Call for papers

• Deadline: 30 July 2012, The State, Violence and the Rule of Law in Korean-Japanese History
• Deadline: 15 September, The State in Asia: Power, Citizenship and the Rule of Law

Deadline: 30 July 2012, The State, Violence and the Rule of Law in Korean-Japanese History

The European Forum on Korean-Japanese History

CALL FOR PAPERS

“The State, Violence and the Rule of Law in Korean-Japanese History”

International Workshop

28-29 June 2013, Leiden

With the aim of promoting comparative research in Korean and Japanese history and enhancing the dialogue between historians of Korea and Japan in Europe, the European Forum on Korean-Japanese History was established on 18 March 2012. The Forum is an independent body supported by the National Institute for Korean History. Its initial objective is to organize biennial workshops bringing together historians of Japan and Korea to exchange views on subjects of mutual relevance and interest.

The European Forum functions as a platform where the tangled histories of Korea and Japan are critically debated, common framing concepts are questioned, source materials are reread and untapped archival materials mobilized. As the professional field is still largely defined by national labels – we are historians of Korea and/or Japan – the European Forum probes how these labels as ordering principles that subliminally reproduce contemporary antagonisms in both research and teaching can be overcome. For too long a historiography based on the nation-state has prevented relevant dialogues from occurring. Now, theoretical and methodological developments in historiography allow the writing of history beyond the nation-state and open up new fields of research on multidirectional transnational flows of ideas, goods and people; subalternity, historical agency and the multiplicity of perspectives.  

The conceptual triangle State-Violence-Law is on purpose wide open. We seek contributions in English of original research from scholars around the globe dealing with any or all of these concepts from a perspective of institutional, political, social, cultural, international, transnational or comparative history. Papers that introduce hitherto untapped archival resources and/or challenging reinterpretations of established readings are particularly solicited. Unimpressed by the reification of the modern, we explicitly welcome contributions irrespective of period, hoping to strike a balance between “modernists” and “premodernists”.

Abstracts (max. 750 words and a short bio) can be sent to the workshop organizer, Koen De Ceuster at: k.de.ceuster@hum.leidenuniv.nl  before 30 July 2012. Authors will be notified of acceptance in the course of the summer.  Full papers are due 25 May 2013. Pending funding, all costs will be covered.

The European Forum on Korean-Japanese History

Koen De Ceuster (Leiden University), Chair
Barak Kushner (Cambridge University), Vice-Chair
Michael Shin (Cambridge University)
Klaus Antoni (Tuebingen University)
You Jae Lee (Tuebingen University)
Gwang Oon Kim (NIKH), ex officio.

Deadline: 15 September, The State in Asia: Power, Citizenship and the Rule of Law

AMT International Conference to be held in Leiden on 12-14 December 2012.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2012

The nation and the modern state in Asia are ongoing projects informed by a quest for cultural, religious and political identities that are new and modern, yet simultaneously rooted in indigenous culture and tradition and emphatically different from templates imported from the West. The formation and the functioning of Asia’s systems of law and governance reflect strong developmental ambitions as well as deep heterogeneity and insecurity. At the same time, the concepts of state and nation do not remain static.

Call for papers
We welcome papers on formation and functioning of Asia’s systems of law and governance, migration and diversity, religious and political movements, corruption, borderlands, insurgency and the formation of new nations, democratization and citizenship.

We particularly encourage papers on any of the four conference themes:

·                    Building the state in Asia

·                    Developmental Asian states

·                    Citizenship in Asia

·                    Developing the rule of law

Please send your 750 word abstract, short CV and full contact information to amt@leiden.edu  before 15 September 2012. Full papers selected for participation are due no later than 1 November 2012.

AMT
The research profile aims to raise the strength and visibility of research, teaching and dissemination of Asian Studies at Leiden University.