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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">International Conference on "Korea in Global History", Heidelberg, May 19-21, 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">From May 19-21, Prof. Harald Fuess, Chair of History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, has organized the international conference “<b>Korea in Global History: The Long Nineteenth Century and the Foreign
Powers</b>”. The conference will take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre in Heidelberg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The long nineteenth century has received renewed scholarly attention as a key transformative period in global history for its accelerated engagement between Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Within this grander world
narrative the role of Korea still appears to be undervalued, if it is considered at all. The aim of this conference is to bridge the gap between scholars of East Asian history and Korea specialists in an attempt to address how to conceptualize the history
of Korea within current historical frameworks. The conference revisits one of the central problems of modern Korean history with an emphasis on the global context, namely why Korea lost its national independence in the age of imperialism. This question has
been asked before by several generations of Korea historians but we would like to pose it again considering the insights of global history and by including historians whose primary research expertise lies in other world regions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">More information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=1625"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=1625</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Sincerely</span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Harald Fuess<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Professor for Cultural Economic History<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><img border="0" width="233" height="73" style="width:2.425in;height:.7583in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2CC9F.008E0720" alt="3Z_Excl_logo_cmyk"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Speaker for the Graduate Programs in Transcultural Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"<br>
Karl Jaspers Centre<br>
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">69115 Heidelberg<br>
Germany<br>
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 40 80<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Administrative Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Ms. Nora Bartels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><a href="mailto:nora.bartels@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de"><span style="color:#0563C1">nora.bartels@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 43 57<br>
Fax: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 44 90<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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