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CFP: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCES


East Asian Development Forum 5th International Symposium on

Comparative Study of Village Development: East Asian Experiences


In order to promote academic exchanges among scholars from China, Japan, Korea and other countries engaged in the study of urban and rural social development, we hold the 5th International Symposium on Comparative Study of Village Development. The theme of this conference is "East Asian Experience of Urban-Rural Integrated Development", which is scheduled to be held by The Academy of Korean Studies in Korea, on August 23-25, 2024.

This conference will discuss the following topics:

1. Research on urban-rural relationship and urban-rural development;

2. Research on urbanization and urban-rural Integration;

3. Spatial development of Village change in East Asia;

4. Policy research on Rural revitalization and Urban-rural Integration in East Asia;

5. Rural Revitalization and Urban-rural Governance in East Asia;

6. Entrepreneurship and Local Creators for Rural and Urban Development

7. Other related topics on urban-rural integration in East Asia.


The organizer will provide all participants (paper presenters) with three nights of accommodation and meals during their stay in Korea, but the round-trip transportation expenses should be borne by yourself.

You are warmly welcome to attend this conference!


Sponsors:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Rural Sociology Committee, Chinese Society of Sociology, China


Organizer:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Department of Sociology, Shandong University, China


Organizing Committee:

1. Prof. Do-Hyun Han, The Academy of Korean Studies

2. Prof. Juren Lin, Shandong University

3. Prof. Katsumi Nakao, J.F. Oberlin University, Japan


The official language: English


Please send your application to:
  • Do-Hyun Han (The Academy of Korean Studies), ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

Abstract (100-150 words) and short bio (one paragraph)


Dates:
  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 April, 2024
  • Paper (Draft) Submission Deadline: 1 July 2024

Contact Information


Professor of Sociology

Academy of Korean Studies

ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

CFP: "URBAN FUTURES - CULTURAL PASTS", AMPS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA


“Urban Futures - Cultural Pasts”, AMPS International Conference,



Every region of the world has its particular cultural, social and artistic heritage. In urban centres this is at its most pronounced. The city, as we see it today, results from a history of planning initiatives, artistic visions, social forces and engineering projects. In thinking about its future, we are obliged to build on its past and its present: its varied buildings and urban plans; its artistic heritage and craft traditions; its design vernaculars and regional practices; its neighborhood bonds and community ties; its economic conditions and social norms, and more. The city then, is a living question: past, present and future.

When thinking about the future of specific cities we are also obliged to think more broadly – to understand the local and the global context in we live: the transnational forces of globalization, the universal concern for sustainability; and the worldwide trends of consumerist cultures etc. In this regard too, the city is a complex issues: a question of specific responses to global issues. The host city of this event, Barcelona, and by extension the whole region of Catalonia, is a perfect example of this and offers examples of the themes this conference will examine.

In addressing the questions and issues raised by the region, this conference opens debates relevant to cities the world over. Across the Mediterranean issues of sustainable futures are paramount. In Europe more widely, the gentrification of traditional neighborhoods is endemic. In North America and Australasia the respect for Indigenous cultures and crafts is urgently needed. In Africa and Asia, how to sustainably design for growth in existing contexts is a pressing problem. In Latin America and the Middle-East, development that avoids the homogenizing forces of globalization is vital. In these contexts this conference argues that these interchangeable global issues are key to our pasts, but also to our sustainable futures.

In response to this call, we welcome perspectives on these themes from various discipline areas. We seek a wide range of knowledge and insights, whether developed in isolation, or in cross disciplinary collaboration.

Examples of particular research areas of interest to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya include:
  • Community Design & User Autonomy – Challenges & Paradoxes 
  • Material Circularity – Climate Change, & Reuse 
  • Governing the Ecosystem Commons – Governance & Spatial Planning
Other questions of interest to the overall conference include:
  • Urban Futures & Community Pasts – Politics, People & Place 
  • Cultural Pasts & Urban Histories – Gentrification, Heritage & Cities

Event Date: 2024-07-15 to 2024-07-17 

Abstract Due: 2023-07-15


mgt@amps-research.com

Lorraine Gess

CFP: THE (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 2023 (CALA)




The (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2023 (calA)



GENERAL INFORMATION

The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2023 (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) is the annual GLOCAL conference and set of workshops and lectures on the Linguistic Anthropology, The Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society, of Asia.


UNIVESITY COLLABORATORS


Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, John Benjamins, Cambridge University, Oxford University.


LOCATION

University of The Philippines Diliman, Diliman, The Philippines.


DATES

May 16-19 2023.


SESSIONS
  • General Papers.
  • Colloquia (including 10 national Philippine Universities presenting individual Colloquia).
  • Posters.
  • Workshops / lectures on research and publishing methodology, and on ethnography, by globally prominent academics (including ELAR SOAS) and publishing companies.
  • Special Panels.
  • Keynotes Speakers: 

DISPLAYS
  • Publishing companies (Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, Sage, John Benjamins, Wiley).
  • Universities (20 displays).
  • The Endangered Alphabets Atlas.
  • Local and International Ethnographical Associations.

PERFORMANCES

Anthropological and Cultural Performances from Philippines performance companies.


ANHROPOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS

Anthropological one day options to sites significant in Philippine language and society.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2023 abstract submission /Second call for abstracts opens on October 20, 2022 and closes on March 13, 2023. The Notification of Acceptance will be no later than March 16, 2023. Submit at the following link, with all information.



THEME

Symbol and Society: The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2023 invites work on the linguistic symbols of Asian and global Asian society, in a new era. Submissions should acknowledge and describe the transfer of language and communication in this new era. Papers should discuss the ways in which communication takes on both evolutionary and revolutionary form, following recent significant changes in Asian society, and in Asia’s new and revised interrelatedness across global scopes.


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

For full Scientific Committee, see link.


