<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">CFP:<span> </span><span style="background:white">Literature and Film in </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span class="gmail-il">Neoliberal</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span class="gmail-il">East</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span class="gmail-il">Asia</span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">January 3-6, 2019<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">In recent decades<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">East</span><span> </span>Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people's lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Modern Language Association’s LLC<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">East</span><span> </span>Asian Forum is an opportunity to present works that discuss literature and film in<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">neoliberal</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">East</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">Asia</span>. </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Arial"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Some questions that papers might address through a study of<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">East</span><span> </span>Asian literary and cinematic texts include the following:</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Arial"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">How does neoliberalism reshape and reorganize the socio-economy in such a way as to produce new class systems? What are the most valuable assets for individuals and for families in<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">neoliberal</span><span> </span>societies and world order? Is there a relationship between the surging of misogyny and<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">neoliberal</span><span> </span>politics? How does neoliberalism impact and control transnational circulations of tangible and intangible things such as consumer products and labor, knowledge and power, and popular cultures? How does neoliberalism affect experiences of space, geography, and travel?</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Please submit a 250-word maximum abstract in MS word format via email attachment by March 15 to the session organizer<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">Kelly</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">Jeong</span>.<span> <span> </span></span></span><a href="mailto:kyjeong@ucr.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">kyjeong@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"><span> <span> </span></span>Abstracts will be selected by March 25.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Presenters must be current MLA members.</span></p><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19.2px">Kelly Y. Jeong<br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19.2px">Associate Professor, Korean Studies and Comparative Literature</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19.2px">Director of Korean Studies Program</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19.2px">Director of Comparative Literature Program<br>Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<br>UC Riverside<br>900 University Avenue HMNSS 2401<br>Riverside, CA  92521<br><br>Tel  <a href="tel:951%20827%201534" value="+19518271534" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">951 827 1534</a> (Message)<br>Fax <a href="tel:951%20827%202160" value="+19518272160" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">951 827 2160</a> (Dept.)</div></div></div></div></div>
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