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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: "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.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2023 (III)



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

PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY KOREA SUMMER INSTITUTE


Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Summer Institute

Theme: The Global Korean War
Dates: June 25-July 1, 2023
Location: Ann Arbor Campus

Program Overview

The Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan is announcing the inaugural Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Summer Institute, to be held in Ann Arbor from June 25-July 1, 2023. Graduate students at any level whose research concerns Korea are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to students pursuing a doctoral degree. In this one-week, residential intensive program, students will participate in collaborative learning, collective thinking, and interdisciplinary agenda-setting around a key critical issue central to Korean Studies. Two leading scholars will be joining students in residence and directing in-person seminars for participants.

In the summer of 2023, the theme of the institute will be the Global Korean War. A formative event of the twentieth century, the Korean War was not a single war but a combination of several kinds of related conflicts: a civil war between mutually negating postcolonial political forces, a global conflict waged between major power blocs with competing visions of modernity, and, increasingly after 1950, a war fought between the American “superpower” and a fledgling revolutionary state of the People’s Republic of China. The Summer Institute will be devoted to exploring key issues in established and emerging scholarship on the Korean War. Particular attention will be paid to contextualizing classical perspectives in relation to successive waves of revisions enabled by the opening of previously unavailable archives on the one hand, and by the recognition of subjectivities and experiences hitherto unseen, unacknowledged, or marginalized, on the other.

This summer, the two scholars who will be joining the Summer Institute as faculty instructors are:

Heonik Kwon is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Science and Distinguished Research Professor of Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, uniquely on the Academy’s three separate subject fields of Anthropology, Asian Studies and Modern History. Author of prizewinning books on the Vietnam War social history and on Asia's postcolonial Cold War experience (The Other Cold War, 2010), Kwon's other publications include North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics (2012), After the Korean War: An Intimate History (Cambridge, 2020), and Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century (2022).

Steven Lee is Associate Professor of History and former chair of the international relations program at the University of British Columbia. His publications include Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam and the Origins of the Cold War, 1949-1954 (1996), The Korean War (2001), and Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, co-edited with Yunshik Chang (2006). He has coedited a volume of The Journal of American-East Asian Relations on the theme of the two Koreas in the 1950s (2017), and has written articles on the history of Korean refugees, Canada-Korean Relations, and the role of the UN in Korea. He is currently writing a global history of the twentieth century for Blackwell-Wiley.


Applications

All applications should be submitted using this form.

Interested students should prepare and submit the following documents, in addition to one confidential letter of recommendation from a faculty member from the institution where the student is currently enrolled, preferably the applicant’s advisor:
  1. A Letter of Intent of no more than two pages describing current scholarly interests and how participation in the Summer Institute would contribute to the applicant’s academic plans. The statement should include information about courses taken in relevant fields if any.
  2. A current curriculum vitae
  3. A sample of recent writing

Letters of recommendation should be submitted by the advisor in pdf format to ncks.applications@umich.edu with “SUMMER INSTITUTE - Letter of Recommendation” in the subject line.

The final deadline for all submissions is April 9, 2023 at 11:59 pm.

Admissions decisions will be announced within the month of April.


Tuition & Financial Aid

Tuition is waived for all participants in the institute. Lodging will be provided to participants, as well as a modest stipend for meals and incidental expenses, with the generous support of the Academy of Korean Studies.

Students are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions for transportation to Ann Arbor.

The Summer Institute is supported by the Strategic Research Institute Program for Korean Studies of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service at the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2021-SRI- 2200001).

CFP: THE KOREAN PENINSULA, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM


The Korean Peninsula, A Multidisciplinary Perspective. International Symposium

June 21-22, 2023 The Bar-Ilan University (hybrid)


Last year (2022) the Korean Studies conference commemorated 60 years of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and some Middle Eastern countries, including Israel. This year, the conference’s focus will be on the Korean Peninsula from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The security threat from the North that South Korea is dealing with, considered to be a major topic in the field of Korean Studies in Israel for many years. To broaden the discussion, the 2023 Korean conference will include other challenges and themes that both Koreas face, including (but not limited):
  1. The demographical challenges, solutions, and obstacles South Korea faces in the last few years. Is it an obstacle at all?
  2. The economic policy. How should the government, financial and industrial sectors adapt to the new global changes? What is the role of China in these economic changes?
  3. Cultural aspects. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared that he will invest three billion dollars in South Korean culture. How should Korea balance its investments in culture? Should we change our soft power perspective in the coming years?
  4. Historical preservation. What efforts and aspects of preservation are taking place in contemporary Korea? How should Korea's historical assets be presented to the public?
  5. The security challenges. The new North Korean drone incident and the debate on how South Korea should develop its own nuclear capabilities, raise questions about South Korea's defense policy.
  6. The influence of populism in the Korean political arena. Political discourse, and the use of social media.
  7. Historical narratives between Korea and its neighbors.
Asian Studies at Bar-Ilan University invite scholars from the humanities and the social sciences to discuss these issues. To offer new perspectives on these issues, and or other relevant themes that concern Korea (North and South). We will also invite comparison discussion between Korea and other global cases.

