[Commlist] CFP: BTS - A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project

Media & Communications & Music at Kingston University

Present

*BTS (**방탄소년단**)***

*A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project*

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Kingston University, Penryn Road, London, 4-5 January 2020



Keynote Speaker: Professor LEE Jiyoung

Sejong University

Author of /BTS, Art Revolution/

Korean boy group BTS are the first ever Korean act to perform at Wembley 
Stadium as part of their /Love Yourself: Speak Yourself/ world tour. 
Debuting in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment, BTS initially struggled to 
gain recognition in Korea as they didn’t come from one of the big three 
Korean entertainment companies. However, the last few years have seen 
BTS become the most internationally successful Korean act of all time, 
amassing not only domestic awards but prestigious US awards including 
The Best Duo/Group at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. Their recent 
sold-out concerts at Wembley clearly delineate BTS as a dominant force 
in global music and within popular culture.This inclusive inter- and 
multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine the success and 
popularity of BTS from a variety of academic, practice, and fan-based 
perspectives.


This ethos of this conference is to bring together academics, fans and 
practitioners in a supportive and inclusive space to talk, debate and to 
share ideas about BTS. This is a hierarchy-free space in which 
everyone’s views are valued equally. Issues may relate to music, visual 
art, performance art, culture, fashion and so on. We hope this is a 
truly interdisciplinary event. It is anticipated that there will be a 
fan and/or student strand in addition to an exhibition of fan work with 
a prize for the best entry.


Submissions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not 
limited to:


Translation and Glocalization including fan translation practices

World-building and the BTS’ Universe

Tradition and Modernity in BTS’s art

Fan fiction, fan art and fan practices

Fandom, girl’s culture and cultural value

Hallyu, Web 2.0 and online fandom

Diversity and inclusivity

Participatory culture and fandom

Fandom wars and internal conflict between old and new fans

Blackness and BTS

Desire and agency

UNICEF and the #LoveYourself and #SpeakYourself campaigns

‘Soft’ Masculinity and emotionality

Intersectional practices and identities: gender, sexuality, race, age, 
dis/ability, interculturality

Frameworks of interpretations: personal, psychological, cultural 
materialist, philosophical, feminist etc.

Personal narratives of belonging

Mental Health awareness

BTS, Hip-Hop and Hybridity

Music Videos: Aesthetics and Attributes

Multimedia musical performance

KPOP and BTS (is BTS KPOP?)

Marketing, Branding, Tourism

We welcome proposals for traditional 20-minute presentations together 
with poster presentations, creative projects, exhibits, roundtables, and 
workshops on any aspect of BTS. If this is your first time at an 
academic conference, please be assured that you will be on a panelthat 
is appropriate with an experienced chair. If you wish to submit 
fan-based work for consideration for the prize, details will be supplied 
on request.

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*Submission Guidelines*

  * *Proposal for an academic paper presentation or poster
    presentation*: title, abstract (up to 250 words) plus short
    biography (150 words)
  * *Proposal for a panel *(up to 4 presenters): title, description of
    panel (400 words), abstract of each individual paper (maximum of 4)
    and short biography of each panelist (150 words)
  * *Proposal for a workshop, discussion or roundtable*: title,
    description of panel (400 words), and short biography of each
    participant (150 words)
  * *Proposal for a creative panel*: title, description of panel (400
    words), and short biography of each participant (150 words)


The conference committee welcomes your participation and questions.


*Conference Committee:*

Dr. Colette Balmain (chair), Kingston University

Dr. Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University

Dr. Lori Morimoto, Independent Scholar

Eugene Kim, Kingston University

Mehneer Dhillon, Kingston University

Please send submissions as word attachments to an email to:

Colette Balmain, (c.balmain /at/ kingston.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(c.balmain /at/ kingston.ac.uk)> with *BTS Conference 2020* as the title.

*Deadline*: 16^th August 2019

*Notification of decision*: 31^st August 2019

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*Publication*

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Selected peer reviewed papers from the conference will go forward to an 
edited book entitled: /BTS: Intersectional Practice, Globalization and 
Performance Art/, edited by Drs. Colette Balmain, Helen Julia Minors and 
Lori Morimoto.


Please indicate in your conference proposal submission whether you would 
like your abstract also as part of the book proposal.


Papers will be between 6,000 – 8,000 words inclusive of references. 
Please use Chicago style guides. Endnotes, and not footnotes, are 
requested. 150 word biographies are required. Chapters are allowed no 
more than one black and white illustration and authors are responsible 
for confirming copyright permissions are gained prior to the chapter 
deadline. The inclusion of web links in the text is encouraged. The 
publication will use UK English.

*Deadline:*20^th March 2020

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