<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp71843d1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>Dear Koreanists,</span></p><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>I am a historian based in Kyoto, Japan, who works on contemporary South Korea. My research mostly deals with the role of collective memory in South Korea's socio-political polarization, and increasingly with the intellectual and political landscape of the late 1990s and early 2000s.</span></p><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>For the upcoming AKSE, I am trying to figure out a panel, and I'd very much welcome to collaborate with researchers I have not yet met yet. The panel I envision is either on "</span><b><strong class="ydpe5d63db1x1s688f">Political Polarization and Memory</strong></b><span>" or "</span><b><strong class="ydpe5d63db1x1s688f">Right-Wing Discourse</strong></b><span>" (very broadly). (please see below)</span></p><div class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>Should anybody be interested, please send me an abstract (300 words) and biographical details to</span></div><div class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><b>vierthaler.patrick.7a@kyoto-u.ac.jp</b> by 31 August the latest. <i>If possible, send me an email of a rough planned topic as soon as possible, so that I can plan accordingly which direction the panel would take.</i></span></div><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>My own topic is not final at the moment, I am considering one of the following: (a) the origins of the New Right, 1998-2003; (b) the collaborator issue and Donga Ilbo; (c) a discoursive analysis of historical fact-finding discussions during the Kim Dae-jung and early Roh Moo-hyun administrations.</span></p><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>Topic (a) is connected to topics such as discourses over neoliberalism in 1990s South Korea, NK human rights movements origins, the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, or a diversification of media around 1998.</span></p><p class="ydpe5d63db1xdj266r ydpe5d63db1x14z9mp ydpe5d63db1xat24cr ydpe5d63db1x1lziwak ydpe5d63db1x16tdsg8"><span>I look forward to hear from you!</span></p></div></div><div class="ydp71843d1csignature"><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">--------
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Kyoto University</font></div><div><font size="2" color="#808080">
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