[KS] [CFP] MLA 2025 Convention East Asian LLC Forum

[Jina Kim]

Could you please post the following CFP.

The East Asian Language, Literature, and Culture Forum is seeking panelists for the 2025 MLA Convention, Jan 9-12, New Orleans, LA


MLA 2025 East Asia Forum

Literary and Cultural Translation in Premodern East Asia



Although there exists an extensive body of research on the history of translation in East Asia, attention has been weighted overwhelmingly toward the literary output of the modern era and carried out largely within the framework of national languages and contemporary political borders. This panel attempts to decouple translation from the process of nation-building and the formation of modern subjectivities by examining its role in a variety of premodern (pre-19th c.) East Asian contexts. Potential issues to be considered include translation’s role in the emergence of local and regional identities, the relationship between vernacular and cosmopolitan registers, and the impact of translation on emergent ideas about literary genre. Papers that examine intra-Asian contact and connections between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and other languages are especially welcome. Please submit your abstract (250-300 words) and a short CV to William Hedberg, Arizona State University, william.hedberg at asu.edu<mailto:william.hedberg at asu.edu> by March 15, 2024.



Depicting Violence in East Asia across Time and Space

Violence is as old as humankind, and depictions of violence in the arts have never ceased. Yet the preponderance and heightened visceral representations of violence in contemporary literature and media beg us to reconsider the subject. We invite scholars to contribute to an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex portrayals of violence in East Asian literature and media to foster a deeper understanding of the dynamics of violence as related to its aesthetics, forms, modes, and politics. The panel is interested in exploring violence through both premodern forms, such as traditional poetry, fiction, and art, as well as contemporary mediums like film, television, and digital media. We aim to investigate the multifaceted representations of violence and their sociocultural implications. We are also interested in textual and media representations' active participation in constructing new social realities and imaginaries.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Historical perspectives on violence in East Asian literature.
  *   The role of violence in shaping cultural identity.
  *   Gendered violence and its portrayal in East Asian media.
  *   Comparative analyses of violence in traditional versus contemporary forms of storytelling.
  *   The impact of censorship on the representation of violence in East Asian media.
  *   The intersection of political, social, and economic factors in portraying violence.
  *   The relationship between form and representations of violence or tension between textual representation and contextual realities.
  *   The relationship between the senses (visual, sonic, haptic, etc.) and violence in literature and media.
  *   The production of violence in the logic of genre-making (e.g., detective fiction, true crime documentaries, apocalyptic narratives, etc.).

We welcome contributions from scholars in literature, media studies, cultural studies, history, and related fields. Submissions should engage critically with the cultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of representations of violence in East Asian literature and media.

Please submit your abstract (250-300 words) and a short CV to Jina Kim, University of Oregon, jinak at uoregon.edu<mailto:jinak at uoregon.edu>, by March 15, 2024.



Digital Labor and East Asian Cultural Production



The rapid growth of digital technologies in various different cultural fields has brought many benefits, significantly increasing efficiency in many areas and enabling types of cultural production that previously would have been effectively impossible, it has also created a broad range of new challenges—displacing existing workers, creating entire new fields of low-wage labor, blurring the boundary between work and recreation, underscoring the status of attention as a form of labor, and troubling working understandings of intellectual property protections and workable “fair use” exceptions. This panel will examine these topics as they relate to East Asian cultural production, including both labor practices based relating to East Asian communities and labor practices that pertain to cultural formations associated with East Asia. We are also interested in how digital labor itself is represented within East Asian cultural products.



If interested in joining the panel, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and short CV to Carlos Rojas, Duke University, c.rojas at duke.edu<mailto:c.rojas at duke.edu> by March 15, 2024.



Representing East Asian Indigenous Identities, Minority Nationalities, and Marginal Ethnicities



This session highlights the literary and/or cinematic representation of indigenous peoples / minorities nationalities / aboriginal groups in East Asia. We hope it will work to disaggregate the notion of monolithic East Asian identity and identities that neatly fall into the traditional CJK divisions. There is much literary and cinematic production on the non-Han peoples of SW and Western China (eg. Tibetan, Yi, Uighur), Taiwan (various Austronesian Aboriginal writers and filmmakers), writers and filmmakers from Okinawa and Hokkaido, as well as among the Korean and Manchu minority groups of northeast China. This collaborative session between the LLC Forum on East Asian Literatures and the TC Race and Ethnicity Forum envisions a session with presentations on an array of experiences on the margins of East Asia societies. We seek papers that investigate the literary and/or cinematic representation of indigenous identities, minority nationalities, and/or marginal ethnicities in East Asia. Send 300-word abstracts and 250-word biographies to Christopher Lupke <lupke at ualberta.ca> by March 15, 2024.



“Trigger Warning” and Teaching East Asian Literature: A Roundtable

Amid growing concerns for the well-being of students, teaching East Asian literature with potentially triggering content presents a challenge for teachers. How can instructors navigate the teaching of controversial topics and events? The dilemma lies in creating safe spaces for potentially traumatizing subject matter while encouraging students not to shy away from ideas and perspectives conflicting with their own. What constitutes the boundary of our commitment to academic freedom? This roundtable offers a platform to share experiences and articulate effective strategies in teaching East Asian literature. It aims to foster discussions on striking a balance between academic exploration and ensuring the well-being of student throughout the teaching process.

Please submit one-paragraph proposal and a short CV to Suyoung Son, Cornell University, ss994 at cornell.edu<mailto:ss994 at cornell.edu>, by March 15, 2024.
















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