CFP: RELIGION IN SOUTH ASIAN FICTIONS


Call for chapters for an edited book
Religion in South Asian Fictions 
to be edited by Sk Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar and Nasima Islam

Concept Note:

In today’s polarised world, religion is seen as a primary cause of social division, conflict and war, while others have argued that this is a distortion of the true significance of religion, which when properly followed promotes peace, harmony, goodwill and social cohesion. The rhetoric of the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘clash of civilizations’ has promoted a geopolitical enemy. This has been accompanied by a shift towards a more ‘muscular’ liberalism. Secularization and cultural pluralism have dethroned the sacred. It has also destabilized the ‘structure of power’ with the concept that of the sacred was there to uphold a society rooted in a single source of religiously mandated authority. With the emergence of individualism with religion and culture, identity is now as much a matter of individual ‘feeling’ as it is about collective conceptions of the ‘sacred’, whether secularized or not.

CFP: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL SCIENCES


International Symposium on Social Sciences (ISS20)
June 01-04, 2020. Taipei, Taiwan


After 7 years of changes in technology and social structure, our world is facing unprecedented challenges and many novel issues in the field of social sciences have occurred. In areas such as social and primary care, the justice system, education and business, to name just a few, social science is extremely important, and necessary.

The 8th ISS20 will take place from June 01-04, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.

We encourage a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and the sharing of knowledge through a variety of teaching methods and perspectives.
  • Special Session: Human Rights
  • Business Management & Information
  • Economics & Finance
  • Law & Politics
  • Education
  • Psychology & Sociology
  • Communication
  • Linguistics& Literature
Topics should be related but NOT limited to the following below:

Human Rights:
  • Human Trafficking: A Human Rights Violation
  • Business & Human Rights
  • Children’s Rights
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Human Rights Development
  • Human Rights Education and Training
  • Conflicts and Cross Border Migrations
  • Death Penalty
  • Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
  • Human Rights in the Digital Age
  • Refugees' Rights

Education:
  • Theoretical Education vs Practical Education
  • Preschool Education: Knowledge or Social Skills?
  • Does Education Ever Stop or It Continues During the Entire Life?
  • Education and Motivation: How To Make Students Interested?
  • Education and Modern Technologies:Positive and Negative Impacts.
  • What is Considered Basic Education in Different Countries and Why?
  • Globalization & Education: International Perspectives.

Business Management & Information:
  • Challenges of Small Enterprises
  • Franchising VS Opening Your Own Business
  • The Effect of Advertisement on Consumer Behavior
  • Strategic Management and Productivity
  • Staff Motivation and Impact on Productivity
  • Managing Conflicts in Work Team
  • Moral Principles &Their Effect on Business Decision Making
  • Should Companies Exploit the Labor to Maximize Their Profits?
  • Investing in Social Media Campaigns &Digital Marketing

Economics & Finance:
  • Human Trafficking: A Human Rights Violation
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Economic Methods &Hypothesis
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Immigration &Impacts to the Economy
  • Impacts of Business Insurance Policies on Small and Medium Scale Business.
  • The impacts of Globalization on Public Policy Formulation in Emerging Economies
  • Tax Fraud, Evasion and Compliance- Perspectives from Different Countries.
  • Increase in Financial Instruments and the Risk Associated.
  • Globalization of Trade and the Impacts on the Economy
  • What are the Impacts of Stable Economics on the Governance of a Country?
  • Impacts of Consumer Behavior on Market Growth

Law & Politics:
  • Criminal Law
  • Family Law
  • Immigration Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Role of Media in Politics
  • Political Science
  • History of International Relations.
  • International Law
  • Employment Law
  • Medical Law
  • Tax Law
  • Border Wall
  • Democracy: Pros and Cons.
  • Change in Politics at Wartime.

