[KS] Fwd: Fw: Strange Korean Parallels conference 10-11 Jan 2019 - A Call for Bold Papers!

[Andrew]

Dear Korean historians of all periods,

Please see both attached and below a call for papers for:

*Strange Korean Parallels: an international conference **for*
*comparative approaches to the history and archaeology of*
*Korea **and Northeast Asia with other global regions*

10 – 11 January 2019
University of Helsinki, Finland

Feel free to further distribute the call to colleagues and institutes that
may not be immediately reached through this list, in particular to Korean
institutes.

For further inquiries and submissions, please contact:
andrew.logie at helsinki.fi

Many thanks.

sincerely,
Ystävällisin terveisin
*Andrew Logie *드림

Assistant professor in Korean Studies
Korean-tutkimuksen apulaisprofessori
韓國·朝鮮學 助敎授
한국·조선학 조교수
University of Helsinki

Unioninkatu 38, B120, PO Box 59
Helsinki 00170, Finland





















*Strange Korean Parallels: an international conferencefor comparative
approaches to the history and archaeology of Koreaand Northeast Asia with
other global regions10 – 11 January 2019University of Helsinki, FinlandA
call for bold papersBackgroundAs fellow Koreanists, when taking an interest
in - or otherwise confronted with - any non-Korea related topic, we likely
share the same uncontrollable impulse to raise Korea as analogy or
contrasting case. Reading histories of other nations or topical areas, we
often either encounter a comforting familiarity due to the power of
analogy, or find ourselves in minor shock that history contains alternative
contingencies. Such reactions can extend beyond narrative content to
methodologies and historiography, where we start to wonder or imagine what
the Korean equivalent of a given study or methodology might yield.This
conference is open to a range of approaches, but to begin we pose the
question: What if Lieberman had included Korea within his seminal two
volume study, Strange Parallels (2003, 2009)? What was Korea's charter
polity? Does the peninsula fall within ‘protected’ or ‘exposed’ zones?The
late 2000s also saw the Stanford Ancient Chinese and Mediterranean Empires
Comparative History Project, culminating in two edited volumes. These
principally dealt with topics of the metropoles and interiors, but what of
frontier zones? Namely, how did the experience of Liaodong and northern
Korea under  nominal Chinese commandery rule compare to the near
concomitant period of Romano-Britain? More immediately, Korea and Vietnam
have been treated as longe durée comparative subjects by a consortium of
universities, with key articles – some again referencing Lieberman –
recently published in IIAS’s (International Institute for Asian Studies,
Leiden) The Newsletter (No.79 Spring 2018). Korean historiography,
meanwhile, has been afforded comparative potential through incisive
chapters included in four of the five volumes of The Oxford History of
Historical Writing (2011).Over the past decade, the number of high quality
monographs on various periods and subjects of Korean history has greatly
increased. Aside from reading them, what more can be done with a
stimulating book or data set? Comparisons can provide a next stage, wherein
the insights obtained from Korean historical contexts are utilized to
inform wider discussions of global history, while the arguments based on
deep, Korea specific research might be calibrated, refined or challenged in
light of new analogies. Broader arguments for comparison as a tool in area
studies are found in a recent article by Michael Herzfeld, juxtaposing more
contemporary historical circumstances of Thailand and Greece (The Journal
of Asian Studies Vol.76, No.4. 2017).Call and conference detailsWe thus
invite historians and archaeologists of all periods of Korea to experiment
with possible comparisons and contrasts they have perhaps often thought of
but rarely felt license to explore further. Strange Korean Parallels is
open to proposals pertaining to all areas of Korea’s past that contain a
comparative approach with other global regions or localities. Broad areas
include, but are not limited to: pre- and early history, micro and macro
histories, social history, intellectual history, environmental history,
historiography, popular and pseudo history, and finally digital humanities
methodologies.We further invite comparative historians and specialists of
other regions with an interest in treating Korea and pursuing collaborative
research. The conference is open to doctoral students and above. Both
individual and panel proposals are welcome.The primary aims of this first
conference are to establish the foundations for comparative approaches to
Korean history, to demonstrate the potential of such research, and to
develop a shared research identity among scholars. In particular this
conference seeks to bridge East–West divides, and welcomes scholars from
Korea and all other countries and continents, to ensure a diverse
representation from the outset of this project.Rather than panels of single
speakers, the structure of the conference will be based around panels of
working group discussions. For this to be productive, selected participants
are asked to commit to submitting a working paper, and will be encouraged
to begin dialogue with fellow panelists in advance.During the conference we
will also discuss publication strategies and we welcome early expressions
of interest from journals or publishers.Financially, we aim to provide
selected participants with 3 nights accommodation in Helsinki including
breakfast (9-12 January), 2 lunches and 2 dinners across the conference
days. Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements.Please
send abstracts (500-600 words) as Word files to: andrew.logie at helsinki.fi
<andrew.logie at helsinki.fi> with the subject “SKP abstract [SURNAME
Name]”.Abstracts should include your name, position and affiliation.You
should receive confirmation of receipt within five working days.The working
language of the conference is English. Bilingual Korean and English
language abstracts will also be accepted.For further updates, look for the
Strange Korean Parallels page (#StrangeKoreanParallels) on
Facebook.Important dates:2018.9.30 Deadline for paper proposals (500-600
words).2018.10.10 Notification of acceptance/rejection.2018.10.20 Deadline
for confirmation of participation.2018.12.20 Submission of working drafts
papers.2019.1.10 Conference Day 12019.1.11 Conference Day 2Strange Korean
Parallels is organized and funded by Andrew Logie, assistant professor in
Korean Studies at University of Helsinki, with additional funding from the
Academy of Korean Studies 2018 Korean Studies Grant.*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20180810/1e1ffa6d/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Strange Korean Parallels 2019 - Call for Papers.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 137945 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20180810/1e1ffa6d/attachment.pdf>