Call for papers
Working the Frame: Comparative Approaches to Asian Canadian Literature & Culture
John Douglas Taylor Conference 2012
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
October 25 & 26, 2012

Call for Papers
The emer­gence of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture as an iden­ti­fi­able force over the last twenty years is abun­dantly clear: Asian Canadian fic­tion and poetry have won major lit­er­ary prizes, there are sev­eral active Asian Canadian the­atre groups in major cities, and film fes­ti­vals on Asian and Asian Canadian film are held annu­ally. Despite the grow­ing promi­nence of Asian Canadian arts, how­ever, the broad pub­lic per­cep­tion that we are liv­ing in a post-racial or even a post-national world makes it dif­fi­cult to estab­lish insti­tu­tional ground­ing for a field founded on explor­ing racial, eth­nic, and national iden­tity; to date, no uni­ver­sity pro­gram or depart­ment devoted to Asian Canadian Studies has emerged. Yet, as the recent Macleans arti­cle Too Asian? and the strong responses it has gen­er­ated demon­strate, racial iden­tity pol­i­tics are nei­ther obso­lete nor dead, although new pos­si­bil­i­ties for coali­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties have arisen between and among dif­fer­ent racial­ized groups in Canada, and between dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties in the Asian dias­pora. While the pol­i­tics of race and iden­tity have shifted over the last two decades with the turn to dias­pora and transna­tional approaches in crit­i­cal race stud­ies, eth­nic stud­ies, post­colo­nial stud­ies, and cul­tural stud­ies, it is pre­cisely this shift that demands atten­tion to new devel­op­ments in the cir­cu­la­tion of knowl­edge about and the expe­ri­ence of race and nation­al­ity in Canada.

The pur­pose of this con­fer­ence is to explore the cur­rent for­ma­tion and future devel­op­ments of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture in a comparative/relational frame, exam­in­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties and respon­si­bil­i­ties of coali­tional pol­i­tics and col­lab­o­ra­tive cul­tural pro­duc­tion, as well as the very def­i­n­i­tion of the term Asian Canadian. We invite pro­pos­als that engage with Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture and are espe­cially inter­ested in research that inves­ti­gates cross-cultural rela­tion­ships, col­lab­o­ra­tions, and antag­o­nisms recounted in, enacted by, or in con­ver­sa­tion with Asian Canadian cul­tural prod­ucts.
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This CFP con­tains a novel for­mat called Pecha Kucha, which I had to look up. This for­mat wouldn’t be suit­able for every aca­d­e­mic research, obvi­ously, but it’s an inter­est­ing approach to keep­ing pre­sen­ta­tions con­cise and fast-paced.

The College of Arts, University of Glasgow, is excited to announce Spaces of (Dis)location, a two-day mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary post­grad­u­ate con­fer­ence tak­ing place on 24th – 25th May 2012.

As national and cul­tural bound­aries are blurred in our increas­ingly global soci­ety, the ideas of space and loca­tion — whether phys­i­cal or meta­phys­i­cal, real or imag­i­nary — are evolv­ing. This notion pro­vides the stim­u­lus for a con­fer­ence that we hope will inspire cre­ativ­ity and debate across many sub­jects in the arts and humanities.

A major aim of this con­fer­ence is to fos­ter net­works and con­nec­tions across dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions and sub­jects. It is also our inten­tion to pub­lish an edited vol­ume with arti­cles from this con­fer­ence through the University of Glasgow’s inter­na­tional post­grad­u­ate research jour­nal eSharp.

Possible top­ics may include, but are not lim­ited to:

• Ideas of space: phys­i­cal and imaginary
• Spatial dichotomies (urban/rural, public/private)
• Globalization
• Localism
• Cultural and nat­ural spaces
• Adaptation (lit­er­ary, lin­guis­tic, cin­e­matic, etc.)
• Cultural dias­pora
• Immigration
• Spaces of performance
• The space of the body

We wel­come sub­mis­sions of abstracts for papers in the clas­sic 20-minute for­mat, but are also keen to accept dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tion for­mats. There will be a poster ses­sion and a Pecha Kucha ses­sion on each day of the con­fer­ence and we would wel­come your sub­mis­sions in these for­mats too.

A Pecha Kucha pre­sen­ta­tion con­sists of 20 slides, each shown for exactly 20 sec­onds, so the entire pre­sen­ta­tion will there­fore last 6 min­utes and 40 sec­onds. It is an engag­ing and chal­leng­ing for­mat for researchers at every stage of their career, but pro­vides a par­tic­u­larly cre­ative for­mat for those just start­ing their research to receive feed­back on their project design and ini­tial find­ings.
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The Journal of Korean Studies Announces Call for Papers for Thematic Issue

Call for Papers on “The End of War? The Korean Armistice after Sixty Years”
Thematic issue of The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 18 No. 2 (Fall 2013)
Due July 31, 2012

The 2013 the­matic issue of The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS), under the direc­tion of guest edi­tor Charles K. Armstrong of Columbia University, will have as its theme the six­ti­eth anniver­sary of the Korean War Armistice. We invite orig­i­nal stud­ies of the armistice and its his­tor­i­cal and present-day sig­nif­i­cance by schol­ars from fields includ­ing – but not lim­ited to – diplo­matic, polit­i­cal, social and cul­tural his­tory, as well as polit­i­cal sci­ence, law, soci­ol­ogy, anthro­pol­ogy, and film and lit­er­ary studies.

We are inter­ested in man­u­scripts from a vari­ety of the­o­ret­i­cal, con­cep­tual, method­olog­i­cal and geo­graph­i­cal per­spec­tives, includ­ing those deal­ing with par­tic­i­pants on var­i­ous sides of the con­flict: North and South Korea, the US, China, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and United Nations coali­tion forces. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact Charles K. Armstrong at cra10@columbia.edu.