Communication:
  • Ethical & Unethical Communication
  • Traditional and New Media
  • The Discipline of Communication
  • Forms & Types of Communication
  • Key Communication Relationships
  • Public Relations
  • Factors Affecting Communication
  • Challenges for Communication
  • Media as Communication
  • Communication as a Profession
  • Journalism
  • Media Management

Psychology & Sociology:
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Comparative Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Nationality and Ethnicity
  • Social Movements& Revolutions
  • Beliefs & Rituals
  • Children Issues
  • Sociological Analysis
  • Sociological Aspects of Labor Migration
  • Socialization & Individual Freedom
  • Social Problems

Linguistics& Literature
  • Cognitive Linguistics& Comparative Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics& Applied Linguistics
  • A Review of Language in Formal and Informal Settings- Evidence Based on English
  • How Does Sociolinguistics Help Understand Language Choices of Multi-Linguals?
  • Contemporary literature and Comparative literature
  • Poetry and Prose (Fictional and Non-Fictional)

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline
February 05, 2020

Notification of Acceptance
February 19, 2020

Final Payment Deadline
March 30, 2020

ContactEmail : isepst@isepst.org|

Venue : 2, SongShou Road, Taipei, Taiwan

CFP: NORTH KOREAN CULTURE AND CINEMA


Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context Fall 2020 Issue
“The Personal and the Political in Contemporary North Korean Culture and Cinema”


We invite submissions of full-length essays on the important but largely understudied topic of “North Korean Culture and Cinema” for the September 2020 issue. The existing studies on North Korean cinema have mainly focused on the ideological role of the cinema as a propaganda tool of the state. Given the rapidly changing circumstances of North Korea under Kim Jong-un’s leadership and his ongoing attempts to reform and open the regime, however, we seek to illuminate North Korean cinema from a broader set of perspectives, including thematic, formal and technical approaches to the topic as well as its relationship with other artistic forms and emergent technologies. This special issue will feature articles from the following scholars, and we anticipate that many other scholars will be interested in taking part in this important unfolding scholarly debate.

CURSO TRANSITION OF THE ASIAN COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY


Transition of the Asian Community in the 21st Century
Una oportunidad de obtener un certificado y 3 créditos con el curso


Este curso ofrece: Un conocimiento general y multidisciplinario sobre Asia Oriental en temas de historia, cultura, economía, política y relaciones internacionales. 
  • Duración: 36 horas presenciales. (Reconocimiento de 3 créditos)
  • Fechas: del 31 de enero al 24 de abril de 2020. (9 semanas)
  • Horario: viernes de 16 a 20 h. 
  • Matrícula: 0 €. (subvencionada)
  • Lugar: aula 201-II Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

CFP: THE 10TH ASIAN CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (ACAS2020)


The 10th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2020)
May 27-30, 2020 | Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan


Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, this international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue. This event will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.

Since its founding in 2009, IAFOR has brought people and ideas together in a variety of events and platforms to promote and celebrate interdisciplinary study, and underline its importance. Over the past year we have engaged in many cross-sectoral projects, including those with universities (the University of Barcelona, Hofstra University, UCL, University of Belgrade and Moscow State University), a think tank (the East-West Center), as well as collaborative projects with the United Nations in New York, and here, with the Government of Japan through the Prime Minister’s office.

With the IAFOR Research Centre, we have engaged in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives we believe will have an important impact on domestic and international public policy conversations. It is through conferences like these that we expand our network and partners, and we have no doubt that ACAS2020 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and best practice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.

The 10th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2020) will be held alongside The 10th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2020). Registration for either conference will allow delegates to attend sessions in the other.

The ACAS Organising Committee welcomes submissions from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following streams:

Streams
  • Indian and South Asian Studies
  • South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)
  • Central Asian Studies
  • Chinese Studies
  • Japanese Studies
  • Korean Studies
  • Middle Eastern Studies (including Assyria, Iran, Egypt, Turkey)
  • Islamic Studies
  • Hebrew and Judaic Studies
  • Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies
For enquiries: acas@iafor.org

When: Mar 27, 2020 - Mar 30, 2020
Where: Tokyo, Japan
Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2020
Notification Due: Dec 20, 2019
Final Version Due: Mar 10, 2020

Submit your abstract by January 7, 2020 in order to be considered for Grants & Scholarships.

