<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">Instead of Prof. You Jae Lee at Tuebingen University, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">I am sending this to you.  </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">Warm Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">Jong Chol An</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">J-Professor </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Abt. Sinologie und Koreanistik, AOI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Eberhard Karls Universität</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wilhelmstr. 133</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">72074 Tuebingen, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(78,74,37)">Vereinigung für Koreaforschung </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">(A</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ssociation for Korean Studies</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> in German-Speaking Countries)</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Call for Papers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The 5^th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Tübingen</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The 5^th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies will be hosted by the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies of the University of Tübingen and will take place from November 14th to 15^th, 2014.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Association for Korean Studies is an organization for specialists in Korean Studies primarily in the German-speaking area. The Purpose of the Association is t<a name="1458ea523655db6c__GoBack" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a>o deepen the intercommunication between specialists in Korean Studies and scholars who are interested in Korea. It also aims at the promotion of young academic professionals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">That is the reason why not only specialists in the field of Korean studies, but also scholars of neighboring disciplines (such as Chinese or Japanese studies) and methodological disciplines (political science, sociology, ethnology, historical science etc.) are welcome, as long as their research holds a Korea-reference.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Papers can be submitted in reference to every field of the Korea-research: history, politics, society, economy, culture, literature, religion, arts, and language et al.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Not only single presentation, but also panels with up to five papers are highly welcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of discussion are scheduled for every panel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The registration requires an abstract (maximum 1000 words) with personal data and information about institutional belonging that should be send to </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Deadline for the registration is the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10^th </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">May 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The members of the Association of Korean Studies are being welcome to join the Conference on the 15^th November 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Costs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The participation at the Conference is free of charge. A registration, however, is strongly requested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For the panelists and speakers a hotel overnight stay with breakfast will be provided.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Due to the limited budget, the refunding of transportation costs is principally not intended. In case of hardships, an informal request should be send to </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">for consideration.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Contact:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">J-Professor You Jae Lee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Abt. Sinologie und Koreanistik, AOI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Eberhard Karls Universität</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wilhelmstr. 133</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">72074 Tübingen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Email: </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:Koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tel.: 07071-29-72711<br>Fax.: 07071-29-5734</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">
<span lang="DE"><a href="http://www.korea.uni-tuebingen.de/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">www.korea.uni-tuebingen.de</span></a></span></p></div>