In conjunction with the accession in the throne anniversary (Tingalan Jumenengan Dalem) of Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, the Yogyakarta Palace will hold an International Symposium and Exhibition on Javanese Culture. The International Symposium, which presents speakers from Indonesia and overseas, aims to discuss research results based on ancient manuscripts or other literature related to the Yogyakarta Palace.The “International Symposium on Javanese Culture 2023” with the theme “The Meaning and Function of Vegetations in Preserving Nature and Traditions in The Palace of Yogyakarta”, will be held on 7 – 8 March 2023, located in Yogyakarta.

Taiwan is increasingly being tested by both military and economic security pressures from China. Beijing’s stepped-up manned and unmanned military activities and imposition of greater economic and military costs on other countries engaging in otherwise regular diplomatic and international engagement with Taiwan since August poses serious challenges to the rules-based international order, undermine the status quo across the Taiwan Strait, destabilize the Indo-Pacific region, and negatively impact international trade and transit. Combined with intense cybersecurity challenges, supply chain pressures and US-China tech competition, Taiwan faces a unique set of economic and military security challenges that are increasingly recognized and shared by like-minded partners in the region as well as across the globe.

Experts at the conference will offer their views on key economic and military issues currently facing Taiwan, and the prospects for Cross-Strait and regional stability.

Registration is free and open to the public. This event is IN-PERSON only. Lunch is provided.
This event will be recorded and will be available on the Sigur Center YouTube channel after the event.

Dear Colleagues,
The Association for the Advancement of Sinology is currently accepting proposals for the 3rd annual international online conference “Chinese dialects festival – 2022”.

Chinese dialects festival – 2022 is an event, which was first organized in 2019. It helps sinologists from all over the world to create a community of scholars of dialectology and exchange their knowledge and experience concerning Chinese Dialects. We provide our participants with lectures and conversations about language, culture, dialectology, history, customs, music and architecture, business, travel.

The conference will be organized on August 08-15, 2022 and is provided by the Association for the Advancement of Sinology.

Check out our website for registration: https://russinology.ru/dialectfest_en

We are looking forward to your proposals!

President of the Association for the Advancement of Sinology
Pavlova Alena

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program will host the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies from June 27 to 29, 2022.

All three days of the conference will be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. To join us online, please register at the WCTS website. Registration to view the livestream is free and open to all. The conference program and additional information are also on the WCTS website.

The WCTS brings together the world’s leading Taiwan Studies scholars to share their research. The 4th World Congress general theme is “Taiwan in the Making,” exploring the processes, forces, and dynamics that made and continue to make Taiwan. The quadrennial conference is jointly organized by Academia Sinica and the Taiwan Studies Program and will be the first time WCTS is held in North America.

The 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies is sponsored by the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program, Academia Sinica, The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education.

The Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
The Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship, Johns Hopkins University

PRESENT

Molina Symposium on the History of Medicine
RECKONING WITH RACE & RACISM IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE

May 5th – 6th, 2022

The legacies of race and racism cast a long shadow on academic medical institutions today: ongoing scientific racism in medicine, unequal access to health care, the segregation of medical facilities, and the exclusion of African Americans and other racialized groups from medical education. Medical research and medical practice have not merely been incidentally affected by racism in broader society, but rather have been key sites for the production and reproduction of biological understandings of race. In order to develop more effective anti-racist responses to endemic health inequalities made so visible in the COVID-19 epidemic, medicine needs to fully confront these painful histories of structural violence.

This conference includes historians, sociologists, medical educators, medical trainees, advocates and activists from around the United States to work towards a more inclusive version of historical reckoning. Over two days, we will examine the centrality of history as a tool and as a method to understand the intersections of structural racism and health past and present, aim to build anti-racist curricula and commit to engaging with structural racism as a key aspect of medical training and policy change.

