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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Please see below for information about the seventh session of the 2024-2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research Training
Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, Germany.</span></p>
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mso-themeshade:191;letter-spacing:-.3pt">Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning
the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45811"></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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CEST) via ZOOM. </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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University of Edinburgh) will share his thoughts on visions of future warfare in East Asia between 1900 and 1937.</span></p>
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Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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