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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 eighth 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\u201d at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, Germany.</span></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
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NL">May 15, 2025, 4:00 PM (</span></b><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:
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CEST) via ZOOM. </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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</span><a href="mailto:barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><a name="_Hlk75508898"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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this session</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;
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background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, Travis Shutz (Assistant Professor,
California State University) will share his thoughts on the <i>Wokou </i>`Japanese pirates\u2019 in East Asian history and memory:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white">Haunting national
histories and popular memories around East Asia, the so-called \u201cJapanese pirates\u201d (Chinese: W\u014dkòu, Japanese: Wak\u014d, Korean: Waegu) of the early modern period have complex legacies. This webinar explores how multiethnic, transnational seagoers came to be identified
as infamous Japanese seaborne brigands. First, it presents the historical waves of their activity, the Early Wak\u014d of the late 13th century to the early 15th century and the Later Wak\u014d who operated in the 16th and 17th centuries. Second, the discussion examines
how these groups were understood in their own times and later used for both criticizing and supporting Japanese imperial activities in the long 20th century.</span></i></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><u><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">BACKGROUND</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East\u201d<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">, please go to our website </span> </span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://ambivalentenmity.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">https://ambivalentenmity.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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