[KS] PACKS 2006

[Pankaj Mohan]

Dear colleagues,
I am forwarding this message on behalf of the PACKS 2006 organising 
committee. Since I am not a member of the organising committee, your 
expressions of interest should not be addressed to me but to the 
official email of PACKS 2006 <packs2006 at gmail.com 
<mailto:packs2006 at gmail.com>>.
Pankaj Mohan
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Call for Papers
8th Pacific and Asia Conference on Korean Studies (PACKS)
New Delhi,
December 15-17, 2006


It gives us great pleasure to send you this Call for Papers for the 8th 
PACKS, to be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, 
http://www.jnu.ac.in/), New Delhi, during December 15-17, 2006.

1. Official title of Conference: Korea in the Emerging World Order

2. Dates of the Conference: December 15-17, 2006

3. Venue:
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
4. Broad Topics
• Socio-political and economic challenges before Korea;
• Korea's philosophical, cultural and religious ethos
• Fine arts, folklores, and other traditional norms in Korea
• Korea's historical and archaeological legacy
• Korea's literary and liguistic articulation
.Note: While we prefer papers organised around the Conference theme, 
submissions on topics that address any aspect of Korean studies in the 
above-noted disciplines are welcome.

5. Conference Workshops: Details will be organised by proposals.

6. Time: All Papers (General/Workshop) are allotted 30 minutes including 
discussion.

7. Official Language: Korean, English.

8. Details about Abstract Submission: Abstracts should be at most one 
page long with one-inch margins and typed in at least 11-point font. The 
text of the abstract should be suitable for duplication in the meeting 
handbook, single-spaced throughout, with no blank space between 
paragraphs. Leave 1 inch for left, right, top and bottom margins. An 
optional second page is allowed for data and references. Submissions are 
limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two 
joint abstracts per author. The abstract should be submitted as a Word, 
PDF or HWP attachment to the email address: packs2006 at gmail.com 
<mailto:packs2006 at gmail.com>

Abstracts should be submitted only in English. They should not bear the 
author's name but only the title of the paper.

Please use 'PACKS Abstract' as the Subject header and include the 
information in 1 – 7 below, which should constitute the body of the 
message.

1. Name(s) of author(s)
2. Title of talk
3. Area of specialization
4. Affiliation(s)
5. E-mail address(es)
6. Postal address(es)
7. Phone number(s)
Note: Abstract for workshop should be submitted directly to the 
organisers, who will propose subjects and organiser's email address 
through our network.
9. Hard copy submissions should include the information in 1 - 7 on a 
separate sheet, along with 3 copies of the abstract. These should be 
sent to the following postal address:

Dept. of Korean Language and Literature
College of Humanities, Seoul National University
Seoul 151-742, Korea
or
Centre for Japanese and North East Asian Studies,
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, INDIA

10. Deadlines

o Deadline for intimating acceptance of participation along with the 
title: 30 June

o Deadline for abstract: 15 July

o Notification of acceptance: 10 August

o Deadline for submission of full paper: 15 Oct

11. Address for queries and submissions
Email address to which the details should be sent: packs2006 at gmail.com 
<mailto:packs2006 at gmail.com>


12. Logistics
1. There is no registration fee
2. Participants will be accommodated free of charge in the University's 
guest houses or in guest houses of other organizations in the vicinity, 
from the 14th till the 18th of December, both nights inclusive.
3. Participants will be transported to and fro from their place of 
accommodation to the Conference venue.
4. Participants will also be provided all meals for the duration of the 
conference.

Further details regarding the Chairperson and names of the members of 
the organising committee will be provided soon.
Organising Committee, PACKS 2006
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