[KS] Heidelberg Korean History Conference

[Fuess, Harald]

International Conference on "Korea in Global History", Heidelberg, May 19-21, 2017
>From May 19-21, Prof. Harald Fuess, Chair of History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, has organized the international conference "Korea in Global History: The Long Nineteenth Century and the Foreign Powers". The conference will take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre in Heidelberg.
The long nineteenth century has received renewed scholarly attention as a key transformative period in global history for its accelerated engagement between Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Within this grander world narrative the role of Korea still appears to be undervalued, if it is considered at all. The aim of this conference is to bridge the gap between scholars of East Asian history and Korea specialists in an attempt to address how to conceptualize the history of Korea within current historical frameworks. The conference revisits one of the central problems of modern Korean history with an emphasis on the global context, namely why Korea lost its national independence in the age of imperialism. This question has been asked before by several generations of Korea historians but we would like to pose it again considering the insights of global history and by including historians whose primary research expertise lies in other world regions.

More information:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=1625

Sincerely,
Harald Fuess
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Professor for Cultural Economic History
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Speaker for the Graduate Programs in Transcultural Studies
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 40 80

Administrative Contact:
Ms. Nora Bartels
nora.bartels at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:nora.bartels at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de>
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 43 57
Fax:   +49 (0) 6221 - 54 44 90
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