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Azalea 16: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture

Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture

Special Features: Contemporary Korean Women Writers, Korean Women’s Poetry, Writer in Focus: Kwon Yeo-Sun, Voice from the Colonial Period: Imamura Eiji.

Volume 17 (2024)

Editor Young-Jun Lee introduces the new issue of Azalea with Special Features that focus on the Feminist Reboot of the 2010’s, stating:

Korean literature in the 20th century was dominated by men, but that changed in the 1990s after democratization and the rise of the economy. If you read literary magazines from the 1990s, you will find that names of women writers on the contents pages are strikingly more numerous than those of men. This trend has continued for almost three decades now and it is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, as long as Korean women writers are responding to Korean society, which keeps women in an inferior position. “Feminism Reboot” was one of the critiques of the resilient patriarchal system in Korea.

Personal income in South Korea has recently overtaken that of Japan. South Korea’s rise is not only economic, but also cultural. Pop culture fans, including many young people around the world, are fascinated by Korean culture and new works coming out of South Korea. The popularity of Korean language programs at universities around the world has gone beyond the limits of what those universities can accommodate. And yet, by any standard, it is still undeniable that women in South Korea are victims of serious social inequality.

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Korean Studies

Special Section:  A Translational Reading of the Invention of Korea’s Confucian Traditions

Special Section: Portrayals of Motherhood in South Koran Popular and Practices Culture

Volume 48 (2024)

Editor Cheehyung Harrison Kim introduces this issue and the two Special Sections:

Two interconnected Special Sections are at the core of this volume. The first is titled “A Transnational Reading of the Invention of Korea’s Confucian Traditions,” exceptionally guest edited by Daham Chong (Sangmyung University). The second is guest editor Bonnie Tilland’s (Leiden University) superb “Portrayals of Motherhood in South Korean Popular and Practiced Culture.” Confucianism and motherhood are notions and practices tied to the ideological perception of constancy, on the one hand, and the shifting epistemological norms based on cultural and historical exigencies, on the other. The authors of the two Special Sections question and explore various historical and cultural predicaments of Confucianism and motherhood in modern and contemporary Korea.

The Special Section on the invention of Confucian traditions begins with Daham Chong’s meticulous account of the influence Max Weber had on modern Korean historians’ comprehension of Confucianism-derived systems in late Koryǒ and early Chosǒn, namely the civil service examination. Young-chan Choi (University of Oxford) adroitly investigates the epistemological changes distinctly occurring in late nineteenth century Korea, in which Confucianism comes to be seen as inferior to the modernist understandings of the world stemming from Protestantism. The postliberation space is Kim Hunjoo’s (Hanbat National University) research area, where the process of remaking Confucianism as a new tradition is carefully scrutinized in relation to the nation building process. The final piece in this Special Section is on literary culture. Owen Stampton’s (University of British Columbia) sophisticated article probes into the tension between tradition and modern life as experienced by women characters in Yi Kwang-su’s 1917 play Kyuhan, as well as discussing the birth of the modern stage in Korea.

Split Inalienable Coding in the East Bird’s Head Family
Laura Arnold

Observations on Tagalog Genitive Inversion
Henrison Hsieh

Variation and Change in Jakarta Indonesian: Evidence from Final Glottals
Ferdinan Okki Kurniawan

When Sound Change Obscures Morphosyntax: Insights from Seediq
Victoria Chen

Lexical Evidence in Austronesian for an Austroasiatic presence in Borneo
Juliette Blevins and Daniel Kaufman

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Mānoa

Volume 36, Number 1 (2024)

Special Issue: Karahee from the Cane Fields

Guest Editor Rajiv Mohabir introduces this issue:

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Pacific Science

Volume 78, Issue 1 (2024)

Pre-Contact Vegetation and Persistence of Polynesian Cultigens in Hālawa Valley, Moloka‘i
Patrick V. Kirch, Mark Horrocks, Gail Murakami, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Dolly Autufuga, and Jillian Swift

Nesting Success of Lepidochelys olivacea (Cheloniidae) In Situ Incubation in the Cabo Pulmo National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Mónica E. García-Garduño, Elena Solana-Arellano, Carlos R. Godínez-Reyes, Paula Aguilar-Claussell, and David Ramírez-Delgado

Biology and Impacts of Pacific Islands Invasive Species: Falcataria falcata (Miquel) Barneby and Grimes (Fabaceae)
R. Flint Hughes, Aidan Anderson, David R. Clements, Joanna Norton, and Rebecca Ostertag

