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<font color="#212121">Please announce the following call for papers to the list members.</font></p>
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<font color="#212121">Sung Deuk Oak</font></p>
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<span style="color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
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padding:0in">The UCLA Center for Korean Studies is pleased to announce that the 2019 Im Conference of Korean Christianity will be held at 10383 Bunche Hall on <strong>April 26 – 27,
2019</strong>.</span></p>
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padding:0in">The conference aims to give scholars in all Korea-related and world-Christianity fields an opportunity to present their researches on Korean Christianity, especially
on the topics related to (1) Christianity in North(ern) Korea (2) Colonialism and Christianity, 1910-1945, and (3) Christianity, Nation Building, and US-Korea Relations, 1945-1965.</span></p>
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">The papers dealing with the following issues and related issues are to be considered by the selecting committee—(1) Critical issues of Christianity in northern Korea,
1890-1945; Christianity in North Korea, 1945-1988 or 1988-2018; North Korean refugees and Christianity, 1995-2018 (2) Protestantism and colonial modernity; Roman Catholicism and colonial modernity; Christian nationalism and Pro-Japanese collaboration; colonialism
and Christian education; and the colonial medical hegemony and Christian medical work. (3) Conflict between Christianity and Communism, 1945-1955; Christianity and the American Military Rule, 1945-1948; the Korean War and Christianity, 1950-1953; Christian
Ideas of the Nation, 1945-1955; Christians and the Syngman Rhee Government, 1948-1960, or Global Connections of Korean Christianity, 1945-64.</span></p>
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padding:0in">The paper should be one that has not been published in an academic journal or a book yet. The conference is open to doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors.
It is also open to all applicants in the world, but preference will be given to those who are in the US and Canada.</span></p>
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">Applicants should submit a short CV and proposal/abstract (within 400 words) by
<b>December 31, 2018</b>, and the full paper (7,000-10,000 words) by <b>February</b><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
</span>15, 2019</strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,</span>
</strong>to professor Sung-Deuk Oak. The result of the application will be notified by February 22.</span></p>
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">Airfare (round trip), accommodations (a single room, 2 nights), and local transportation fees (shuttles from home to airport and LAX to UCLA) will be funded to all accepted
participants.</span></p>
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padding:0in">All presenters will have a 40-minute talk and 15 minute-discussion session at the conference.</span></p>
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">For further information, see the program webpage (http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu) and contact Dr. Hyung-Wook Kim, assistant director of the UCLA Center for
Korean Studies (<span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline"><span style="background:white"><a href="mailto:hyung-wook.kim@international.ucla.edu">hyung-wook.kim@international.ucla.edu</a></span></span>).</span></p>
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
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