[KS] CFP: Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the Pacific

[Hyaeweol Choi]

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Dear Colleagues,



I would like to invite Korea
scholars to participate in an upcoming interdisciplinary and inter-regional conference
focusing on Christian missionaries and women in Asia and the Pacific. Please
see the call for papers below. I hope many Korea scholars will contribute their
latest research studies to this conference. 


Many thanks, Hyaeweol Choi 



 



Call for Papers



Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the
Pacific

9-10
August, 2012

Australian National University






We are pleased to invite proposals to our conference,
“Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the
Pacific,” to be held on August 9-10, 2012 at Australian National
University.  This is an interdisciplinary, inter-regional conference that
focuses on the encounters between Christian missionaries and women in Asia and
the Pacific with the aim of understanding the “paradoxes of domesticity” that
emerged.






Research in women’s history has shown that the relationship
between the domestic and public spheres has always been permeable and complex
in practice despite rigid binaries set in the ideological opposition of the
domestic as feminine and the public as masculine. The tensions become even
more pronounced in the era of Western imperialism, when the transnational
interactions between people, material goods, ideas and images developed at an
unprecedented pace. 







The engagement of Christian women
missionaries with women in Asia and the Pacific was a central feature
of these dynamic transnational encounters. Their encounters across the
domains of religion, education and family sometimes reinforced and sometimes challenged
what constituted the “domestic” in the age of the Western modern. Much research
on the topic has privileged the perspectives of Western missionaries. However,
relatively little research has been done from the viewpoint of the local people
who accepted, resisted or appropriated the new religion and culture. 







The central focus of this conference
will be on the agency of Asian and Pacific women in linking their past
religious, familial, and cultural practices with newly introduced “modern”
Western ideals and practices. In doing so, the conference aims to reveal the
relatively unknown histories of women in Asian and Pacific Christianities and
show how intimately their histories were entangled with the diverse colonial
and semicolonial contexts across Asia and the Pacific.






Potential topics include: 



1) the shifting notions of the public
and the private, 



2) the legacy of mission schools in the
history of the modern woman, 



3) tensions between colonial powers,
mercantile influences and missionary forces in their visions of the ‘new
woman’, 



4) the development of the idea of
domesticity in transcultural encounters especially apropos of child-rearing and
home management, 



5) the development of modern ideas of
the self as fostered or constrained in transcultural interactions, 



6) changes and reforms in material
culture and bodily practices evinced in domestic architecture, domestic
routines like cooking and cleaning, dietary changes, clothing, hairstyles,
personal adornment, entertainment and patterns of work and leisure.



7) transformations in women’s relation
to religion, and notions of spiritual authority











Interested scholars and PhD students
are encouraged to submit an abstract (250 words) and a brief C.V. to korea at anu.edu.au by February 1, 2012. We
will notify the status of proposals by February 15. Those selected to present
will be required to submit full papers (approximately 8,000 words) by June 30.
All participants will be provided with accommodation and travel allowances
thanks to a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies.  Conference organizers plan to publish
an edited volume based on the conference outcomes.






For inquiries, please contact Hyaeweol
Choi (Hyaeweol.Choi at anu.edu.au).




--
Hyaeweol Choi
ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies
Director, Korea Institute
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
t. +61 2 6125 6476
e. Hyaeweol.Choi at anu.edu.au
w. http://koreainstitute.anu.edu.au
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