Learn More & Register:
https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/conf-reckoning-with-racism-med/

Over the past decades, Korean art has joined the trend of globalization of contemporary art and had an active dialogue with the rapidly changing world. As the globalization of Korea coincided with the nation’s transition to democratic polity since the 1990s, Korean art went through a fundamental change. Accordingly, what has emerged is a need to see and discuss contemporary Korean art as a group and contextualize it in the context of global contemporary art. “Exploring History and Identities: Contemporary Media Art from Korea” introduces critical issues around contemporary Korean art with media art practices, which best exemplifies the transformation and the status of Korean art.

“Exploring History and Identities: Contemporary Media Art from Korea” brings together the most prominent media artists, a designer, curators, and scholars from South Korea to open up a conversation about how contemporary Korean art addresses issues of history, the future, diaspora, and identity in the era of rapid digital transformation and globalization. The three-day event at Northern Arizona University will be held on March 7, 8, and 10, 2022. Jaewook Lee and Kyungmee Byun will co-organize the event.

The event will focus on Korean cultural productions that utilize new media, such as video, photography, graphic design, virtual reality, film, and explore the relationship between history and memory, the past and the future, the local and the global, and the individual and the collective. Participants will be artists, curators, and scholars of Korean ethnicity who have lived and worked both in and outside the country. In addition, the symposium introduces the latest examples from leaders who break the traditional norms in a rapidly changing world.

Dates: March 7, 8, 10, 2022
Location: Online (Open to the General Public)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://nau.zoom.us/j/7665585656 Meeting ID: 766 558 5656 Password: 111

Presenters and Schedule:
March 7 (Monday) 7pm – 8:30pm: Sang Lee
March 8 (Tuesday) 2:30pm – 4:00pm Min Oh & Harry Choi
March 8 (Tuesday) 5:30pm – 7:00pm Sung Rok Choi
March 10 (Thursday) 2:30pm – 4:00pm Chansook Choi & Goeun Song
March 10 (Thursday) 5:30pm – 7:00pm Boyoung Chang
All times are listed in Arizona time (MST)

The 35th CIHA World Congress | MOTION: Migrations will take place in São Paulo | January 17-21, 2022, with many historians of Asian art presenting papers. For the program: http://www.ciha2022.mac.usp.br/sessions/.

Registration fees are WAIVED for VIRTUAL attendance. For registration: http://www.ciha2022.mac.usp.br/registration/

This congress of the International Committee of the History of Art normally takes place every four years.

We cordially invite you to join our upcoming international conference “Modernity in Korean Art Reconsidered!” as a virtual audience member. The conference is organized by the East Asian Art History division of the Art History Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, with the generous support of the Korea Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

Date: January 27 – 29, 2022. Please see the flyer (https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/schwerpunkte/abteilung_ostasien/aktuelles/Modernity-in-Korean-Art-Reconsidered_flyer.pdf) for a more detailed schedule.

The conference takes place in a hybrid format. Due to health regulations, the onsite conference room will not be open to the public. To register for the online meetings (held via Webex), please send your name and e-mail address to: z.steiner@fu-berlin.de

The conference focuses on the global effect of modernity on local Korean developments and artistic manifestations. The transcultural and transmedia aspects of modern Korean art is object to a multifaceted examination. Reconsidering latest research topics, the meeting relates to the translation of knowledge, social systems, aesthetic practices and artifacts across regions and times in the course of the development of modern Korean art, and the figures involved in the transmission, perception, translation, exhibition, production and modification of ideas and objects of modernity.

