<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">CFP
for <i>Energy in Asia</i></span></b></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">A conference at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—Organized by EnviroLab at the Claremont Colleges
and the Center for Korean Studies UCLA, February 23-24, 2023</span></i></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Energy has been commonly viewed as a source of
power for performing work. Through its many forms, such as chemical, thermal,
electrical, and nuclear, energy has been a crucial component for various types
of production. In this capacity, energy has been an integral, material-based
resource for economic purposes and security. Beyond its value as a resource for
material production, energy, from the premodern to the modern era, has assumed
other meanings and been valued in different ways. In religious and spiritual
traditions, for example, energy has been defined as a source of creation, living,
and healing. As an abstract force, energy has been seen as a spiritual element
that influences, determines, and powers location, place, space, relationships,
the workings of the human body, and the make-up of nature. In terms of
language, energy has been used as a metaphor or a colorful term to describe
human actions, emotions, and behavior. In these different forms, energy has
been long framed and defined through a variety of angles.</span></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">In whatever form it has existed, been employed
or conceived of, energy cannot be understood without its connection to social
context, especially different forms of authority. Political, social, cultural,
economic, philosophical, and religious systems have played a role in the
formation and influence of energy as a material and discursive element and
force. The ways in which energy has been employed and defined have not only
influenced geo-politics and international relations, but also gender relations,
patterns and directions in design, paths for healthcare and well-being, and
relationships between humans and non-humans. In order to understand energy’s
role and place in human and non-human life, it is necessary to interrogate the
relationship between energy and context.</span></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">This conference specifically examines the
different meanings, values and uses of energy in Asia from the premodern to the
modern era and the intersection between energy and context. It welcomes papers
on energy from different periods of time, disciplines, including the sciences,
and fields of study. It specifically invites paper submissions that explore the
deep linkages between energy and social formations and how those relationships
have been mediated and influenced by processes and entities in political economy,
medicine, science and technology, religion, philosophy, culture, or design. By
studying energy in Asia from different angles, the conference expects to
interrogate the material and discursive aspects of energy, how those aspects have
overlapped from the premodern to modern period to structure human and non-human
life, and the relationship between energy, authority, and continuity/transformations
in society.</span></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Please send an abstract of 500 words (maximum)
of a potential paper and a one-page CV to Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna
College, The Claremont Colleges), </span><a href="mailto:albert.park@cmc.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">albert.park@cmc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <span> </span>and Namhee Lee (UCLA), </span><a href="mailto:namheeleeucla@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">namheeleeucla@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> by <b>October 12</b>. Selections
will be announced by <b>October 22</b>.</span></p>
<p class="ydp869e1d0eMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">With support from EnviroLab at the Claremont
Colleges, The Korea Foundation and UCLA’s Center for Korean Studies, travel and
accommodation expenses will be covered by the conference (three-night hotel
stay, airfare, transportation, and meals during the conference)<b>.</b></span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>