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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Korean Literature Association
Annual Meeting<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">November 11-12, 2022<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The Korean Literature
Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of <b>“Resonance”</b> to be held at the
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects
that reflect on the way resonance can open up and connect Korean literary
studies to the broader human world across disciplinary boundaries, historical
periods, geographical borders, and linguistic systems.<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Resonance—derived from its
Latin roots <i>resonare</i> (resound) and <i>resonantia</i> (echo) and the French <i>résonance</i>—refers to a sound or a quality
of a sound. Yet as <i>The OED</i> lists, resonance
also means the power to evoke images, memories, and emotions; a sympathetic
response; and allusions, connotations, and overtones. Although the specifications
vary, the overarching concept of resonance involves movement through either vibration,
oscillation, wave, or amplification that leads to a response—another movement, which
together can produce meaning and value. Using these broad definitions as a starting
metaphor and a springboard for creative extensions, we hope that the theme of “Resonance”
allows us to explore Korean literature by embracing myriad forms, modes, and
mechanisms that are both intimately and distantly connected to what constitutes
Korean literature’s legacies and transformations. In this way, this conference
aims to reconceptualize resonance as an important heuristic device for Korean
literary and cultural studies.<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Of particular interest to this
endeavor will be discussions on how and where Korean literature resonates. How
might we analyze, interpret, and ground resonance within Korean literature’s
history and its contemporary making? How can we use resonance as a framework
for transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work on Korea? How is Korean
literature embedded in the practices of the larger humanities and other fields,
such as in the social sciences and STEM and vice versa? How might the
resonances of Korean literature challenge the long-established theoretical practices
and contribute to the ongoing making of global aesthetics? What are the places,
moments, and instances of dissonance rather than resonance which nevertheless allow
Korean literature to intervene in knowledge building and problem-solving and
illuminating human conditions?<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Topics could include but are
not limited to the following:<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Sound and sonic culture in
Korea<span></span></span></p>

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writing, reading, listening, seeing<span></span></span></p>

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Intermediality <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Premodern and Modern East
Asian literary connections<span></span></span></p>

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Korean aesthetics<span></span></span></p>

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Humanizing digitalization<span></span></span></p>

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literature<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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The KLA (</span><a href="http://korlit.org/wp/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">http://korlit.org/wp/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">) seeks submissions from graduate students and faculty at any
stage of their careers who are interested in presenting papers at the
Conference. Individual as well as organized panels are welcome. </span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Humanities and the study of literature have
often been construed as an individual endeavor rather than a team effort, in
this call for proposals, we are especially interested in seeking projects that
bring teams of researchers together in demonstrating collaborative building of
Korean literary studies. We are currently planning an in-person conference at
the University of Oregon. <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",serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The deadline for submissions is <span style="background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%">June 15, 2022</span>. Please send your 300-word abstract
and a short CV to Jina Kim at </span><a href="mailto:jinak@uoregon.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">jinak@uoregon.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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</div><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>