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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">CALL FOR
PAPERS on the Agency
of Korean Women and BAKS Annual General Meeting</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The Agency of
Korean Women,
29 September 2018—BAKS Workshop, Wolfson College, Oxford</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The British
Association for
Korean Studies (BAKS) is calling for paper or presentation or
panel or
round-table proposals for a one-day Workshop to be held at
Wolfson College,
Oxford, on 29 September 2018. Please direct all communications
to James Lewis (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jay.lewis@orinst.ox.ac.uk">jay.lewis@orinst.ox.ac.uk</a>)
and Charlotte Horlyck (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ch10@soas.ac.uk">ch10@soas.ac.uk</a>). All proposals should
address the
general theme of the workshop. Deadline for proposals: 15
September 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The BAKS Council
wishes to
celebrate the centenary of the expansion of suffrage to British
women in 1918
by taking up the workshop theme of ‘The Agency of Korean Women’.
The
enfranchised UK electorate expanded from 7.7 million in 1912 to
21.4 million in
1918. Men benefited as well from the Representation of the
People Act, because
it extended suffrage to all men of 21 and older, while
enfranchising women of
30 and older who owned property. Clearly, the advancement of
women’s rights had
the advantage of carrying men along in its wake. In 1928 all
women 21 and
older, with or without property, were enfranchised. As the
suffragette movement
and more recent feminist movements have shown, the enlargement
of political,
economic, and legal rights to females has not been a gift to
women but has been
fought for and won as a major expansion of the freedoms that
underlie liberal
democracies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The BAKS Council
calls for
proposals for papers, presentations, panels, or round-table
discussions to
consider the agency of Korean women in politics, economy, and
art and
literature, both historically as well as in the modern societies
of the
Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
In the
Republic of Korea, women were enfranchised from 1948, but
feminist activism has
long been directed at the Family Law and laws governing
employment and is
aligned with de-colonization efforts to battle cultural
prejudice against women
and historical and contemporary violence directed at women. In
the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, the 1946 Law on Sex Equality set out
an ambitious
agenda, which has been expanded through various labour laws and
has included
women in military conscription from 2015. There are reports that
women now
dominate the alternate economy of commercial activity and are
often principal
breadwinners for the family. We call for papers and
presentations that explore
these themes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Venue: Wolfson
College,
Oxford (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/gallery/visiting">https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/gallery/visiting</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Parking
available at no cost.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Workshop
registration fee
(coffee/tea, lunch, wine): £15 for students and concessions; £25
for all
others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Tentative
schedule:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">10.00
Registration
Opens with coffee service</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">10.50
Welcome by
the President of BAKS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">11.00 ~ 12.30
Paper Presentations in the Haldane Room</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">12.30 ~ 1.30
Lunch in the Buttery (sandwich)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">1.30 ~
2.30
AGM (new
Council members and award of the Bill Skillend Prize)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">2.30 ~ 4.00
Paper Presentations in the
Haldane Room</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">4.00 ~ 4.15
Coffee/tea</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">4.15 ~ 5.45
Paper Presentations in the
Haldane Room</span></p>
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
Batang;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
JA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">5.45 ~
Closing remarks and wine
reception</span>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr. James B. Lewis
President of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe
Associate Professor of Korean History, Fellow of Wolfson College
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/james-b-lewis">https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/james-b-lewis</a></pre>
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