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</span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)" lang="EN-US">Games of Change? Sport Diplomacy and the
Korean Peninsula<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)" lang="EN-US">A One-Day Symposium | Wednesday, 17 July,
2019<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)" lang="EN-US">12:00 – 17:00 | S113, Senate House,
SOAS, University of London<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Convenors</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">: Prof David Rowe, CISD
Research Associate and Dr J Simon Rofe, Reader in Diplomatic and International
Studies.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">External Participants</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">: Jung Woo (Jay) Lee Programme Director: MSc Sport Policy,
Management and International Development, The University of Edinburgh<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The 2018 PyeongChang
Winter Olympics has been widely interpreted as a classic instance of effective
sport diplomacy.<span>  </span>In the context of an
increasingly fractious relationship between North Korea and the U.S., and amid
intensified fears of a nuclear conflict, sport has been credited as the ‘ice
breaker’ that brought the two Koreas into new dialogue and paved the way for
the North Korea-U.S. summits in Singapore (June, 2018) and Hanoi (February, 2019).<span>  </span>It follows that PyeongChang 2018 paved the
way for the North Korea-Russia summit in Vladivostok (April, 2019).<span>  </span>Without sport as a crucial common cultural
form bringing together athletic and political opponents, it can be proposed
that these developments would never have transpired within such a condensed
timeframe. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Korean case has provided
renewed focus on the relationship between sport and diplomacy at a time when
scholarly thinking has coalesced around the contested investigation of ‘sport diplomacy’
(Murray 2018; Rofe 2016, 2018). <span> </span>This is
not a minor case of academic pedantry.<span> 
</span>The relationship between sport and diplomacy is complex and sometimes
contradictory, and the use of a singular concept like sport diplomacy may
conceal as much as it reveals about the uses and abuses of sport in the sphere
of diplomacy.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">This symposium will
critically explore the deployment of sport diplomacy discourse concerning the
2018 Winter Olympics.<span>  </span>As an arena of
intense geopolitics between many parties (including Japan and China) within and
beyond the Korean peninsula, analysing this mega sport event will illuminate
key issues regarding the cultural dynamics of sport and politics; the
consequences for inter-regional relations of using sport as a vehicle for
dialogue, and the contested legacies of sport diplomacy initiatives.<span>  </span>It is intended both to generate debate within
policy circles and the wider public sphere, and to advance academic knowledge
through a special issue of a relevant journal.<span> 
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<p style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">How to submit</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Abstracts for papers should be no more than 250 words, each
accompanied by a short (100-word) bio. They should be submitted to Simon Rofe (</span><a href="mailto:sr56@soas.ac.uk" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">sr56@soas.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">) and Fadil Elobeid
(</span><a href="mailto:fe5@soas.ac.uk" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">fe5@soas.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">). <span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Deadline for proposals: 24 June 2019 | Decisions
on proposals will be communicated by 30^th June.<span></span></span></p>





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