<div dir="ltr">Please share this with the members of Korean Studies. Thank you. <div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">2024 Situations
International Conference</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Korean Cultural Centre, UK</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">1~3 February 2024</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Minor Diasporas in Asia and
Beyond</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">From contemporary
news media, we receive daily reminders of the current global migration crisis.
By some estimates, there are two-hundred seventy million migrants in the world
today, roughly 3.5 percent of the world’s population. Although the most
trafficked borders traversed (or not) by migrants are well-known, standing at
various points of contact between the Global North and the Global South, some
of the routes of migration are less well documented. Examples of what Francoise
Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih called “minor transnationalism,” the diasporas at the
end of these routes, or more frequently these days at a midpoint along the way,
in turn develop in less familiar ways and are perhaps surprising when they emerge
as objects of focus. Take for example Zainichi Koreans in Osaka, Vietnamese refugees
in New Orleans, ethnic Bangladeshi in Detroit, the North Korean enclave in
London, Senegalese migrants in Nicaragua. Even more liminal are the communities
of migrants stalled at the border in places like Juarez, Lesvos, and Tangier,
unable to reach their desired destination. While it is true that all diasporas
by their very nature constitute a site of minority, we may regard these
examples as doubly minoritized, that is, as situated in subordinate relation to
the dominant culture in the geographies they occupy and as well to the
discourse through which diasporas become more widely intelligible. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">In this context,
this conference invites papers that expand the terrain of thought on
contemporary migration by considering examples of Korean and other Asian migrant
routes and communities, past or present, that may offer insight, by way of both
similarity and contrast, into what has become one of the defining humanitarian
crises in the world today. Papers that focus on Korean or other Asian diasporas
around the world are welcome.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><b>Possible topics:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">North Koreans
within and without South Korea</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Anti-communist
branding</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">"Minor" migrant
literature, media, and art</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Cultures of inter-Asian
migration</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Rural/urban
migration dynamics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Illegality, trafficking,
statelessness</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Networks and
loopholes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Stateless subjects
and communities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">State sovereignty
and states of exception </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Ethics of minor
diasporas and minor diasporic encounters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Minor globalization,
minor postcolonialism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">"Minor" futures
and pasts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Cartographies of
minor diasporas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Visualizing
border crossings </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><b>Keynotes:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Dr. Chris Berry
(King’s College London)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are
appreciated. <b>By 15 January 2024</b>, <b>we would invite
you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference presentation with its
abstract and keywords</b> (the acceptance of the presentation will be
decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited participant is then expected to
turn his or her conference presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for
possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, <i>Situations:
Cultural Studies in the Asian Context</i>. All inquiries and submissions should
be sent to both </span><a href="mailto:situations@yonsei.ac.kr" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">situations@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> and
<a href="mailto:skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr">skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style
(16th ed.), using only endnotes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Venue: Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Notes:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Garamond,serif">We will pay for
the hotel accommodation for those participants whose papers we accept. The
presenters will share twin bedrooms.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Cohosted by Korean Cultural Centre UK, UCI
Center for Critical Korean Studies, Yonsei University BK21 Project, <i>Situations</i></span></b></p>
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