CfP: Situations Annual Conference 2020 (2020-05-01)

Between Asia and Europe: Whither Comparative Cultural Studies?
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 21-22 May, 2020

We encourage submissions that take a comparative approach to the study of texts from Asia and Europe

Possible topics include:

• Art cinema then and now
• Political philosophy East and West
• Patterns of migration flow in and between Europe and Asia
• Asian values and European traditions
• Mysticism and spirituality in a global age
• The reception of Westernphilosophy and literature in Asia
• Religious violence and terrorism
• Ethnic strife in Europe and Asia
• The legacies of communism at the end of neoliberalism
• Climate disruption across the continents
• Trade routes: from theSilk Road to the Belt and Road project
• The literatures and cultures of Eurasia
• The legacies of theSecond World War: the Axis Powers and Asia
• Land and sea: the changing geopoliticallandscape
• Ruins and monuments:the persistence of antiquity
• PanAsianism and the project of European unity
• Nationalism and populism inEurope and Asia
• The future of cultural and national identities
• Espionage and culture
• Tourist writing

Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated, although the deadline for a 4,000-word proposal, which includes a 100-word bio statement and a 150-word abstract, is May 1 2020. All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor of Situations, Terence Murphy, at tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr and cc’d to the Managing Editor Rhee Suk Koo at skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr.

Each invited participant is expected to turn his or her initial presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS- indexed journal, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr). Accommodation for each invited speaker will be provided.