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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Please join us via Zoom for an international symposium titled "Cultures of Crossing: Transpacific and Inter-Asian Diaspora" on December 3-4, 2021. Register to attend at<span style="margin:0px"> </span><a href="http://culturesofcrossing.wixsite.com/conference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="culturesofcrossing.wixsite.com/conference" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">culturesofcrossing.wixsite.com/conference</a>,
where you can also find more information about the event, including a detailed program.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">"Cultures of Crossing" represents the fourth meeting of the “Zainichi” Research Consortium, a loosely affiliated international groups of scholars working at the interstices of Japanese
and Korean studies, primarily through engagement with the literary and cultural production of ethnic Koreans in Japan. Our previous work has intervened in discourses on empire, race, and diaspora by developing theoretical insights from a context that decenters
the West. Now, we seek to broaden our horizons beyond the Japan-Korea binary to explore similar themes across Asia and the transpacific. Presentations explore questions of the local and the global, feminism and intersectionality, representation and power,
and transnational pathways of solidarity. Participants attempt to forge new analytical frameworks through which to study the complexity of culture within overlapping imperial spheres in the Asia-Pacific region and across the globe. In the process, we engage
self-reflexively with the challenges of scholarship that crosses national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.<br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">All the best,</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Cindi Textor
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<i>she/her/hers</i></div>
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