisher’s online submission manager here. Approvals will be done in June, 2021.
  • Full manuscripts are expected by September 30, 2021.They will undergo a rigorous, double-blinded peer review process.

Contact Info:

Dr. Uche Onyebadi (corresponding editor)

Dr. Mohammad D. Hossain

Contact Email: onyebadi@yahoo.com

CFP: MEMORY AND VISUAL CULTURE IN 20TH AND 21ST C. EAST ASIA


Call for papers

Memory and Visual Culture in 20th and 21st c. East Asia. 


We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century East Asia, originating from a 2021 College Art Association annual conference session of the same name.

In twentieth and twenty-first century East Asia the establishment of modern nations and the shared experiences of wars, political conflicts, the colonial period, and Cold War tensions, among other historical events, contributed to sites and images of memory as widely produced, reproduced, and circulated. These sites and images, commissioned and produced by diverse agents, played a central role in constructing national narratives and collective identities, controlling or mediating domestic and international politics, crystallizing and visualizing forgetting and loss into material forms, and sustaining, intervening in, and resisting collective memories.

In Transposed Memory we seek to foster cross-cultural dialogues on memory and to illuminate geographical and cultural dynamics in East Asia by inviting chapter contributions on the range of site markers and visual signs of memory produced in modern and contemporary East Asia, from the traditional forms of monument, memorial, and museum to more recent forms such as participatory memorials, counter-monuments, and contemporary artists’ critical responses to collective memories. We welcome work from a variety of approaches, looking at a wide geographic and temporal spread, and considering diverse mediums, visual forms, and topics of memory construction.

Potential chapter topics may include, but are not limited to, the following examples: How do monuments and memorials shape, institutionalize, and reconstruct collective memories and national identities? How do sites and images of memory undergo transformation and gain new social contexts with periodical and political changes? How do visual forms and materiality shape collective remembering and forgetting? What is the viewer’s engagement with and lived experiences of sites and images of memory? What role does memory have in visual culture and politics in East Asia? How does collective memory forge East Asian relations, represented by the recent “memory war”?


Proposals should be 250-300 words, accompanied by a CV. Chapters will be in the 6,000-8,000 word range. Please email proposals to ajmiller@sewanee.edu and eunyoung.park2@case.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is June 1, 2021.


Edited by:

Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art, images of the Japanese empress, and gender in visual culture.

Eunyoung Park is Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in contemporary Korean art, with a research focus on issues of identity, globalization, and contemporaneity.

CFP: JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY VOL. 18


Call for articles,

Journal of Northeast Asian History Vol. 18.


The Northeast Asian History Foundation continues to expand its interaction with scholars specializing in Asian history and related fields outside East Asia. The Foundation is also strengthening its ties with leading institutions and scholars by encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to research on geopolitical, cultural, educational, and other issues in East Asia.

The Foundation publishes the Journal of Northeast Asian History (JNAH), a peer-reviewed semi-annual English-language journal that focuses on history-based approaches to Asian politics, cultures, economy and other fields to shed light on the historical realities of the Asian World. The Journal's geographical scope extends to other parts of the world which have significant relevancy to Asian history, thus charting globalism and localism from global perspectives.

In particular, we will welcome two topics that concern (1) Korea-China Relations and Historical Configuration in Northeast Asia and (2) US-China Relations and Historical Issues in East Asia, both of which will help explore further how inter-state and intra-state matters were and are liked together to the historical development of continental East Asia and how the confluence of these external and internal factors have been making vital impact on the various mode of regional interaction in modern East Asia and beyond.

The Journal of Northeast Asian History calls for the submission of outstanding and unpublished papers for review. We invite colleagues to consider the Journal when seeking to publish ongoing research since we believe this can be an impetus for further scholarly collaboration in the future. For full consideration, please submit manuscripts by September 15, 2021 for Winter Issue.

Please contact us at jnah@nahf.or.kr or jnah.nahf@gmail.com should you have any questions regarding the journal, its submission process or subscription to it.

Thank you in advance for your attention and contributions.

CFP: JOURNAL OF THE ASIA-JAPAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY



Call for Research Papers for the 3rd Volume,

Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute

Ritsumeikan University


The Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University was founded in December 2015 under the Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization as the 12th permanent research institute at Ritsumeikan University.

In accordance with the Institute's mission, "Cultivating Asia-literate, globally-capable human resources and contributing to the development of a common vision for the future of Asia and Japan," we are pleased to announce the launching of its English-only e-journal, Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University. AJI Journal, Vol.1, 2019 was released in July 2019 in a PDF format online.

