<div dir="ltr">Dear Korean Studies List,<div><br></div><div><i>Situations</i> is currently accepting essays for presentation at our annual conference titled <b>"Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century: Transnational Hauntology and Affective Production."</b> The conference will take place on November 22-23, 2024, at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.</div><div><br></div><div>Call for Papers details:</div><div><br></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scholars have extensively debated
the meaning and significance of <i>diaspora</i>. At their inception, classic diaspora
studies considered a racial or ethnic group’s dispersal caused by religious
difference, the Jewish people being the archetype in understanding diaspora. The
scope of modern diaspora studies has been expanded to embrace emancipatory
politics and the exploration of various conditions of racial, ethnic, and political
minorities</span><span style="font-family:Batang,serif">. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contemporary
diaspora is characterized by fragmentation, dislocation, and globalization, and
these new features must be clearly redefined and analyzed. Non-European
diaspora experience, Asian diaspora in particular, has not been extensively
explored. Raising questions about the magnitude and the limited destinations of
Korean migration being identified as a diaspora, Gerard Chaliand and Jean
Pierre Rageau argue that “the total number of overseas Koreans lacks the
massive proportions of a typical diaspora, such as the Irish case, in which
more than half of the population emigrated from their homeland” (1995). Should
we define an ethnic group’s diaspora through size or distance?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Doesn’t the</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">atypicality</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">of</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Korean</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">diaspora</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">call for a
retheorization of diaspora today? </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A small group of migrants may have felt
themselves to be in a precarious situation in the 19^th and 20^th
centuries, but in the 21^st century, diasporic subjects have multiple
ways of retaining contact with their communities of origin, thanks to advances
in communication technology and frequent air travel. Contemporary diasporas in
the 21^st century can be characterized by varieties of diasporic
experience that no longer necessitate a permanent break from one’s homeland. The
consciousness of being a diasporic subject may no longer depend as much on a
physical and geographic separation from a homeland. What does diasporic
consciousness mean then in a world where contact and even return to the
homeland is possible? And turning away from the attention of ethnicity or race on diaspora to the emotional experience
of being unsettled, displaced, and haunted, may unveil a greater understanding
of our being in the 21^st century.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Playing
on the concept of ontology and resonating with his lifelong project of
deconstruction, Jacques Derrida suggests by the term, hauntology, how to engage
ghosts and historical remnants from the past.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Hau)ntology is a neologism that reminds us that we are
always displaced and unhomed. <span style="color:black">When
diasporic subjects seek to break away from their past, it can always come back
to haunt their present </span><span style="color:black">experience
associated with mixed feelings of melancholia, rage, alienation, anomie, and hopefulness
for a better future</span><span style="color:black">. The
displaced subjects’ affective production transcending the limited ties of
kinship and nation can mediate the deterritorialized humanity in the 21^st
century. <i>Situations</i> (Volume 18, No. 1, 2025) calls for papers that
explore concepts of migration and diaspora in the 21^st century
and/or papers that examine literary and cultural content representing, </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">mediating</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">, </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">or rearticulating</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> the
diasporic consciousness of Asian diaspora communities.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Possible topics:</span></p>

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</span></span>Contemporary diasporas: North Korean defectors,
the Zainichi community, the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the South
Asian
diaspora
in African and Arab states </p>

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</span></span>diasporic consciousness: displacement and lost
land,
homeland and host land</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>language barriers and linguistic isolation </p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>citizenship and sense of belonging</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>the myth and politics of return </p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>refugee camps, resettlement, and national borders</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:black">gendered experience within diasporic
communities</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:black">inter-Asian migration </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">politics of asylum</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span style="color:black">the
problem of collective </span>memory in diasporic communities</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>assimilation and de-assimilation in one’s
adopted land</p>

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</span></span>diaspora and the “blue humanities” centered on
oceans and seas</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confirmed
Keynote Speakers:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John Lie,
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So-young
Kim, Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts</span></p>

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appreciated. <b>By </b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB">3</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">1 </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">August</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> 2024</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, <b>we would invite you to submit your
4,000-word Chicago-style conference presentation with its abstract and keywords</b> (the
acceptance of the presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">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">situations@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> and <a href="mailto:skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr">skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr</a>.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of
Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Notes:</span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">We will provide hotel accommodation for
those participants whose papers we accept. The presenters will share twin
bedrooms.</span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For any questions about the event, please contact <a href="mailto:situations@yonsei.ac.kr">situations@yonsei.ac.kr</a>.</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you,</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sungjin</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Sungjin Shin, Ph.D.<div>Instructor and Postdoctoral Researcher</div><div>Department of English Language and Literature</div><div>Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea</div></div></div></div></div>