The Impact of Light Attraction on Adult Seabirds and the Effectiveness of Minimization Actions
André F. Raine, Scott Driskill, Jennifer Rothe, Stephen Rossiter, Jason Gregg, Tracy Anderson, and Marc S. Travers

Status of Laysan and Black-Footed Albatrosses on O’ahu, Hawai’i
Lindsay C. Young, Eric A. VanderWerf, Erika M. Dittmar, C. Robert Kohley, Kelly Goodale, Sheldon M. Plentovich, and Lesley MacPherson


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Call for Submissions: Filipino American National Historical Society Journal, Volume 13

The Filipino American National Historical Society Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed annual journal that publishes, disseminates, and promotes research related to Filipino American history. The journal publishes research by community-based and academic historians, as well as personal histories.

From the editors:

FANHS Journal, Volume 13 is calling for submissions of papers based on presentations given at the FANHS Biennial Conference in Houston, Texas held July 17-20, 2024. 

We encourage all who presented at the conference to submit your work in one of the following formats and modalities:

  • Written work (e.g., essays, poems, articles)
  • Visual work (e.g., photo essays, prints and other artistic work, video)
  • Mixed modalities (e.g., videos, pictorial essays, zines)
  • Audio (e.g, recorded monologues, abridged oral histories with an accompanying article)

For more information, please see the journal’s Author Guidelines.

Whether you are submitting a written, visual, or audio contribution, we are looking for contributions that address the following sections:

 Type of contributionDescription or ExampleSuggested word count
ArtworkArtwork used for the cover or design throughout the FANHS Journal (i.e. photography, visual art, multimedia images)1 page or less 250 words
Collaborating with our Ancestors Tributes and dialogues between past and presentTributes paid to those who have passed and a space for intergenerational conversations between authors of today and classic pieces from past FANHS Journals around enduring issues.5-10 pages 1250-2500 words
Talk Stories Stories and oral histories  Written conversation or transcription of an oral history/interview of a single person or multiple people. Edited transcription of question-and-answer interview (the full transcription and recording of the interview can be archived with FANHS National).10-15 pages 2500-3750 words
 Community Research Personal or community research in contextPersonal histories, short anecdotes, or community stories situated in larger historical and social contexts.  5-15 pages 1250-3750 words
Academic Article Original scholarship of research or theoryArticle sharing original research or theory, connected to larger research conversations.15-25 pages 3750-6250 words
Reviews
Critical assessment of books, films and resources
Reviews and shares publications, books, films, resources related to Filipino American history (full listings can be shared on FANHS website).2-5 pages 500-1250 words
FANHS in Action Contributions that Move Community ForwardPieces that highlight enacting the mission or goals of FANHS, resources, and strategies for connecting and activism.2-5 pages 500-1250 words

For more information or questions, please contact fanhsjournal@uhpress.org

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Volume 12 will be published in October 2024 in print and on Project MUSE.

Submissions Due

Jan. 15, 2025

Links for Authors

Author Guidelines

Submit Your Contribution 

Inquiries

fanhsjournal@uhpress.org

About the Journal

The Filipino American National Historical Society Journal is the only journal devoted exclusively to the identification, gathering, preservation, and dissemination of Filipino American history and culture in the U.S. The society was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1982 by Dorothy Laigo Cordova and Fred Cordova, and now hosts 40+ regional chapters nationwide.


 

OA Journal Language Documentation & Conservation Gets a Redesign

Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) unveils a comprehensive website redesign that enhances the journal’s aesthetic appeal and functionality, elevating the experience for authors, readers, and staff alike.

This project includes the launch of new logos, a refreshed layout for journal articles, and an entirely new website, all thoughtfully crafted to reflect the journal’s connection to the Hawai‘i.

The new LD&C logo was designed in concert with corresponding logos for the affiliated International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) and the forthcoming journal section Indigenous Language Rights & Realities (ILR&R), emphasizing the relationship between all three. Each logo represents natural elements significant to Hawaiian culture and place, portraying the palapalai fern, ʻilima flower, and the ʻōhiʻa lehua flower, respectively.

The journal’s PDF layouts have been restructured to present articles in a clean and professional format, reflective of the high-quality research we are proud to publish. The new layout can be seen currently in articles published in Volume 18.

The new website makes it easier to navigate LD&C’s extensive archives, submit manuscripts, and engage with the latest research. This redesign marks a significant milestone in LD&C’s ongoing commitment to excellence and dedication to fostering a vibrant and inclusive scholarly environment.

