[KS] [CFP] AAS CKS Preconference 2027 at Boston University

[Yoon Sun Yang]

Dear colleagues,

We warmly invite you to submit a proposal for the next AAS CKS
preconference.

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The Committee on Korean Studies is now accepting proposals for the
preconference, to be held on Wednesday, *March 17, 2027*, at Boston
University in Boston, MA.

The culture of dissidence in Korea is entering a new phase. Whereas the
democratization movement that secured the direct presidential election
system in June 1987 was led by male-centered militant resistance, young
women in their twenties and thirties emerged as the driving force of the
latest dissident movements, including the light-stick protests to impeach
former president Yun Sukyeol after his illegal declaration of martial law
on December 3, 2024. The documentary *The Longest Night: Namtaeryeong*
(dir. Kim Hyunji, 2026) details how predominantly middle-aged or older male
farmers formed an unexpected alliance with young women when the
pro-impeachment tractor protest was blocked by the police at Namtaeryeong
Pass in Southern Seoul on December 21, 2024. The female grassroots
protestors not only protected the farmers from police brutality but also
shared their own stories on various issues at an open-mic event, from job
insecurity to discrimination against sexual and gender minorities, from
rental deposit fraud to anti-Chinese sentiment.

This watershed moment demands a revisit to the long history and evolution
of the cultures of dissidence (and, vice versa, conformity and sycophancy)
in Korea, from earliest recorded times to the present. This will offer
fresh, interdisciplinary angles to raise new, controversial questions, to
excavate underexplored sources, archives, and themes, *to bring together
scholars of premodern, modern, and contemporary Korea*, and to revise and
enrich our understanding of broadly defined Korean literature and culture.
We welcome proposals that examine the literatures and cultures of
dissidence in Korea and comparative contexts, across any historical era.

The proposal and presentation must be in English. We accept proposals
for *individual
papers* as well as *organized panels* of three to four authors with closely
interconnected papers.



Some examples include, but are not limited to:

Exiles, Outcasts, and Nonconformists in Korea, Old and New

Conformists, Tag-Alongs, and Sycophants in Korea, Old and New

Proletarian Literature in Korea and Beyond

Revisiting Minjung Literature

Dissidence in Korean Popular Music

Labor and Literature

Literary Disability Studies

Avant-Garde Literature

Speculative fiction/ Science Fiction

Detective Fiction/ Crime Fiction

Environmental Literature/ Climate Fiction

Translation as a Form of Resistance

Feminism and Gender Politics in Korean Literature

Politics in Korean Webtoon and Digital Literature

Contemporary South Korean Women Writers

Dissidence in Popular Culture

LGBTQIA+ Literature

Rewriting the Jeju 4.3

Ethnic Korean Writers/ Border Fiction

Rethinking Cold War Culture in Korea and Beyond

Postcolonialism and Decolonization

Transnational & Transpacific Literature

Literary Dissidence in North Korea

Dissidence in Premodern Korea and the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Culture of Remonstrance (*kan*諫) in Premodern Korea and Beyond

(Righteous) Dissidence in Korean Buddhism, Daoism, and (Neo) Confucianism



*Please submit your proposal as a single PDF to *koreanstuidesbu at gmail.com

*Submission deadline for all proposals: August 20, 2026. *

*Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2026 *

*Individual Papers: *Proposals should include (1) Presenter’s name,
affiliation, and contact information, including email address, (2) Paper
title and abstract (250-word maximum)

*Organized Panels: *Proposals should include (1) a list of participants,
their paper titles, their affiliations, their positions, and their contact
information, including email addresses, and (2) A panel title and summary
(maximum 250 words) detailing the overarching connection between the papers
and providing a brief overview of each presentation (3) A 150-200-word
abstract for each presentation within the panel.



If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the conference
organizers:

Yoon Sun Yang yyoonsun at bu.edu  & Dennis Wuerthner dwuerth at bu.edu

-- 
Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature
World Languages & Literatures
Core Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program
745 Commonwealth Ave. # 604
Boston, MA 02215
Yoon Sun Yang | World Languages & Literatures (bu.edu)
<https://www.bu.edu/wll/profile/yoon-sun-yang/>
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