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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Call for Papers: 2014 </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">UCLA Im Conference of Korean Christianity</span></b><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The UCLA Center for Korean Christianity is pleased to announce that the 2014 Im Conference of Korean Christianity will be held at <span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">10383 Bunche Hall </span>on Friday <b>October 24, 2014</b> .</span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conference aims to give professors and scholars in all Korea-related and world-Christianity fields an opportunity to present their researches on Korean Christianity, especially on the topics related to “<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Colonialism, Modernity, and Christianity, 1910-1945</span>.”</span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The papers dealing with the following issues during the colonial period are to be welcomed—Protestantism and colonial modernity, Roman Catholicism and modernity, Christian internationalism, Christian resistance and nationalism, Pro-Japanese collaborators, colonialism and Christian education, and the colonial medical hegemony and Christian medical work. </span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conference is open to doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors. It is also open to all applicants, but preference will be given to those who are in the US. </span><BR><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Applicants should submit a short CV, abstract (within 400 words), and the full paper (8,000-10,000 words) by e-mail to professor Sung-Deuk Oak (oak</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">@humnet.ucla.edu</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; display: none;">e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">). The application deadline is <b>August 31, 2014</b>. The result of the application will be notified by September 5. </span><BR><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airfare (round trip), accommodations (a single room, 2 nights), and local transportation fee (shuttles from home to airport and LAX to UCLA) will be funded to all accepted participants. </span><BR><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">All presenters will have a 40-minute talk and 15 minute-discussion session at the conference. All participants need to submit their revised full paper by <b>September 30, 2014</b>.</span><BR><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><br></span></span><BR><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">For further information, see the program webpage <span style="font-size: 12pt;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><span color="#0000ff"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" color="#0000ff">http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">) </span>and contact Jenny Yoo, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies (yoo@international</span>.ucla.edu).</span><BR><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sung-Deuk Oak</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Chair</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Associate Professor of Korean Christianity</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">234A Royce Hall</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">UCLA</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div> </div></body>
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