Ever since Maurice Courant, a French diplomat-turned-scholar, published his monumental Bibliographie Coréenne in 1894, much ink has been spilled on the study of books in Korea. But where is the field headed now? In current research on the history of the book, especially in English-language scholarship, the Korean experience is more often than not written out or treated as an aberration: How was it that a country that had developed and widely used the technology for movable metal type printing as early as the thirteenth century had to wait until the turn of the nineteenth century to witness the rise of commercial printing of vernacular-language materials? The Eurocentric, print-oriented view tends to overlook the historical validity of various non-print forms of the book, as well as the physical instantiation of literacies and practices of writing and reading that flourished in Korea from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

We invite papers committed to twin projects: critically revisiting existing characterizations of Korea’s book culture while also conducting in-depth bibliographical and physical examinations of original texts that register the practices of pertinent genres, people, and institutions. For example, we look forward to receiving proposals that will shed light on questions like the following: What cultural perceptions and attitudes were reflected in books and the wide range of activities pertaining to their production (paper supply, carving, binding, design, illustration, etc.), circulation, collecting, commercialization, transcription, personalization, de- and re-construction, honoring and discrediting, vernacularization, translation, annotation (glossing, marginalia, commentary, illumination, etc.), documentation, note-taking, anthologizing, republication, reprinting, and digitization? What books were involved in the defining events that shaped the materiality of books and changed practices of reading?

The conference will take place on December 8, 2022 at Harvard University. The one-day conference will consist of a half-day workshop to discuss each paper, hands-on examination of select materials held by the Harvard-Yenching Library, and a roundtable discussion. If you are interested in participating in the conference, please send a paper proposal (250-300 words) accompanied by a CV to Si Nae Park (sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu) and Suyoung Son (ss994@cornell.edu) by March 1, 2022. Selected participants are expected to send in a paper draft by the end of August 2022.

North American Taiwan Studies Association 27th Annual Conference
“Taiwan Studies in Application”
July 8 – 10, 2022

George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Call for Proposals

Research and practice are not two mutually exclusive professions. Instead, the boundary between them is increasingly blurred nowadays. This new social trend opens possibilities for thoughtful, creative, and impactful engagement between researchers and practitioners such that they could complement each other for the betterment of our shared world.

NATSA has been standing at the forefront of Taiwan studies, advancing the field in knowledge production as well as fostering meaningful interaction between academia and civil society. Hence, our 2022 conference will feature “application” to honor diverse approaches to engaging with Taiwan and Taiwan studies. NATSA looks forward to developing robust relationships, constructive dialogues, and collaborative actions for both researchers and practitioners. While we aim to have an in-person conference next year in Washington, D.C., we will closely follow the situation of the pandemic and finalize the format of the annual meeting in accordance with the local public health guidance.

Important dates (Eastern Time):
Call for proposals open: November 15 – December 31, 2021

The Open Dialogue is one of the largest annual international events in Russia for those who teach Chinese. During the Open Dialogue, speakers can present their teaching methods and share practical advice.

The 14th Open Dialogue will be devoted to methods of teaching Chinese, speakers from all over the world will take part in numerous discussions and share the conclusions of their latest studies.

We invite teachers, publishers, and authors of student textbooks and companies specializing in the Chinese language, to participate in the 14th Open Dialogue and present new books, tell about the requirements for preparing specialists in the field of the Chinese language, and, of course, share opinions with colleagues from all over the world.

The 14th Open Dialogue will be held online.

Cross-talk: Conversations on Race & Language
February 24-26, 2022

In-person Presenters with Hybrid Format for Audience

In March of 2021, controversy arose over the choices for a Dutch and Catalan translator of Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb.” Alex Marshall’s article in the New York Times discusses how translating Amanda Gorman’s work has “shone a light on the often unexamined world of literary translation and its lack of racial diversity.” More recently, in September 2021, M. NourbeSe Philip called for the destruction of an unapproved translation into Italian of her novel Zong!. To what degree are these issues around translation due to a lack of critical conversations about race and language in our conceptual and pedagogical work in languages, literatures, and cultures?

This conference will question how events related to race, racial justice, and social justice have become transnational and impact the languages, literatures, and cultures that we teach. How can scholars and educators adapt curriculum and lead through languages in an effort to address racial and social justice in the world? How do languages change to become part of this global dialogue? And how does this dialogue cross borders and change between and within languages? How do race and language overlap and intertwine in our fields of study?

