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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;">I am happy to announce our 2017 Situations international conference in Jeju Island. Please visit our website: <a href="http://situations.kr">http://situations.kr</a>.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)"><span style="font-size:14pt"><strong>“As the Boom Goes Bust in Asia…" </strong></span></span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt">Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context International Conference </span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)">Dates: Friday November 3-Saturday November 4 2017<br />
Venue: Jeju Island, South Korea</span></strong></span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">Globally, it is easy to see that we are witness to changing times. The astonishing vote of the British to leave the EU, </span></span>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">t</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">he rise of Donald Trump to the US presidency, the signing of a peace deal to end the conflict in Syria without US</span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">participation</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:함초롬바탕; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">…</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">. Each of these events has sent shock waves through the world system. In East Asia, these dramatic </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">developments have been matched off against a more specific and regionally-defined set of concerns that appear to </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">mark a genuine loss of confidence in the promise of a secure future. If we want to explain this loss, we might do </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">well to link it to the gradual winding down of a 40-year cycle of prosperity that began for many East Asian countries </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">in the late 1960s. Already, this growing mood of uncertainty has given rise to street protests against political and </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">economic elites that have been seen to be unaccountable. In Taiwan, between March-April 2010, protests erupted </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">in opposition to the passage of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement by the ruling party. The demonstrations </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">became known as the Sunflower Movement. From September to December 2014, Hong Kong's Umbrella Move-</span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">ment, a series of sit-in street protests initiated by the Chinese Communist Party’s decision to pre-screen Hong Kong’s </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">leadership candidates, convulsed the island. And at the end of 2016, South Korea witnessed a sustained series of </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">non-violent candlelit protests, demanding the immediate resignation of its scandal-plagued president. Culture and cult-</span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">ural representations are also undergoing important shifts in the East Asian countries. In both popular and mass forms of</span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">representation, we are witness to a growing mood of social uncertainty, in premonitions of disaster, in fears of an aging </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">demographic and the rise of untested forms of robotics and biotechnologies. Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian </span></span></p>
<p class="0" style="text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">Context </span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:0pt; mso-font-width:100%; mso-text-raise:0pt">calls for papers that will address themselves to the wide range of issues thrown up by this new conjuncture.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman">Topics that appear relevant include, but are certainly not confined to, the following themes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family:times new roman">Shifting Currents in Pop Music and Fan Cultures<br />
The New Realities in TV Drama<br />
The Aging Society and the Media<br />
The Housing Crisis in East Asia<br />
Political Protest and the End of the Asian Dream<br />
East Asian Youth and the Crisis of Employment<br />
Asian Disaster Cinema<br />
Robotics and a World Without Work<br />
Speculations on the Future<br />
Artificial Intelligence<br />
Debt and the Future of the State<br />
Futures Beyond Democracy<br />
The Demise of Westernization<br />
New Gender Politics<br />
Populism<br />
The Power of the Premodern Past<br />
Migrants and Borders<br />
Capital Flows in the Age of Nationalism</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)">Deadline for Paper Proposals: June 30 2017<br />
Completed 6,000-word papers (in Chicago style): September 15 2017<br />
Inquiries, proposals and papers may be addressed to the Situations Editor, Terence Murphy, at the following address </span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)">tmurphy@ yonsei.ac.kr</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)">Situations will help defray some of the costs of travel and accommodation for selected invitees</span> <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">who submit completed </span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">papers by the suggested deadline. In return, the invitee agrees that a properly referenced and formatted version of their </span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">conference paper will be considered for publication in a future number of the journal.</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman !important; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;">Many thanks for posting this.</div>
<p>Best,</p>
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<p>Suk Koo Rhee, Ph.D. Indiana Univ., Bloomington</p>
<p>Managing Editor of Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context</p>
<p>Director of English Graduate Studies</p>
<p>Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture</p>
<p>Underwood International College</p>
<p>Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, South Korea</p>
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