[KS] Fwd: NKIDP Event Announcement: "Woodrow Wilson and Syngman Rhee, " December 6

[Yoo Kwang-On]

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Date: Nov 29, 2012 12:32 PM
Subject: NKIDP Event Announcement: "Woodrow Wilson and Syngman Rhee,"
December 6
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 Woodrow Wilson and Syngman Rhee****

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Co-sponsored by the Syngman Rhee Institute at Yonsei University, “*Woodrow
Wilson and Syngman Rhee*" seeks to assess the Wilsonian legacy in Korea and
marks the beginning of a partnership between the Wilson Center and the
Syngman Rhee Institute which will result in the digitization and
dissemination of the presidential papers of former South Korean president
Syngman Rhee.****

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The event is being held to commemorate the signing of a memorandum of
understanding between the Wilson Center and the Syngman Rhee Institute. As
part of the new partnership between the two institutions, the Syngman Rhee
Institute will be providing the Wilson Center with copies of Rhee’s
personal and presidential papers. The papers will be made available to
researchers on the History and Public Policy Program’s new Digital Archive,
which is scheduled to go online in January 2013.****

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*Ezez Manela*, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of *The
Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial Nationalism*, will open the panel by discussing Woodrow
Wilson's legacy in Korea as well as the personal relationship between
Wilson and Syngman Rhee. *Lew Seok-Choon*, director of the Syngman Rhee
Institute at Yonsei University, will provide an introduction to Rhee’s
personal papers. *James Person*, Senior Program Associate in the History
and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center, will speak on how the
Wilson Center Plans to disseminate these sources to the general public. ****

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The event will take place on December 6, 2012, from 2:00-3:30 PM in the
Wilson Center’s 6th floor boardroom.****

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*6 December 2012, 2:00 p.m – 3:00 p.m.*

*6th Floor Boardroom*

*Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars*

*RSVP: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/woodrow-wilson-and-syngman-rhee ***

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