{"id":27464,"date":"2025-09-23T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=27464"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:50:56","slug":"elementor-27464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2025\/09\/23\/elementor-27464\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP\u2013Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 52 No. 2 \u201cTransitional Justice? Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CFP\u2013Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 52 No. 2 \u201cTransitional Justice? Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames\u201d<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies<\/strong><\/p>

Vol. 52 No. 2 | September 2026<\/strong><\/p>

Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>

Transitional Justice?<\/strong><\/p>

Representing Legacies of Violence in Asian and Transpacific Frames<\/strong><\/p>

Guest Editors<\/strong><\/p>

Soo Yeon Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)<\/strong><\/p>

Guy Beauregard (National Taiwan University)<\/strong><\/p>

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2025<\/strong><\/p>

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Both an academic field and a political practice, transitional justice refers to a complex process through which a wronged society or group attempts to move beyond traumatic events, such as mass human rights violations, and restore peace and legitimacy for rebuilding civil society. While a victimized group must somehow come to terms with legacies of violence, reaching a consensus on the manner and extent of punishment and redress often remains challenging. Difficulties arise because, as many scholars of the field have noted, the multiple goals of transitional justice\u2014such as seeking truths about violations, punishing perpetrators, and working toward social reconciliation\u2014frequently collide with each other. In addition to heated debates about goals, scholars have also argued about which methods and mechanisms can effectively (re)establish a more just civil order. In different situations, a combination of mechanisms\u2014formal trials (if politically feasible), official apologies, reparations, truth commissions, amnesties, and lustration policies\u2014have been adopted and tailored to a society\u2019s or group\u2019s specific local \/ national \/ international contexts.<\/p>

Facing the inherent challenges of transitional justice, this special issue seeks to focus on representations of legacies of violence which, be they artistic or part of popular culture, are shaped by the constraints of each genre or medium. By inviting submissions engaged with diverse histories and texts concerning the unsettled and unfinished process of transitional justice in Asian and transpacific frames, the issue aims to explore questions such as how to present the unrepresentable, the ways that histories can be remembered or reimagined, and the ways that artistic or popular texts engaged with transitional justice have been and\/or might be received. Above all, this issue seeks to engage with transitional justice\u2014presented with a question mark\u2014as a dilemma, as a problem, as something to reconsider. Contributions addressing any aspects of this overarching theme are welcomed. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<\/p>

(1)\u00a0 Art and literature as a platform for envisioning transitional justice
(2)\u00a0 Han Kang and literature\u2019s role in transitional justice
(3)\u00a0 Popular transitional justice films
(4)\u00a0 The nuclear Pacific and ongoing attempts to seek redress
(5)\u00a0 Expanded concepts of transitional justice in the #MeToo Movement
(6)\u00a0 Documentaries about Asian colonial subjects in World War II\u00a0
(7)\u00a0 Changing media representations of pain and memory
(8)\u00a0 Narrating transitional justice in transpacific frames<\/p>

Please send complete papers of 6,000-10,000 words, 5\u20138 keywords, and a brief biography to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw by December 31, 2025. Manuscripts should follow the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers<\/em>. Except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman. Please consult our style guide at http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw.<\/p>

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies<\/strong><\/em>, indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric<\/em> is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric<\/em> welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. In each issue of Concentric<\/em> we publish groups of essays on a special topic as well as papers on more general issues. http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw\/<\/a>.<\/p>

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us at:<\/strong> concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw<\/a>.

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