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align=center><SPAN class=dropcap><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS FOR <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">KOREAN
HISTORIES</I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Thanks to a generous grant from the
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Korean Studies</st1:PlaceName> to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Leiden</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, the new on-line peer-reviewed
journal<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Korean Histories</I> will be
launched on October 1, 2009. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean
Histories</I> focuses on historiography as a social process in Korea and is
devoted to research that heavily relies on other sources than the conventional
written historical sources and highlights the role these unconventional sources
play in the formation of the views of history of groups, communities and both
non-professional and professional historians. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">History is alive on the Korean peninsula.
Contentious historical issues mobilize crowds, infuse political debates and
rally netizens in fierce internet discussions. In popular media representations
of history are a recurrent feature. In a society with a tradition of tracing
legitimacy in historical precedent, social players always have felt a need to
engage history for the sake of their cause. From professional historians to
journalists, from novelists to activists, from politicians to religious leaders,
from students to artists, all are (re-)producers of historiographies of
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Methodologically sound and empirically solid
histories produced by professional historians based on "authoritative" sources
coexist in such a landscape with more informal, intuitive, often fluid and
highly contextual understandings of history, creating alternative Korean
histories.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Korean Histories</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> will publish articles that engage these fields
of historiographical production, where different players interact and influence
each other, creating a web of variations and diversions from
"standard/authoritative" national history. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN class=dropcap><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">T</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">he editors of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean Histories</I> invite submissions
based on original research responding to the theme of historiography as social
practice in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the broadest sense possible,
regardless of period, subject or angle. We welcome interdisciplinary or
comparative submissions, and particularly submissions that rely on
unconventional sources (such as music, art, religious concepts, movies, the
internet, blogs, advertisements or literary texts), which –copyright laws
permitting- may be published alongside the article in digital format.
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Boudewijn Walraven, editor in
chief<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Kwon Hee-Young, editor in
chief<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Koen De Ceuster, managing
editor<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Remco Breuker, managing
editor<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Please send your inquiries on how to contribute
to <A
href="mailto:k.de.ceuster@hum.leidenuniv.nl">k.de.ceuster@hum.leidenuniv.nl</A>
or <A
href="mailto:r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl">r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl</A>
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