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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 180%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 180%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Revised Call for Papers] By Korea University - 6th Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 180%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕;">Overturning Assumptions and Creating New Approaches to Asian Studies</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Friday, May 25th, 2018</span></u></b></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Korea University Graduate Student (KUGS) Conference invites graduate students from around the world and conducting research in Asian studies to submit abstracts for our 2018 conference. The KUGS Conference is an annual conference which aims to provide a forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on Asian studies. This conference on Korea University’s Anam campus in Seoul is an opportunity for young scholars to present their research to both their peers and eminent scholars. The conference will also enable participants to meet others in their field conducting similar research, and to gain experience in presenting their work for discussion.</span></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The 2018 Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference special theme is “Overturning Assumptions and Creating New Approaches to Asian Studies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">”<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> and welcomes papers that focus on any historical time period. Scholars with bold and different approaches help to deepen our understanding of Asian studies and build on already constructed ideas through new interpretations. Our 2018 conference provides a space for young researchers studying Asian studies with innovative ideas to push our perspectives forward.</span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The 2017 conference was held in conjunction with the 2017 AAS-in-ASIA Conference, one day before the AAS conference began, and had sixty presenters with three sessions including East Asian History, Korean Literature, Language and Culture, Japanese and Chinese Studies. </span></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">1. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study ("postgraduate" in British degree classification systems)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2. Papers must be related to </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Asian studies, mainly Korean, Chinese, and Japanese studies.</span></u></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림;"><font face="굴림">4. Deadline for abstract submission: </font></span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sunday, January 28th, 2018</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.</span></u></b></p>
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<p align="left" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: 15.75pt; -ms-word-break: keep-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">by mid-February.</span></u></b></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Center for Korean History</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Korea University</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span></div>
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