Vol. 2 will be released in September 2021.

Now, the Institute invites the submission of original research contributions in all disciplinary and multi-disciplinary fields relating to Asia and/or Japan for the 3rd volume. The Institute encourages not only solid disciplinary researches but also strongly promotes interdisciplinary research through the development and fusion of various fields such as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. They welcome all valuable and innovative papers on historical, contemporary, and futuristic issues of Asia and/or Japan.

Deadline and format for the submission: 23:59 Japan Time on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, by an MS Word file attached to an email. 

For the format of papers, please conform to the AJI Style Sheet (click here)

For details, please refer to the Submission Regulations of the journal (click here) and the AJI Style Sheet (click here).


CONTACT:

Email: aji-eb@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

The Editorial Board of Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University 
Osaka, Ibaraki, Japan.

CFP: THE JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY VOL. 17


Call for papers:

The Journal of Northeast Asian History Vol. 17


Dear Colleagues,


The Northeast Asian History Foundation continues to expand its interaction with scholars specializing in Asian history and related fields outside East Asia. The Foundation is also strengthening its ties with leading institutions and scholars by encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to research on geopolitical, cultural, educational, and other issues in East Asia.

The Foundation publishes the Journal of Northeast Asian History (JNAH), a peer-reviewed semi-annual English-language journal that focuses on history-based approaches to Asian politics, cultures, economy, and other fields to shed light on the historical realities of the Asian World. The Journal's geographical scope extends to other parts of the world that have significant relevance to Asian history, thus charting globalism and localism from global perspectives.

The Journal of Northeast Asian History calls for the submission of outstanding and unpublished papers for review and possible publication in 2020. The Foundation invites colleagues to consider the Journal when seeking to publish ongoing research since they believe this can be an impetus for further scholarly collaboration in the future. For full consideration, please submit manuscripts by October 30, 2020. 

Please contact them at jnah@nahf.or.kr or jnah.nahf@gmail.com should you have any questions regarding the journal, its submission process, or subscription to it.


The Foundation thank you in advance for your attention and contributions.


CONTACT:

Email: jnah@nahf.or.kr

CFP: THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ASIA: CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN


The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in Asia: 

China, Korea, and Japan


The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan, Editors: Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University) and Beatrice Leung (Former Research Professor, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung).

This three-section Handbook provides information on the Catholic Church in East Asia—China mainland, Mongolia, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan—from its beginnings to the present. It aims to offer sufficient material and analysis for the study and research of the East Asian Catholic Church. It follows a chronological framework tracing events from the 7th-century to the 21st-century. 

The editors are seeking authors for the three-section Handbook. Each of the chapters is about 30 pages and 16,500 words.  If you are interested, please contact Cindy Yik-yi Chu at cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk


The chapters seeking authors are:
  • Korea section
    • Chapter 7: Church Architecture and Church Buildings
    • Chapter 8: Evangelization through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities
    • Chapter 10: Evangelization through Music and Religious Hymns

  • Japan section
    • Chapter 4: Foreign Missionaries, 1900-1945
    • Chapter 5: Foreign Missionaries and the Building of the Local Church Hierarchy, 1945 to the Present
    • Chapter 8: Evangelization through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities
    • Chapter 9: Bible and Religious Literature Translation, and Indigenous Religious Texts
    • Chapter 10: Evangelization through Music and Religious Hymns
    • Chapter 11: Evangelization through Paintings and Sculptures (Images)


Contact:

Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Editor of the Christianity in Modern China Series of Palgrave Macmillan) (Professor of History, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Address: Room 1152, 11th Floor. Academic and Administration Building. 15 Baptist University Road. Kowloon Tong, Kowloon. Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3411 7182
Fax: (852) 3411 7885

Email: cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk

CFP: 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ASIA SCHOLARS (ICAS 12)


ICAS 12 
Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021


We would like to invite you to submit a proposal for the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12). The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is a global platform enabling individuals and institutions from all over the world to come together to exchange views on a variety of issues pertaining to Asia. The Convention attracts participants from around 75 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic areas.

ICAS 12 will take place from 24-27 August 2021. The meeting place for the twelfth edition of ICAS is Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is famous for its world heritage sites, temples, gardens, palaces and craft centres. Kyoto Seika University (SEIKA) will be the main host of ICAS 12; it will partner with the city, Kyoto Prefecture, The Consortium of Universities in Kyoto, and the city’s museums and craft centres.