For more information, please visit the new website at nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc.

LD&C is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published by the University of Hawai‘i Press.

LD&C is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on topics related to language documentation and conservation, sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center.

A formal Indigenous driven academic publishing space that privileges and centers the work of Indigenous and Non-Dominant scholars (e.g. elders, language speakers-learners, knowledge holders, cultural practitioners, educators, researchers, advocates, etc.) from a variety of cultural, intellectual, and/or institutional traditions and practices. Coming soon.

The International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation series, or ICLDC, has, since its inception in 2009, become the flagship conference for the field of language documentation.


 

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Journal of Korean Religions, The Contemporary Pacific, U.S. Japan Women’s Journal + more

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Biography

Volume 46, Number 2 (2023)

Editor Craig Howes discusses this edition and unique collection of writing:

[F]rom its first issue in 1978, Biography has been principally a forum journal, dedicated to publishing unsolicited articles from a wide variety of disciplines, and solicited reviews of recent critical and theoretical publications devoted to some aspect of life writing.  This issue continues the tradition, and renews this commitment. Seven very substantial articles and twenty-one reviews—nothing else. But a quick comparison of our first and latest issues reveals that some things have changed, largely in response to changes in the field itself. Although Biography declared itself an An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the start, all of the first six articles dealt with American, English, and French literary or historical subjects. The current issue’s seven articles deal with religious, psychoanalytic, broadcast, graphic, and social media texts from a far wider range of geographic locations—North America and Western Europe, but also the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Western Asia, with glances at Africa and South and Eastern Asia for important context.

Find this Editors’ Note, articles, reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

Volume 17, Number 1 (2024)

Voice And Pronominal Forms In Kayan (Uma Nyaving)
Alexander D. Smith, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, and Carly J. Sommerlot

Chronology of Registrogenesis in Khmer: Analyses of Poetry and Inscriptions
Sireemas Mapong

Classifiers and Definiteness in Longdu (Min Chinese)
Joanna Ut-Seong Sio

Notes on the sociopolitical history of nomenclatures in Northeast India
Pauthang Haokip

Remembering Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)
Alexis Michaud and Minh Châu Nguyên

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JWH associate editor Laura J. Mitchell introduces this free special issue in her introduction, “A Convergence Whose Time Has Come”:

This year’s digital-only special issue brings interdisciplinarity into relief by exploring the relationship between world history and ethnic studies—related fields that benefit from mutual interrogation, as this collection shows. The context of 2024—both globally and in the U.S., where most subscribers to the Journal of World History are based—compells questions about the composition of the nation, historic constructions of identity along racial, linguistic, and gendered lines, the articulation and mobilization of power within societies and across polities, and enduring dynamics of imperial conquest and resistance. As scholars, teachers, and world citizens we are confronted with the continued rise in authoritarian politics; wars in Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan; significant elections in India, South Africa, and the U.S.; and student protest movements challenging the status quo in the U.S., Europe, and the Arab world. So evidence-based understanding about the historical functions of race, ethnicity, cultural movements, and state power are especially relevant.

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The World History Association hosts its annual meeting at San Francisco State University from June 27 to 29, on the theme “CURRENTS.” The Journal of World History offers this accompanying special collection, “World History and Ethnic Studies: A Convergence Whose Time Has Come” free on the Project MUSE platform through September 30. Select World History titles will also be 30% off from July 1 through Sept 30, 2024.

The 11 articles collected by associate editor Laura J. Mitchell in “World History and Ethnics Studies” demonstrate the potential for thinking across the fields of world history and ethnic studies, an approach that includes critiques of canonical world history.


Members of an American Congressional committee were investigating the Japanese picture brides at the immigration station of Angel Island. This photograph was taken on July 25, 1920. Courtesy of Getty Images, and featured in “Japanese American Migration and the Making of Model Women for Japanese Expansion in Brazil and Manchuria, 1871-1945” by Sidney X. Lu in this special collection.

In her introduction to the issue, Mitchell  writes:

This year’s digital-only special issue brings interdisciplinarity into relief by exploring the relationship between world history and ethnic studies—related fields that benefit from mutual interrogation, as this collection shows. The context of 2024—both globally and in the U.S., where most subscribers to the Journal of World History are based—compells questions about the composition of the nation, historic constructions of identity along racial, linguistic, and gendered lines, the articulation and mobilization of power within societies and across polities, and enduring dynamics of imperial conquest and resistance. As scholars, teachers, and world citizens we are confronted with the continued rise in authoritarian politics; wars in Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan; significant elections in India, South Africa, and the U.S.; and student protest movements challenging the status quo in the U.S., Europe, and the Arab world. So evidence-based understanding about the historical functions of race, ethnicity, cultural movements, and state power are especially relevant.

