[KS] CfP AKSE Conference 2027 in Bucharest: Everydayness and Heritage Practices in 21st-Century South Korea

[Elmer]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to this call for proposals for the
upcoming AKSE conference in 2027 in Bucharest.

*Everydayness and Heritage Practices in 21st-Century South Korea*

This panel focuses on the encroachment of the concept of cultural heritage
on present day lives and livelihoods, both in terms of its temporal scope
as well as its inclusion in everyday practices and routines. The advent of
the concept of future heritage in 2012, preceded by repeated updating of
the legal “minimum age” for cultural heritage, and increased emphasis on
utilization of cultural resources for tourism and other monetization have
resulted in further blurring of boundaries between so-called traditional
culture and contemporary Korean everyday life.

Concretely speaking, panel papers would address how “the old” and “the new”
blend together in efforts where people negotiate the preservation and
continuation of traditional arts, crafts, and related intangible cultural
elements, or how incorporating relatively recent cultural expressions in an
ever-increasing realm of cultural “heritage” affects people’s lives. Some
concrete examples of topic areas that this panel envisions are the impact
of designation and preservation of contemporary and future heritage,
(social) media landscapes that help create retro/newtro trends, wanted and
unwanted effects of such developments on the actual lives and livelihoods
of citizens, the display of the post-1945 urbanization, economic growth and
cultural development in Korean museums, local urban history projects, and
other spaces and places where notions of preservation of the (recent) past
cross paths with everyday lives and routines.

If you are interested to join, please send an outline of your proposal with
a short self-introduction via email to e.veldkamp at hum.leidenuniv.nl before
August 31. I look forward to cooperating with scholars at any level in
their academic career to make this into an insightful panel.

Best regards,
Elmer Veldkamp
Leiden University, Institute for Area Studies, School of Asian Studies Korea
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