[KS] Situations CFP: Ethnicity, Race and Racism in Asia

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Dear All, please note the call for papers below.




*2019 Situations International Conference: Ethnicity, Race and Racism in
AsiaSchool of the Humanities, Nanyang Technological University,
SingaporeThursday 24 October-Saturday 26 October 2019*

In recent years, the questions of ethnicity, race and racism have come to
assume an increasing prominence in scholarly as well as social discussions
in Asia. In response to the turbulent global economy, the fracturing of
international barriers, and a renewed surge in flows of migrants and
displaced persons worldwide, national populist movements have suddenly
become a potent and growing political force. Longstanding liberal values
such as pluralism, tolerance, and multicultural coexistence have come under
challenge, as fears of economic crisis and cultural conflict have given
strength to extremist stances across the political spectrum. Finally, the
fact that historical barriers have come down between different population
groups has resulted in some cases in the intensification of conflicts
between them over other explosive fault-lines, such as differences of
religious belief that too can take on a racial or ethnic dimension.

The current rise of populist anger across the West portends a potential
revival of the nation-state, which has often had a relatively homogeneous
population as its foundation. Alternatively, the fragmentation of social
and political systems may indicate a return to older institutional
arrangements that could be surprisingly peaceful and tolerant compared to
modern multi-ethnic or multi-cultural states because they were more willing
to recognize hard cultural differences. What kind of relationship between
the old and the new are we likely to see as the nations and cultures of
Asia attempt to adjust to new social and economic realities?

In the Asia of today, what does ethnic diversity and pluralism mean? What
kind of impact has globalization had on the relations between different
ethnic groups in multi-ethnic states such as Malaysia, Singapore, and
Indonesia? What kinds of conflicts—as well as new modes of coexistence—are
being generated by the flow of peoples in accordance with the demand for
labor and patterns of investment? How are more ethnically homogeneous
nations such as Japan, China, South Korea, and Japan affected by this
dynamic? Are there already signs of impending change in these latter, more
socially homogeneous, societies?

*In exploring this topic, the 2019 Situations conference welcomes papers on
such subjects as:*
• The history of race and ethnicity as Asian ideas    • Diaspora and
identity
• Non-Western models of pluralism and diversity     • Race, equality, and
democracy
• Refugee flows and crises around the globe           • The future of
cosmopolitanism
• Racial divides and religious differences                 • Race and
models of beauty
• Race, culture, and the high-trust society                • Belonging and
exclusion
• Multiculturalism, pluralism, and empire                  • Flows of labor
and capital
• Race, ethnicity, and biomedical technologies        • Challenges to
multiculturalism


*Among our confirmed keynote speakers are:*
Dr. Lawrence Grossberg (UNC)
Dr. Meaghan Morris (U of Sydney)
Dr. Chua Beng Huat (NUS)


*1.* Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. The deadline
for a 4,000-word presentation is September 1 2019.

*2. *Please include a Bio-Statement with your original submission, your
affiliation, and an email address. All submissions should follow the
Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). Endnotes recommended. Refer to
*http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php
<http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php>.*

*3*. Each invited participant is expected to turn his or her initial
presentation into a 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future
issue of the *SCOPUS-indexed journal*, *Situations: Cultural Studies in the
Asian Context* (http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr).

*4. *We will provide hotel accommodation for each invited speaker. Upon
acceptance of the proposal, a partial defrayment of the airfare will be
available (while funding lasts).

*5. *All correspondence should be addressed to Terence Murphy, Editor at
tmurphy at yonsei.ac.kr and cc’d to Rhee Suk Koo, Managing Editor at
skrhee at yonsei.ac.kr.

Co-hosted by School of the Humanities, Nanyang Technological University and
the Department of English, Yonsei University
CFP categories: Asia; race; racism; ethnicity; multiculturalism; belonging;
exclusion; cosmopolitanism; diversity; pluralism; populism; refugees

-- 
Suk Koo Rhee, Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Managing Editor of *Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context* (
http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr)
Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture
Underwood International College
Yonsei University
Seoul, 03722, South Korea
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