CFP: NAJAKS: Translating Korea and Japan (10 Mar; 24-26 Aug; Copenhagen)

Call for Papers - NAJAKS 2007

Proposals for papers are invited for the 7th NAJAKS Conference in
Copenhagen, 24-26 August 2007. The conference theme is:
Translating Japan and Korea

"Translation" is to be taken in the broadest sense - it is how we interpret
and explain different cultures in our scholarly projects, whatever our
disciplines.

We are "translators," not only when we literally transport and transform one
medium into another. We also interpret and explain the forms and figurations
of cultural phenomena at different levels: to students, to colleagues, or to
the public at large. The manner in which we render words, concepts and
worlds into our own language depends on many factors: power relations,
ideology, religious beliefs, disciplinary constraints, and other things of
which we may not be completely aware.

Sections and convenors

1. Literature (Yoichi Nagashima)
2. History (Margaret Mehl, Morten Oxenboll)
3. Social Sciences, Politics & Anthropology (Marie Roesgaard & Karl Jakob
Krogness)
4. Economics and Business Studies (Carl Jorgen Saxer)
5. Philosophy and Religion (Margaret Mehl)
6. Visual Culture (Gunhild Borggreen & Lars Martin Sorensen)
7. Linguistics (Bjarke Frellesvig & Janick Wrona)
8. Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Yasuko Madsen)

Proposals should be submitted directly to the convenors. Proposals not
relating to the conference theme are welcomed; however convenors may give
preference to papers relating to the conference theme, if they receive more
proposals than they can accept.

NEW DEADLINE for proposals with abstracts: 10 March 2007

Conference website: www.najaks.dk

Margaret Mehl
Asian Studies Section
University of Copenhagen
Leifsgade 33.5.
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Tel. ++45 35328826
FAX ++45 35328835