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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. <b>Deadline
for proposals: 15 September 2018</b>.</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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