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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700">CALL FOR PAPERS
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700">The “Miracle” Narrative of the Korean Cultural Industries: Perspectives from the Middle East
International Conference May 8-9, 2013<br>
The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">In the Middle East, as in other parts of the world, the Korean cultural industries have proved extremely efficient in
introducing new images of Korea to new audiences. Known as the ‘Korean Wave’, TV dramas, Korean pop music,
and Korean cinema has been successful not only commercially, but has also left viewers with an image of Korea as a
home of a vibrant culture and artistic innovation. This impression has stimulated interest in Korea and its culture,
resulting in a rise in tourism and in the establishment of new Korean studies programs in institutions of higher
education. Korea has never been so popular and familiar in the Middle East as it is today.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">The purpose of this conference is to examine the way Korean popular culture is being appropriated and received in
the Middle East, and to examine the social and academic developments it inspires. The conference presentations will
attempt to develop an integrative framework to analyze the dynamic relations between cultural industry, cultural
consumption, and academic studies through a focus on the experience of the Korean Wave in the Middle East.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">In a broader sense, looking at the Middle East allows us to examine how Korean culture is being received outside
the geographically and culturally-proximate markets of Asia and outside the major economic markets of North
America and Europe.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">The conference will focus on four major issues: (a) Harbingers, industries, agents, and fans involved in bringing the
"Korean Wave" to the Middle East (b) Acceptance and integration of the Korean Wave within the local and other
imported (American) popular cultures (c) Relations between Korean cultural presence and Korean academic studies
(d) Perspectives, images, and stereotypes of Korea in the Middle East.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Proposals (both individual and panel proposals), including name, institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and
an abstract of 400 words (with relevant keywords listed), should be sent </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700">by December 10</span><span style="font-size:6.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700;vertical-align:5.000000pt">th</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700">, 2012 </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">to
</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT';color:rgb(6.670000%,33.330000%,80.000000%);background-color:rgb(100.000000%,100.000000%,100.000000%)"><a href="mailto:KoreanWaveMiddleEast@gmail.com">KoreanWaveMiddleEast@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">. Successful applicants would be asked to send the complete paper of 5,000
words by April 10</span><span style="font-size:6.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT';vertical-align:5.000000pt">th</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">, 2013. </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT';color:rgb(13.330000%,13.330000%,13.330000%)">The organizers will make an effort to secure funding for accommodations to presenters
from abroad.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS';font-weight:700">Sponsor</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">: The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and The Louis Frieberg Center for
East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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                                        <p><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">For inquiries please contact: Dr. Nissim Otmazgin (</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT';color:rgb(0.000000%,0.000000%,100.000000%)"><a href="mailto:nissim.otmazgin@mail.huji.ac.il">nissim.otmazgin@mail.huji.ac.il</a></span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">) or Mrs. Irina Lyan
(</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT';color:rgb(0.000000%,0.000000%,100.000000%)"><a href="mailto:irina.lyan@mail.huji.ac.il">irina.lyan@mail.huji.ac.il</a></span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">). </span></p>


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