PUBLICATIONS
  • Conference proceedings (ISI / AHCI indexed)
  • Several special Top Tier (Scopus/ISI /ACHI /SSCI) journal issues and monographs are planned with well ranked publications and publishers only, from papers submitted to The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2023 that meet review requirements. Ample assistance is provided to revise papers.

CONTACT
  • Head of Communications: Ms. Nhan Huynh.
  • Email: cala2021.upd@up.edu.ph

LINKS

CFP: VIRTUAL WRITING WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE/EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHES


“Changing dynamics of gender, family, and relationships in South Korea”,

Virtual Writing Workshop for Graduate/Early-Career Researchers


We warmly invite graduate and early-career scholars from around the world who are qualitatively researching gender, family, and relationships in South Korea to a one-day virtual workshop on 1st August 2023. The goal of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for participants to share their research-in-progress and to give and receive constructive feedback on each others’ works (circulated in advance) as well as to network with like-minded people in similar stages of their academic career working on closely related topics.

While we are open to applications working on any topic relating to gender, family, and relationships in South Korea informed by a feminist perspective and using qualitative data and methodologies, we particularly welcome those focusing on the following areas/themes:
  • Marriage, childbearing, and parenting
  • Children's perspectives and experiences
  • Romance, friendship, and intimate relationships
  • Alternative arrangements of care beyond the nuclear family and heterosexuality
Please send in your abstract of up to 500 words, including a preliminary title, topic, research question, methodology and the main argument by 15th March 2023. Participants whose abstracts are selected will need to send their writing by 14th July 2023 for circulation. You will have the opportunity to submit your work either as an extended abstract (around 3000 words including a motivation of the study, description of the analytic approach, and preliminary results) or a full paper (up to 9000 words including abstract, references, tables, footnotes, etc.), depending on the current stage of your research.

At the workshop, participants will give a 5-10 minute recap of their work. As our workshop aims to provide a friendly and constructive environment in which to develop ideas and work, all participants are expected to read and provide constructive and thoughtful feedback on the submission of a few other participants. Participants are also welcome to give comments on the other works based on presentations.

If you are unsure whether your research fits the scope of our workshop, we would recommend you to apply in the first instance. We hope to be as accommodating and inclusive as possible in selecting a diverse range of interesting topics and researchers from various backgrounds. In case you have any inquiries, please feel more than free to get in touch with the co-organizers. We are more than happy to answer any questions or simply to connect and learn about your research.


Key deadlines and details:
  • Deadline for abstracts: 15th March 2023 Wednesday
  • Deadline for full papers / extended abstracts: 14th July 2023 Friday
  • Workshop date: 1st August 2023 Tuesday (time TBC)

About the co-organizers:

Youngcho Lee (she/her) is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Social Policy. Youngcho is interested in the intersections of gender, work/family, and social policy and her research focuses primarily on caregiving fathers in South Korea and their uptake of parental leave. Youngcho received her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge with joint funding from the Cambridge Trust and Murray Edwards College. Email Youngcho at: y.lee28@lse.ac.uk

Meera Choi (she/her) is a sociology Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. Meera’s research investigates the micro- and meso-level gender inequality that shapes cultural meanings of intimacy, care, and family formation in contemporary South Korea. Currently, she is working on a dissertation project that examines shifting heterosexual desires of South Korean women in light of the sexual violence and safety discourses since the #MeToo movement. Email Meera at: meera.choi@yale.edu

*Youngcho and Meera first met in an online workshop during the pandemic and since then have developed and maintained a close friendship. We are organizing this workshop to expand our network and hope the workshop will provide a platform for all participants to find peers and future collaborators in a friendly setting.


Contact Info:

Youngcho Lee: y.lee28@lse.ac.uk & Meera Choi: meera.choi@yale.edu


Contact Email:

y.lee28@lse.ac.uk


CFP: 57TH ANNUAL COMPARATIVE WORLD LITERATURE CONFERENCE


On Digital Pasts and Futures: New Perspectives in Literature, Technoculture, and Media”,

57th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference


Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Mainly in person with some Zoom participation.

Dates: Wednesday and Thursday, April 19 and 20, 2023


Keynote Speaker: Cassius Adair (Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School), “Reverse Engineering: From Trans Tech Histories to Radical Trans Futures.”

Technology and forms of expression continue to evolve in the digital age. What new frameworks have emerged to grasp, interpret, and challenge issues raised by these advancements? We invite conversation in and around digital humanities research and practice and other approaches that broadly explore “the digital.”

We welcome conversations on how past and present social contexts—i.e. the stresses of a global pandemic, structural racism, climate crisis, and anti-war and human rights struggles—have created new configurations of how we participate in, relate to, and are affected by technology, media, and various digital spaces. We also encourage explorations of how technology and technoculture upholds or challenges the status quo and other structures of exclusion and marginalization, and how digitally-informed inquiry can expose and subvert social inequities and systems of oppression.

Submissions for individual presentations and 90-minute sessions are welcome from all disciplines and global / historical contexts that engage with “the digital,” i.e. digital studies / humanities, new media studies, literary studies, critical race and ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, American Indian studies, Asian American studies, Black / African studies, Middle East / North African studies, Latinx and Chicanx studies, women and gender studies, disability studies, science and society studies, et al.

