From ICAS at ICASINC.ORG Sat Aug 1 20:01:49 2026 From: ICAS at ICASINC.ORG (ICAS) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 20:01:49 -0400 Subject: [KS] Andrew Michta to address virtual ICAS Summer Symposium Veritas 2026: The Korean Peninsula Issues and US National Security, August 13, 2026 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EDT, Washington DC In-Reply-To: <6b470973-3567-4e54-ab97-6952de609655@ICASINC.ORG> References: <6b470973-3567-4e54-ab97-6952de609655@ICASINC.ORG> Message-ID: */ICAS/*         Dear Colleague:                  This is an invitation to the subject occasion.                  Your schedule permitting, come join the force.                  Would you also be so kind as to share this opportunity with                  friends and colleagues in your sphere who may have interests                  in the given issues?                 Thank you, and very best.                 s ................................ Sang Joo Kim/ICAS/ */ICAS// Bulletin/* /Institute for Corean-American Studies, Inc./ /www.icasinc.org / July 12, 2026 image.png *Andrew A Michta* Professor Hamilton School University of Florida /*Virtual */*/Address/* /ICAS/Summer Symposium/Veritas/2026 *_Korean Peninsula Issues, Indo-Pacific Security Landscape and US National Security_**_ _***_*Challenges of NK Nuclear and Missile Capability*_ *_ _* *August 13 2026  7:00 PM –**  8:15 PM EDT Washington DC* *_On-line Registration_* Dear Friend: We are pleased to share with you that Andrew Michta will address the virtual /ICAS /Summer Symposium/Veritas /2026 with a particular emphasis on "Korean Peninsula Issues, Indo-Pacific Security Landscape and US National Security" on August 13, 2026, Washington DC. Andrew A Michta is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Hamilton School. Before joining Hamilton, he was a Senior Fellow with the GeoStrategy Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the former dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Andrew holds a PhD in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise are international security, NATO, and European politics and security, with a special focus on Central Europe and the Baltic states. Previously, Andrew was professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Europe Program, and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 1988 to 2015, he was the M W Buckman distinguished professor of international studies at Rhodes College. From 2013 to 2014, Andrew was a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, where he focused on defense programming. From 2011 to 2013, Andrew was a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the founding director of the organization’s Warsaw office. From 2009 to 2010, he was a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Andrew served as professor of national security studies and director of studies of the Senior Executive Seminar at the George C Marshall Center from 2005 to 2009. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center, and a research associate at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. His books include /The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe /(Rowman & Littlefield, 2006);/ The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism /(St Martin’s Press, 1997); /The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe /(Praeger Publishers, 1994);/ East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s/ (Greenwood Press, 1992); and /Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988 /(Hoover Press, 1990). Andrew also edited and contributed to /America’s New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO /(The University of Washington Press, 1999); and coedited, with Ilya Prizel, /Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence /(St Martin’s Press, 1995) and /Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform /(St Martin’s Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1992). Andrew's most recent book with Paal Hilde, /The Future of NATO: Regional Defense and Global Security/, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014. He is currently completing a book /Europe Reconfigured: US Europe Strategy for an Age of Great Power Conflict/, funded by a two-year grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation. The book will be published in 2026. Andrew is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.  Andrew is fluent in Polish and Russian and proficient in German and French. 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Methodologically, the position requires an empirical foundation and culturally sensitive analysis of source materials in the original languages (Chinese and Korean) regarding Sino-Korean exchange relations." Application deadline is Oct. 16, 2026. Please help spread the word so that qualified Koreanists may take note of the opportunity. With best regards Marion Eggert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandy.nguyen1 at monash.edu Tue Aug 4 07:08:27 2026 From: sandy.nguyen1 at monash.edu (Sandy Nguyen) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 21:08:27 +1000 Subject: [KS] Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026 Message-ID: Dear KS list members, I hope you are well. Please note the following virtual seminars organised by Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub. Registration details are also included below. Hope to see you there. Many thanks, Sandy. _____________ *Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:* *Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026* *''What Can Artificial Intelligence Tell Us About Korean Language and Culture?