CFP: "TECHNIQUE AND RELIGION: TECHNICAL CULTURES, BELIEFS, CIRCULATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL TODAY", SYMPOSIUM


Technical Cultures, Beliefs, Circulations from Antiquity until Today
Paris, 14th-15th September 2020


The purpose of this symposium is to offer the opportunity and the place to conduct a reflection on the relationship between technique and religion. Until recently, the history of social sciences has reserved a relatively marginal place to technique as a sphere of human activity, instead taking as objects of study areas where the coherence of a collective consciousness is manifest, notably religious practice. A separation was drawn between the primacy that then-emerging sociology granted to the religious fact as a basic social phenomenon (Emile Durkheim) on the one hand, and instrumental practices, which were therefore limited to the infra-social domain of individual organic subsistence, on the other hand. Technique and religion, two fundamental forms of discovery and of constitution of experience, have thus, in the social sciences, given rise to divergent “interests of knowledge” that historically account for the selection and formulation of objects of knowledge. Yet history of techniques and history of religion have never ceased to interact, often in a conflicting manner.

CFP: CONCURSO DE IDEAS PROMOCIÓN DE INTERCAMBIO COREA-ESPAÑA


Concurso de Ideas
Promoción de Intercambio Corea-España

Para celebrar el 70 aniversario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Corea y España en 2020, la Embajada de la República de Corea organiza un concurso de ideas para promover los intercambios bilaterales. 

CFP: CONSTITUTING BOUNDARIES: IDENTITIES, POLITIES, AND COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CONSTITUTION-MAKING, 1776-2019


In their function as frames of government, constitutions draw boundaries of belonging. The act of making a constitution makes a claim for the existence of a political community, and their texts define the terms of citizenship and of political participation in that community, including and excluding individuals based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and religion.

CONFERENCIA "LA VARIACIÓN DEL YO EN EL JAPONÉS Y SU MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA LITERATURA"


Variación del Yo en japonés y sus manifestaciones en la literatura

日本語における私の変化と日本文学での応用


Conferenciante: Dra. Mizuho Narita


Miércoles 23 de octubre, 12:30-14:00

Facultad de Filología, Ed. A, A-312
Plaza Menéndez Pelayo s/n
Campus Moncloa-UCM, 28040 Madrid

CFP: CONVOCATORIA III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS

 
Convocatoria III 
Premio Alberto Elena de Investigación sobre cines periféricos


El grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión y Cine: Memoria Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid convocan el III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS. Esta tercera convocatoria continúa con la vocación de premiar el trabajo en castellano en torno al concepto de “cines periféricos” y, en general, a una hipotética periferia audiovisual, con la intención de animar así la que fuera una de las líneas principales en el trabajo como investigador del profesor Alberto Elena.

CFP: LITERATURE AND EVENT: REFORMULATIONS OF THE LITERARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY


Literature and Event: Reformulations of the Literary in the 21st Century
One-day Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 15th February 2020


Keynote: Prof. Derek Attridge (York); Prof. Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

What is an event? From a theoretical perspective, events are irregular occurrences, moments of great change or interruptions that can potentially alter the already existing course of history, politics and thought. These changes also simultaneously remould, or at least aim to, human perception and language, which makes them an indispensable part of literature and literary thinking. While literature has referred to these calamitous changes directly, by way of description or through diegetic context, on numerous occasions literature has, for various reasons, failed to come to terms with these events or has actively resisted or undercut them. The literary has also been defined, particularly after the post-structuralist interventions, as an event in its own right, with its own strategy and ambitions to affect change. At the same time this relationship has also been entirely dismissed in readings where literature has been thought of as registering the non-events or the micro-events (madeleine cakes for Proust) that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a political or a historical discourse. This conference is addressed to all such relations between literature and its events, but more eagerly to the event that literature itself becomes and the non-event that it said to sometimes emerge from.