Individual presenters may submit an abstract of 300 words and a one-paragraph short CV. For panel proposals, please submit a one-page proposal and a short CV of the speakers. Email the information or if you have any questions to Dr. Alon Levkowitz (alon.levkowitz@biu.ac.il) by April 1, 2023.

Successful applicants will be notified by April 15, 2023.

On the evening of June 21st, we will host an opening dinner for all participants. Conformation of attendance is required. The conference panels will take place on June 22 at the Bar-Ilan University campus.

Participants are required to secure their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Limited hotel rooms will be offered for overseas participants. If you wish to be granted accommodation, please mention it in your proposal. Conference Organizers: Dr. Alon Levkowitz and Dr. Michal Zelcer-Lavid, Asian Studies, Bar-Ilan University

For questions regarding the conference, please contact Dr. Alon Levkowitz alon.levkowitz@biu.ac.il.

This conference is supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Seed Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-INC-2230013) and the Dangoor Centre.

CONFERENCIA CASA ASIA: LA GEOPOLÍTICA EN EL INDOPACÍFICO Y LA POSICIÓN DE COREA


La geopolítica en el Indopacífico y la posición de Corea,

Conferencia Casa Asia


La política exterior coreana ha dado un giro importante con el presidente Yon Seuk-yeol. Este giro se ha traducido en una mejora de las relaciones con Japón, una mayor aproximación a EEUU, sobre todo en el terreno de la seguridad, y una relación más matizada con China. En esta conferencia se tratarán los aspectos clave de la estrategia de este país asiático para el Indopacífico, con especial atención a la preocupación por la amenaza norcoreana y el protagonismo de las cuestiones de seguridad.

Presenta y modera:
Conferencia a cargo de:
  • María Castillo, embajadora de la Unión Europea para la República de Corea.

Más información:
  • Fecha: Jueves 16 de marzo de 18.00 h a 19.00 h CET
  • Precio: Actividad gratuita previa inscripción.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES ACADÉMICAS 2023 (I)



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

CFP: “THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE”, INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE


“The Rise of Asia in Global History and Perspective”,

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

Paris and Le Havre; February 8-10, 2023


Global crisis: What impacts and what perspectives for Asia and the world?

The war in Ukraine, in all its dimensions, is producing alarming cascading effects to a world already battered by COVID-19 and climate change. Serious damage is being done to the global economy, and particularly to vulnerable people and developing countries.

The United Nations Secretary-General has established a Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance in the UN Secretariat, with the following policy recommendations:

On Food: We urge all countries to keep markets open, resist unjustified and unnecessary export restrictions, and make reserves available to countries at risk of hunger and famine.

On Energy: The use of strategic stockpiles and additional reserves could help to ease the energy crisis in the short term. But the only medium- and long-term solution is to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy.

On Finance: We need urgent action by the G20 and international financial institutions to increase liquidity and fiscal space so that governments can provide safety nets for the poorest and most vulnerable.


The global crisis described above has put Asia to the fore. Among the G20 members, eight of them are Asian and Eurasian: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Turkiye. Some of them are granary of food (Russia, Thailand, Vietnam…), of energy (Russia, Saudi Arabia…), of finance (China, Japan…). With the Pacific countries, Asia has set-up the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade agreement involving Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The 15 member countries account for about 30% of the world's population (2.2 billion people) and 30% of global GDP ($29.7 trillion), making it the largest trade bloc in history. They have the necessary sources to be self sufficient among themselves: raw materials, human resources, technology, finance. The intra-Asia trade and investment have become more important than the extra-Asia ones. The major players of global geopolitics are led by Asian countries: BRICS, NAM, SCO…

So, what are the impacts of global crisis for Asia and the world? How States and societies react to the climate changes, pandemic Covic-19 and Russo-Ukrainian war? What perspectives coming out from the crisis? Will it lead to a new world order? Will the hegemony of the West continue to function? Will a new equilibrium of bipolar world be achieved? Will multipolarism prevail? What roles played by regional and international institutions such as EU, NATO, BRICS, NAM, SCO, ECOWAS, ASEAN, CELAC, MERCOSUR, UNASUR…? What actions taken by social movements and civil society organisations facing the crisis: trade unions, identity-based movements, ethnic and religious movements, indigenous communities, feminists, ecologists, cooperatives…?