CFP: ASIAN DIASPORIC LITERATURE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE


Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future
29-23 July 2020


We would like to invite you to the 2020 International Conference on Literature: “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future”. The conference is organized by the Postgraduate Students’ Club of the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and takes place on 29-23 July 2020, in Penang, Malaysia.

In the 2020 conference we want to pay special attention to emerging directions and practices on/in Asian diasporic literature and theory. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the world has witnessed important changes in social, political, cultural and economic landscapes. The shifts have in turn pushed diaspora studies to expand beyond their origins in literary studies and their primary focus on ‘representation’ to an engagement with epistemological, ethical and political questions. Through ICL, we want to respond and contribute to current critical and theoretical debates by moving toward the study of world literatures and global theoretical, aesthetic and cultural practices. The conference also aims to trigger a debate about the future of the discipline, and thus reinvigorate and pioneer certain dimensions of the areas.

ICL seeks to provide a platform for those interested in interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural approaches to push diaspora studies into new domains to meet, discuss, and to explore contemporary debates, and to revisit the ‘classic’ issues to interrogate them. Topics to be addressed by the papers and sessions at the conference will cover a broad spectrum of research questions, but with a specific emphasis on contemporary and future challenges for Asian diasporic literature and theory. Proposals are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
  • The Legacy of the Asian Diaspora
  • Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives
  • Shifting Perspectives on Race and Gender
  • New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility
  • Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
  • Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
  • Rethinking the Family, Class, and Ethnicity
  • Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Health, and Wellness
  • War, Violence and Terror

Or any other aspect of diasporic literary studies.


Submissions:

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the theme of the conference. Abstracts for proposed oral presentation (200-250 words; excluding author names and affiliations) should be submitted via the online submission system. For guidelines on abstract writing, please click here. Selection of oral presentations will take place and speakers and presenters will be informed by December 15, 2019. Authors are expected to submit full papers by 30 April 2020.


Publication opportunity:

Selected high-quality, original submissions will be published as an edited volume in a prestigious publisher or in a well reputed literary journal indexed in Scopus and ESCI (WoS).

Please note that ICL only publishes manuscripts in English. For guidelines on full paper submission, please click here.

The publication outcome of previous ICL (2018) is available here.


Deadline for submissions: July 29, 2020


Contact email: icl@usm.my

CFP: THE TRAVEL WRITERS WORKSHOP - ASIA 2020


Call for Submissions:
The Travel Writers Workshop - Asia 2020


Applications are now open for the annual instalment of The Travel Writers Workshop - Asia (TTWW - Asia), an intensive week-long outdoors camp and writing fellowship which aims to create spaces for Asian and non-Asian travelers and emerging travel writers.

TTWW - Asia welcomes travel writings and its various permutations — travel essay, travel memoir, and travel narrative. Other creative nonfiction subgenres such as place studies, city essays, nature writing, narrative history, and mini-ethnographies, or their hybridization, are also welcome. Limited slots are given to travel-themed poetry and short fiction manuscripts.

Travel writings may topically extend into a raft of themes and topicalities that include alterity; (counter)cartographies; cultural and psychic geography; displacement/diaspora; ecology; ethnoreligious/ideopolitical conflicts; the flaneur; ‘foodways’/gastronomic culture; gendered routes and borders; globality; landscape/seascape aesthetics; liminal spaces; nature/culture divide (or the ‘naturalcultural’); nomadism; nostalgia/solastalgia; place mutualism; psychogeography; sodalities and subcultures; spatio-temporal (im)materialities; tourism; topology and topophilia; and transnationalism/transregionalism. Other muted but compelling issues that add novelty to — or counter the dominant discourse in — the historical archive and contemporary corpus of travel literature are also welcome.

Submissions should be set or based within Asia.

