<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_-6601786569160849826gmail-:j3" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-m_-6601786569160849826gmail-:j2" 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_-6601786569160849826gmail-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"><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_-6601786569160849826gmail-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 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. </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">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) among interested scholars and graduate students.</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">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-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></div><div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-6601786569160849826gmail-:jb" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-size:0.875rem"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Evgenia An<br></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School for Social Sciences (GRASOC)<br></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main<br></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Research focus:<i> Transnational social protection; sociology of migration</i></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>