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Crisis and Connection

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AGENDA 01

CrisisConnection

We read the core of the practices of overcoming crisis
that have emerged in Korea and East Asia as ‘connection’.

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Introduction About this agenda

Crisis and Connection

FUTURISTIC TURN
OF K-HUMANITIES

We read the core of the practices of overcoming crisis that have emerged in Korea and East Asia as ‘connection’.

01

Identifying the Value of Connection

Taking ‘connection’ as its central concept, this team captures the character of the relations formed among those who respond to crisis, and identifies the values such movements have realized.

02

A K-Humanities Platform

Pursuing an integrated model of research and education through multilingual and multiregional connection, it builds a platform for K-Humanities as posthumanities.

03

Making Knowledge Public

Through a range of public programmes it advances the sharing of knowledge with civil society and problem-solving engagement with the world.

Relevance

Relevance to
the Agenda

# Civilizational Transformation# Responsibility of Knowing# Transversal Connection# Posthumanities

K-Humanities problematizes the situation of Korea and East Asia, which face not merely an epochal shift but a sweeping, fundamental ‘civilizational transformation’. It commits itself to a responsibility of knowing that intervenes actively in the social and global problems that crisis brings to light.

‘Crisis and Connection’ grasps in full the reality of the crises K-Humanities must meet, seeks theory from the standpoint of transversal ‘connection’, and, by cultivating scholarship’s power to discern reality and answer its problems, builds practical, future-oriented posthumanities.

Research Plan

Research Content and Plan

Phase 1 · Year 01

Year 1

Connecting Perspectives: Theoretical and Methodological Groundwork for K-Humanities

  • Reviewing contemporary theoretical turns — post-discourses, care theory and disability studies among them
  • Collecting and organizing materials on the media and creative work of the modern and contemporary Korean diaspora
  • Planning the Posthumanities book series and the educational programme
Phase 1 · Year 02

Year 2

Connecting Experience and Sensibility: The Inner Life of the (Non)human and Social-Ontological Movement

  • Studying the experience and affect of crisis — war, disaster, gender-based violence, state violence and poverty
  • Publishing a sourcebook on modern and contemporary Korean diaspora media and creative work; piloting graduate and undergraduate courses
  • Publishing volume 1 of the Posthumanities series, Prospects for the Posthumanities: Reflecting on Crisis, Seeking Connection
Phase 1 · Year 03

Year 3

Connecting Practice: Recovering Connection, Solidarity and Movements for Change

  • Reinterpreting the democratization, women’s and queer movements and building a politics and cultural studies of ‘connection’
  • Holding the ‘K-Humanities of Connection’ integrated symposium (archive, research, education)
  • Publishing volume 2 of the Posthumanities series, Connecting Experience and Sensibility
Phase 2 · Year 04–06

Phase 2 (Years 4–6)

  • Completing and putting to use the database of modern and contemporary Korean diaspora media and creative work
  • Running the ‘Connection and Turn’ research cluster and widening international networking for early-career scholars
  • Expanding posthumanities courses, both major and general education, and the wider educational programme
  • Publishing volumes 3–5 of the Posthumanities series and completing it