It is to discuss about those such questions that the 7th edition of the Rise of Asia Conference Series is organised. It 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 and writers, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Oceania, Pacific…).



The conference is open to individual and group presentation. 

The deadline of abstract submission is November 30, 2022. 

The call for abstracts and other information are available here.

CONVOCATORIA 2023 PROGRAMA DE BECAS DEL KDI


Convocatoria 2023 Programa de Becas del KDI

(2023 KDI School Spring Semester Scholarship Program)


La Embajada de República de Corea en España informa de que la KDI School of Public Policy and Management ha abierto su convocatoria '2023 KDI School Spring Semester Scholarship Program'.

1. Ámbito del Programa
  • Master of Public Policy
  • Master of Development Policy
  • Master of Public Management
  • Master in Intellectual Property and Development Policy
  • Ph.D. in Public Policy
  • Ph.D. in Development Policy
2. Duración
  • (Master) 1 ~ 1.5 años
  • (Ph.D) 3 años
3. Fecha de inscripción
  • Presentación de solicitudes: desde el 1 de septiembre hasta el 23 de septiembre de 2022 (viernes, hasta las 18:00, KST)
  • Evaluación de la documentación y entrevista personal: en el mes de octubre y noviembre
  • Comunicación a los candidatos seleccionados: a principios de diciembre de 2022
  • Apertura del Curso: febrero de 2023
4. Consultas
  • Telf. +00-82-44-550-1175/1281
  • Correo electrónico: internationaladmissions@kdis.ac.kr

※ IMPORTANTE: Se pueden consultar todos los detalles del programa KDI en el archivo adjunto que contiene la guía.



Fuente: Embajada de Corea en España

CFP: COLD WAR BORDERLANDS IN EUROPE AND NORTHEAST ASIA, 1944-1991


Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

Approaches to New Research

Workshop in Udine, Italy (9-12 March 2023)



This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to discuss key issues pertaining to Cold War borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s). One aim of the workshop will be to set up an international and multidisciplinary network of scholars working on the topic.

The Cold War had a profound impact on border communities, especially in areas where ideological borders overlapped with ethnic dividing lines or disputed territories. Borders were often the focal points of international crises in Europe and Northeast Asia during the Cold War, for example in Trieste immediately after the end of the Second World War, on the Korean peninsula during and after the 1950-1953 war, in Berlin in 1948 and 1961, and between the Soviet Union and China in 1969. Borders also played a crucial role in stoking tensions between countries such as Yugoslavia and Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and Hungary and Romania. Our post-1945 images of both Europe and Northeast Asia were shaped by Cold War borders, and to a large extent these images have persisted in the post-Cold War era. At least in Western Europe, the perception of which countries are part of “Eastern Europe” is still heavily determined by their position in respect to the former Iron Curtain. In Northeast Asia, the border between North and South Korea remains heavily militarized, and the territorial disputes between Japan and Russia remain acute.

Up to now, however, a unified and comparative approach to the history of the regions along the Cold War-era divides in Europe and Northeast Asia has not emerged. Part of the reason is that the perception of what actually constitutes a “Cold War border” varies across time and space. Seen from Italy, for example, the border with what is now Slovenia was perceived as the frontline in the confrontation between the West and the East. But in former Yugoslavia, the border with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria from 1948 on was viewed as much more meaningful in this respect. On the Korean peninsula, the key border over the past eight decade — the one separating North and South Korea — has been one that was created and solidified by the Cold War. The degree of militarization, ease of border closing, and level of trade varied significantly in different European and Asian borderlands, calling into question the notion that there was a single Cold War divide on either continent.

The Iron Curtain shaped the borderlands and the communities who lived there in many respects: economic, social, demographic, military, political, linguistic, and anthropological. Demography drastically changed with the arrival of a huge number of soldiers responsible for securing the areas. In many regions, even the physical landscape was radically transformed by the building of fortifications and military infrastructure and by the imposition of border controls and exclusion zones. Integrating these aspects into a single narrative requires a multidisciplinary approach that has often been impractical within the discipline-based structure of academia.

