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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please find the attached for the upcoming annual conference on Politics and International Relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Date: 7-8 January 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Venue: Hybrid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How to join: register
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">via </span>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://2022iksuannualconference.eventbrite.co.uk">https://2022iksuannualconference.eventbrite.co.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Any queries: email to
<a href="mailto:IKSUEnquiry@uclan.ac.uk">IKSUEnquiry@uclan.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sojin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Dr Sojin Lim
</span></b><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">임소진</span><b><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">| PhD in Development Policy and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">부교수</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">MA North Korean Studies & MA Asia Pacific Studies Courses Leader
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">석사과정</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">학과장</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU)
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">한국학연구소</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">공동</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">소장</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Associate Head of the Institute for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP)
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">아시아태평양연구소</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">부소장</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Co-Editor of the ‘Routledge Research on Korea’ Series
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">루틀리지</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">한국</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">연구</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">시리즈</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">공동</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">편집장</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">AB 145, Adelphi Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies<br>
University of Central Lancashire<br>
Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE, UK<br>
+44 (0)1772 893157 | </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:SLim4@uclan.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">SLim4@uclan.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#494A4C">ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1395-7672<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Recent Publications:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#767171"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">The
Evolution Story of South Korea from a Fragile State to an International Actor,</span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">”<span style="background:white"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">in
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea, Routledge (2021) <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">“Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea”, Routledge (co-edited) (2021)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-left:35.7pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;word-break:normal">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">“Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison,” BRILL (co-edited) (2021)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">The
Paradox of Unsustainability in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The North Korean Case in the Context of Accountability and the Fragile States under Sanctions,”</span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white"> </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white">Journal
of Peace and Unification </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">(2021)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">Local
Government and Network Governance in the Era of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Gyeongsangbukdo Province and Daegu Metropolitan City in South Korea,”</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white"> México
y la Cuenca del Pacífic (co-authored) </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">(2021)<i><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white">“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">North
Korea Food Shortage: Kim Jong-un’s COVID-19 Policy Could Lead to Mass Starvation,”</span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white"> </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white">The
Conversation </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">(2021)<span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white">“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171;background:white">North Korea: The Rise and
Rise of ‘First Sister’ Kim <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Yo-jong</span>,” The Conversation
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">(2021)<i><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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in the Korean Peninsula,</span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">” </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171">in Handbook of Asian States, LIT Verlag Berlin (2021)<i><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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