We are soliciting papers related to questions of race and language in the following thematic areas, although we welcome other ideas as well:

*Migration, Exile, Displacement, Mobility
*Racial Politics of Translation, Race, and Translation
*Global South-South dialogues of Race, Language, Literature, and Culture
*Transdisciplinary Connections with Africana, Asian and Asian American, Indigenous and Native American, Latin American and Latinx, and Middle Eastern Diasporas and Studies
*Teaching Practices, Pedagogies, and Curriculum/Program Design
*New Forms of Knowledge and Expression (Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, anti-colonial, archipelagic, de-cold war, decoloniality, deimperialization studies, etc.)

Please submit an abstract of no more than 150 words by Wednesday, December 15, 2021. We welcome abstracts from graduate students and will announce competitive travel grants in our acceptance letters.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 4, 2022.

The year 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the “Cold War”, a half-century of superpower rivalry that has generated stubbornly rigid ways of thinking about our world. Our conference critically explores the ways in which cold wars have been narrated, what these narratives have left out, and how alternative possibilities may be imagined. The three-day event will feature a dozen invited experts and more than 60 paper presenters, selected from submissions responding to our open call.

The conference is online and all are welcome to attend by Zoom. Admission is free of charge, but registration is required. Please visit the website for the full programme and our registration form.

The event is organised by HKBU’s School of Communication and Film in collaboration with Academy of Visual Arts and the Department of Government and International Studies.

We are pleased to announce the lineup of the 1st EANASE International Conference, “Spirituality, Healthcare and Social Movements in East Asia: A Transnational Perspective,” to be held every Saturday of November 2021, at 9pm (Tokyo time).

This conference aims to offer such a chance by inviting academic contributions to reflect on the intertwined relationship between spirituality, healthcare and social movements in East Asia from a trans-national/local/cultural perspective. As a time of unprecedented changes and accelerated global interactions, our focus lies on the period between the nineteenth to the twentieth-first centuries.

We understand that East Asia is not a monolithic or readily-identifiable entity, but rather a historical construction that has been constantly reshaped and re-invoked for multiple reasons and by a number of actors, many of whom have come from outside the political frontiers of China, Japan and Korea.

Moreover, whereas an ‘East Asian-centred’ approach might be initially helpful to counterbalance ‘Euro-american-centred’ perspectives still prevalent in academic settings, East Asia – however defined – has flourished in a changing, closely interconnected world.

The emergence of new religious movements like Theosophy, Falungong and Taireido, or the popularisation of acupuncture, reiki and hypnosis worldwide, for instance, challenge reductionist binary views of East/West, tradition/modernity, science/religion.

Likewise, the recent dissemination of New Age practices across East Asia or the ongoing study of Buddhist meditation by American and European psychiatrists seem to reflect broader concerns that, for the past two centuries or so, have ignored national and cultural borders – and whose wider social implications are more visible than ever.

If you have any interests in our conference, please register here: https://bit.ly/eanase2021

For more details, please visit https://eanase.com/conference-schedule/.

A teabowl is essential for the preparation and consumption of the finely powdered, whipped green tea known around the world today as matcha. Originating in China and developed in Korea and Japan, teabowls have been a special category of ceramic vessel for more than a thousand years. Today they capture the imagination of potters around the world, both as utensil and as sculpture.

On the occasion of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum exhibition Path of the Teabowl, this conference explores the definitions, histories, and contexts of teabowls. For more information about the exhibition visit: https://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu/exhibitions/

For more information about the conference visit: https://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu/events.html

To register for the conference: https://alfredu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9e3EuXqSSJmRh8SspgN7rA

For questions about conference registration, contact artsevents@alfred.edu. For more information about the conference content, or to pose questions to speakers in advance of the event, contact Meghen Jones, jonesmm@alfred.edu.

A conference recording will be available after the event on YouTube.

Financial support for this conference has been provided by a generous grant from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.