Events will include: panels and roundtable discussions, craft exhibitions, an Asian film festival and the ICAS Asian Studies Book Fair. With all these activities ICAS contributes to the decentring of Asian Studies while convening a global space in which Asia scholars and social and cultural actors from the whole world can directly interact. Participate at ICAS 12 and enjoy the multitude of networking opportunities, possibilities to share your research and to meet with publishers.

The main venue for ICAS 12 will be the iconic modernist Kyoto International Conference Center, set in a beautiful garden. Around 2000 Asia specialists and representatives of civil society are expected to attend.

Call for proposals – deadline: 1 October 2020

The submission deadline for proposals of Individual Abstracts, Panels, Roundtables, Book Presentations and PhD Dissertation Presentations is 1 October 2020. This year we are also calling for documentary submissions and welcome you to share your ideas that can positively impact the future of Asian Studies. If you would like to suggest a different format and/or are willing to run a session with a different format, please share the details with us. For more information on all proposal formats (including the number of participants per panel/roundtable), please click here. For a detailed step-by-step manual please click here.

The special focus of ICAS 12 is Crafting a Global Future, but proposals for ICAS 12 may involve topics from all Asian Studies disciplines in the broadest possible sense. Topics may include, among others: Arts; Economy, Development and Urbanization; Education and Knowledge; Environment and Climate Change; Gender and Diversity; Heritage and Culture; History; Language and Literature; Media and Digital Age; Migration and Diasporas; Politics and International Relations; Philosophy, Religions and Beliefs; Society and Identity.

Please note that all abstracts and presentations should be in English and can only be submitted through the online submission system. For the ICAS 12 Books and Dissertations Presentation Carousel, we also strongly encourage authors of non-English titles to present (in English) their publications at the ICAS 12. Participants will be notified before 31 December 2020 about the selection results.

Participants of ICAS 12 are expected to fund their own registration fee, travel and accommodation. Limited financial support is available for selected PhD students and early career scholars (PhD degree obtained after 1 January 2018). The grant application process will only start after the review process. Further information about registration fees, accommodation, and logistics will be provided after completion of the review process. For more information on ICAS 12, please visit the ICAS website or contact them by email.

ICAS Book and Dissertation Prize 2021

The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established by ICAS in 2003. The IBP is awarded for outstanding publications in the field of Asian Studies. It has created an international focus for publications on Asia which has increased their visibility and recognition worldwide. The IBP received 750 submissions in 2019 and has grown into the leading book prize in the field of Asian Studies. For this ninth edition, books in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish will be eligible.

For the English language edition of the IBP 2021 we also welcome dissertations on Asia in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The deadline to submit books and dissertations is: 1 October 2020. For more information, please visit the ICAS Book Prize page (click here)


Contact information:

For queries about ICAS 12, please contact them at icas12@iias.nl


(In light of the current global pandemic, ICAS 12 is exploring alternative formats including virtual presentations. We will monitor the global situation closely and will share any relevant developments. Please stay safe and healthy; we wish you all the best for the coming time).

CFP: THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE: SINITIC SCRIPTS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ASIA


The Politics of Language: Sinitic Scripts in Twentieth-Century Asia


Fei Chen (Associate Professor, Shanghai Normal University) is calling for submission of chapter abstracts to the following volume edited by him and Ying-kit Chan (Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University)

The Politics of Language: Sinitic Scripts in Twentieth-Century Asia

ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE OF RESEARCH ON THE EAST ASIAN WAR OF 1592-1598



Online Bibliographical Database of Research on the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Autonomous University of Barcelona


Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce a new research tool that has been launched at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of our European Research Council-funded project on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea.

CFP: 13TH KYUJANGGAK INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KOREAN STUDIES, 2020



International Symposium
November 6-7, 2020

Since 2008, the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies has held its annual Korean Studies Symposium. With only two concurrent sessions spread over two days, this event is a unique mid-sized, themed conference. This small-scale allows for both in-depth discussions of specialized topics and exchanges with specialists in many other areas of Korean studies.

CFP: RESEARCH JOURNAL; ACTA ASIATICA VARSOVIENSIA - CALL FOR PAPERS ISSUE 33 (2020).


CFP: Research Journal; Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia

The Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal “Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia” invites authors to submit articles to its newest issue (33/2020).  Manuscripts shall be submitted through the following e-mail address: acta.asiatica@iksio.pan.pl by the 30 June 2020.
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