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The East Asian Language, Literature, and Culture Forum is seeking panelists for the 2025 MLA Convention, Jan 9-12, New Orleans, LA</div>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MLA 2025 East Asia Forum</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Literary and Cultural Translation in Premodern East Asia</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Although there exists an extensive body of research on the history of translation in East Asia, attention has been weighted overwhelmingly toward
the literary output of the modern era and carried out largely within the framework of national languages and contemporary political borders. This panel attempts to decouple translation from the process of nation-building and the formation of modern subjectivities
by examining its role in a variety of premodern (pre-19<sup>th</sup> c.) East Asian contexts. Potential issues to be considered include translation’s role in the emergence of local and regional identities, the relationship between vernacular and cosmopolitan
registers, and the impact of translation on emergent ideas about literary genre. Papers that examine intra-Asian contact and connections between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and other languages are especially welcome. Please submit your abstract (250-300
words) and a short CV to William Hedberg, Arizona State University, <a href="mailto:william.hedberg@asu.edu" id="OWAa2ce5ab3-8c23-6bc2-fa48-e58983a1fcf5" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
william.hedberg@asu.edu</a> by March 15, 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Depicting Violence in East Asia across Time and Space</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Violence is as old as humankind, and depictions of violence in the arts have never ceased. Yet the preponderance and heightened visceral representations
of violence in contemporary literature and media beg us to reconsider the subject. We invite scholars to contribute to an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex portrayals of violence in East Asian literature and media to foster a deeper understanding
of the dynamics of violence as related to its aesthetics, forms, modes, and politics. The panel is interested in exploring violence through both premodern forms, such as traditional poetry, fiction, and art, as well as contemporary mediums like film, television,
and digital media. We aim to investigate the multifaceted representations of violence and their sociocultural implications. We are also interested in textual and media representations' active participation in constructing new social realities and imaginaries.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Historical perspectives on violence in East Asian literature.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The role of violence in shaping cultural identity.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Gendered violence and its portrayal in East Asian media.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Comparative analyses of violence in traditional versus contemporary forms of storytelling.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The impact of censorship on the representation of violence in East Asian media.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The intersection of political, social, and economic factors in portraying violence.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The relationship between form and representations of violence or tension between textual representation and contextual realities.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The relationship between the senses (visual, sonic, haptic, etc.) and violence in literature and media.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 12pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The production of violence in the logic of genre-making (e.g., detective fiction, true crime documentaries, apocalyptic narratives, etc.).</span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We welcome contributions from scholars in literature, media studies, cultural studies, history, and related fields. Submissions should engage
critically with the cultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of representations of violence in East Asian literature and media. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Please submit your abstract (250-300 words) and a short CV to Jina Kim, University of Oregon, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><a href="mailto:jinak@uoregon.edu" id="OWA580459ee-1ebe-3b6b-1ecc-4f27f3339578" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">jinak@uoregon.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">,
by March 15, 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Digital Labor and East Asian Cultural Production</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The rapid growth of digital technologies in various different cultural fields has brought many benefits, significantly increasing efficiency in many
areas and enabling types of cultural production that previously would have been effectively impossible, it has also created a broad range of new challenges—displacing existing workers, creating entire new fields of low-wage labor, blurring the boundary between
work and recreation, underscoring the status of attention as a form of labor, and troubling working understandings of intellectual property protections and workable “fair use” exceptions. This panel will examine these topics as they relate to East Asian cultural
production, including both labor practices based relating to East Asian communities and labor practices that pertain to cultural formations associated with East Asia. We are also interested in how digital labor itself is represented within East Asian cultural
products. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">If interested in joining the panel, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and short CV to Carlos Rojas, Duke University,
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="mailto:c.rojas@duke.edu" id="OWA6c0035a6-9f18-740f-3839-f33b8fe10eb9" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">c.rojas@duke.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> by
March 15, 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><b>Representing East Asian Indigenous Identities, Minority Nationalities, and Marginal Ethnicities</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">This session highlights the literary and/or cinematic representation of indigenous peoples / minorities nationalities
/ aboriginal groups in East Asia. We hope it will work to disaggregate the notion of monolithic East Asian identity and identities that neatly fall into the traditional CJK divisions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">There is much literary and cinematic production on the non-Han peoples of SW and Western China (eg. Tibetan, Yi, Uighur), Taiwan (various
Austronesian Aboriginal writers and filmmakers), writers and filmmakers from Okinawa and Hokkaido, as well as among the Korean and Manchu minority groups of northeast China. This collaborative session between the LLC Forum on East Asian Literatures and the
TC Race and Ethnicity Forum envisions a session with presentations on an array of experiences on the margins of East Asia societies. We seek papers that investigate the literary and/or cinematic representation of indigenous identities, minority nationalities,
and/or marginal ethnicities in East Asia. Send 300-word abstracts and 250-word biographies to Christopher Lupke <lupke@ualberta.ca> by March 15, 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>“Trigger Warning” and Teaching East Asian Literature: A Roundtable</b>
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<p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Amid growing concerns for the well-being of students, teaching East Asian literature with potentially triggering content presents a challenge
for teachers. How can instructors navigate the teaching of controversial topics and events? The dilemma lies in creating safe spaces for potentially traumatizing subject matter while encouraging students not to shy away from ideas and perspectives conflicting
with their own. What constitutes the boundary of our commitment to academic freedom? This roundtable offers a platform to share experiences and articulate effective strategies in teaching East Asian literature. It aims to foster discussions on striking a balance
between academic exploration and ensuring the well-being of student throughout the teaching process.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please submit one-paragraph proposal and a short CV to Suyoung Son, Cornell University,
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ss994@cornell.edu</a>, by March 15, 2024.</span></p>
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