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
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Thematic Issue: Truth and Reconciliation in the Republic of Korea

Truth and Reconciliation in South Korea: Confronting War, Colonialism, and Intervention in the Asia Pacific FREE ARTICLE!
 – Jae-Jung Suh

The Long Road toward Truth and Reconciliation: Unwavering Attempts to Achieve Justice in South Korea
 – Kim Dong-Choon

Atrocities Before and During the Korean War: Mass Civilian Killings by South Korean and U.S. Forces
 – Suh Hee-Kyung

No Gun Ri: Official Narrative and Inconvenient Truths
 – Charles J. Hanley

War Trauma, Memories, and Truths: Representations of the Korean War in Pak Wan-so’s Writings and in “Still Present Pasts“
 – Jeon Seung-Hee

Politicizing Justice: Post – Cold War Redress and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
 – Lisa Yoneyama