Possible proposals topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Digital humanities approaches to literature and cultural studies
  • Electronic literature, web-based narratives, and other forms of digital curation
  • Digital forms of journalism, protest / organizing, activism, and archives
  • Digital environmental humanities approaches to climate crisis and narratives
  • Ethnographic approaches to technological mediations and experiences
  • Online communities, social media platforms, identity making, and emerging forms of digital representation and art, i.e. NFT and crypto art markets
  • Reflection on the use of the digital in the diasporas: maintaining domestic space, sense of home and homeland in Asia and Africa; the use of the digital in maintaining cultural and historical homeland.
  • Intersections with racial and criminal justice; surveillance studies
  • Infrastructural and social inequities in technological access, digital cultures, and cyberspaces; anti-racist methodologies
  • Ethics of Big Data, A.I., coding, automation, etc.
  • Digital neo-colonialism and decolonization, Indigenous data sovereignty
  • Globalization, labor demand/markets, and inequity/exploitation in technological production
  • Feminism in Digital Spaces: use of the digital help in feminist coalitions across different spaces and nations; building movements via digital spaces
  • Cyberfeminist critiques, new approaches to cyborg theory
  • Queer digital cultures
  • Disability justice, access, technology, and media
  • Pedagogical approaches to digital humanities, digital literacy, and other multimodal practices and skills
  • Video games/gaming rhetorics, augmented reality, and simulation-based learning
  • New forms of media and digital storytelling, databases, and means of connectedness
  • Using the digital to preserve languages: digital spaces of translation; the conservation, circulation, production of digital media; using machines to translate; the digital futures of languages and literatures
  • Digital religion and spirituality: understanding religious or spiritual practices in a digital world
  • Digital archives: gatekeeping; what is lost in digitization
  • Digital dystopia
  • (Future) digital landscapes used / addressed / predicted in science fiction and speculative fiction
  • Social media representation in narratives: where the digital usurps the personal
  • Streamer culture and digital fandom
Proposals for 15-20 minute presentations should clearly explain the relationship of the panel or paper to the conference theme, describe the evidence to be examined, and offer tentative conclusions. Panel proposals should articulate how the panel fits into the conference theme. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (not including optional bibliography). Please submit abstracts as a Word document in an email attachment to comparativeworldliterature@gmail.com

Please do not embed proposals in the text of the email. Make sure to indicate your mode of preference (Zoom or in person) for planning purposes.

The conference committee will review all proposals, on a rolling basis, until March 1, 2023.


comparativeworldliterature@gmail.com

Kathryn Chew

CFP: "DISABILITY'S HIDDEN TWIN: DISCOURSES OF CARE AND DEPENDENCY IN LITERATURE", EDITED VOLUME


“Disability’s Hidden Twin: Discourses of Care and Dependency in Literature”,

edited volume of critical essays


We are calling for abstracts for papers examining Anglophone imaginative literature (precluding memoirs) that engages in some fashion with care ethics and disability theory. We are seeking a range of representation from different eras and regions.

The title of the volume comes from Jennifer Natalya Fink, who writes that “[c]are work is the hidden twin of disability.”[1] And yet, the relationship between carers and cared-fors is vexed. The question of care is controversial for many disabled self-advocates, who view the practice of caregiving with profound suspicion, since care has frequently been a site of oppression for disabled people, both in institutional and home environments. Yet care is necessary for the survival of people who are dependent on others for dressing, bathing, hygiene, transportation, nutrition, and social interaction. Care relations are also controversial inasmuch as family members, frequently female, are time and again forced into the position of caretaker without training or renumeration, and paid caregivers are often migrants from the global south or lower socioeconomic backgrounds who must leave behind their own cared-fors. How has imaginative literature parsed this relationship? What texts give us insights into disabled cared-fors’ need for agency, or caregivers’ feelings about their charges, or the quality of the relationship between them?

Anglophone literary texts from different periods and regions might demonstrate historically alternative practices and expectations regarding the care relationship. We are particularly interested in representations of care in Indigenous, global, African American, Latinx, and Asian culture, and in eras that predate modern medical professionalism, and we look forward to analysis that draws out the gendered and sexual elements of care. We are also interested in the structure of the care community as it develops in literature against the heteronormative couple and the nuclear family, and look forward to submissions that identify and parse care communities and collectives in literature.

Abstracts of approximately 350 words should be submitted as a word document to Chris Gabbard at cgabbard@unf.edu by January 31, 2023. A CV or bio should be included.

Initial selections will be based on the abstract and will be announced no later than April 3, 2023. The deadline for full papers (6,000-8,000 words) is January 5, 2024. Papers will be subject to peer review.

The volume editors are in conversation with series editors at the University of Michigan Press (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) and Routledge (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies).

[1] Jennifer Natalya Fink, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Beacon Press, 2022.

cgabbard@unf.edu

Chris Gabbard

CFP: “DISABILITY’S HIDDEN TWIN: DISCOURSES OF CARE AND DEPENDENCY IN LITERATURE”


Disability’s Hidden Twin:

Discourses of Care and Dependency in Literature



We are calling for abstracts for papers examining Anglophone imaginative literature (precluding memoirs) that engages in some fashion with care ethics and disability theory. We are seeking a range of representation from different eras and regions.

The title of the volume comes from Jennifer Natalya Fink, who writes that “[c]are work is the hidden twin of disability.”[1] And yet, the relationship between carers and cared-fors is vexed. The question of care is controversial for many disabled self-advocates, who view the practice of caregiving with profound suspicion, since care has frequently been a site of oppression for disabled people, both in institutional and home environments. Yet care is necessary for the survival of people who are dependent on others for dressing, bathing, hygiene, transportation, nutrition, and social interaction. Care relations are also controversial inasmuch as family members, frequently female, are time and again forced into the position of caretaker without training or renumeration, and paid caregivers are often migrants from the global south or lower socioeconomic backgrounds who must leave behind their own cared-fors. How has imaginative literature parsed this relationship? What texts give us insights into disabled cared-fors’ need for agency, or caregivers’ feelings about their charges, or the quality of the relationship between them?

Anglophone literary texts from different periods and regions might demonstrate historically alternative practices and expectations regarding the care relationship. We are particularly interested in representations of care in Indigenous, global, African American, Latinx, and Asian culture, and in eras that predate modern medical professionalism, and we look forward to analysis that draws out the gendered and sexual elements of care. We are also interested in the structure of the care community as it develops in literature against the heteronormative couple and the nuclear family, and look forward to submissions that identify and parse care communities and collectives in literature.

