<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dear colleagues, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">We warmly invite you to submit a proposal for the next AAS CKS preconference. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">.......................</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The
Committee on Korean Studies is now accepting proposals for the preconference,
to be held on Wednesday, <b>March 17, 2027</b>, at Boston University in Boston,
MA. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The culture
of dissidence in Korea is entering a new phase. Whereas the democratization
movement that secured the direct presidential election system in June 1987 was led
by male-centered militant resistance, young women in their twenties and
thirties emerged as the driving force of the latest dissident movements,
including the light-stick protests to impeach former president Yun Sukyeol
after his illegal declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024. The
documentary <i>The Longest Night: Namtaeryeong</i> (dir. Kim Hyunji, 2026) details
how predominantly middle-aged or older male farmers formed an unexpected alliance
with young women when the pro-impeachment tractor protest was blocked by the
police at Namtaeryeong Pass in Southern Seoul on December 21, 2024. The female
grassroots protestors not only protected the farmers from police brutality but
also shared their own stories on various issues at an open-mic event, from job insecurity
to discrimination against sexual and gender minorities, from rental deposit fraud
to anti-Chinese sentiment. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">This
watershed moment demands a revisit to the long history and evolution of the
cultures of dissidence (and, vice versa, conformity and sycophancy) in Korea,
from earliest recorded times to the present. This will offer fresh,
interdisciplinary angles to raise new, controversial questions, to excavate underexplored
sources, archives, and themes, <b>to bring together scholars of premodern,
modern, and contemporary Korea</b>, and to revise and enrich our understanding
of broadly defined Korean literature and culture. We welcome proposals that
examine the literatures and cultures of dissidence in Korea and comparative
contexts, across any historical era. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The
proposal and presentation must be in English. We accept proposals for <b>individual
papers</b> as well as <b>organized panels</b> of three to four authors with closely
interconnected papers. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Some
examples include, but are not limited to: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Exiles,
Outcasts, and Nonconformists in Korea, Old and New</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Conformists,
Tag-Alongs, and Sycophants in Korea, Old and New</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Proletarian
Literature in Korea and Beyond</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Revisiting
Minjung Literature</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dissidence
in Korean Popular Music</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Labor
and Literature </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Literary
Disability Studies </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Avant-Garde
Literature</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Speculative
fiction/ Science Fiction </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Detective
Fiction/ Crime Fiction </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Environmental
Literature/ Climate Fiction </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Translation
as a Form of Resistance </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Feminism
and Gender Politics in Korean Literature</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Politics
in Korean Webtoon and Digital Literature </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Contemporary
South Korean Women Writers </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dissidence
in Popular Culture </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">LGBTQIA+
Literature </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Rewriting
the Jeju 4.3</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Ethnic
Korean Writers/ Border Fiction </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Rethinking
Cold War Culture in Korea and Beyond </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Postcolonialism
and Decolonization </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Transnational
& Transpacific Literature</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Literary
Dissidence in North Korea</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dissidence
in Premodern Korea and the Sinographic Cosmopolis</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">Culture
of Remonstrance (<i>kan</i></span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">\u8aeb</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"> in Premodern Korea and
Beyond </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">(Righteous)
Dissidence in Korean Buddhism, Daoism, and (Neo) Confucianism</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"> </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Please
submit your proposal as a single PDF to </b><a href="mailto:koreanstuidesbu@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">koreanstuidesbu@gmail.com</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Submission
deadline for all proposals: August 20, 2026. </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Notification
of Acceptance: October 1, 2026 </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Individual
Papers: </b>Proposals
should include (1) Presenter\u2019s name, affiliation, and contact information,
including email address, (2) Paper title and abstract (250-word maximum) </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Organized
Panels: </b>Proposals
should include (1) a list of participants, their paper titles, their
affiliations, their positions, and their contact information, including email
addresses, and (2) A panel title and summary (maximum 250 words) detailing the
overarching connection between the papers and providing a brief overview of
each presentation (3) A 150-200-word abstract for each presentation within the
panel.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">If you
have any questions, feel free to reach out to the conference organizers: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Yoon Sun
Yang <a href="mailto:yyoonsun@bu.edu" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">yyoonsun@bu.edu</a> & Dennis
Wuerthner <a href="dwuerth@bu.edu" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">dwuerth@bu.edu</a> </font></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">Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature<br><div>World Languages & Literatures </div><div>Core Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program </div><div>745 Commonwealth Ave. # 604 </div><div>Boston, MA 02215</div><div><a href="https://www.bu.edu/wll/profile/yoon-sun-yang/" target="_blank">Yoon Sun Yang | World Languages & Literatures (bu.edu)</a><br></div></div></div></div>