
<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">

<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>

</head>

<body dir="ltr">

<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Dear colleagues, </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">  </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Please see below for information about the s</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">eventh</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">

 session of the 2020-2021 webinar series of the "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598" team at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:125%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center;background:white" align="center">

<b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#C45911;letter-spacing:-.3pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">"</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C45911;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:191;letter-spacing:-.3pt" lang="EN-US">

</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C45911;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:191;letter-spacing:-.3pt">Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Castilian in Manila, 1593-1598</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#C45911;letter-spacing:-.3pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">" </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center;background:white" align="center">

<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Jonathan Lopez-Vera </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center;background:white" align="center">

<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">(Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">

<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">

<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES" lang="ES">April 21, 2021, 3:00 PM

</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES" lang="ES">(Barcelona, CET) via ZOOM. 

</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">

<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The talk will be recorded, but not the question time.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact

<a href="mailto:barend.noordam@uab.cat" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">barend.noordam@uab.cat</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">If you already registered for previous seminars, there is no need to register again. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:16.5pt;background:white">

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">This is the sixth session of the webinar series 2020-2021

 of the ERC project team, "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598". In this session,

</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:DengXian;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Jonathan

 Lopez-Vera, Associate Professor</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> of the Universitat

 Pompeu Fabra, will share his thoughts on the connections between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Castilian in Manila during the Imjin War.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black" lang="EN-GB">  </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p>

<br>

</o:p></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:16.5pt;background:white">

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p><br>

</o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">BACKGROUND  </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">The �Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598� project is a five year, European Research Council Starting Grant project (2018-2023)

 run by ICREA professor Rebekah Clements at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The project seeks to understand the legacy of the East Asian War of 1592-1598, also known as the Imjin War and Toyotomi Hideyoshi�s invasions of Korea. Aftermath will be the first

 large scale investigation to combine Japanese, Korean, and Chinese sources in order to understand, not the war itself, but something which is arguably even more important: the aftermath and its implications for early modern East Asia. Our research focuses

 on three themes; Social change / Environment and economy / Diffusion of Technology. <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">For more information about the �Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598� project,

 please go to our website </span> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">.</span> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm"> </span>   </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">

<span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white">

<span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union�s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

 programme (grant agreement No 758347)  </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<br>

</div>

<div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

<br>

</div>

<div id="Signature">

<div><span>Barend Noordam<br>

</span>

<div>Postdoctoral Researcher<br>

</div>

<div>Departament de Traducci� i d'Interpretaci� i d'Estudis d'�sia Oriental<br>

</div>

<div>Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona<br>

</div>

<div><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/member/dr-barend-noordam/">https://aftermath.uab.cat/member/dr-barend-noordam/</a>.<br>

</div>

<div><br>

</div>

<div>Member of ERC Horizon 2020 project "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598" (758347).<br>

</div>

<div><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/">https://aftermath.uab.cat/</a>.  <br>

</div>

<span>This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union�s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 758347).</span><br>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>