A further obstacle to the establishment of a more unified research framework has been the prevalence of nationally oriented historiographies, which have often hindered multinational projects and attempts to assess the complexity of the history of the borderlands by taking into account the perspectives of all sides. Undoubtedly, the incorporation of various national historiographies into a larger narrative has also been made difficult by language barriers.

Scholars wishing to take part should submit a 500-word proposal and a CV using the online form at here by 31 July 2022. The workshop will be organized around thematic panels. Decisions about applicants chosen for the March 2023 workshop will be announced within seven weeks of the submission deadline for proposals.

Possible themes for contributions include but are not restricted to:
  • security policies across borders during the Cold War
  • militarization of the borders and the impact on local communities
  • communities and forced population transfers in the borderlands
  • impact of the Cold War on national minorities living along the borders
  • propaganda across borders
  • trade and smuggling across borders, border controls, and the prevention of crossing
  • economic cooperation (formal and informal) across borders
  • literary and film depictions of the borderlands
  • impact of the Cold War on landscapes and infrastructure in border regions
  • local border traffic, shopping, tourism and cultural exchange across borders during the Cold War
  • policies of the great powers towards the borderlands
  • naval borders during the Cold War and the Law of the Sea
  • political and social changes in borderlands in the context of European integration
  • legacies and memories of Cold War borders in modern day Europe
The advisory board welcome proposals from researchers who are in the early stages of their research on these topics. In such cases, the proposal should indicate the aim of the research, the state of the art, the methodology to be adopted, and the expected results.

Those chosen to take part in the workshop will be asked to submit a 1500-word outline by 25 February 2023, to offer a 20-minute presentation at the workshop, and to play an active role in the discussion. At a follow-on conference in March 2024, scholars will turn their outlines into full-length papers, which will then undergo external review. A selection of the final papers will eventually be published in a volume of collected essays or in a special issue of an academic journal.

The workshop will be held in Udine, Italy, on 9-12 March 2023. Udine is served by a regional airport, Trieste Ronchi dei Legionari, which is 40 minutes from the city by car or train. The airport has direct flights to London Stansted, Frankfurt and Munich. Udine is also about 90 minutes from Venice’s Marco Polo airport by car or train.

Accommodation and subsistence will be provided. Travel grants will be available for participants upon request.

The advisory board of the workshop is co-chaired by Tommaso Piffer and Mark Kramer and includes Bojan Balkovec, Nadia Boyadjieva, Tullia Catalan, Maximilian Graf, Nikos Marantzidis, Sergey Radchenko, Peter Ruggenthaler, Vit Smetana, David Wolff and Yafeng Xia.

The workshop is organized in collaboration with the University of Trieste, the University of Ljubljana and the Ludwig Boltzmann-Instituts für Kriegsfolgenforschung, and with the financial support by Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fondazione Friuli.

Info: Tommaso Piffer tommaso.piffer@uniud.it and Mark Kramer mkramer@fas.harvard.edu

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

WEBINAR «LA GUERRA EN UCRANIA: ¿QUÉ PAPEL PUEDE JUGAR ASIA?»




Webinar «La guerra en Ucrania: ¿qué papel puede jugar Asia?»



La invasión de Ucrania por parte de su vecino Rusia ha despertado la fuerte condena de la opinión pública mundial y de la gran mayoría de los Estados, como demostró la votación de la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas y en donde por una abrumadora mayoría se votó que el gobierno ruso debía parar inmediatamente la agresión y retirar sus tropas, así como acatar las reglas de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas.

Estas protestas y condenas han incluido por supuesto a Asia, donde los acontecimientos de las últimas semanas se observan con gran preocupación.

Pero sin duda, la reacción en Asia tiene mucho que ver también con complejos cálculos que van desde cómo los aliados y socios de Estados Unidos en la zona están respondiendo a las posibles intenciones de Beijing y cómo podrían estar cambiando con respecto a Taiwán, y en donde China se ha negado a llamar invasión al asalto a Ucrania, hasta en cómo ha influido en la política exterior en India que ha tenido que caminar sobre la cuerda floja diplomática sobre Ucrania en los últimos días mientras intentaba equilibrar sus lazos con Moscú y Occidente.