An outdoors writers workshop, TTWW - Asia will be held in Siargao Islands, Surigao del Sur in the Philippines. Apart from free board and lodging, and domestic transportation allowance, TTWW - Asia offers its travel writing fellows a study on the craft and techniques of travel writing across genres through lectures, discussions, critique, mentoring, and writing exercises as well as inputs on publishing, arts project management, and travel photography, while touring in partner establishments and tourist spots in Siargao.

There are ten (10) writing fellowships available. Only shortlisted applicants will receive a response via email. Manuscripts in English (or translated into English from any Asian language) — original and previously unpublished — may be any of the following:
  • Creative nonfiction and essays: 2 to 3 pieces (1500 to 5000 words each) in the nonfiction subgenres mentioned above;
  • Short fiction: a sequence of 2 to 3 travel-themed short fiction (1500 to 5000 words each);
  • Poetry: a suite of 5 to 7 travel-themed poems; or
  • Chapbook/book-length collection of travel writings: unpublished manuscript of 6 to 10 creative nonfiction pieces.     

Include a personal/(auto)critical essay (2 to 3 pages) on travel poetics with the prompt “Why I travel.” Send manuscripts, essay on travel poetics, cover letter, and curriculum vitae/resume to thetravelwritersworkshop@gmail.com on or before 05 January 2020.

Asian writers (or writers with Asian origin) who wish to be part of the workshop’s teaching panel may send in a letter of intent and their body of works in travel literature (both published and unpublished) to the same email address.

TTWW - Asia’s 2020 instalment is scheduled on the third quarter of 2020.

thetravelwritersworkshop@gmail.com

F Alex San Juan

2020 KOREA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND



2020 Korea Foundation Fellowship
For Postdoctoral Research in Australia and New Zealand


Resumen del programa:
La beca de KF de investigación postdoctoral está diseñada para apoyar la investigación a tiempo completo de los académicos en ascenso que recientemente han obtenido un PhD en un tema relacionado con Corea en una universidad u organización para la investigación situada en Australia o Nueva Zelanda.

 Elegibilidad del solicitante:
Académicos en ascenso con un PhD reciente en el campo de las humanidades, ciencias sociales, artes o cultura en un tema relacionado con Corea deben cumplir cada uno de los siguientes requisitos:

CFP: MYTHOLOGICAL EQUINES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE


Call for Book Chapters on
Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature


Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on the theme: Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature for an edited collection of the same name in the series Equine Creations: Imagining Horses in Literature and Film, edited by Rachel L. Carazo (Northwestern State University).

All areas of study, with a common goal of representing the cultural, social, philosophical, and material impacts of mythological equines in children’s literature are invited to participate.

Francisco LaRubia-Prado recently edited a collection about horses in film and literature. There are also several single essays and general books about horse-themed works. Nevertheless, there have been no other collections on specific themes regarding the cultural, social, material, and philosophical impacts of mythological equines in literature. Thus, even though this particular collection regards mythological equines in children’s literature, other themes will be considered in studies about horses that will follow the completion of this collection.

CFP: TURNING POINTS: INTERPRETING THE PAST, EXPLAINING THE PRESENT AND IMAGINING THE FUTURE

 

Turning points: "Interpreting the past, explaining the present and imagining the future" International Conference
22-23 May - Athens, Greece
Why "Turning Points"? Because amid history's relentless unfolding come singular years of change. Come fulcrums in time when a genuinely new tomorrow takes hold among people, nations, and states.

"Do not call it fixity, where past and future are gathered" as the poet wrote, "there is only the dance". Why? What's at work? What's the momentum? Why the decisive moment? Who or what drives the forces that make history's twists and turns happen in the dance of the past to the future? The attractions, the repulsions, the needs?

This issue is now of particular relevance in light of the recent advanced analysis in the social sciences, history, the humanities and other pertinent domains regarding the hinges of profound alteration that occurred in 1918, 1948, 1968, 1978 and 2018 -- our key case study years. Our Turning Points conference attempts to gather together and expand this work to a new level now that scholarship has achieved an advanced stage of understanding key socio-economic, cultural and policy issues for these times.

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