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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted1"> </span>Mastering of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin East Asia (1598-1650)<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">Date and location:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="ContentPasted1"> 4-5 September 2023,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain<b><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">Organizers:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">Dr.<b class="ContentPasted1"></b>Joshua Batts and Dr. Barend Noordam, Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 project, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">Submission Deadline: 10 April 2023<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">The “Mastering of Materialities”<i class="ContentPasted1">
</i>conference will examine knowledge production, technological development, and resource management in post-Imjin East Asia, which we define as the period between the Imjin War of 1592-1598 and the Manchu conquest of the Ming empire, roughly 1598-1650. The
conference organizers invite scholars in all relevant fields and at all stages of their careers to submit proposals that explore how technological priorities and resource management evolved in East Asia during this period.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted1">
</span>During the Imjin War, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese societies mobilized extraordinary amounts of human, mineral, and natural resources, deploying them in innovative ways within the crucible of conflict. But how did priorities shift when resources and
technological experimentation no longer needed to be funnelled toward campaigning?
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">We encourage applicants who work in seventeenth century East Asian history on topics such as mining, silver, timber, weapons, ceramics, medical ingredients or on other
forms of material resources, as well as those working on the East Asian history of bonded labor and the movement of human capital. We also welcome applications from scholars working on the history of Iberian Asia who can shed light on the role of Portuguese
and Spanish interlocutors in the circulation of materials, objects, expertise, and bodies. In particular, we solicit proposals which do not define East Asia through an Iberian lens, but use Iberian sources as a point of reference and comparison for developments
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted1">In addition to presenting a paper, successful applicants will also be invited to participate in one of several roundtables with other participants during the conference.
These roundtables will be organized around a particular material, technology, or theme to be decided when the list of participants is confirmed. In contrast to the paper presentations, participation in these roundtables does not require any special preparation
beforehand by the participants but will be an additional opportunity for dialogue and discussion.
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black" class="ContentPasted1" lang="EN-US">All interested candidates are requested to send a 200-500 word abstract to Barend Noordam (Barend.Noordam@uab.cat) by
<b class="ContentPasted1">10 April 2023</b>.<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted1" lang="EN-US">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 class="apple-style-span"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></span></p>
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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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