Abstracts of approximately 350 words should be submitted as a word document to Chris Gabbard at cgabbard@unf.edu by January 31, 2023. A CV or bio should be included.

Initial selections will be based on the abstract and will be announced no later than April 3, 2023. The deadline for full papers (6,000-8,000 words) is January 5, 2024. Papers will be subject to peer review.

The volume editors are in conversation with series editors at the University of Michigan Press (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) and Routledge (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies).

[1] Jennifer Natalya Fink, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Beacon Press, 2022.


cgabbard@unf.edu


CFP: FASHIONING THE ‘LITTLE PARISES’ OF THE WORLD. INTERLACED NATIONAL SYMBOLS


Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World.

Interlaced National Symbols


Introduction:

In April 1947, Vogue Paris heralded the beginning of a new world on its way to leave World War Two in the past with the New Look paraded by “mythical” and “composite” models dressed by Christian Dior. Seventy-four years later, in the autumn of 2021, Vogue Paris ceased to exist in favour of Vogue France, reflecting globalisation, as “creativity, culture, art and fashion are everywhere”. Both moments represented social and cultural turning points most visible through fashion and one of its main avenues of expression, Vogue. Dior’s New Look utilised the remains of Parisian exclusivity as an inspiration for women to forego scarcity-laden habits and appearance imposed during the war. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the effort ignited by Anna Wintour is centred around inclusivity, where Paris seems to have lost its symbolic value, at least at face value. But is this the demise of the proverbial Parisienne, the transnational elegant woman embodying the esprit parisien (Rocamora 2006, p. 51)? Are Paris, the Parisienne and fashion still synonymous as Valerie Steele (2017, p. 93) had asserted shortly before the Vogue shift? Is this apparently inconsequential name change part of a decolonisation movement that has now come to be manifested through a needed change for one of the most recognisable fashion publications? Has Paris as a symbolic marker of modernity and elegance finally declared itself obsolete? Then why do notions like ‘Little Paris’ still draw so much attention and significance around the world? What of cities like Bucharest attempting to reclaim its pre-Communist spirit by sometimes over-inflating the ‘Little Paris’ notion? What of cities that in some way, materially or symbolically emulate “something of Paris”?

This book uses a multi-perspective approach to urban spaces applicable to the ‘Little Paris’ designation. It blends Mike Featherstone’s (1995, p. 1) assertion that global culture transcends society and national borders with its application to fashion as an inherently transnational phenomenon, as explained by Djurdja Bartlett (2019, p. 33). This book aims to explore the various possible interpretations for the ‘Little Paris’ symbol outside of the ‘original Paris’ context and its relationships to other major cities across the world. It inquires whether the ‘Little Paris’ mythology itself is an extension of colonial expansion, a global phenomenon using the French capital as the best manifestation of creative and cultural modernity through fashion, an acknowledgement of the official, collective and individual efforts within and around Paris to foster and promote fashion, or is it a hybrid symbol, perfectly compatible with the ambivalence and fluidity of modernity itself. Fashion’s ability to sustain material-symbolic, elegance-kitsch, creativity-intellect or tradition-innovation dichotomies as extended timelines including everything in-between is the perfect backdrop for a panoramic analysis of the spread, effect, reception and continuation of the esprit parisien.

In a gendered context, fashion industry, as one of the main phenomena linked to Paris, is a traditional professional path for women as creators, technicians, disseminators and in many cases commentators, strengthened during modernity (Lundén 2020, p. 252). Even more, the fashionability lure attributed to the ‘original’ Paris during modernity is heavily reliant on its active and burgeoning community of talented artistic, creative and technical immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe (Kurkdjian 2020, p. 379). This would then come as a counter-argument to the idea that Vogue Paris was only relevant for Parisians, understood as physical residents of Paris and possibly Île-de-France as the extended Greater Paris area. This book and its contributions contribute to a deeper, nuanced understanding of Parisian fashion within a transnational, transdisciplinary frame of reference. It comes to reconcile discourses on inclusivity and exclusivity under a comprehensive interpretation of esprit parisien beyond physical, geographical, cultural or ideological limitations.


The Book’s Objective

As Vogue Paris, the only edition containing a city name, became Vogue France, the question of Paris as fashion capital is ever more pressing on grounds built upon dichotomic pairs like inclusivity-exclusivity, material-symbolic, global-local. Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World is a collective, edited volume exploring the Parisian spirit (esprit parisien) through fashion, using a diverse host of urban locations drawing material and symbolic inspiration from Paris, beyond ‘Little Paris’ nicknames. It inquires how national identities and each location’s specific spirit are enforced or encroached when blended with the esprit parisien. Each contribution offers a unique interpretation of a global symbol, Paris, through one of its chief associations, fashion. Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World relativises the meaning of Paris fashion, understanding that, at least in the twentieth century, foreign Western and non-Western cityspaces and urban enclaves readily and enthusiastically assumed some sort of connection to Paris using aesthetic, conceptual or physical reasonings. It inquires whether Paris as a cultural, artistic and craft cosmopolitan hub was not inclusive from the start as it emanated exclusivity through exquisite physical and symbolic results that could not have been achieved anywhere else.


