<div dir="ltr">Dear List Members, <div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">we (researchers in Korean Studies from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark) are organizing the first <b>Nordic Korean Studies Days</b>, which will take place in Copenhagen from <b>March 11-15</b>. While seminars are only open to registered students, the following talks are open to the public. The grand finale will be <b>Prof. Seungsook Moon's</b> talk on Friday titled "</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Globalization and Local Agency in the Deployment of the THAAD System in South Korea”</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> .</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Everybody is welcome! </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">(By the way, spring is just around the corner in Copenhagen. ^^)</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Nordic Korean Studies Days 2019</font></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Public Talks</font></b></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Monday (March 11)</font></b></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12:30-13:30 “<span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Current Day Pseudo Historiography of Early Korea and Counter Critiques” by Andrew Logie (Assistant Professor, University of Helsinki)</span></font></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">16:30-17:30 “Political Leadership on the Korean Peninsula: Consolidation of Democracy in South Korea” by Gabriel Jonsson (Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tuesday (March 12)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></b></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12:30-13:30 “Folklore and Folklore Studies in North Korea” by Sonja Häussler (Professor, Stockholm University)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">16:30-17:30 “North Korea: A Country under (Socialist?) Construction” by Sabine Burghart (University Lecturer, University of Turku)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday (March 13)</font></b></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12:30-13:30 “The Individual and the Community in Korea” by Antti Leppänen (Researcher, University of Turku)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thursday (March 14)</font></b></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12:30-13:30 “A New Approach to Transmedia Storytelling: The Story Universe of <i>The Journey to the West</i> as Case Study” by Barbara Wall (Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">16:30-17:30 “Communist Movement in Colonial Korea as a Cultural Phenomenon” by Vladimir Tikhonov (Professor, University of Oslo)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Friday (March 15)</font></b></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">9:00-10:00 “The (Too Hot to Be) Cold War in Korea by Sungju Park-Kang (Adjunct Professor, University of Turku)</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">14:00-15:30 “Globalization and Local Agency in the Deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) System in South Korea” by Seungsook Moon (Professor, Currently Resident Director of Vassar College, London)</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please don't hesitate to contact Barbara Wall (<a href="mailto:barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk">barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk</a>) for any questions.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kind regards,</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Barbara Wall</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Barbara Wall </b><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Assistant Professor Korean Studies</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">University of Copenhagen</font></div></span><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#666666">Karen Blixens Plads 8<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#666666">DK-2300 Copenhagen S<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#666666">DENMARK</font></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-size:10pt">Phone: </span><a href="tel:+45%2035%2032%2089%2006" value="+4535328906" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+45 93 56 56 16</a></div><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(89,89,89)">Mail: <a href="mailto:barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk" target="_blank">barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(89,89,89)"><a href="http://www.tors.ku.dk/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.tors.ku.dk</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>