<div dir="ltr">This is a friendly reminder of the Korean Literature Association 2024 Conference abstract deadline on <b><u>Friday, April 5.</u></b> The Call for Papers is as follows:<div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Act!</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> Performativity of Korean Literature</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p>
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Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual
meeting on the theme of “Performativity of Korean Literature” to be held at The
Ohio State University, October 11-12, 2024. We invite individual papers and
organized panels that approach this theme from multiple perspectives, using
methodologies from literary theory, linguistics, gender studies, critical race
theory, cultural studies, performance studies, and history, and explore how
these interdisciplinary approaches can open up new ways of thinking about
Korean literature.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">While
performance is a deeply contested concept, the organizers of this conference
use this term to refer primarily to three major lines of inquiry in thinking
about Korean literature. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">First,
it refers to the analysis of a range of explicitly artistic performances,
examining their aesthetic, social, and political significance in documenting
and transforming Korean society. Examples include theater, dance, music, visual
art, sound art, and performance art that speak to specific historical moments
in Korean history and offer poignant artistic or social commentary. </span></p>
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we also use performance to examine what it means to approach literature, social
phenomena, or everyday human behavior <i>as</i>
performance, that is, to use performance as a framework for thinking through
literature, social phenomena, and human behavior. By exploring the significance
of embodied and affective expressions in these phenomena, and by delving into
the representational nature of modes of expression, we aim to undo the false
bifurcation between text and the body. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Finally,
it means using performance to generate a new research inquiry, foregrounding
the body or human sensorium as a way to produce new knowledge beyond what is
stored in traditional, text-centered archives. By tapping new sources of
research from muscle memory, lived experience, bodily intelligence, gestural practices,
and others, we seek to produce more robust knowledge about human agency and
creativity.</span></p>
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may include, but are not limited to, the following: </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Intermediality of Korean literature, theatre, dance, music,
visual art, sound art, and performance art</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Performed texts: theatre script, screenplay, song
lyrics, dramatic reading, podcast</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Poetry in performance: recitation, spoken word, slam poetry, rap
and hip-hop</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Traditions of oral literature and their modern revival</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Revisiting the debate between ‘pure’ literature and
‘committed’ literature in the twentieth century</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Literature as an interruption in the quotidian or an intervention
into the political</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Texts that thrive on the physicality of the body, that make
the disappeared visible, or that make the ghosts return</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Heteronormativity and racism reflected and/or resisted in
Korean literature</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Literatures of Korean diaspora and their world-making</span></p>
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KLA (</span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://koreanlit.org/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://koreanlit.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">) welcomes submissions from
graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars at any stage of their
careers who are interested in presenting papers at the Conference. While the
official conference language is English, we will also be open to
Korean-language presentations of innovative research. We are currently planning
an in-person conference at The Ohio State University’s Columbus Campus, with
possible optional hybrid presentations in cases where travel poses
difficulties. To apply, please send your CV and a 300-word abstract to </span><span lang="EN"><a href="mailto:korlitorg@gmail.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">korlitorg@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">. A panel proposal should include the
individual abstracts along with a 300-word panel abstract. Those selected to
present will be required to submit a presentation paper in advance.</span></p>
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participants in the conference and the workshop will be required to register as
KLA members and will receive hotel accommodation. All efforts will be made to
defray the cost of travel especially for junior scholars. The deadline for
submissions is April 5, 2024. If you have any questions, please contact the
local organizer, Pil Ho Kim, at </span><span lang="EN"><a href="mailto:kim.2736@osu.edu" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">kim.2736@osu.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">. </span></p>
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