Target Audience:

This book addresses English-speaking academic and non-academic audiences who wish to explore global fashion cultures and their relationship to Paris as a long-standing point of influence. It will be accessible to readers with a basic understanding of the connection between Paris and global fashion, including internationally recognisable brand names from Chanel to Vogue. It will also appeal to readers with an interest in any of the mentioned locations from a current, historical, geographical, cultural or artistic perspective. The book will address fashion scholars and historians as it is built upon the global reach of Paris fashion, a leitmotif in fashion studies and histories. The collection brings together themes and locations that have been generally treated separately or marginally, integrating them into the larger, growing discussion of transnational fashion practices. It will be of interest to both students and established scholars as a reference text and a possible avenue for further research on any of the topics approached.
  • Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Main keywords for the book: Paris, fashion, city, identity.
  • Suggested fields: cultural studies (fashion, urban, media), history (art, social, cultural, critical), postcolonialism, symbolic geographies.
  • Urban ‘Little Paris’ spaces:
    • Little Paris of the Balkans
    • Paris of the Orient (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City or its former name Saigon in Vietnam, Shanghai China)
    • Little Paris and any translation, in any language or national/cultural context
    • Cities nicknamed ‘Little Paris’, including Atça Turkey, Bucharest Romania, Da Lat Vietnam, Sinj Croatia.
    • Cities built after Paris, including Tianducheng China.
    • Cities named Paris in USA, Canada, Denmark, Kiribati, Panama, Puerto Rico, etc.
    • Any ‘Little Paris’ connection in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia, the Pacific or the Southern Hemisphere.
  • ‘Little Paris’ themes:esprit parisien, la Parisienne across the world
    • worldwide spread of Parisian and French fashion and influence
    • fashion capitals, cities of fashion (besides Paris)
    • fashion industry, haute couture, prêt-à-porter from Paris worldwide
    • transnational and global fashion
    • Westernisation and/or modernisation through Parisian fashion ideas
    • Historical ‘Little Parises’ presented and analysed for a contemporary audience
    • Current ‘Little Parises’ presented and analysed considering their historical, social, cultural and geographic context

Contents (Working Chapter Structure):

1. Introduction

2. European ‘Little Parises’
  1. Re-Fashioning Old Mythologies: The Recovery of Cultural and National Identities through ‘Little Paris’ References in Post-1989 Romania (Sonia D. Andra?) analyses the complex discourse on interwar Romania since the 1989 Revolution, ranging from romanticised nostalgia for a now-lost golden age, of the ‘old Bucharest’, to virulent abhorrence reminiscent of ideologized Communist Romanian representations. The aim is to identify the common threads and the possible ramifications of creating, propagating and reframing ‘Little Paris’ for Romania and beyond. This chapter juxtaposes visual and textual references to ‘Little Paris’ in interwar literature with their reiterations relevant to Bucharest’s ‘Little Paris’ spaces, since 1989 as continuations or ruptures from the Communist Romanian discourse. These spaces include public urban locations where Western modernity could be easily witnessed through fashionable women amid professional and leisure activities. This chapter uses fashion studies as a methodological frame and visual and textual discourse analysis for the relevant interwar and contemporary primary sources. It offers a comprehensive analysis of how ‘Little Paris’ and, more generally, interwar Bucharest functions as a tool in crafting national, ideological, identity and cultural directions for a renewed spirit bucure?tean (Bucharest spirit).
3. African ‘Little Parises’

4. Middle Eastern ‘Little Parises’

5. East-Asian ‘Little Parises’

6. American ‘Little Parises’

7. Little Parises’ in the Pacific and the Southern Hemisphere


Submission Procedure:

Interested researchers and authors are invited to submit by 1 December 2022 an abstract for their proposed chapter (up to 250 words) and a short description of the author(s), including current affiliation and position (if any). Accepted authors will be notified by 8 December 2022. The deadline for the full chapter submission is 31 March 2023 for the completed draft manuscript to be submitted for review by 1 June 2023. All submissions and inquiries should be emailed to sonia.d.andras@outlook.com.


Full Chapter Submission:

The chapter will be written in UK English and will not exceed 6000 words, including notes and bibliography. The text will use New Hart’s Rules (Oxford) for referencing and style, with citations in brackets and a Bibliography at the end. Footnotes are preferred, but sparingly. Please follow the Bloomsbury style guidelines applied to UK English.

There are no submission or acceptance fees for chapters that will be included in The ‘Little Parises’ of the World. All chapters will go through a double-blind peer review editorial process when the final draft manuscript will be submitted to the publisher.


Publisher:

Bloomsbury UK have expressed interest in considering the work for possible publication.


Important Dates:
  • Abstract submission deadline: 1 December 2022
  • Notifications of accepted abstracts: 8 December 2022
  • Full chapter submission deadline: 17 March 2023
  • Review results returned: 24 March 2023
  • Final acceptance notification: 31 March 2023
  • Final chapter submission: 21 April 2023
  • Complete draft manuscript submitted to publisher: 1 June 2023

Editor:

Dr. Sonia D. Andraş, Cultural and Fashion Studies researcher, The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania. Author of The Women of ‘Little Paris’: Women’s Fashion in Bucharest (forthcoming with Bloomsbury UK).


Inquiries can be forwarded to:

Sonia D. Andraş: sonia.d.andras@outlook.com

CFP: NEW BOOK SERIES "DIASPORAS IN ASIA AND BEYOND"


New book series “Diasporas in Asia and Beyond”,

Monographs and edited volumes


Amsterdam University Press invites submissions for its new book series Diasporas in Asia and Beyond. This series aims to explore diasporic experiences scattered in different parts of the world through rethinking ‘Asia’ as a unique experience for those arriving, as much as it is for those departing. It accentuates Asia’s transnational and/or cosmopolitan bonds with the world and vice versa by considering the diverse connections, both imagined and actual, that diasporas fabricated in the course of settling in or leaving Asia. The process of re-settlement, establishment, and growth of diasporic communities has produced complex dynamics: changing transimperial or transnational relationships with ancestral homelands, new forms of contestation and collaboration in markets, workplaces, political arenas, social spaces in Asian cities and beyond, conflict and competition with diasporic communities sharing the same heritage elsewhere in the world, and the rise of unprecedented polyglot cultures and hybrid identities that combine local, communal, national, and global experiences, as well as individual and communal pursuits past and present.