CFP: OVER THE HORIZON: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE


“Over the Horizon: Comparative Perspectives on Literature” 


As Sarah Lawall stated in her essay, the world-literature perspective is not one, but multiple. By looking at literature comparatively, we can enrich our understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works, to look over the horizon of our own tradition and to see how cultures interact.

The conference will consider the theory and the practice of comparative literature and will discuss the transformations and travels of literary genres and texts across time and space. It will explore the connections of literature with history, philosophy, politics, and literary theory, and study the intersections of literature with other cultural forms such as film, visual arts, music and media.

CFP: GLOBAL HORROR: LOCAL PERSPECTIVES


Global Horror: Local Perspectives
Saturday 4th April 2020 – Sunday 5th April 2020
Lisbon, Portugal

Horror pervades human experience. It affects us both as individuals and as members of social communities, it is recurrent in pop culture and arguably present in all fields of human knowledge and realms of storytelling, from Cronus eating his own children, to Freddy Krueger’s sadistic murders in A Nightmare on Elm Street to media coverage of war. As a fundamentally paradoxical concept, horror simultaneously repels and fascinates us: we naturally dread it, yet we are drawn to it. We are taught to avoid that which is horrifying, but the appeal of horror, whether in the form of fiction or sensational news, is irresistible. Indeed, we simultaneously narrate, describe, imagine, consume, dread and crave horror in all of its dimensions, and with the most varied goals.

Horror taps into primal emotions of fear and disgust that are universal to the human condition, and finds expression across cultures and historical periods. Yet the texts that shape the ways in which horror is broadly understood historically reflect predominantly Anglo-European and American cultural, social, historical and geographical contexts.

Growing awareness and appreciation of the rich horror traditions of other countries around the world, including Japan, Korean, India, Brazil and Ecuador, has highlighted the importance of considering horror in a global context. Accordingly, the Global Horror: Local Perspectives Project provides a platform for exploring the ways in which horror motifs and themes are expressed through the ‘local perspectives’ that inform the creative practices and daily life of particular nations and cultures.

CFP: POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY PANEL, SAES CONFERENCE

 
Postcolonial Literary Panel, SAES
(French Society for English Studies) Conference
Tours (France)
4-6th June 2020


“Renaissance(s) / Rebirth(s)”, the theme chosen for the 2020 SAES conference, is particularly relevant in the context of postcolonial literatures in English. Often called “new literatures” in the early years of their emergence, postcolonial works were – and are – frequently characterised by their attempts to renew literary forms, genres and language. These innovative practices sought, and often still seek, emancipation from European norms and canons, with the risk of creating new orthodoxies, like the primacy of the novel in the Indian postcolonial literary scene. Some writers are challenging these new norms from within by promoting an aesthetics of the mundane or reworking form and genre (Mohsin Hamid mixing the European tale tradition with the Arabian Nights in Exit West (2017), Chimamande Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and other female Nigerian authors’ take on the Bildungsroman, ...) Considering these practices through the notion of renewal begs the question of point of view: who are these practices new to? The renaissance, rebirth or renewal operated through literature cannot but strike us with its problematic undertones.

Behind these ideas of renewal and rebirth lie complex dynamics that this panel seeks to explore: from the colonizers’ point of view, colonies could be seen as being born again under colonial rule which rests on the problematic assumption that the pre-colonisation past of these territories was obscure, uncivilised or in decay; yet, if one thinks of early Orientalism, some Orientalists helped Europeans re-“discover” ancient languages (Sanskrit) or art forms (the ghazal), all of which were to some extent thus reborn. The issue is largely one of perspective: while these cultures might have been seen as reborn from a European point of view, they were always already there for colonised peoples, which brings us to the problematic notion of origin.

