<div dir="ltr">Aloha everyone,<br><br>My name is Kimery Lynch, I'm one of the graduate teaching assistants for the Asian Studies department at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa. We are excited to announce that we will be holding the 32nd annual School of Pacific & Asian Studies (SPAS) Graduate Student Conference online in a webinar format this year, and wanted to invite Korean studies graduate students from all fields to present at the conference. We have attached the poster and official call for abstracts to this email with the full details.<div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_kh2bk98m2" alt="2021 SPAS Conference Poster.png" width="542" height="361"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p>The title for this year's conference is "Innovation, Adaptation, and Resilience: Overcoming Challenges Across Asia". Our theme welcomes submissions from any discipline that tackles novel approaches to both new and old challenges in Asia. The attached call for abstracts has more details. <br><br>The conference will be held online from <b>April 14th-15th, 2021</b>. The due date for abstracts is <b>January 31st, 2021</b>.<br><br>Additionally, we have 3 confirmed keynote speakers from diverse fields who may be of interest:<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.aynnekokas.com/#bio" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">Dr. Aynne Kokas</a></span>- University of Virginia - US and China data security + tech</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://jeremyspoon.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Jeremy Spoon</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span>- Portland State University - reconstruction in post-earthquake Nepal + indiginous land rights</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/experts/mireya-solis/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Mireya Solís</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span>- The Brookings Institution - US-Japan relations </p></li></ul>Please feel free to share with any graduate students/departments who might be interested in presenting their research. We also encourage all interested participants to follow the social media accounts listed on the CFA for any updates, such as future zoom registration links.<br><br>Mahalo,</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1">Kimery Lynch (<a href="mailto:kimery@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">kimery@hawaii.edu</a>) & Hannah Cole (<a href="mailto:hcole7@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">hcole7@hawaii.edu</a>)</font><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1">Co-organizers</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1">Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference 2021</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1">School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS)</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="1">University of Hawai'i at Mānoa</font></div></div></div></div></div>