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World History and Ethnic Studies

A Convergence Whose TIme Has Come


A Convergence Whose Time Has Come
Laura J. Mitchell

Africans and Asians: Historiography and the Long View of Global Interaction
Maghan Keita

Dispatches from Havana: The Cold War, Afro-Asian Solidarities, and Culture Wars in Pakistan
Ali Raza

Japanese American Migration and the Making of Model Women for Japanese Expansion in Brazil and Manchuria, 1871-1945
Sidney X. Lu

Reviving the Reconquista in Southeast Asia: Moros and the Making of the Philippines, 1565–1662
Ethan P. Hawkley

Between the Red Sea Slave Trade and the Goa Inquisition: The Odyssey of Gabriel, a Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Jew
Matteo Salvadore

International Conscience, the Cold War, and Apartheid: The NAACP’s Alliance with the Reverend Michael Scott for South West Africa’s Liberation, 1946–1951
Carol Anderson

Singing the Civilizing Mission in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms: The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Nineteenth-Century Germany*
Kira Thurman

African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States
William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb

China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940
Melvin Barnes Jr.

Aliens in Their Native Lands: The Persistence of Internal Colonial Theory
John R. Chávez

Taking Children, Ruling Colonies: Child Removal and Colonial Subjugation in Australia, Canada, French Indochina, and the United States, 1870–1950s
Christina Firpo and Margaret Jacobs


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Warehouses Close for Annual Inventory: Order by June 12

Last day for orders is June 12! Closed for Inventory June 13 to June 30

With all the activity at the end of fiscal year, we’re late with this alert: Our warehouses will close for annual inventory and the last day for orders is Wednesday, June 12. Please place your web orders before midnight, Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST), in order to be fulfilled this month. We will reopen for ordering on July 1. In the meantime, browsing and the wishlist option will remain in place. Mahalo for your patience!

 

Journals: Biography International Year in Review, Journal of Burma Studies Contribution to Pyu Studies + more 


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Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting

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Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Writing

Volume 35 Number 2 (2023)

Guest Editors Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, and Ann Ang discussion their vision with this unique collection of writing:

This anthology represents a chorus of offerings, first and foremost to the land and the sea, and second to you, our readers, as an invitation to attend to the urgencies and travails of our homes. On the one hand, while the anthology is comprised mostly of anglophone texts, which reflect the aspirations of regional writers to speak across borders and to the globe at large, the English of these pages is inhabited by meanings and associations that make the language our own. This can be seen in the use of indigenous names of plants and places in the works of Annisa Hidayat, Diana Rahim, and Mohamed Shaker, or through rhymes and sounds in the poems of Natalie Foo Mei-Yi and Teresa Mei Chuc. At other times, the native language emerges like weeds, surprising and demanding to be noticed, as in Enbah Nilah’s use of Tamil, which persists as linguistic, cultural, and historical memory in a legacy of erasure.

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Presenting Chinese Studies International: A Scholarly Review Journal

China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies is now Chinese Studies International: A Scholarly Review Journal.

This current issue, Volume 28, opens with this note from editor Ming-Bao Yue:

The journal launched in 1994 under the editorship of Roger T. Ames (Professor Emeritus) with the goal to serve the “Sinological community by keeping it abreast of published scholarhip in all areas of Chinese studies in a timely way.” The journal aimed to be inclusive, providing English-language reviews of current literature across the boundaries of both language and discipline, drawing scholars from differing geographical and political perspectives into conversation.

The updated title better reflects the new trends and changes in the field of Chinese Studies that articulate well with the evolving mission of this official journal of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Center for Chinese Studies.

The updated title also signals a shift to keep pace with the times: Once a quarterly print journal, Chinese Studies International will now publish online continuously throughout each year with the same volume of content. This allows the journal to be more timely, greatly decreasing the duration to publication. This online format also allows the journal to better serve its largest audience. In academic year 2023-24, China Review International content was accessed more than 75,000 times in more than 100 institutions from nearly 20 countries.

The journal is sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, College of Arts, Languages & Letters, University of Hawai‘i

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