<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear all,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following the call for proposals sent out in August, I am writing with an update on the Strange Korean Parallels conference. Below you can see a brief description, followed by the list of selected participants and their topics.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We would also like to inform that there is still budgetry potential to include a few extra participants.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In particular, it came to our attention that not a few colleagues were intrigued by the call and aims of the conference, but felt they might not be historian enough to be considered. If this was you, then we encourage you to think again! It goes without saying that the development of arts and socio-cultural phenomenon - areas on which many Koreanists are working - all have the potential to be framed in historical terms. For example, although a purely comparative literature topic may not be suitable, comparisons of the socio-historical context of given literary works or movements certainly would be. Comparative linguistics, no, but parallels in language history - yes! </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>So, if upon viewing the list below, you realize you have the motivation to participate, we are opening <b>a final deadline for 500-600 word abstracts until 4 November.</b></div><div><br></div><div>For further details and instructions please see attached the Strange Korean Parallels final call pdf. For questions, email: <a href="mailto:andrew.logie@helsinki.fi">andrew.logie@helsinki.fi</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Andrew Logie</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;" id="docs-internal-guid-9578ec6b-7fff-d9e4-9551-f76453632eb5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Northeast Asia with other global regions</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"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;" id="docs-internal-guid-30f56095-7fff-2a3a-38e3-50e5066ba792"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-ad949d1d-7fff-6332-5b89-1ce0197b02bd" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></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"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -42.5px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -42.5px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><b>Participants and Topics</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -42.5px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Remco Breuker (Leiden University) </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: -42.5px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">“Structural Similarities Between the DPRK State and the Koryŏ State”</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ilsoo Cho (Harvard University) “Succeeding the Universal: Eurasian Parallels in Pre-modern Claims for Political Legitimacy”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">George Kallander (Syracuse University) “The Royal and Elite Hunt: Korea and Eurasia”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">John S. Lee (University of Manchester) “State Formation in the Age of Wood: Chosŏn State Forestry and its Implications for Rethinking Early Modern Eurasia”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Andrew Logie (University of Helsinki) “Puyŏ </span><span style="font-family: HiraMinProN-W3; font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">夫餘</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> to Punam </span><span style="font-family: HiraMinProN-W3; font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">扶南</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">: parallels in historiography of early northern East Asia and mainland Southeast Asia”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Youngchan Oh (Ehwa Womans University / SOAS) “Civilized or Colonialized?: Sinicization in Lelang Commandery and Romanization in Roman-Britian”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sungju Park-Kang (University of Turku) “Strange Neighbours under the North Star: Finland and Korea”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 11.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Anastasia Artemova (Higher School of Economic, Moscow) “Game of churches: switching “religion” as a part of dynastic change: Orthodox Christianity in USSR and Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sonja Gantzckow (Goethe University) “Comparing the (In-)Comparable: Divergent Development of post-War South Korean and German Transnational Adoption”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daria E. Grishina (Academy of Korean Studies) “A comparative study of Peter the Great’s reforms of Muscovite Russia (1699-1725) and Kabo reforms of Late Joseon (1894―1895)”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Jing Hu (Leiden University) “The Social Challenge for Pre-Modern Professionals: A Comparative Study Between the Chungin Group and British Professional Middle Class”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Katri Kauhanen (University of Turku) “Korean encounters with Cold War feminism”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Shyam Kumar Anand (Academy of Korean Studies) “Role of Missionaries in Bringing Social Reforms in India and Korea: A Comparative Study”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camilla Magamedova (Sungkyunkwan University) “Toegye and Yulgok & Heidegger and Arendt: “Sincere reality” </span><span style="font-family: HiraMinProN-W3; font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">誠實</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> and historical “disclosedness” (Erschlossenheit)”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Yeganeh Panahi Joo (Yonsei University) “Historical parallels in Iranian and Korean architecture” </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Erin Jones Sauers (Korea University) “Diverse New Women Agents vs. the Patriarchal Machine: Fragmented Localized Discourses yet Parallel Societal Responses in the United States and Korea”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 42.5px; text-indent: -42.5px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Patrick Vierthaler (Kyoto University) “Contemporary History, Historical Revisionism and the Narration of a Painful Past State Violence, Ideological Divisions and Historical Legitimacy: Parallels in South Korea, Japan and Austria”</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div><div></div></div></body></html>