We welcome monographs and edited volumes from all major disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and law (including but not limited to, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, literature, cultural studies, and media studies) that focus on accounts and discourses situated in the margins of dominating colonial or national narratives, as well as diasporic experiences with negotiating and establishing spaces of their own that resulted in new forms of collaborations and divisions.


Series editor: 


Editorial Board:


To submit a proposal, please email Loretta Lou, commissioning editor at l.lou@aup.nl

CFP: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE


Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture


UPDATE: Deadline Extended 1 May 2022

We welcome chapter proposals on Native American cultural syndromes and their representations in popular culture. Please see the above call for chapters for more information. We are also open to suggestions regarding the table of contents and wish to include more culture-bound syndromes. Thank you. Apologies for crossposting.


Dear colleagues,

You are invited to submit an abstract for the upcoming edited collection Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture. The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, covering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels.

What does a culture-bound syndrome mean? The concept has come to define a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups.

"Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture" takes its readers on a journey across (popular) cultures and introduces them to an entirely new subfield of studies, at the conjunction of medical anthropology and popular culture, focusing on folk illnesses.

Thus, this book covers a broad range of case studies, subjects, texts, and cultural practices that lie at the intersection of folk illnesses and cultural studies and include national, transnational, and international media representations, with an accent on the reception and interpretation of the phenomenon from the perspective of its original space.

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars specializing in all areas of media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, social/cultural geography, and other relevant research fields to propose a book chapter on an individual culture-bound syndrome and its representations in popular culture. Both single and multiple-authored works will be considered. All work should be original and previously unpublished.

We are also very interested in hearing open proposals for possible chapters about other cultural syndromes from any other country if the Table of Contents strikes you as improvable in any way.

Please make sure to refer to a specific cultural syndrome (or more) in your abstract and title.

Chapters might explore but are not limited to:


SECTION 1 East Asia and India
  • Zou huo ru mo (China)
  • Dhat syndrome (India)
  • Hikikomori (Japan) Already taken!
  • Taijin Kyofusho (Japan) Already taken!
  • Hwabyeong (South Korea)
  • Pa-leng (Taiwan)

SECTION 2 Southeast Asia
  • Lanti (Philippines)
  • Latah (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Amok (Malaysia)
  • Koro (Singapore)

SECTION 3 Latin America and Native American culture
  • Locura
  • Mal de pelea
  • Nervios
  • Susto
  • Saladera (Peruvian Amazon)
  • Windigo Psychosis (Native American)

SECTION 4 Africa and the Middle East
  • Zar (Israel, Ethiopia)
  • Ufufuyane, Saka (Kenya)
  • Voodoo death (Haiti, Africa, Australia)

Routledge has expressed keen interest in the volume for their Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series.


Key dates

Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2022 (after this date, please contact the editor to check if submissions are still possible)

Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2022

Full chapter submission (max 8000 words): 1 November 2022

Publication: January 2023

Please send in a working title, abstracts of max 500 words, and a brief biographical note of 150 words to:

prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

Please feel free to contact the volume’s editor (Irina Pelea) with any questions or queries. I look forward to receiving your abstracts.

CONVOCATORIA DEL PROGRAMA DE BECAS 2022 DE LA ACADEMIA DE ESTUDIOS COREANOS (AKS)

Convocatoria del Programa de Becas 2022



La Academia de Estudios Coreanos (AKS) abre la convocatoria del Programa de Becas 2022 (2º Semestre) de estudios de postgrado o doctorado para estudiantes internacionales. Para aquellos solicitantes interesados en el Programa 2022 de AKS, lea atentamente la siguiente información:
1. Información general
  • El programa AKS ofrece ayudas para estudios de Máster o Doctorado relacionados con Corea del Sur o la sociológia científica de la humanidad.
  • Las ayudas incluyen el importe de los créditos matriculados durante el periodo de estudios (Máster: 2 años, Doctorado: 3 años).
  • Casi un 70 % de los estudiantes internacionales se benefician de las Becas del Gobierno con una ayuda mensual de 750.000 KRW (550€ aprox.) durante un año (renovable tras evaluación).​

2. Requisitos:
  • Nacionalidad: Podrán participar en el programa de becas aquellos estudiantes que posean una nacionalidad distinta de la coreana o los coreanos que residen fuera de Corea del Sur.
  • Requisito académico: Estar en posesión del título de Graduado y/o Máster
  • Idioma:
    • Solicitantes para los estudios sobre la cultura y sociedad coreana: 
      • un nivel de inglés certificado en algunos de los siguientes programas: TOEFL iBT (superior a 80), IELTS Academic Module (superior a 6.5), o TEPS (superior a 301). Los certificados deben haberse obtenido en los últimos dos años. 
      •  No se requiere el certificado TOPIK.
    • Solicitantes para otros estudios: 
      • El certificado de TOPIK con un nivel igual o superior al nivel 4

3. Plazo de presentación de solicitudes

Desde el viernes 18 de marzo de 2022 hasta el viernes 1 de abril de 2022 ambos inclusive

4. Contacto
  • Teléfono: +82-31-730-8183
※ ​IMPORTANTE : Se pueden consultar todos los detalles del programa de ayudas AKS en el archivo adjunto que contiene la guía.

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

II SEMINARIO DE DOCTORANDOS EN INVESTIGACIÓN EN ESTUDIOS COREANOS

  

El pasado 25 de junio de 2021 se celebró el II Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos en la Facultad de Estudios Sociales y del Trabajo de la Universidad de Málaga (Avenida Francisco Trujillo Villanueva, s/n, 29010, Málaga). El evento fue organizado por la Asociación de Difusión de Estudios y Cultura Coreana en España (ADECCE) en colaboración con Korea Foundation, la Universidad de Málaga (UMA) y el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Estaban invitados a participar alumnos cuyo trabajo final de grado, master o tesis doctoral se centre en el ámbito de Estudios Coreanos.