CURSO ANUAL DE IDIOMA COREANO A1-1 CASA ASIA


Curso Anual de Idioma Coreano


A medida que crece el papel político, cultural y económico de Corea del Sur en el mundo globalizado, el interés que despierta en el extranjero aumenta día a día. La demanda de profundizar sobre los estudios coreanos -y en especial en su idioma- ha aumentado significativamente entre los extranjeros en muchos países, incluido España.

Este interés sobre la República de Corea se ha extendido también a otros ámbitos culturales de este país aparte del idioma, como las telenovelas coreanos, su cine, su gastronomía, o incluso su cosmética, así como el K-pop: todo este interés sobre Corea del sur se denomina hallyu (ola coreana).

Actualmente, un total de 1368 universidades extranjeras imparten cursos de estudios coreanos en 105 países. En España, hay 6 universidades que imparten clases de estudios coreanos. (Korea Foundation)

Aprender coreano no es sólo aprender un idioma. Los tres países más representativos de Asia oriental -Corea, China y Japón- comparten gran parte de su historia y cultura a pesar de tener distintos idiomas. Aprender coreano proporciona otro marco para comprender la gran comunidad cultural de Asia y puede ser la puerta de entrada a otros aspectos de su cultura.

A tener en cuenta es el programa Working Holiday entre España y Corea, que brindará valiosas oportunidades para los jóvenes de ambos países. Este programa de movilidad juvenil entre la República de Corea y España, firmado en el día 18 de diciembre de 2017, entró en vigor el 24 de octubre de 2018. El cupo de visados expedidos por este programa será de 1.000 visados anuales por cada una de las partes. Los participantes en el programa podrán beneficiarse de tener una experiencia laboral que ayude a sufragar los gastos de su viaje, a la vez que aprenden el idioma, durante un año de estancia en la República de Corea.

Casa Asia inicia los cursos de idioma coreano en su sede de Madrid, con la intención de continuar hacia el nivel A1-2 en el curso 2020-2021.

A cargo de:

Chaeyeon Park es licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Española por la Facultad de Artes Liberales de la Korea University de Seúl, y máster en Literatura Hispanoamericana por el Departamento de Lengua y Literatura Española por la misma universidad. Actualmente trabaja como traductora e intérprete de coreano y es profesora de lengua coreana en el Colegio Coreano de Madrid desde el año 2018. También realiza labores de doblaje de voz en coreano. Algunos de sus trabajos como traductora incluyen la versión coreana de la audio-guía del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía y de la Sagrada Familia, patrocinadas por la Embajada de Corea. Compagina su trabajo con sus estudios del Máster en Estudios Literarios por la UCM y de Licenciatura en Lengua Coreana por la Facultad de Lenguas Prácticas en la Cyber University de Corea.


Fecha: 23/10/2019 > 10/06/2020

Horario:

  • Primera parte:
Desde el miércoles 23/10/19 al miércoles 19/02/20 (15 sesiones de 2 horas, Total de 30 horas). Las clases se interrumpirán por Navidades el miércoles 18 de diciembre de 2019 (última clase del año) y se reanudarán el miércoles 15 de enero de 2020 (primera clase del año).

  • Segunda parte:
Desde el miércoles 26/02/20 al miércoles 10/06/20 (15 sesiones de 2 horas, Total de 30 horas). NO habrá clase los días: Miércoles 08 de abril de 2020: FESTIVO

Lugar: Centro Casa Asia-Madrid, Palacio del Marqués de Cañete, c/ Mayor 69, 1º planta, Aula 2, Madrid


Entrada:
  • Curso completo: 430 euros En caso de desear abonar el curso completo, deben realizarlo por TPV a través del enlace "Inscripciones abiertas" en la pagina web.
  • Pago fraccionado: En caso de preferir abonar el curso en dos veces (215 euros antes del 23/10 y 215 euros entre el 01 y el 20/0220) deben enviar un email a formacionmadrid@casaasia.es indicándolo, y se les facilitará un numero de cuenta para poder realizar las transferencias.


Organizador: Casa Asia
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