<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Korean studies members, <br></div><div><br></div><div>We
invite papers for Decolonizing Korean Studies in the Global Era
conference, which will be held virtually on June 6-7, 2023. This
conference will serve as the basis for the publication of an edited
collection of essays featuring early-career scholars' work, including
graduate students, postdocs, pre-tenure, or independent scholars,
producing cutting-edge scholarship in the field of Korean studies. <br></div><div><br></div><div><span>Thanks for your attention.</span></div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Decolonizing Korean Studies in the Global
Era: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">An Intergenerational Conference of Senior and
Junior Scholars in Critical Korean Studies </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Date and Location:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">June 6-7, 2023</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Virtual via Zoom @ UCLA Center for Korean
Studies</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organizers:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Justin Sprague (West Chester University),
Carolyn Choi (University of California, Los Angeles), Mi Hyun Yoon (Rutgers
University, Newark), Sina Lee (College of Wooster)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sponsors:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">West Chester University, Department of Women’s
and Gender Studies</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">University of California, Los Angeles, Center
for Korean Studies</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> This conference is
funded by The Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2023-C-006).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The discipline of Korean studies is in a
critical period of transition, and emerging scholars in the field are
redefining and actively reorienting the scholarly trajectory of the field’s
transformation. By contesting existing master narratives of Korean global
genealogies that are entangled in Korean colonial histories and investments in
the US imperial project, we argue that these conversations are a part of a
larger transformative movement in Korean studies. This movement aims to
decolonize and reject Korea’s position in US hegemonic knowledge projects and
to connect transnational and diasporic research with an anti-colonial praxis
that sutures into our everyday lives. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With a particular focus on interdisciplinarity and
the inclusion of feminist research methodologies, we advocate for a renewed
investment in the study of non-normative experiences and diasporic figures that
have received limited attention outside of Korean studies. A fresh focus on
agency, determination, political activism, and social kinship systems across
the diaspora, we aim to explore new ways to decolonize and de-militarize Korean
studies through the study of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, material
culture, anti-coloniality, global migration and diaspora, labor flows,
political activism, and other forms. Applicants who see their work broadly in
relation to these topics are encouraged to apply. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The attendees of this conference will
participate in two days of virtual panels, which includes a panel discussion
with senior scholars, paper workshop with senior discussants and peers, and
lastly a professionalization panel on publishing and the state of Korean
studies at large. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This conference will serve as the basis for the
publication of an edited collection of essays that features the work of
early-career scholars including graduate students, postdocs, pre-tenure, or
independent scholars, producing cutting-edge scholarship in the field of Korean
studies. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 1in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission Deadline and
Conference Details:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 1in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract (500 words):
April 14, 2023<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Notification of accepted
abstracts: April 21, 2023<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">10-20 page double-spaced
paper draft (for accepted abstracts only): May 21, 2023<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference: June 6-7,
2023<span></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Please email your abstract and CV to </span></b></span><a href="mailto:criticalkoreanstudies@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">criticalkoreanstudies@gmail.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> by April 14, 2023. The submitted abstract
should be based on original research: It has not been published before and is
not under consideration for publication anywhere else.</span></b></p></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Best, </span><br><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"></span></div></div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Sina </span><br></div></div></div>