Paralelamente, en Myanmar los generales han calificado las acciones de Rusia como “lo correcto”. Y en Vietnam, a Vladimir V. Putin, el presidente ruso, se le llama cariñosamente “tío Putin”.

En esta mesa redonda analizaremos y discutiremos como, si bien la mayoría de los aliados estadounidenses en la región se han alineado con Washington y Kiev, los gobiernos autoritarios y aquellos con vínculos más débiles con Occidente se han mostrado más reacios a actuar en el conflicto de Ucrania.

En Asia-Pacífico, solo Japón, Singapur, Corea del Sur y Australia han aceptado sanciones internacionales contra Moscú. Taiwán, el territorio autónomo que China reclama como propio, también acordó sanciones y expresó su apoyo a Ucrania.

Y en Asia Central, donde las antiguas repúblicas soviéticas se debaten entre la dependencia de seguridad de Moscú y la cada vez más pujante presencia económica de Pekín en un contexto de cambios de largos liderazgos políticos que no han sido todavía consolidados como en Kazajistán y Uzbekistan

Es poco probable que la respuesta desigual compense la reacción de la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos, pero podría poner a prueba los límites de la promesa del presidente Biden de convertir a Putin en un “paria en el escenario internacional”.

Modera:

Rafael Bueno, director de Política, Sociedad y Programas Educativos, Casa Asia

Mesa redonda a cargo de:

Carlota García Encina es investigadora principal de Estados Unidos y Relaciones Transatlánticas del Real Instituto Elcano, y profesora de Relaciones Internacionales.



Francisco Olmos, Research Fellow en el Foreign Policy Centre de Londres, donde investiga sobre las repúblicas de Asia Central.

Emilio de Miguel, embajador en Misión Especial para el Indo-Pacífico y director del Centro Casa Asia-Madrid.

“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: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULISM IN ASIA: THE SAME OR DIFFERENT STORY?

 
The International Conference on Populism in Asia:



ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The studies of populism in North America and Europe have reached an agreement upon the basic nature of populism in the Western liberal democracies. As a “thin” ideology, populism is found to be authoritarian, antipluralistic, welfarism-oriented, and chauvinistic. Populism in the West is related to economic conditions and, because of which, the sense of being deprived among some social groups. Populism in the Asia-Pacific region has not, however, been thoroughly investigated. The extant literature does not agree upon the characteristics of populism in this region, compared with its western counterpart. Some believe that it is the same story as in those North American and West European democracies, others believe not.

The conference is thus to invite the Asia-Pacific experts in the world to get together and exchange their empirical observations and research findings on populism in the Asian-Pacific countries, such as the details of its making, consequences, and implications. We intend to draw a comprehensive picture of populism in Asia and construct a comparative framework to contrast the models of populism in different political systems in the Asia-Pacific with the conventional wisdom derived from the West. Quantitative research based upon innovative data approaches is highly preferred.

An edited book is planned to be published as a result of the conference. The themes for investigation in the conference include, but are not limited to:
  • Populism and Nationalism
  • Populism and Democracy
  • Populism and Social Movement
  • Populism and the Internet
  • Populism and the Middle Class
Papers are now invited from interested scholars for this conference to be convened on 25-26 February 2021 in Hong Kong.

Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2022

Please submit an abstract of no more than 1000 words here.


kyyau@hsu.edu.hk

Tony Yau

CFP: BEYOND WORK FOR PAY? BASIC-INCOME CONCEPTS IN GLOBAL DEBATES ON AUTOMATION, POVERTY, AND UNEMPLOYMENT (1920-2020)

 
Beyond Work for Pay?

Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)


Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022


Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At the same time, and over the past century especially, the idea of payments to citizens without work requirements has found more pragmatic purchase, gaining traction as a way of assuring human rights and well-being at times of high unemployment, structural change, and job-threatening automation. In the 1960s, it also became a centerpiece of social and economic justice movement politics, reaching a height of grassroots support in the Black freedom and welfare rights movements in the United States. By then, basic income proposals had drawn support from ideologically divergent groups of policy intellectuals as a centerpiece of a reformed or re-envisioned welfare state, laying the groundwork for government-staged basic income experiments in the 1970s, though not for basic income itself. Basic income gained renewed and sustained momentum after the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, as debates about the effects of technology and automation on the labor market have continued unabated among economists and in the European and North American public. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment caused by it, such debates have had some political consequences: Switzerland in a 2016 held a referendum on (and rejected) a proposal to provide an unconditional basic income (UBI) for citizens. During the 2019/20 presidential primaries in the US, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang claimed UBI as his signature policy proposal. In the US, a group of 43 mayors is pursuing the idea for their communities. In Korea, the province of Gyeonggi-do in 2019 has implemented a basic income for all of its 175,000 24-year-olds. Meanwhile, international organizations such as GiveDirectly (supported by Nobel-prize-laureate Abihjit Banerjee) since 2017 have run large-scale basic-income trials in African countries such as Kenya.

