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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The deadline for this year's KLA CFP is coming up. Please join us!<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">14<sup>th</sup> Korean Literature Association Zoom Conference
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Venue: The George Washington University<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Date: November 19-20, 2021<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
The George Washington University and GW Institute for Korean Studies<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">We invite individual paper submissions from those working in
any discipline or field (for example, queer studies, gender studies, history,
literature, sociology, Asian American studies, anthropology, communications, performance
studies, film/visual culture) who are incorporating Korean literature into
their work for the 14<sup>th</sup> annual Korean Literature Association Zoom Conference
to be held virtually on <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">November 19-20, 2020 at The George Washington
University</span>. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The <span class="gmail-il">KLA</span> (<a href="http://korlit.org/wp/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://korlit.org/wp/</a>)
seeks submissions by graduate students and faculty at any stage of their careers
who are interested in presenting papers at the Conference. Those selected to
present at the Conference will submit a full-length paper in advance;
presentations (15 minutes each) will draw from the submitted paper. <span style="color:black">Individual presentations will be
organized into panels, each with an assigned discussant.</span> Those interested
scholars should send a 300-word abstract and short CV to the email address
below. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">In order to comply with Covid-19 protocol, we kindly ask
that the participants understand and respect social distancing as <span class="gmail-il">KLA</span> holds its
conference online. The deadline for submissions is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">June 15, 2021</span>. Please send
your abstract to Immanuel Kim at <a href="mailto:ikim52@gwu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ikim52@gwu.edu</a>.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>Immanuel Kim</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>President of <span class="gmail-il">KLA</span></span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Immanuel Kim</div><div>The Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud</div><div>Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies<br></div><div>East Asian Languages and Literatures</div><div>The George Washington University</div><div><br></div><div><i>Friend: A Novel from North Korea</i></div><div><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/friend/9780231195614" target="_blank">https://cup.columbia.edu/book/friend/9780231195614</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Laughing North Koreans</i></div><div><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793608291/Laughing-North-Koreans-The-Culture-of-Comedy-Films" target="_blank">https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793608291/Laughing-North-Koreans-The-Culture-of-Comedy-Films</a></div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><i>Rewriting Revolution</i></div><div><a href="https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/rewriting-revolution-women-sexuality-and-memory-in-north-korean-fiction/" target="_blank">https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/rewriting-revolution-women-sexuality-and-memory-in-north-korean-fiction/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>