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Publication Workshop (Onsite):  

Representation of Minoritized Groups in Korean Popular Culture  

  

Dates: 21-22 June 2024  

  

Venue: University of Copenhagen 

  

 

  

Call for Papers  

 

South Korean popular culture has taken the world by storm. International media celebrate the seven members of the K-pop group BTS as the most influential artists of the decade. The South Korean film Parasite (2019) was the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. And the television series Squid Game (2021) became Netflix’s most-watched series ever. These are just a few examples that mirror the global popularity of South Korean music, film, and TV series, which is also called the Korean Wave. Inasmuch as Korean popular culture entertains people around the globe, it also impacts consumers’ ways of thinking and, in so doing, shapes the perception of the world. We know that homo narrans is less driven by pure observation or rational consideration than by stories and narrative logic. This also rings true for the perception of minoritized groups. How minoritized groups are perceived is less based on objective data, but rather on narratives circulating in the media. This workshop sets out to investigate how Korean popular culture represents minoritized groups and how it impacts the perception of minoritized groups.  

 

 

Possible topics: 

The organizers envision a multidisciplinary workshop informed, for example, by minority or ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, film and narrative studies. We invite studies on the representation of minoritized groups in various media and genres, including but not limited to TV series, films, pop songs, documentaries, newspapers and literature from all time periods. We welcome submissions of both theoretical and empirical papers that examine contemporary issues and trace historical trends in the portrayal of minoritized groups in Korean popular culture. This workshop is open to scholars of all stages in their career. Each invited participant is expected to turn their conference paper into a finished paper for possible inclusion in a future issue with an academic journal that is SSCI/AHCI indexed.

 

 

Timeline: 

Jan 25 

CFP circulation 

Feb 25 

Submission of proposals, including: 

·       abstracts (max. 500 words) 

·       bibliographies (min. 10 sources; engagement with academic sources in Korean highly recommended)  

·       bios (100 words).  

Use this form for submission: https://forms.office.com/r/PuhPgEQrVk

March 1 

Acceptance notice 

May 10 

Deadline: Submission of presentation papers (min. 4000 words) 

May 15-June 15 

Circulation of all papers among the participants as feedback loop (every participant reads every paper and gives feedback) 

June 20 

Participants arrive in Copenhagen 

June 21/22 

Workshop  

Fall 2024 

Submission of articles for a journal special issue (max. 7000 words) 

 

 

 

Financial support: 

Travel costs will be reimbursed up to a certain maximum depending on the region the participant is based in. Up to three nights of accommodation will be covered by the host. Only those who follow all pre-workshop deadlines and participate in all activities related to the workshop will be reimbursed for their travel expenses.

This workshop is supported by the 2024 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2024-C-021).

 

Workshop organizers:

Barbara Wall: barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk

Younghan Cho: choy@hufs.ac.kr

Please contact the organizers with any questions. Submission of proposals is only possible via the Microsoft form link: https://forms.office.com/r/PuhPgEQrVk