Tras el reparto de las correspondientes credenciales y las palabras de agradecimiento por poder realizar de nuevo estas jornadas pese a la situación de pandemia en la que nos encontramos, el seminario se inició con la presentación de los moderadores el Dr. Antonio J. Doménech del Río, Vicepresidente de ADECCE y profesor del Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental-Corea en la Universidad de Málaga; la Dra. Mihwa Jo, directora del Instituto Sejong de Barcelona y profesora de Traducción e Interpretación en el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; y la Catedrática Mª Aurelia Martín profesora de las Áreas de Antropología Social y de Estudios de Asia Oriental-Corea en la Universidad de Málaga.


 

 

SESIÓN 1

Carla Alastrué Vidal, de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, fue la encargada de abrir las jornadas con la presentación de su trabajo final de máster con título “Nacionalismos cultural y político en Corea”. Su investigación atiende a una evolución del concepto de nacionalismo en Corea desde el periodo de la ocupación japonesa, pasando por la separación del país en Norte y Sur, para poder responder a la pregunta de cómo se ha conformado la identidad coreana, su posible homogeneidad y qué factores destacan y la hacen diferente a otros tipos de nacionalismos. Para poder responder a estas cuestiones la ponente plantea un método histórico y comparativo entre Corea del Sur y Corea del Norte usando la complementación que aportan entre sí el nacionalismo político y el cultural.

 
A continuación, Margarita Postrelova, de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, expuso la evolución de su tesis, con título provisional, “Influence of National Culture on Organizational Culture and Globalization in South Korea Socio-cultural Conditions of Korean Economy”. Su investigación está basada en un estudio de campo que está realizando mediante el uso de, originalmente, entrevistas y posteriormente modificado a encuestas online, puesto que la situación de pandemia dificulta este medio para la obtención de datos. A través de una serie de preguntas a distintos trabajadores de empresas coreanas en las que ella había trabajado con anterioridad, está estableciendo parámetros para poder argumentar si dentro del mundo de la empresa se puede encontrar un reflejo del carácter nacionalista de la sociedad. Para ello, su metodología se fundamenta en el análisis de sus características y particularidades.

 

 

SESIÓN 2

La encargada de abrir esta nueva sesión fue Yaiza Otero Padilla, de la Universidad de Salamanca, quien expuso su trabajo final de máster, titulado “La Guerra Imjin: estudio de los elementos causantes de su resultado”. Mediante una metodología multidisciplinar de examen histórico y de análisis de fuentes historiográficas bajo un enfoque interpretativista, la ponente planteó cómo diferentes historiadores, según su procedencia, tienen diferente opinión y aportan matices o puntos de vista diferentes independientemente de la disciplina en la que investiguen (las técnicas y estrategias bélicas, diplomacia, política, etc.). Por ello, su presentación ofreció un interesante resultado historiográfico final tras hacer converger dichas fuentes.


Posteriormente, Luis Miguel Machín Martín, de la Universidad de La Laguna, presentaba la evolución de su tesis doctoral, “Cine criminal coreano contemporáneo (2000-2020): Características temáticas, estéticas y narrativas”. Ante el auge del cine coreano en las últimas décadas, el ponente trata de responder a una compleja pregunta:¿cuáles son las características principales del cine criminal coreano contemporáneo? Para ello, ha conformado una serie de criterios de inclusión y exclusión de selección de películas sobre las que analiza una gran diversidad de parámetros temáticos y narrativos con el objetivo de hallar los elementos característicos y diferenciadores que tiene este género cinematográfico en Corea del Sur.


 

 

SESIÓN 3

La tercera sesión comenzó con un cambio de moderadores, el Dr. Luis Alberto Botella Sánchez, profesor en el Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental en la Universidad de Málaga, tomó el relevo de la Catedrática Mª Aurelia Martín. A continuación, Ángel Manuel Pacheco Suárez, de la Universidad de Málaga, desarrolló La cuestión afectiva en el pensamiento neo-confuciano de Corea: una revisión analítica de los principios Li () y Qi (). El principal objetivo de este trabajo es atender a las aportaciones metodológicas acerca del estudio de la constitución moral del individuo expuestas en el debate entre los pensadores Toegye (퇴계) y Kobong (고봉). Por este motivo, el ponente propuso a los asistentes un recorrido histórico desde la dinastía Chosŏn a través de los puntos más significativos dentro del debate que llevaron a cabo ambos autores con el fin de dar respuesta a cuestiones de primer orden, tales como la naturaleza humana, la virtud de sus pensamientos y su correspondencia última con el universo.


Por su parte, Olga Fernández García, también de la Universidad de Málaga, explicó brevemente “El nunchi en la era de las redes sociales”. En su exposición profundizó en el concepto del nunchi desde su origen en el confucianismo hasta la actualidad. Una de las curiosidad que la ponente argumentó fue que este concepto se puede encontrar en elementos tan sorprendentes como los emoticonos del Kakao Talk. Debido al uso más frecuente de Internet, explicó que algunos autores consideran que el nunchi se está perdiendo en la comunicación por mensajería telefónica. Por ello, a través de este trabajo, quería lograr los objetivos de constatar si el nunchi sigue siendo relevante para la sociedad coreana y si este se usa de manera consciente en las relaciones dentro del contexto coreano.


