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 The Environmental Aftermath of the Imjin War</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CE4532" lang="EN-US">
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<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">John S. Lee</span></b><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-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </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>
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 Professor in East Asian History</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">, Durham University</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">) </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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>
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<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">September 15, 2021, 4:00 PM
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The lecture will be recorded, but not the question time.</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:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> 
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<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
</span><a href="mailto:barend.noordam@uab.cat" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">barend.noordam@uab.cat</span></a><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">.</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:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The webinar schedule for 2021-2022 will be available shortly</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;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">This is the first session of the webinar series 2021-2022
 of the ERC project team, "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598". In this session Dr. John S. Lee</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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">,
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 will share his thoughts on the environmental impact of the Imjin War and its aftermath.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<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="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;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>
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<div><span>Barend Noordam<br>
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<div>Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
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<div>Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis d'Àsia Oriental<br>
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<div>Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona<br>
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<div><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/member/dr-barend-noordam/">https://aftermath.uab.cat/member/dr-barend-noordam/</a>.<br>
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<div>Member of ERC Horizon 2020 project "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598" (758347).<br>
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<div><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/">https://aftermath.uab.cat/</a>.  <br>
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<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>
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