<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear colleagues, </font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please kindly circulate this call for papers for the 9th Korean Screen Cultures Conference (KSCC 2020), hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. </font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Kind regards, </font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Ji-yoon An</font></p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">A Call for Papers</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The 9th Annual Korean Screen Cultures Conference (KSCC 2020)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="">11-12 June 2020</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The University of Tübingen, Germany, is pleased to host the 9th Korean Screen Cultures Conference, supported by the Korea Foundation. This follows successful conferences previously held at: SOAS, University of London (2012, 2013), Sheffield Hallam University (2014), University of Copenhagen (2015), King’s College London (2016), Universität Hamburg (2017), University of Helsinki (2018), and most recently University of Central Lancashire (2019).</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The conference aims to critically engage with some of the most important and urgent issues that have affected and guided contemporary Korean screen culture, in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">particular cinema, television, web comics, and music.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""> We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of Korean screen culture, including but not limited to:</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Korean cinema: North and South, past and present</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Production, distribution, and reception of film</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span>Diasporic Korean cinemas<span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="">Film as history, including questions of witnessing and historiography</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="">Documentary and indie texts, production, exhibition</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US" style="">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="">Korean film festivals</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Female filmmakers</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Changing thematic concerns in K-drama and its production practices</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Korean TV formats beyond drama, such as variety shows</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Questions of reception and appropriation of K-TV on global content platforms, like Netflix</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Korean online games, webtoons, Korean media arts</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">K-Pop music video form, narratives, and circulation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Korean adverts and public screens (on the subway, in the streets, in waiting rooms etc.)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Transnational adaptations, co-productions, collaborations, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">and various intermedia practices</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Pedagogical considerations<b> </b>on using Korean screen media in teaching  </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Papers on other forms and interpretations of Korean screen culture will also be considered.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Applicants will be notified of the result by 15 February 2020.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A complete paper of 5,500-6,000 words should be sent by 1 June 2020. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Proposal format:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"></span></font></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In your proposals—both for individual papers and panel proposals—please include your name, institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, an abstract of 350 words, and a 50-100 word biography of the author.  </font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please submit your proposal as a WORD doc file.</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The file name should follow the format: "<b>KSCC2020 SURNAME abstract</b>" (e.g. KSCC2020 JACKSON abstract). In the case of a panel, please use the surname of the chief organiser followed by 'panel X,' with X being the number of participants (e.g. KSCC2020 KIM panel 3 abstract).</font></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Please send the abstract as an email attachment to Dr Ji-yoon An, at: </span><a href="mailto:kscc2020@koreanistik.uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#0000ff">kscc2020@koreanistik.uni-tuebingen.de</font></span></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">All applicants will receive an email confirmation for receipt of their abstract within 10 working days. If you do not receive confirmation, please email.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Accommodation will be covered for all presenters. We are, however, only able to provide limited travel support, with priority given to graduate students. In your proposal, please indicate whether you would require travel support.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">For all enquiries, please contact Dr Ji-yoon An at: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:ji-yoon.an@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank">ji-yoon.an@uni-tuebingen.de</a></font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">For more on the KSCC, please see:</span><font color="#0000ff"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><a href="https://arts.monash.edu/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub/korean-screen-culture-conference-kscc/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://arts.monash.edu/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub/korean-screen-culture-conference-kscc/</span></a></font><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">KSCC 2020 is organised by a committee comprised of Dr Ji-yoon An (University of Tübingen), Dr Mark Plaice (University of Central Lancashire), Dr Andrew Logie (University of Helsinki), Dr Barbara Wall (University of Copenhagen), and Dr Andrew Jackson (Monash University).</font></font></span><span style="text-align:center;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ji-yoon An (Ph.D.)</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Visiting Assistant Professor</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen<br>Department of Korean Studies<br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=Wilhelmstr.+133,+72074+T%C3%BCbingen,+Germany&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Wilhelmstr. 133, 72074 Tübingen,</a> <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=Wilhelmstr.+133,+72074+T%C3%BCbingen,+Germany&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Germany</a><br>E <a href="mailto:youngeun.koo@uni-tuebingen.de" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ji-yoon.an@uni-tuebingen.de</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>