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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">First, I would like to share with you the great news that our peer-reviewed international journal, <em><strong>Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, </strong></em>is now to be included in <strong>SCOPUS</strong>. I am also happy to annouce our 2018 Situations conference cohosted by Hong Kong Univ., Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2018.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Please refer to the CFP below and also visit our website (<a href="http://situations.kr">http://situations.kr</a>) for more information.</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd; mso-para-margin-top: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:inherit,serif; font-size:11pt"><font size="2"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">The emergence of digital technology has brought about far-reaching transformations in many parts of the world, with the creation of the Internet and the multiple forms of wireless technology making access to information easy and immediate. As a consequence, digital culture has been celebrated for empowering individuals to express themselves and to create relationships with people all over the world. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="2"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕"">More recently, however, digital technology has begun to destabilize in unpredictable ways the set of dominant cultural and social institutions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> by which most human beings have created meaning and purpose in their lives. Coming to global prominence in the course of the twentieth century, the cultural industry—the social and cultural institutions of newspapers and magazines, radio and television, film and theatre—are now under sustained stress due to their inability to find a new and sustainable profit models. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="2"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Perhaps as a consequence, the many forms of digital culture are witnessing a tremendous struggle over issues of freedom and surveillance. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕"">Social media platforms have allowed people to communicate remarkably quickly, forming new relationships and spreading information and insight in rapid ways. At the same time, the greatly enhanced ability of central networks to monitor, record and store all information have revived the fears of a surveillance society. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="2"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">At the same time, there is growing alarm about the ways in which digital media tends to undermine existing institutions and forms of governance, as manifested by such phenomena as the alt-right in the West and radical right-wing movements like <em><span style="border:1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm; padding:0cm">Ilbe</span></em> in South Korea. Indeed, the emergence of a new populism in many parts of the world attests to the decline of established media institutions, which are widely seen as having lost touch with the realities of those left behind by globalization. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="2"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">This conference will explore the ramifications of the digital revolution on the culture industry in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕"; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria"><font face="Cambria"><font size="3">Possible topics may include:</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="border:1pt windowtext; color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕"; padding:0cm">The persistence of television</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Are newspapers dying?</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Populism and modernity</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">What comes after Hollywood in Asia?</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Religious conflict</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">The online cultures of magazines </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Radio and freedom</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Social collapse</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Internet political communities</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">Surveillance and social media</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">New types of dissent</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕""><font size="3">The future of the nation-state</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><strong><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated, although the deadline for a 4,000-word proposal is September 30 2018. All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Situations</em>, Terence Murphy, at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> and cc’d to the Managing Editor Rhee Suk </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:맑은 고딕; mso-bidi-font-family:"맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-language:KO">K</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">oo at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a><span style="background:whitesmoke; font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕"">skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">.</span></font></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><strong><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Each </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif; mso-fareast-language:KO">invited </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">participant is expected to turn his or her initial presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We will defray the travel costs and room accommodation for the duration of the conference for each invited speaker. </span></font></strong><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">This offer is subject to prior confirmation of airline ticket arrangements with the Managing Editor.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="3">We look forward to welcoming you to Hong Kong!</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 88.9pt 0pt 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-para-margin-right: 7.41gd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="2"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-size:11pt">Co-hosted by the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-size:12pt">MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, U of Hong Kong and the Department of English BK 21 Project Yonsei U</span></font></span></p>
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