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(207) JCLA-KCLA Joint Session Roundtable (1)
Time:
Tuesday, 29/July/2025:
11:00am - 12:30pm
Session Chair: Sung-Won Cho , Seoul Women's University
Location: KINTEX 1 213B 50 people
KINTEX room number 213B
Presentations
ID: 1792
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Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only)
Topics: K1. Group Proposal Keywords: TBA
JCLA-KCLA Joint Session Roundtable
Hyung-jin LEE
Sookmyung Women's University
This JCLA-KCLA Joint Session Roundtable will bring together members from the Korean Comparative Literature Association (KCLA) and the Japanese Comparative Literature Association (JCLA). The session aims to compare current trends in the field of comparative literature, discuss academic concerns, and share survival tactics for scholarly work, focusing on the following four topics:
First, "Recent Activities" will involve sharing key activities and research achievements of each association, while also exploring future directions for comparative literature research in the current academic environment. Second, "Education and Social Impact" will examine changes in comparative literature education and its influence on society, discussing ways the discipline can contribute to the community. Third, "Academic Publication" will analyze trends in scholarly publishing within comparative literature and exchange practical information on strategies for publishing in domestic and international journals and monographs. Finally, "Internationalization and the Global Anglophone" will delve into methods for expanding comparative literature research globally, including strategies for promoting exchanges with the Anglophone academic world and building international scholarly networks. This will also involve an extended discussion on comparative literary discourse possible between Anglophone comparative literature and East Asia.
This roundtable is expected to be a meaningful opportunity to vitalize academic exchange between the two associations and collectively seek solutions to the pressing challenges facing the field of comparative literature.
Bibliography TBA
ID: 1806
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Foreign Sessions (Foreign Students and Scholars Only)
Topics: F1. Group Proposals Keywords: Korea, Japan, education, publication, internationalization
Recent Trends in Comparative Literature in Korea and Japan
Katsuya Sugawara
University of Tokyo
Members from KCLA and JCLA will compare trends in the field, discuss academic concerns, and share survival tactics around the 4 topics below.
1) Recent Activities
2) Education and Social Impact
3) Academic Publication
4) Internationalization and the Global Anglophone
Bibliography Eiko Imahashi and Ken Inoue eds., A Companion to Comparative Literature & Culture, Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 2024.
ID: 1753
/ 207: 3
Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only)
Topics: K1. Group Proposal Keywords: KCLA, JCLA, comparative literature
about KCLA and Comparative Literature in South Korea
Sang-wook Nam
Incheon National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
This presentation critically reviews the activities of KCLA since the 2000s and examines the possibility of comparative literature in East Asia. And I would like to discuss how KCLA will respond to the phenomenon in which cognition and methodology of comparative literature is spreading in various academic fields.
Bibliography "COMPARATIVE LITERATURE", "Comparative Korean Studies", "Comparative Japanese Studies"
ID: 1786
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Host Sessions (Korean Students and Scholars Only)
Topics: K1. Group Proposal Keywords: Japan Korea, education, publication, internationalization
Recent Trends in Comparative Literature in Korea and Japan
TSUYOSHI NAMIGATA
Kyushu University, Japan
Members from KCLA and JCLA will compare trends in the field, discuss academic concerns, and share survival tactics around the 4 topics below.
1) Recent Activities
2) Education and Social Impact
3) Academic Publication
4) Internationalization and the Global Anglophone
Within this context, the present author will talk about the education and social impact.
Bibliography Eiko Imahashi and Ken Inoue eds., A Companion to Comparative Literature & Culture, Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 2024.