<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="cid:ii_lb2r07ly0" alt="KI_Call_for_entries_2023.jpg" width="419" height="542"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Korea Institute, Harvard University</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_ContentPasted4" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_ContentPasted4" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>TERRITORY AND SOVEREIGNTY ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA<br aria-hidden="true">an online symposium</b><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_ContentPasted2 gmail-x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">MARCH 9, 2023<br class="gmail-x_ContentPasted2" aria-hidden="true">Abstract Deadline: January 5, 2023<br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The term “territory” is conventionally used as a synonym for the space over which a state exercises sovereign power. Since the mid-twentieth century, both North and South Korea have famously wielded state power to secure the boundaries of their territories and to pursue competing paths to development. Yet Korean territory has also long been shaped by imperial entanglements—through relations with China, through colonization by Japan, and through the division system itself. It has also been shaped by non-state actors, from anti-colonial activists and peace activists to real estate speculators.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Scholars from social science, humanities, and policy-oriented disciplines are invited to reflect on the theme of Territory and Sovereignty on the Korean Peninsula. We seek contributions that push beyond conventional notions of territory and sovereignty to offer new perspectives on the politics of how state, imperial, and/or non-state actors claim space, produce space, and recover space in historical and contemporary Korea. We welcome contributions that critically reflect on systems of power, and we welcome contributions that envision emancipatory alternatives to the status quo. Potential topics include:</div><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Pre/modern state and imperial techno-politics of territory</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Sovereignty and nationalism in North and South Korea</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *The division system, unification, and the Demilitarized Zone</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Security dilemmas on the Korean Peninsula</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Volumetric, maritime, and other territories and sovereignties</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Korean Studies engagements with Indigenous Studies</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Development and real estate in North and South Korea</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *Nature, ecology, conservation, and extractivism</div><div class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">            *The US-South Korea alliance and US military bases  </div><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br class="gmail-x_ContentPasted0" aria-hidden="true"></div>Submit abstracts (300 words or less) addressing the symposium theme to <a href="mailto:territoryandsovereignty@gmail.com">territoryandsovereignty@gmail.com</a> by January 5, 2023. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 12, 2023. The event will be held via Zoom. Participants will not be asked to submit full papers at the time of the symposium, but they may be invited to submit full papers for a special issue at a later date.<br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof gmail-x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>Supported by the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) Endowment for Korean Studies at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.</i></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Bridget Martin, PhD</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>