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CFP: Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture

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Posted by: European University Cyprus
Deadline: Mon, January 18th, 2027

Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture
Online symposium, European University Cyprus · Friday 19 March 2027
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 18 January 2027
https://byungchulhanstudies.org/call-for-papers/

Byung-Chul Han’s books, more than twenty translated into English since 2015, offer a cosmopolitan account of a digital age in which power seduces rather than represses, and in which contemplation and idleness become essential for love and community. His accounts of burnout, transparency, psychopolitics, the “infocracy,” the disappearance of ritual and of things, and the crisis of narration have travelled far beyond philosophy, yet English-language critical theory has rarely applied them. This symposium puts Han’s concepts to work as diagnostic tools on specific cultural objects, texts and practices.

We welcome papers across the humanities and social sciences, including literary, cultural, media and communication studies, film and television, games, theology, visual culture, art history and design. Topics include:

burnout and the achievement-subject psychopolitics, platforms and datafication storyselling: influencers and autofiction digital practices that sustain ritual or community the crisis of narration in fiction, journalism or online culture the shitstorm and the swarm non-things: smartphones, e-books, Instapoems the aesthetics of the smooth generative AI as technology of control love and eros in the achievement society ritual, play, boredom and the vita contemplativa shanzhai, copying and translation Han as a writer

Keynote: Professor Steven Knepper, co-author of Byung-Chul Han (Polity, 2024).

Papers are normally 15 minutes (length and format are flexible) and in English. A journal special issue or edited collection is planned. Scholars at any career stage are welcome; attendance is free.

 

Send an abstract of 250–300 words (including title) and a bio-note of up to 100 words to j.mackay@euc.ac.cy by Monday 18 January 2027.

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