[KS] World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2011, August 23-25, 2011, Incheon

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From: kpsa [kpsa2011 at gmail.com]
Sent: 10 January 2011  07:16
Subject: Announcing the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society  
2011 (call for papers)


Please participate in the conference,  or
Circulate this announcement in your department, institute or  association.


Call for Papers
The World Congress for  Korean Politics and Society 2011


* Organizer: Korean Political  Science Association

* Main theme: Korean Politics in Global Contexts:  Theories and Practices

* Date: August 23 to 25 (Tue-Thr), 2011

*  Venue: Incheon Songdo, South Korea

* Submission Deadline for Paper and  Panel Proposal: April 1, 2011





Dear Colleagues,

We  are pleased to announce that the Korean Political Science Association 
(KPSA) is  holding the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2011 on 
August 23-25,  2011 in Incheon Songdo. The KPSA is the most prestigious 
academic organization  in Korea that represents Korean scholars of political 
science, public  administration, and other related di! sciplines in social 
science and  humanities. Founded in 1953, the KPSA has grown into the largest 
academic  organization in Korea with active membership of over 2,000 
individual scholars  and institutions.

The main theme for the Congress is “Korean Politics in  Global Contexts: 
Theories and Practices.” Contributions are invited for the  congress that aims 
at vigorous discussion of the latest political developments  in and around 
Korea covering, but not limited to, a variety of themes of study  such as: 
(1) Research methodology of Korean polit! ical science: theories and  issues; 
(2) Korean political studies: views from the outside; (3) Democratic  
process and national governance; (4) Rule of the law and social conflicts; (5)  
Social polarization and fair society; (6) Dynamics of the state, market, and  
civil society; (7) Political and social thoughts: the classic schools of 
thought  and their alternatives, the universal and the particular, and the 
East and the  West; (8) Continuity and discontinuity! in Korean political 
history: global  implications; (9) Political leadership and political ethics; 
(10) World economy  and Korean political economy; (11) North Korean regime and 
inter-Korean issues;  (12) World security system and peace in the Korean 
peninsula; (13) The changing  East Asian order and Korean politics; (14) Human 
security and global governance,  (15) Multi-cultural and multi-religious 
society and identity politics; (16)  Welfare and political economy in the aging 
society; (17) Gender equality and  social justice; (18) Local politics and 
glocalization; (19) Presidential and  parliamentary elections in 2012 and 
the future of Korean politics.

Please  submit a paper or panel proposal with an abstract not exceeding 300 
words  through the KPSA homepage  
(www.kpsa.or.kr/congress2011/<http://www.kpsa.or.kr/congress2011>) to  present at the 2011 World Congress.

For more information, please refer to  the attachment, and we will 
appreciate if you are kind enough to forward this  Call for Papers to colleagues you 
think may be interested.

For further  information concerning the conference and the application 
process, please  contact the Program Director, Dr. Ji-Whan Yun, at  
kpsa2011 at gmail.com<mailto:kpsa2011 at gmail.com>.

Thank  you.


Sincerely,



The Korean Political Science  Association

1001 Daechi-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea

_www.kpsa.or.kr_ (http://www.kpsa.or.kr) 
<http://www.kpsa.or.kr/>

82-2-961-9464

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