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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It's time for the late winter pre-AAS edition of our
newsletter. I know you've been planning to send me amazing items for this
edition of the newsletter. </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the member news, I would like your publications since
the last edition of the newsletter (August). Please send a bibliographic entry
for your journal articles and book chapters, and if you have published a book I
welcome an image of your cover, and even a book blurb. </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reports on conferences in Korean Studies are an important
component of our newsletter because as our field grows it is hard for all of us
to keep up with what's going on. We ignore calls we wouldn't submit to, but
that doesn't mean we aren't curious about what people are saying on those topics,
some of which may be of dear interest to our students. Please tell us about
conferences you attended or organized. A report could be anywhere from 250
words on up, formatted as a simple overview or a panel by panel/paper by paper
highlight. Think of this as a chance to thank the cool people who presented,
the grad students who ran around doing things, the sources of conference
funding and so on. </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send announcements for future events at your
university, calls for participation in conferences or seminars or special
issues of journals/edited volumes, and so on.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">And I'm always looking for special features of 200 to 1000
words. For example: </p>

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</span></span>the state of Korean Studies in your country </p>

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</span></span>the recent developments related to a discipline
or topic within the Korean context</p>

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</span></span>the activities you've been carrying out related
to Korea at your university,  </p>

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</span></span>an exhibit or performance (even if it has
concluded) on a Korean related topic</p>

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</span></span>and  I
welcome additional features on other topics of general interest to people in
Korean Studies</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Your deadline is relatively soon—<b>February </b><b>22^nd.</b> For examples of
what the newsletter looks like, please follow this link to the past two
newsletters: <a href="http://www.koreanstudies.org/newsletters/" style="color:blue">http://www.koreanstudies.org/newsletters/</a></p>

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submissions to <a href="mailto:c.saeji@gmail.com">c.saeji@gmail.com</a>. Thank you so much,</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CedarBough T Saeji</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please feel free to forward this call to other Koreanists
that you know, and urge them to add themselves to our mailing list by emailing
their institutional affiliation and full name to <a href="mailto:cks.aas.11@gmail.com">cks.aas.11@gmail.com</a>. Submitting to the newsletter does <u>not</u> require current AAS membership, it only requires your self-identification as a scholar of Korea. </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CedarBough T. Saeji</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  ∞  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">   서이지 ● 瑞利智</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://ubc.academia.edu/CedarBoughSaeji" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Profile on Academia.edu</a></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Visiting Assistant Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University- Bloomington</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Skype: c.saeji</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Twitter: @TheKpopProf</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"Preserving intangible culture as static performances in the hope of sustaining cultural diversity may do very little to foster the processes of change and regeneration that are needed to ensure cultural vitality and heterogeneity" (Pietrobruno 2009: 240).</span></p></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>