<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call
for Papers </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Korean
Families in Economic and Demographic Transitions: Parenting, Children's
Education, and Social Mobility</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Garamond,serif">Perspectives
on Contemporary Korea Conference Series VI</span></i></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">November 11-12, 2016 | University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizers: </span></p>
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Hyunjoon Park (Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
Nojin Kwak (Nam Center/Department of Communication Studies, University
of Michigan)</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsors: Nam Center
for Korean Studies, University of Michigan</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">South Korean families with children have changed significantly
during the last few decades in composition, structure, and function. Major
demographic changes, including the rise of divorce, and increase of marriage
between Koreans and foreigners, have diversified Korean families. Moreover, the
recent trends of rising economic inequality and deteriorating job security have
posed serious challenges to many families, particularly at the lower end of
socioeconomic hierarchy. How do Korean parents and children cope with the
economic and demographic challenges? How do the economic and demographic trends
in Korea contribute to widening disparities in family environments? When
families struggle with economic strain and family instability, how do extended
family networks work to provide economic, social, and emotional support to
vulnerable family members? These questions of how families fare at the
crossroads of economic and demographic changes, and whether families can rely
on family ties in navigating the crossroads, are particularly important in
Korea that has traditionally weak public welfare. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">However, families are not only <i>responding</i> to economic inequality but they also <i>contribute</i> to economic inequality. For
instance, the trend of rising educational homogamy can mean that families are
increasingly bifurcated between families in which both spouses have a college
degree and their counterparts in which both spouses have no college education.
As women’s economic participation has increased, growing educational homogamy
can contribute to the increasing gap in economic resources between families at
the top and bottom of economic hierarchy.
Similarly, scholars and policy makers have assessed the extent to which
changing family structure accounts for changing economic inequality among
families. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference, “Korean Families in Economic and
Demographic Transitions,” the sixth in <i>Perspectives
on Contemporary Korea</i> series, aims to bring scholars together to discuss
how recent economic and demographic changes have affected parents and children
in Korea, and at the same time how changing family structure and arrangements
have also contributed to recent economic and social inequality. In particular,
the conference invites scholars with both quantitative and qualitative
approaches to Korean families. On the one hand, quantitative studies can offer
trends and patterns of changing Korean families. On the other hand, qualitative
research can explore subjective meanings, perceptions, and experiences of
inequality and family changes beneath macro trends and patterns. In
collaboration, these approaches offer the opportunity for better understanding of
changing Korean families and surrounding inequalities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The following are some possible topics that can be
include in the conference, but any papers that fit the theme are welcome. </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do recent increasing job insecurity
and rising economic inequality affect Korean children’s education and
well-being, particularly by influencing parents’ investment and involvement in
children’s education and other activities?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How has Korean parents’ and children’s
time use changed? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What are the most serious issues Korean
families with children deal with? How do those issues differ for affluent and
poor families? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How have the notion and meaning of
motherhood and fatherhood changed in the context of changing economy and
demography? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Is there an emerging pattern of the
parent-child relationship that is distinctive from the parent-child
relationship in the past?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do grandparents and other relatives
matter for Korean parents and children who face particularly serious challenges
at the crossroads? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What are the implications of recent
trends in family behaviors and structure for economic and social inequality at
the next generation?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How are contemporary Korean families and
inequality portrayed in the media and films?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Korean Families” is the sixth annual conference on
contemporary Korea sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the
University of Michigan. Previous conferences in the series have examined the
phenomenon of Hallyu in the age of social media, transgressive practices in
Korean society, the politics of sports, cultural products of the Yushin era,
and new communication technologies in present-day Korea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Travel grants to defray the costs of attendance may
be available to accepted participants, one per paper by application.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guidelines for Submission</span></u></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cover
Page: The first page of submission should be the coverage page that includes
the following information of the authors (including coauthors): name,
affiliation, title, mailing address, and email. A presenter, if accepted, of the
paper should be marked clearly.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Short
Abstract: A short abstract (no more than 200 words) should be included.</span></p>
<p class=""><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Extended
Abstract: An extended abstract in 2-3 pages (single-spaced, Times New Roman
12-point font, 1-inch margins) should be substantial enough to present research
questions clearly, explain their significance, and outline data and methods to
be used, in addition to providing a brief literature review. If needed, tables
and/or figures can be included (they will not be counted toward the page limit).
References do not count in the 2-3 page limit.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Single
File: The submission should be combined as a single PDF file that includes the cover
page, short abstract, and extended abstract</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission
and Deadline: Submissions should be submitted via </span><a href="https://umich.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0HaadGYYE0OYc8l"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">online
form</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
(<a href="http://bit.ly/1t4jzdy">http://bit.ly/1t4jzdy</a>) <u>Friday, August 19, 2016</u>.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Questions:
Questions may be directed to </span><a href="mailto:koreanfamilies@umich.edu"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">koreanfamilies@umich.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
Note that submissions will not be accepted at this address.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Final Papers:
<u>For accepted abstracts only</u>, complete papers will be due to organizers
by Friday, October 21, 2016. Papers presented at “Korean Families”
conference will be considered for inclusion in a peer-reviewed, edited volume
of the same title to be published by the University of Michigan Press, as part
of Perspectives on Contemporary Korea series. Selected participants will be
asked to submit final papers by January 1, 2017.</span></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:17.12px"><a href="https://www.ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea-2016---korean-families-in-eco.html">https://www.ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea-2016---korean-families-in-eco.html</a></span></font><br></p><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div></div></div>
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