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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please see both attached and below a call for papers for:<br>
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<div><b>Strange Korean Parallels: an international conference </b><b>for</b></div>
<div><b>comparative approaches to the history and archaeology of</b></div>
<div><b>Korea </b><b>and Northeast Asia with other global regions</b></div>
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<div>10 – 11 January 2019</div>
<div>University of Helsinki, Finland</div>
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<div>Feel free to further distribute the call to colleagues and institutes that may not be immediately reached through this list, in particular to Korean institutes.</div>
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<div>For further inquiries and submissions, please contact: <a href="mailto:andrew.logie@helsinki.fi">andrew.logie@helsinki.fi</a></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">sincerely,</span></div></div><div id="m_2406884613993039602x_x_Signature" style=""><div id="m_2406884613993039602x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
<div style=""><font color="#757b80">Ystävällisin terveisin<br></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt">Andrew Logie </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt">드림</span></div>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(117,123,128)">Assistant professor in Korean Studies<br></span><span style="color:rgb(117,123,128);font-size:12pt">Korean-tutkimuksen apulaisprofessori<br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">韓國</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">·</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">朝鮮學 助敎授<br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">한국</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">·조선학 조교수<br></span><span style="color:rgb(117,123,128);font-size:12pt">University of Helsinki</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(117,123,128);font-size:12pt">Unioninkatu 38, B120, PO Box 59<br></span><span style="color:rgb(117,123,128);font-size:12pt">Helsinki 00170, Finland</span></p>
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<b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-18454d3e-7fff-1c92-a045-f8d057a8e76e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strange Korean Parallels: an international conference</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">for comparative approaches to the history and archaeology of Korea</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and Northeast Asia with other global regions</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10 – 11 January 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A call for bold papers</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Background</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As fellow Koreanists, when taking an interest in - or otherwise confronted with - any non-Korea related topic, we likely share the same uncontrollable impulse to raise Korea as analogy or contrasting case. Reading histories of other nations or topical areas, we often either encounter a comforting familiarity due to the power of analogy, or find ourselves in minor shock that history contains alternative contingencies. Such reactions can extend beyond narrative content to methodologies and historiography, where we start to wonder or imagine what the Korean equivalent of a given study or methodology might yield.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This conference is open to a range of approaches, but to begin we pose the question: What if Lieberman had included Korea within his seminal two volume study, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strange Parallels </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2003, 2009)? What was Korea's charter polity? Does the peninsula fall within ‘protected’ or ‘exposed’ zones?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The late 2000s also saw the Stanford Ancient Chinese and Mediterranean Empires Comparative History Project, culminating in two edited volumes. These principally dealt with topics of the metropoles and interiors, but what of frontier zones? Namely, how did the experience of Liaodong and northern Korea under  nominal Chinese commandery rule compare to the near concomitant period of Romano-Britain? </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More immediately, Korea and Vietnam have been treated as </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">longe durée</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> comparative subjects by a consortium of universities, with key articles – some again referencing Lieberman – recently published in IIAS’s (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden) </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Newsletter</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (No.79 Spring 2018). Korean historiography, meanwhile, has been afforded comparative potential through incisive chapters included in four of the five volumes of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Oxford History of Historical Writing</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2011).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past decade, the number of high quality monographs on various periods and subjects of Korean history has greatly increased. Aside from reading them, what more can be done with a stimulating book or data set? Comparisons can provide a next stage, wherein the insights obtained from Korean historical contexts are utilized to inform wider discussions of global history, while the arguments based on deep, Korea specific research might be calibrated, refined or challenged in light of new analogies. Broader arguments for comparison as a tool in area studies are found in a recent article by Michael Herzfeld, juxtaposing more contemporary historical circumstances of Thailand and Greece (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Journal of Asian Studies</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Vol.76, No.4. 2017).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call and conference details</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We thus invite historians and archaeologists of all periods of Korea to experiment with possible comparisons and contrasts they have perhaps often thought of but rarely felt license to explore further. Strange Korean Parallels is open to proposals pertaining to all areas of Korea’s past that contain a comparative approach with other global regions or localities. Broad areas include, but are not limited to: pre- and early history, micro and macro histories, social history, intellectual history, environmental history, historiography, popular and pseudo history, and finally digital humanities methodologies.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We further invite comparative historians and specialists of other regions with an interest in treating Korea and pursuing collaborative research. The conference is open to doctoral students and above. Both individual and panel proposals are welcome.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The primary aims of this first conference are to establish the foundations for comparative approaches to Korean history, to demonstrate the potential of such research, and to develop a shared research identity among scholars. In particular this conference seeks to bridge East–West divides, and welcomes scholars from Korea and all other countries and continents, to ensure a diverse representation from the outset of this project.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rather than panels of single speakers, the structure of the conference will be based around panels of working group discussions. For this to be productive, selected participants are asked to commit to submitting a working paper, and will be encouraged to begin dialogue with fellow panelists in advance.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">During the conference we will also discuss publication strategies and we welcome early expressions of interest from journals or publishers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Financially, we aim to provide selected participants with 3 nights accommodation in Helsinki including breakfast (9-12 January), 2 lunches and 2 dinners across the conference days. Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send abstracts (500-600 words) as Word files to: </span><a href="mailto:andrew.logie@helsinki.fi" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">andrew.logie@helsinki.fi</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with the subject “SKP abstract [SURNAME Name]”.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts should include your name, position and affiliation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You should receive confirmation of receipt within five working days.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The working language of the conference is English. Bilingual Korean and English language abstracts will also be accepted.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further updates, look for the </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strange Korean Parallels</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> page (#StrangeKoreanParallels) on Facebook.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important dates:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2018.9.30</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for paper proposals (500-600 words).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2018.10.10</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance/rejection.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2018.10.20</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for confirmation of participation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2018.12.20</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission of working drafts papers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2019.1.10</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Day 1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:32.75pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2019.1.11</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Day 2</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strange Korean Parallels is organized and funded by Andrew Logie, assistant professor in Korean Studies at University of Helsinki, with additional funding from the Academy of Korean Studies 2018 Korean Studies Grant.</span></p></b><br></div>