 

SESIÓN 4

Una nueva sesión se iniciaba con la intervención de Salua El Jammal, de la Universidad de Málaga, que, a partir de su trabajo fin de grado “Guemnam Pyohaerok. El viaje como relato”, introdujo a los asistentes en este diario de viaje coreano del siglo XV en el que se narra el viaje a la deriva por el mar Amarillo de un alto funcionario coreano, Ch’oe Pu (1454-1504), quien, en su trayecto de vuelta a su tierra natal, para llorar la muerte de su padre, acabó en el sureste de la China Ming. Por medio de esta fuente primaria, la ponente analizó no solo diferentes aspectos y temas que aparecen en el diario sobre la política, economía y sociedad China durante la dinastía Ming, si no también la alteridad entre la sociedad china y la coreana.

 

Después fue el turno de Yasmine Bonjoch Luna, de la Universidad de Salamanca, y su trabajo fin de máster, titulado “La traducción infantil del coreano al español: ¿un juego de niños?”. Su investigación supuso una introducción a la práctica de la traducción del coreano al español, teniendo como objeto de estudio los cuentos infantiles de origen coreano. Su presentación abarcó tanto cuentos clásicos tradicionales como literatura más contemporánea. Con ello pretende analizar hasta qué punto es posible lograr una traducción atractiva para el lector infantil manteniendo elementos culturales propios de una cultura tan diferente, puesto que, al fin y al cabo, la finalidad de la literatura infantil es que los niños disfruten con la lectura a la vez que aprenden.

 

 

SESIÓN 5

Adriana Mendoza Vacas, de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra, abría la sesión de la tarde con la presentación de su trabajo de fin de máster titulado “Voces frágiles: La creación del imaginario literario feminista contemporáneo coreano”. Su objeto de estudio se centra en el auge de escritoras surcoreanas, que comenzó en los años 90, y el espacio que fueron creando en sus obras para contrarrestar los discursos patriarcales monolíticos y homogéneos. Dentro de este marco, su investigación se enfoca principalmente en dos autoras, Han Kang, altamente aclamada por los críticos occidentales; y Hwang Jungeun, menos conocida en el ámbito internacional, pero clave en la nueva ola de feminismo en Corea del Sur. Por medio de la labor realizada por ambas, la ponente ofreció un análisis de la teoría sexual, de género y la deconstrucción que aparecen intrínsecas en sus obras.


Seguidamente, Irene Morales Alonso, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, explicaba brevemente la evolución de su tesis doctoral “El nuevo feminismo. Una visión transnacional entre España y Corea”, centrada en el ámbito del ciberfeminismo. La ponente expuso los problemas que estaba encontrando a la hora de poder entablar una comparativa entre ambos países sin caer en el etnocentrismo y la problemática que supone tomar en consideración los parámetros de las olas feministas que los académicos occidentales dan como únicos y verdaderos. Por esta causa, contextualiza su estudio en la cuarta ola feminista, puesto que permite solventar dichas cuestiones mediante un análisis mixto cualitativo y cuantitativo analizar ambos países al tener un carácter igualitario e interseccional.


Por último, Emma Cabal Santesmases, también de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, expuso su trabajo final de grado “Un nuevo impulso internacional al movimiento feminista. El movimiento #MeToo en España y Corea del Sur”, basado en un análisis comparativo entre ambos países y la influencia que han recibido por parte de Estados Unidos. Por consiguiente, la ponente partió para su estudio de artículos académicos, leyes y normativas, artículos periodísticos, bases de datos internacionales y gubernamentales y páginas webs como metodología, atendiendo a una serie de casos mediáticos relativos al #MeToo para hacer un análisis más completo y comparativo, como ocurre con el Caso de la Manada o el Caso de la fiscal Seo Ji-Hyeon.


 

 

SESIÓN 6

La jornada concluía con una última sesión, iniciada con la exposición de Arturo Cosano Ramos, de la Universidad de Málaga, que narraba su interesante trabajo de campo por medio de su investigación titulada “La presencia coreana en España. Un estudio de las comunidades coreanas en España”. Partiendo del 70º aniversario del inicio de las relaciones internacionales entre España y Corea y ante la escasa información acerca de las comunidades coreanas que se encuentran en nuestro país, su investigación tiene como objetivo adentrarse en el conocimiento de dichas comunidades partiendo de un análisis histórico. De esta forma, analiza las comunidades coreanas presentes en España atendiendo a cuáles son sus principales actividades laborales o cómo se desarrolla su ámbito familiar, entre otras cuestiones, mediante un cuestionario y la realización de varias entrevistas para poder obtener una aproximación a la percepción personal de los residentes coreanos.


Finalmente, Bárbara Sarmentera Vázquez, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, cerró la jornada con la presentación de su trabajo final de máster, titulado “Japón en la internacionalización del arte contemporáneo surcoreano: El caso del Dansaekhwa”, a través del cual explicó el papel de Japón en la internacionalización del arte contemporáneo en Corea del Sur y el surgimiento de ese supuesto movimiento artístico monocromático, tan aclamado por la crítica nipona y surcoreana, conocido como Dansaekhwa. Partiendo de Park Seo-bo y Lee Ufan, dos de los artistas más relevantes del país, la ponente realizó una revisión histórica de los intereses y relaciones artísticas entre ambos países en las décadas de 1960-1970. Además, explicó su metodología de análisis de las piezas expuestas en la muestra de 1975 "Korea: Five Artists, Five Hinsek (White)" realizada en la Tokyo Gallery, considerada origen del movimiento.


 

 

Este II Seminario de Doctorandos en Investigación en Estudios Coreanos sobrepasó las expectativas de ADECCE. Seguimos manteniendo presente la conexión entre el alumnado interesado en Estudios Coreanos, independientemente de la universidad de procedencia; y el profesorado especializado. Creemos firmemente que este evento comienza a consolidarse en España y esperamos que se celebren muchas ediciones más. Nuestra cita anual con todos los jóvenes investigadores de Estudios Coreanos está siendo más vital que nunca. Gracias a todos los participantes, asistentes, moderadores, compañeros de organización y entidades que han colaborado para que este seminario esté más vivo que nunca.