Articles appear­ing in the JKS are abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS International, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Historical Abstracts, and America: History and Life.

JKS is a peer-reviewed jour­nal and all papers will be vet­ted by two out­side read­ers.
Please sub­mit your man­u­script by July 31, 2012 to Tracy Stober, JKS Managing Editor, at jourks@u.washington.edu and to Charles K. Armstrong at cra10@columbia.edu.

For detailed infor­ma­tion on the sub­mis­sion process please review the sub­mis­sion pro­ce­dures on the JKS web­site: http://jsis.washington.edu/korea/jks/submissionguidelines.shtml

Contact:

Tracy L. Stober
Managing Editor
The Journal of Korean Studies
Center for Korean Studies Publication Series
University of Washington-Seattle
206 – 543-7896 FAX 206 – 685-0668
The JKS is now on Facebook.

This announce­ment caught my eye first because cul­tural geog­ra­phy posi­tions are so rare these days, and also because the job announce­ment itself reflects the dis­ci­pli­nary breadth of geog­ra­phy. Where else would you see “bio­geo­chem­i­cal mod­eller” and “ice sheet mod­eller” next to “con­tem­po­rary cul­tural geog­ra­phy,” all in the School of Geographical Sciences?

Lectureship in Physical and Human Geography (two posts) (ref. 16925)

School of Geographical Sciences

Description

The School of Geographical Sciences seeks to appoint excep­tional indi­vid­u­als to enhance its research and teach­ing. We are par­tic­u­larly seek­ing can­di­dates in the fol­low­ing strate­gic areas (a) Contemporary Cultural Geography, (b) Human-Environment Relations, © Ice sheet mod­el­ling, and (d) Biogeochemical Modelling. We also wel­come out­stand­ing appli­cants from any area of geo­graph­i­cal research.

These new strate­gic appoint­ments build on the huge inter­na­tional suc­cess of the School at both research and schol­ar­ship level. We are the only Geography depart­ment in the UK to be in the top cat­e­gory across every UK gov­ern­ment Research Assessment Exercise that have been under­taken since 1986. The new appoint­ments will fur­ther strengthen these activ­i­ties. We have iden­ti­fied four spe­cific areas which we would like to develop, although we also empha­sis that we will con­sider out­stand­ing appli­cants from any field.

(i) Biogeochemical mod­eller: We seek can­di­dates who extend our capa­bil­i­ties in carbon/biogeochemical mod­el­ling of the ter­res­trial or in under­stand­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of the ocean and its bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles. Interest in past, present, and future changes in bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles would be desir­able. (ii) Ice Sheet Modeller: We seek to make an appoint­ment in the dynam­ics of ice flow. Our pref­er­ence is to strengthen exper­tise in the appli­ca­tion of numer­i­cal mod­el­ling tech­niques to glac­i­ers, ice caps and ice sheets. Complimentary areas include the appli­ca­tion of field geo­physics and satel­lite obser­va­tion to the study of ice masses and com­pu­ta­tional fluid dynam­ics. (iii) Contemporary Cultural Geography: We seek inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized aca­d­e­mics with a pref­er­ence towards can­di­dates with exper­tise in fields such as embod­i­ment, mate­ri­al­ity, mobil­i­ties, per­for­mance, cul­tural pol­i­tics and/or tech­nol­ogy. (iv) Human-Environment Relations: This post is tar­geted at a scholar with inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised aca­d­e­mic exper­tise in fields such as human-environment rela­tion­ships, polit­i­cal ecol­ogy, envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance, envi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics, envi­ron­men­tal behav­iour and atti­tudes, and the geo­gra­phies of risk.

It is expected that the final selec­tion process will be held on either 3 or 4 May 2012.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and to apply, visit the web­site.

‘Political Popular: Intersection of Democracy and Popular/Public Culture in South Korea’ Conference
University of California, Irvine
September 20 – 22, 2012

Proposals may address (but are not lim­ited to) the fol­low­ing topics:

• Critical analy­sis of Korean pop­u­lar cul­ture rang­ing from music, the­ater, film, tele­vi­sion, man­hwa, etc. Post-1980s lit­er­a­ture and poetry beyond ‘autonomous lit­er­a­ture’ (sunsu munhak 순수문학) vs ‘engaged lit­er­a­ture’ (ch’amyô munhak 참여문학)
• Aesthetic nego­ti­a­tions in min­jung visual cul­ture and “post-minjung” art production
• Protest cul­ture (both on-line and off-line)
• New polit­i­cal media such as SNS activism, Nakkomsu, and inter­net blogging
• Cinema, music, tele­vi­sion at the age of block­buster, super-talent agency, and neoliberalism
• New youth cul­ture, con­sumerism, and urban space

Held con­cur­rently with a film series that high­light both fic­tion and doc­u­men­tary inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion in South Korea and an art exhi­bi­tion that show­cases the visual cul­ture of South Korea’s democ­ra­ti­za­tion over the past three decades (1980s to the first decade of the 2000s), we invite pro­pos­als for unpub­lished, orig­i­nal indi­vid­ual papers (pre-constituted pan­els may also be given con­sid­er­a­tion). All pre­sen­ters of selected papers will have their travel, hotel, and meal expenses remu­ner­ated by the orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee. A brief bio and a 500-word abstract should be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cally to Kyung Hyun Kim (kyunghk@uci.edu) no later than April 15, 2012. Conference will be held on September 20 – 22, 2012 at UC Irvine cam­pus. This event is co-sponsored by Academy of Korean Studies.