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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CALL for VENUE Proposals for the AKSE Conference in 2027</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The AKSE Council hereby issues a call for proposals for the AKSE Conference to be held in 2027. If you and your Korean Studies institution at a European university are interested
in hosting the 2027 AKSE conference, please forward your expression of interest to the President of AKSE by May 16, 2025. You will then be provided with further guidelines for preparing your full proposal. Full proposals are due by June 1, 2025. Proposals
will be considered by the AKSE Council prior to the AKSE General Meeting at the Edinburgh Conference beginning June 19, 2025, and the most viable proposal will be announced to the membership for approval at the General Meeting. The strongest proposals will
include extensive, if not complete, financial, and logistical details.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please send your expression of interest to both of following addresses:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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<a href="mailto:president@koreanstudies.eu"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">president@koreanstudies.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please reach out to the AKSE President for any questions regarding the Call.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">AKSE Council</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">May 06, 2025</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">President of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IKOS (Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Oslo University, Norway</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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