<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:864px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:j3" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:j2" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:start;font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td id="gmail-m_-621147045204768742gmail-m_-3424668207632684851gmail-m_-8460931064853024819gmail-m_-107838356137805736gmail-m_-7902627487514458932m_3781213828852304004templateHeader" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/5?ui=2&ik=e64e196fda&attid=0.1.0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1688792679739690062&th=176fcbfe9f2a0c4e&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9KLqIc8HQC-8HEyf1uXHmwkk7jCThyt-5IgC0Xn7U807YY6sj0y-619LSFGFeoCCtxXR9z-ZqwD4HhgW_Xhj6liqTkOuOAMW-MsKy63oj7Z8qPHYz23I70b6E&disp=emb&realattid=ii_kjvoj3pf5" alt="KRN Workshop logo.png" width="472" height="157" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><font size="4">Koryo-Saram Research Network </font></h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><font size="4">Call for abstracts: 1st Biennial Workshop of Koryo-saram Scholars</font></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="gmail-m_-621147045204768742gmail-m_-3424668207632684851gmail-m_-8460931064853024819gmail-m_-107838356137805736gmail-m_-7902627487514458932m_3781213828852304004templateBody" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Topic of the workshop: “De-constructing Korean Identity in (Post)-Soviet spaces”</b> </div><h3 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:start;font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:25px"><br><font size="4" style="font-weight:normal"></font></h3><font size="4"></font><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><div style="text-align:left">Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">We are excited to announce the 1st Biennial Workshop of Koryo-saram Research Network which will take place in March 2021. Due to the current situation with the COVID-related restrictions in Frankfurt, our team has decided to make our first event in the online format. The topic of our workshop is:    </div></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><b>“De-constructing Korean Identity in (Post)-Soviet spaces”  </b></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:16px">First and foremost, we want to establish a good tradition - organizing regular events to support emerging as well as established scholars in doing research about Koryo-Saram. Thereby we hope to build a strong research community, where we can rely on each other. </span><br><br><span style="font-size:16px">Also, one of the main goals of the first KRN Workshop is publishing the accepted papers in a special issue or an edited volume.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:16px">Please feel free to circulate the call (in attachment) with any graduate students/departments that might be interested in presenting their research.</span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:16px">Deadline for abstract submissions: 15th of February.</span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:16px">Yours faithfully,</span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:16px">Koryo-Saram Research Network Team </span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://koreusaram.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/evgenia-an-frankfurt-germany/" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Evgenia An, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt</a></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:start;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><a href="https://koreusaram.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/kim-pacher/" target="_blank">Svetlana Kim-Pacher, Institute of Slavonic Languages, University of Vienna</a><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://koreusaram.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/adamz/" target="_blank">Zachary Adamz, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas in Austin</a></span></p></span></font></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></center></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hq gmail-gt gmail-a10" id="gmail-:jb" style="margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-size:0.875rem"><div class="gmail-hp" style="width:864px;border-top:1px dotted rgb(216,216,216)"></div><div class="gmail-a3I" style="width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">Attachments area</div></div></div></div></div>