[KS] [Reminder] KLA 2024 Annual Conference: Abstract deadline April 5

[Pil Ho Kim]

This is a friendly reminder of the Korean Literature Association 2024
Conference abstract deadline on *Friday, April 5.* The Call for Papers is
as follows:



*Act!** Performativity of Korean Literature*



The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its
annual meeting on the theme of “Performativity of Korean Literature” to be
held at The Ohio State University, October 11-12, 2024. We invite
individual papers and organized panels that approach this theme from
multiple perspectives, using methodologies from literary theory,
linguistics, gender studies, critical race theory, cultural studies,
performance studies, and history, and explore how these interdisciplinary
approaches can open up new ways of thinking about Korean literature.



While performance is a deeply contested concept, the organizers of this
conference use this term to refer primarily to three major lines of inquiry
in thinking about Korean literature.



First, it refers to the analysis of a range of explicitly artistic
performances, examining their aesthetic, social, and political significance
in documenting and transforming Korean society. Examples include theater,
dance, music, visual art, sound art, and performance art that speak to
specific historical moments in Korean history and offer poignant artistic
or social commentary.



Second, we also use performance to examine what it means to approach
literature, social phenomena, or everyday human behavior *as* performance,
that is, to use performance as a framework for thinking through literature,
social phenomena, and human behavior. By exploring the significance of
embodied and affective expressions in these phenomena, and by delving into
the representational nature of modes of expression, we aim to undo the
false bifurcation between text and the body.



Finally, it means using performance to generate a new research inquiry,
foregrounding the body or human sensorium as a way to produce new knowledge
beyond what is stored in traditional, text-centered archives. By tapping
new sources of research from muscle memory, lived experience, bodily
intelligence, gestural practices, and others, we seek to produce more
robust knowledge about human agency and creativity.



Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:



●      Intermediality of Korean literature, theatre, dance, music, visual
art, sound art, and performance art

●      Performed texts: theatre script, screenplay, song lyrics, dramatic
reading, podcast

●      Poetry in performance: recitation, spoken word, slam poetry, rap and
hip-hop

●      Traditions of oral literature and their modern revival

●      Revisiting the debate between ‘pure’ literature and ‘committed’
literature in the twentieth century

●      Literature as an interruption in the quotidian or an intervention
into the political

●      Texts that thrive on the physicality of the body, that make the
disappeared visible, or that make the ghosts return

●      Heteronormativity and racism reflected and/or resisted in Korean
literature

●      Literatures of Korean diaspora and their world-making



The KLA (https://koreanlit.org/) welcomes submissions from graduate
students, faculty, and independent scholars at any stage of their careers
who are interested in presenting papers at the Conference. While the
official conference language is English, we will also be open to
Korean-language presentations of innovative research. We are currently
planning an in-person conference at The Ohio State University’s Columbus
Campus, with possible optional hybrid presentations in cases where travel
poses difficulties. To apply, please send your CV and a 300-word abstract
to korlitorg at gmail.com. A panel proposal should include the individual
abstracts along with a 300-word panel abstract. Those selected to present
will be required to submit a presentation paper in advance.



All participants in the conference and the workshop will be required to
register as KLA members and will receive hotel accommodation. All efforts
will be made to defray the cost of travel especially for junior scholars.
The deadline for submissions is April 5, 2024. If you have any questions,
please contact the local organizer, Pil Ho Kim, at kim.2736 at osu.edu.
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