Against the backdrop of such interest in basic-income concepts, this conference provides an opportunity for historians as well as sociologists, economists, and social scientists in other fields to discuss the emergence and the history of basic-income concepts in the past century.

We invite proposals for papers on a wide range of topics, and especially encourage papers that draw on comparative and/or transnational analysis and that address one or more of the following themes:
  • The intellectual, political, and ideological genesis of the negative income tax and similar basic income concepts deemed to preserve the income-work-paradigm in North America, Western Europe, and eventually in other parts of the world beginning in the 1960s.
  • Basic income and the changing dynamics of “expert” policy-making, amidst the proliferation of regional, national, and global governmental and NGO policy actors and the prominence of contested and often conflicting bodies of economic knowledge in policy debates.
  • The gender, race, citizenship, generational, and broadly intersectional dimensions of basic income concepts and policy proposals, as reflected in social movement politics and in public debates.
  • Basic income and the history of anti-poverty policy, within national frameworks and in the formulation of global development goals.
  • The significance of basic-income concepts in larger cultural, societal, and political shifts that historians have associated with the 1970s and 80s, such as an emphasis on markets, limited government, and the privatization of welfare systems.
  • Automation, basic income, and the shifting political economy of the “full employment” welfare state.
  • The history and normative assumptions shaping basic income “experiments” since their first introduction in the late 1960s and 70s, in the U.S. and Canada and more recently in Finland, India, and Namibia. What is the history of these experiments, and how do their normative assumptions (and the assumptions of the media covering these experiments) preserve a commitment to income-work or abandon it in favor of other life concepts?
  • The shifting nomenclature of basic income and how framing it in terms such as “social dividend,” “basic minimum,” “guaranteed,” or “unconditional” income reflect efforts to reshape public conversation about the parameters of the social contract.
The conveners aim to publish contributions to this conference either as an edited book or as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal.

The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by February 15, 2022, to the GHI Washington’s online portal at here.

Please contact Susanne Fabricius at fabricius@ghi-dc.org at the GHI Washington if you have problems with submitting your information online. Successful applicants will be notified in April 2022.



Contact Info:


Contact Email:

fabricius@ghi-dc.org

CFP: OMNES THE JOURNAL OF MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 12 (1)


OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 12(1)

ISSN: 2093-5498 (Print) / 2671-969X (Online)


We are currently accepting manuscripts for OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society Vol.12 No.1 that will be published on January 31, 2022. To be considered for the upcoming issue, OMNES 12(1), please submit your manuscript by October 31, 2021.


About the Journal

OMNES, meaning “everyone” in Latin, is a peer-reviewed biannual publication. We welcome manuscripts that deal with themes concerning the global movement of people, human security related to migration, multicultural or multiracial society, cultural diversity, refugees, social integration, nationalism, culture, identity, civil rights and other relevant topics. We are seeking an interdisciplinary approach in the area of politics, economy, society, culture, language, literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

OMNES publishes rigorous theoretical or empirical research articles, review articles, research notes, and book reviews. The editors invite submissions from researchers in all fields of social science and humanities.

OMNES is indexed and abstracted in Korea Citation Index (KCI) as of 2016.


Contributor’s Guide

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Date of Publication: January 31, 2022

Subject area: General topics within the scope of OMNES

Manuscript style: The 6th edition of the APA Style

Submission: Submissions should be made via e-mail (omnes@sm.ac.kr) or submission system.


Authors are requested to submit four files: 1) A blinded manuscript without any authors’ names and affiliations in the text, 2) a cover letter, 3) authors’ checklist, and 4) a copy of the plagiarism check result (less than 10%). Authors’ checklist can be downloaded from our website.


Contact Info:

For further details, please contact the managing editor at omnes@sm.ac.kr.

Tel. No. 82-2-6325-3156

Details are available on our website.

Please refer to the Notes for Contributors for specific information.

Contact Email: omnes@sm.ac.kr

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