<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear <span class="gmail-il">Korean Studies</span> List,<br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div><i>Situations</i> is currently accepting essays for presentation at our annual conference titled <b>&quot;Precarity and Injustice: A Global Reckoning of Our Time.&quot;</b> The conference will take place on October 23-24, 2025, at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. If you are interested in the topic, we warmly invite you to submit a 4,000-word conference paper for presentation. Please send your submission to <a href="mailto:situations@yonsei.ac.kr" target="_blank">situations@yonsei.ac.kr</a> and <a href="mailto:skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr" target="_blank">skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr</a> by<b> August 15, 2025</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>See below for details:</div></div><div><br></div><div><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><b style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">2025 Situations International Conference<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><b style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Precarity and Injustice: A </span></b><b style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Global</span></b><b style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> Reckoning of Our Time<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">October 23-24, 2025<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, <span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" align="center" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Taipei, Taiwan<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:24pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Situations</i> journal has done several issues around the idea of precarity </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">in</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">previous</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">years</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">. It is an issue of grave concern these days, as we witness the damages of climate change, wars, disease, ageing, racism, militarism, rising unemployment, and low fertility rate unfold</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">ing</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> before us. While much of the discussion of precarity is geared towards raising our awareness of crises, articulated with affect, job </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">insecurity</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">, and mobility, little attention is paid to its articulation with injustice, as in the cases of the transnationalized, racialized and gendered chain of care and affective labor on a global scale and the rise of global surrogacy industries as a solution to infertility. In addition, while justice is a goal that any society aspires to, the uneven development of geography, technology, labor condition, gender and sexuality consciousness has not only polarized our society along race, gender, class, and generational lines, but also </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">recentered </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">precarity as a symptom of injustice, begging us to rethink what justice means in</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">light of </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> great disparity and increasing precarity on all fronts. <span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:24pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The return of Donald Trump to U.S. presidency </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">moreover</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> brought precarity to the foreground, and specifically exposed the precarity of minorities and undocumented migrants, denied the rights of Palestinians to return to Gaza, and sabotaged the sovereignty of Ukrainians who had fought a bloody war to keep their country </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">resources</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> intact, </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">now seeming in vain</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">. Whereas the unending war in Ukraine illuminate</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">s</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> injustice </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">of</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">international</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">geopolitics</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> through </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">which </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the Ukrainian </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">lives</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> sovereignty </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">are</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">made precarious</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">, Trump\u2019s call to \u201ctake over Gaza\u201d overwrites precarity with a discourse of insecurity that regards securitization as privatization and transaction.<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:24pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The expanding gentrification in the name of development and the pandemic in Asia and beyond, moreover, painfully exposed the precarity of migrant labor, ageing population, first-line care workers and medical respondents, as well as the hegemony of bourgeois ideology that is making the city hospital to some, but not others. The emphasis on tight control over borders since the Covid years has created precarity for racialized/gendered/nationalized subjects (in the case of the Atlanta Spa Shooting of 2021) and explicit forms of xenophobia in many </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">parts</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> of the world where biometrics is </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">fast</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> becoming the cutting-edge means of control that enables subtle forms of racism and puts democracy in jeopardy. <span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:24pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">In Asia, </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> <span style="box-sizing:inherit">precarity </span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">discourse</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> is usually associated with the dwindling of the future for the younger generation, which manifests in the rising cost of living, hiking unemployment rate, lack of </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">an</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> intimate life, and the quick drop of fertility. These issues raise questions about reproductive justice (the mounting pressure of raising a family and the </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">increase</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">in</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">rate</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">of</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> divorce and singlehood), social alienation and the rise of digital intimacy, and the outsourcing of care </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">reproductive</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> labor to migrant workers </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">surrogate parenthood that is reconfiguring the notion of kinship</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">. Therefore, rather than looking at precarity as a singularized frame of analysis, informed by neoliberalism, it might be helpful to capture how precarity intersects with injustice, along </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> global chain of supply and securitization discourse on border control; and how a renewed politics of solidarity and coalition, </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">along</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">with</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">an</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">expanded vision</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">of</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">family</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">kinship</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">, informed by our relational interdependence, may emerge from our reckoning with and theorization of the current conjunctures. </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">It</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">is</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">an</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">issue</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">that</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">requires</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">a</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">global</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">approach</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:24pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Through this</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">collaboration</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">between</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">South</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Korea</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">\u2019</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">s</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Yonsei University and Taiwan\u2019s Academia Sinica, <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Situations </i>hopes to provide a global approach to our precarious modernity and grounded analysis of the</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">vexing</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">problems</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">at</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">hand</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0.25in;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Papers addressing the following topics in Asia and beyond, though not exclusive to them, are welcomed:<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">1.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, intimacy, and reproductive justice<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">2.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity and the right of mobility in political crises<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">3.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity and ageing society<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">4.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity and transitional and/or transnational justice<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">5.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity and solidarity and coalition building<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">6.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, urban gentrification, and natural disaster<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">7.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity and the remaking of geography and place (refugee camps, occupy movement for instance)<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">8.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, militarism, and peace activism<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">9.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, political injustice, and democracy<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">10.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, indigeneity, and minority survival<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">11.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, climate crisis, and environmental injustice<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">12.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, digital divide, and sociocultural exclusion<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">13.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Precarity, migrant labor, and citizenship<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">14.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Surrogacy, family values, and heteronormativity<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);border:medium;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">15.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Precarity and queer imaginations<span style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);border:medium;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-family:Cuprum;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);border:medium;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b style="box-sizing:inherit">Keynote Speakers:</b></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-family:Cuprum;font-size:15px;border:medium;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" style="">Professor John Nguyet Erni, The Education University of Hong Kong</font></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-family:Cuprum;font-size:15px;border:medium;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Professor Anne Allison, Duke University</font></span></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-family:Cuprum;font-s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ound-clip:initial;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit">Notes: Accommodation will be provided for participants whose papers are accepted. Presenters will share twin rooms.</b></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Cuprum;font-size:15px;word-break:keep-all"></p><p class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:medium;border:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-break:keep-all"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></p></div><div><br></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>