<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000">Dear KS list members, please note the following online event. Please register using the Google form and a ZOOM link will be sent to you one day prior to the seminar. Hope to see you there. <br><br>All the best, <br>Sandy.</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">_____________</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2024</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Seminar 5<br><br></span></b><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i style="">'</i><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><i>Witnesses to peace: Australian recollections of Korea and Koreans</i></b><i>.</i><i style="">'</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:start">Prof. David Hundt (Deakin University)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""> </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">Room 321, Learning & Teaching Building (LTB), Clayton VIC 3168 & Zoom</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">20th September, 2pm AEST</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Abstract: </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Most accounts of Australia’s involvement in the Korean War (1950–53) have emphasised the gallantry and military acumen of its forces in particular battles such as Kapyeong, but little attention has been paid to how Australian veterans have thought about their service’s contributions to the social, political, and economic development of South Korea and to the development of Australia’s relations with an increasingly important regional partner in recent decades. There has also been little consideration of the inter-personal connections that veterans have maintained with Koreans and Korea. The collective memories of Australians who have served in Korea both during and after the war amount to a unique set of insights into the transformation of South Korea from a newly liberated but war-torn and impoverished society in the early 1950s, to a prosperous democracy in the 2020s. In this talk I discuss some preliminary findings from an ongoing oral history project that focuses on Australians who served in the war, as well as those service personnel who have represented Australia in peacekeeping and diplomatic capacities since the signing of the Armistice in 1953. Most veterans, the project shows, emphasise how Korea changed their lives profoundly, but also how their service has influenced the future trajectory of Korea and the Korean people.</span><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>Bio: <br><br></b></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">David Hundt is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Deakin University, Melbourne. He specialises in the political economy of the Indo–Pacific region, especially in respect to Korea and Australia. He is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of </span><i style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Asian Studies Review,</i><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"> and he has been Vice President of the ASAA since late 2023.</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB">Register <a href="https://forms.gle/NRUGPzELncbZS9iYA" target="_blank">here</a> for a ZOOM link.<br><br></span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB">Please contact Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub Coordinator<br>Ms Sandy Nguyen for further details.</span><a href="mailto:Sandy.nguyen1@monash.edu" target="_blank">Sandy.Nguyen1@monash.edu</a> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:12.65pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:12.65pt">__________________</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sandy Nguyen</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i>MUKSRH Coordinator</i><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/monashunikorean.edu/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Facebook: MonashUniKorean</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/MonashUniKorean" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter: @MonashUniKorean </span></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;verti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