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<h1 style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">CfP: (Un)Defining Korean Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">The 3rd annual Korean Studies Symposium at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, will take place on October 18-19, 2024.
The event is organized by the Asia Research Institute and the School of Architecture and Planning at UB.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black"><a href="https://www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitute/academic-programs/annual-korea-symposium/2024-cfp---un-defining-korean-architecture.html">Click
here</a> for a webpage version of this CFP. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">(Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories, and Transformation</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Korea has undergone a period during which its identity has many times been validated by the Western gaze and frequently portrayed through idealized
images, many of which are architectural features, such as Hanok, palaces, and temples. While these references have been relied upon to affirm Korea’s cultural identity, it’s also true that Korea’s diverse constellations—in particular those of its cosmopolitan
cities—are continually modified, edited, and updated by a globalized population. The global success of Korean popular culture since the 1990s, including music, media, art, and film, evidences that the inclination to align with Western culture is not critical,
nor is a Korean identity rooted in traditional values the only way to communicate with a global audience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">While theoretical architectural production is still suffering from a “hangover mode” reliant on Western modernism, contemporary Koreans edit, add, modify, and improvise the street and building elevations.
Regardless of the architect’s and planner’s intent, spaces are revisited, reframed, and ritualized. The streets appear to be inundated with inexpensive commodities, signage, advertisements, and colorful walls. However, they transcend mere commodification,
offering glimpses into the users' narratives of their work, desires, hopes, dreams, and rituals. To delve into, document, categorize, and analyze these narratives of the 'city made by people,' it may be necessary to reevaluate the Western modernist dismissal
of “ornament,” alongside other entrenched modernist categories such as "surface," "appearance," and "perception.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">The symposium, (Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories and Transformation, aims to engage with robust conversations about the identity
of Korea and the stories of its cities through the lens of art and architecture and invites papers and creative projects to expand this inquiry. This symposium will feature three keynote speakers from diverse fields, <a href="https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/peter-rowe/" target="_blank" title="This link opens a page in a new window or tab."><span style="color:#005BBB;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Peter
Rowe</span></a> at Harvard University, artist <a href="https://www.kukjegallery.com/artists/view?seq=179" target="_blank" title="This link opens a page in a new window or tab."><span style="color:#005BBB;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Yeondoo Jung</span></a>,
and <a href="https://fhhhfriends.com/" target="_blank" title="This link opens a page in a new window or tab."><span style="color:#005BBB;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">FHHH Friends</span></a> (architect), to discuss diverse perspectives on art,
architecture, and city in contemporary Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Submission Details</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">The symposium welcomes research papers and creative projects (e.g., visual essays, short films, and visual art). To apply, please submit an abstract/description of your work of up to 350 words, along
with a brief CV (preferably 2 pages), no later than May 31, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black;background:white">We expect this symposium to be primarily an in-person event. However, remote presentations could be considered based on the
panel theme and at the discretion of the symposium organizing committee.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">All presenters of accepted papers/projects will receive notification by June 30, 2024, and will be provided with further instructions about final
submission requirements and presentations. Local hotel accommodations and meals during the symposium will be provided to all presenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black"> Please email <a href="mailto:AsiaInstitute@buffalo.edu"><span style="color:#005BBB;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">AsiaInstitute@buffalo.edu</span></a> with
any questions about the symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black"><a href="https://airtable.com/appF8ECR1YKB4tau7/shr31kfPj6oWBBvRl">Click here</a>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">to submit your proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Symposium Organizers</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Jin young Song, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Nojin Kwak, Vice Provost for International Education and Professor of Communication, University at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;line-height:110%;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Main Sponsors</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Asia Research Institute, University at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black">Academy of Korean Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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