[KS] CfP: Reflections on the North: the Spaces and Subjects of the DPRK @ Sheffield

[Sarah A Son]

Call for Conference Papers


Reflections on the North: the Spaces and Subjects of the DPRK

Centre for Korean Studies

The University of Sheffield

3-4 April 2025

The Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield seeks works
for a conference titled: “Reflections on the North,” funded by the AKS Core
Grant Programme.

This conference explores the theme of reflection as it relates to North
Korea. We approach the term in two ways. In the nominal sense, reflections
are congregations of work. Whether literary, academic, or artistic, this
sort of reflection attends to the state of the archive on North Korea. As a
verb, reflection is an act of mediation. In this regard, reflection is a
question of the methods and modes used to analyse and articulate North
Korean pasts and presents. How do we reflect on North Korea and how have
decades of reflection by others shaped these engagements? This event seeks
to bring together academic, literary, and artistic submissions to
critically and reflectively engage with both of these invocations of the
term. We invite works that attend to the ways that knowledge about North
Korea is generated and circulated. In particular, we encourage critical
engagements with the spaces and subjects that constitute North Korea. Not
to confuse reflection on the North with abstraction, we seek to centre the
individuals and encounters, topographies and infrastructures that
constitute everyday life in North Korea. In doing so, this event invites
participants to consider the many reflections on the North in the hope of
developing new avenues of approach, analysis and narration.

The conference is designed to be a venue for a variety of academic and
artistic projects dealing with North Korea. We welcome submissions from
Korean Studies scholars at any career level, including PhD students,
post-doctoral scholars and established academics. Papers from any
discipline are encouraged. Particularly those that touch broadly on any of
the themes below:

Methodological Challenges in North Korean Studies: Discussing themes of
translation, ethnography, and the place of agency in research on North
Korea.

Narratives of the Self: Analysing literary and artistic representations of
political subjectivity, solidarity and division.

Global Circulation of Knowledge: Investigating global patterns of knowledge
production and circulation on North Korea.

The Art of Reflection: Artistic and literary depictions of North Korea,
exploring how creative works reflect and shape our understanding of North
Korean society and politics.

The Role of Institutions: Reflecting on the academic, state, and market
frameworks that shape discourse on North Korea.

Archives and Research: Addressing the potentials and challenges of archival
research on North Korea and the development of digital archives.

The Turn to the “Everyday” in North Korean Studies: Consideration of the
recent focus on everyday life and mundane experience in North Korean
scholarship and journalism.

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Venue and Dates:

The University of Sheffield, UK

Thursday 3 April - Friday 4 April 2025

The cost of accommodation in Sheffield will be covered for successful
applicants travelling from outside Sheffield.

Schedule:

Wednesday April 2: Arrival and check-in

Thursday April 3: Conference (full day)

Friday April 4: Conference (full day)

Saturday April 5: Depart Sheffield

Application and submission of abstracts:

Applicants should submit the following information by email to
cks at sheffield.ac.uk by the deadline of Monday, 18th November, 2024.


   1.

   Your full name as you would like it to appear in the abstract booklet
   2.

   You institutional affiliation and role
   3.

   Your email and telephone number (including country code)
   4.

   Title of your paper
   5.

   A 250-word abstract in print-ready format
   6.

   The file should be named as follows: surname_paper title.doc (document
   format, no PDFs please)


Presentations at the conference should be in English. While we do not
request full paper submissions, we will ask you to submit your PPT
presentation by Monday 31st March.

Application period

The deadline for submissions is Monday, 18th November, 2024.

We will contact all participants by the end of November regarding
acceptance of their applications.
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