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<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Tahoma"><font><span>Dear
Colleague,</span></font></font></font></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Tahoma"><font><span>It is my pleasure to announce
that the Central European University (CEU) organizes the conference
‘<strong>Polarization in Divided Societies: Korea in a
global context</strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">’
in the framework of the Global E-School Project. The event will take place in
Budapest on
<strong>September 2-4, 2013</strong>.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#000000">Please find the announcement on call for papers attached to this
e-mail. The deadline for submitting abstracts is <strong>April 30</strong>,
2013.</font></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#000000">Please, feel free to forward this call to organizations or
individuals who can be interested in the
conference.</font></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#000000">Best regards,</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma">
<div>Eszter Fugedi</div>
<div>Program Coordinator</div>
<div>Department of International Relations and European Studies</div>
<div>Central European University</div>
<div>Budapest 1051</div>
<div>Nador u. 9.</div>
<div>06-1-3273000/2451</div></font></span>
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</span></b><p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style>Call for Papers</b></p>
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<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal;text-align:center" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Polarization
in Divided Societies: Korea in a global
context</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal;text-align:center" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-family:'Times New Roman'">Central</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-family:'Times New Roman'">
European University, Budapest, Hungary,
2<sup>nd</sup>-4<sup>th</sup> September 2013</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Asia Research
Initiative, the Department of International Relations and European Studies, and
the Department of Public Policy at Central European University (Budapest,
Hungary) are pleased to announce the conference ‘Political, Social and Economic
Polarization in Divided Societies: Korea in a global context.’ The event is
hosted by Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and will take place on <b style>2-4 September
2013</b>.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Calls for economic
democratization dominated both presidential and general electoral campaigns in
South
Korea in 2012. Income inequalities, low
employment rates among women, uncertain job prospects for the youth, raise
questions over the role of the large industrial conglomerates in Korean society,
its impact on social and economic relations and more generally their role in the
country's politics. At the same time, the country appears divided along
ideological, regional, and generational lines. </span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The organisers
especially welcome papers addressing one or more of the following
issues:</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">sources of polarization
in the Korean economy and society;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">politics and
business;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Korea</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> and the global
financial crisis;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">revisiting the state-led
development model;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">emerging cleavages in
Korean society;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">crisis of the welfare
system and new democracies;</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.1in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Courier New'"><span style>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">protest, resistance and
activism.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:12pt 0in;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The conference aims to
discuss such themes within a comparative and interdisciplinary environment. The
organisers plan to publish selected papers as a special issue of a journal or as
an edited volume.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The event seeks to
increase the awareness of the importance of Korea and Korean Studies in Central
and Eastern Europe and beyond. The areas covered in the conference range from
the humanities to the social sciences. Pre-organised panel submissions are
strongly encouraged.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submission of
Proposals</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Proposals should be
submitted via e-mail to <a href="mailto:koreaconf@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">koreaconf@gmail.com</font></a> (as an
attachment in MS Word, RTF or PDF format). Please include:</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>1)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Name</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>2)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Institutional
affiliation</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>3)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Title/position</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>4)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">E-mail
address</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>5)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">A one-page
CV</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>6)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Title of Paper (maximum
20 words)</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style>7)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Abstract of Paper
(maximum 350 words)</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The working language of
the conference is English.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The deadline for
submitting abstracts is <b style>30<sup>th</sup>
April 2013</b>. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission
by 31<sup>st</sup> May.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Full details of the
program, registration and accommodation arrangements will be available by
30<sup>th</sup> June.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">For all enquiries
contact Dr. Youngmi Kim (Department of Public Policy/ International Relations
and European Studies, CEU) or Eszter Fugedi at <a href="mailto:koreaconf@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">koreaconf@gmail.com</font></a>.</span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:46.1pt;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The event is supported
by the Korea Foundation and is organised within the framework of the Global
E-school in Eurasia in 2012, a project aimed at developing a multi-university
and multi-platform online real-time curriculum in Korean Studies. Central
European University is the first European university to host a Global E-School,
which brings together – alongside CEU, ELTE in Budapest (Hungary), the
University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Paris Diderot, La Rochelle
(France), the University of Bologna (Italy), University of Turku, Aalto
University (Finland),<span style> </span>the Middle East
Technical University in Ankara (Turkey), the Tajik State University of Commerce
in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), the American University of Central Asia, International
University of Central Asia in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Eurasian National University
(Kazakhstan) and Petrozavodsk State University (Russia).</span></p></div>