[KS] CFP: Blood in Modern Korea and its Diasporas Workshop

Sandra Park shkpark at uchicago.edu
Sat Nov 27 15:09:39 EST 2021


Dear Colleagues,


Inga Kim Diederich, Laura Ha Reizman, and I are organizing a workshop to be
held this spring, and we invite proposals on "blood" in modern Korea and
Korean diasporas from any discipline in the humanities and social sciences.
For more information, please find our CFP below.


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*Call for Abstracts*


*Workshop: Blood in Modern Korea and its Diasporas*

*When: April 2022 *

*Where: Colby College *


“Blood” created new modes of governance and subjectivities throughout
modern Korean history, yet remains an elusive critical concept largely
neglected in Korean studies. The modern Korean commitment to a blood-based
nation has manifested in a diverse array of expressions, from references to
a singular Korean bloodline on the one hand and description of multiracial
persons as “mixed bloods” on the other, to the pursuit of medical eugenics
and development of political theologies centered on sacral blood, among
others. Despite this ubiquity, blood as an epistemological concept  has yet
to be directly interrogated. This workshop is organized around making
explicit the histories and constructs implicit in the Korean concept of
blood. It expands on a discussion held at AAS 2021, where the organizers
placed into trans-disciplinary and trans-Pacific dialogue the history of
science, history of religion, and critical mixed race studies to
extrapolate the multiple meanings collapsed in “blood” and interrogate the
relationship between blood and nation in Cold War Korea. We propose
approaching blood in both implicit and explicit ways to articulate new
analytical frameworks for understanding how blood, in both its literal and
metaphorical meanings, was appropriated, transformed, and exploited to
govern the discursive terms and material conditions of modern Korean
national and diasporic identities.


We invite proposals on any time period in modern Korea—including late
Chosŏn, contemporary North and South Korea—and across Korean diasporas in
any part of the world, as well as methodologies from any discipline in the
humanities and social sciences. We particularly welcome work from junior
scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty)
as well as those working on related issues in media outside conventional
scholarly rubrics (creative writing, arts, etc.).


Papers are encouraged to address one or more of the following themes or
questions:

*Blood* and …



· Nationalism

· Identity

· Kinship

· Race/Ethnicity

· Science/Medicine

· Technology

· Religion/Secularism

· Ideology

· Law

· Gender/Sexuality

· War/Militarization

· Revolution

· Labor

· Colonialism/Imperialism


*Proposals*

Please email your abstract (350 words or less) and a CV to:
*bloodinmodernkorea at gmail.com* <bloodinmodernkorea at gmail.com> by December
15, 2021.


NOTICE: We are planning to hold the workshop in person at Colby College,
Maine. However, we will be monitoring the ongoing pandemic and pivot to a
hybrid or virtual format if necessary. If individual participants have
health considerations, organizers are open to accommodating participation
in the safest and most comfortable form. As funding allows, selected
participants will receive partial or full reimbursements for travel and
lodging. Details on date and finalized format will be enclosed in our
notifications in January.


Following the workshop in April 2022, select papers will be considered for
inclusion in a planned edited volume. We have provisional interest from a
publisher and expect to submit a book proposal no later than June of 2022.


*Organizers*

Laura Ha Reizman

Johns Hopkins University


Sandra H. Park

University of Chicago


Inga Kim Diederich

Colby College




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*Sandra H. Park*
PhD Candidate | History
University of Chicago
shkpark at uchicago.edu
Pronouns: she, her, hers
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