* Dr Benoit Berthelier (University of Sydney) via ZOOM Thursday 13th August 2026, 3-4pm (Melbourne time) Bio: Dr Benoit Berthelier is Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on North Korea, digital methods and the interaction between science, technology and politics. Abstract: Artificial intelligence, and large language models in particular, are increasingly used as question answering tools, raising concerns about the reliability of their outputs. Rather than take them as authoritative or try to discern their level of truth, this talk considers what these answers - either right or wrong - can reveal about a society and its culture. Because language models are probabilistic systems trained to identify and reproduce patterns in language, they are useful artefacts to study in order to trace changes in representation, language, and stereotypes across time and across different social and linguistic contexts. Drawing on research on North and South Korea, the talk shows how computational methods can reveal patterns that are difficult to identify or substantiate through qualitative analysis alone. It argues that AI is most useful not as an oracle, but as an analytical instrument, one whose errors and biases can themselves tell us something about Korean language and culture. The talk shows how AI can help us understand the different conceptions of art between North and South Korea, the different ways in which readers from North and South might read the same text, and the finer semantic differences between North and South Korean languages. Register here . __________________ *Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026Seminar* *'Feeding the People: Socialist Dining, Technoscience, and Gendered Labor in Postwar North Korea'* Dr Sunho Ko (Penn State University) via ZOOM Thursday, 17 September 2026, 10:00 AM AEST (Melbourne) / Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 8:00 PM EDT (Pennsylvania) Bio: Sunho Ko is a cultural historian of modern Korean history with expertise in food and agriculture. He received a PhD degree from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the history of food in wartime colonial Korea. He is currently expanding his research period from colonial Korea into North Korea to explore new topics of socialism, the Cold War, animal studies and environmental history. Abstract: In the aftermath of the Korean War, North Korea embraced the slogan, “Let’s turn our restaurants into collective kitchens of the people (inmin ŭi kongdong chubang)!” to address the challenges of feeding a war-torn population. This initiative expanded state-owned and cooperative dining facilities with its emphasis on the scientific management of the facilities to provide nutritious, affordable, and appealing meals. This presentation examines these facilities as sites where scientific visions for food management were materially enacted, with revealing tensions, negotiations, and conflicts that reflected broader political dynamics. Special attention is given to women, who played a central role in realizing these scientific ideals through labor constrained by limited resources and conservative gender expectations. How did women workers navigate these intersecting worlds of gender, scientific discourse, and local realities? By tracing themes of socialist dining, scientific management, and women’s labor, the presentation highlights how North Korean socialism was both enacted and contested in everyday experiences. Register here . Please contact Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub Coordinator Ms Sandy Nguyen for further details.Sandy.Nguyen1 at monash.edu __________________ Kind Regards, Sandy Nguyen *MUKSRH Coordinator* Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub Facebook: MonashUniKorean Twitter: @MonashUniKorean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From bmazurek at iu.edu Tue Aug 4 16:42:06 2026 From: bmazurek at iu.edu (Mazurek, Bethany) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:42:06 +0000 Subject: [KS] Seeking Applications: Indiana University Assistant Professor of Contemporary Korea (Social Science) Message-ID: Indiana University-Bloomington’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLS) seeks to hire a full-time tenure-track assistant professor of contemporary Korea in a social science field (Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, or Economics) to begin August 1, 2027. The position is 100% in HLS’s renowned multidisciplinary Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC). This endowed assistant professor position is generously funded by the Korea Foundation. The teaching load is two courses per semester, and teaching responsibilities encompass both undergraduate and graduate courses. We are interested in candidates who combine disciplinary rigor and area studies expertise to examine real-world challenges facing contemporary Korea and who are interested in contributing to and benefiting from the Institute for Korean Studies. We are interested in candidates whose research agenda focuses on domestic topics and utilizes Korean language sources. This is an exciting moment to join the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies as it leads the university’s international research and teaching missions. Established more than sixty years ago, the EALC department has a long history of interdisciplinarity and boasts faculty strengths in a wide array of social sciences. Review of applications will begin on October 16, 2026, and continue until the position is filled. All applications received by October 16, 2026, will be guaranteed full consideration. Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit the following documentation within their portfolio of materials: a 2-page letter of application describing research and teaching interests, a C.V., writing sample, and contact information for three references who will be requested to submit letters of recommendation. Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their materials via the PeopleAdmin applicant portal at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33722 Bethany Mazurek Assistant Director, Institute for Korean Studies Indiana University Bloomington 355 N Eagleson Ave 2050 Bloomington, IN 47405 bmazurek at iu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, Daeun Lee PhD Candidate, Comparative Asian Studies National University of Singapore ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS : "Walking as Object-Method: Extending the Mobilities Turn through Korea" We are a group of scholars working on walking and related topics in Korean contexts (e.g. cultural geography of the DMZ Peace Trail, geography of mountain hiking, mobile method in digital nomad research, YouTube walking video of Seoul, and the history of walking as political action). We are looking for 1-2 additional contributors to join us for either or both of the following: 1. AKSE 2027 Conference Panel Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Date: 24-27 June 2027 Venue: University of Bucharest, Romania 2. Special Issue in Mobilities Journal (Taylor & Francis) We have submitted a special issue proposal to the Mobilities journal and are currently in dialogue with the editorial team. Our group has previously presented together as a panel at two conferences (a Korean studies conference and a mobilities conference) under the theme of "Walking as Object-Method." We welcome contributions from scholars whose work engages with walking and/or mobility studies in Korean contexts. If you are interested in joining us for either or both, please send a short abstract and a brief bio to Daeun (daeun_lee at u.nus.edu) and Valerie (gelezeau at ehess.fr) by 4 September 2026. ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yhydocsport at gmail.com Thu Aug 6 21:04:56 2026 From: yhydocsport at gmail.com (YOUNGHAN CHO) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 10:04:56 +0900 Subject: [KS] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers/Panelists=3A_33rd_Biennial_AKSE_Con?= =?utf-8?q?ference_=28Bucharest=2C_June_24=E2=80=9327=2C_2027=29?= Message-ID: Dear Organizers, Could you circulate this CFP? Thank you! == Call for Papers/Panelists: 33rd Biennial AKSE Conference (Bucharest, June 24–27, 2027) We are seeking *two additional presenters* to complete a panel proposal for the 33rd Biennial Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, to be held at the University of Bucharest, Romania, from June 24–27, 2027. ( https://koreanstudies.eu/conferences/33rd-akse-conference-2027-bucharest/) *Panel Title: Love and Hate: Sports Celebrities, Transnational Fandom, and the Reconfiguration of Korea-Japan Relations * Organizers: Prof. Hwang, Seongbin (Rikkyo University, Japan) Prof. Cho, Younghan (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea) Sports have long served as a primary arena for articulating national identity, post-colonial tension, and historical memory between South Korea and Japan. Yet, the migration of athletes and media texts between the two nations has produced a far more nuanced landscape—one defined by a dialectic of "love and hate." This panel critically explores how sports celebrities, transnational fandom, and cross-border media framing reconfigure regional dynamics and national identity from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era. To capture the longevity and transformation of this phenomenon, the panel grounds its analysis in historical perspective. We trace the lineage of athletic identity negotiation back to foundational post-war figures like Rikidozan, Kim Il (Ooki Kintaro), and Antonio Inoki, whose performances in professional wrestling mediated complex post-colonial anxieties, Zainichi identity, and national pride across both borders. We connect these historical roots to contemporary developments across diverse sports. Case studies include the striking cross-border empathy within media framing—such as Japanese media's defense of South Korean football manager Hong Myung-bo following the 2026 World Cup—as well as the trajectory of players like Park Ji-sung who built foundational careers in Japan. Furthermore, the panel investigates the unprecedented South Korean fandom surrounding Japanese baseball icon Shohei Ohtani, alongside multi-layered figures like Choo Sung-hoon (Yoshihiro Akiyama) and Jong Tae-se, whose movement between combat sports and variety television highlights the shifting politics of identity, hybridity, and commercial stardom. By employing multidisciplinary approaches from media sociology, sports history, and cultural studies, this panel deconstructs how sports celebrities function as fluid cultural texts. Ultimately, we argue that while sports remain a lightning rod for nationalistic friction, they simultaneously provide an enduring infrastructure for cross-border intimacy, critical hybridity, and mutual cultural recognition. This panel focuses on the sports culture and media landscape of South Korea, specifically examining how athlete migration, media representation, and cross-border fandom navigate the tension between nationalist friction and cultural affinity in Korea-Japan relations. We welcome paper proposals spanning historical and contemporary perspectives, including: Historical Genealogies: Analyses of post-war sports figures (e.g., Rikidozan, Kim Il, Antonio Inoki) and their roles in mediating post-colonial memory, Zainichi identity, and early cross-border media consumption. Transnational Fandom & Affinity: Critical studies of contemporary Japanese sports celebrities who command massive popularity in South Korea (e.g., the Shohei Ohtani phenomenon) and friendship between Korean and Japanese (e.g., Sang-hwa Lee and Nao Kodaira in women’s speed skating), and how this fandom interacts with national sentiment. Bilateral Media Framing & Migration: How Japanese or South Korean media represent foreign athletic figures, including contemporary cases (e.g., Japanese media discourse surrounding manager Hong Myung-bo) or historical trajectories in football, baseball, and other sports (e.g., Park Ji-sung). Hybrid Identities & Commercial Stardom: Examinations of boundary-crossing figures (e.g., Choo Sung-hoon/Yoshihiro Akiyama) who operate across sports, reality television, and public culture in both nations. Per AKSE’s evaluation guidelines, panel proposals that feature institutional, geographical, gender, and career-stage diversity are given preference. We warmly invite submissions from PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and established scholars. Submission Instructions: Please send an abstract of up to 300 words, a paper title, 3 keywords, and a brief institutional biography to seongbin at rikkyo.ac.jp & choy at hufs.ac.kr by *August 28, 2026*. This will give the organizers time to select papers and compile the submission prior to the official AKSE portal deadline on September 15, 2026. -- Professor in Korean Studies(Ph.D in Communication Studies) Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea) Homepage: https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference examines how Korean experiences can generate new concepts, comparisons, and critiques for rethinking modernity, democracy, culture, and global knowledge production. It will also provide a platform for domestic and international researchers to build networks of academic exchange and collaboration. Date: August 21(Fri)-August 22(Sat), 2026. Venue: Seoul National University Asia Center (Building 101), 2nd Floor Contact: snucks2026 at gmail.com * No registration fee for this conference. * Sessions in Track 1 will be live-streamed on YouTube(with some exceptions). (https://www.youtube.com/@SNUCKS2026) * Simultaneous interpretation (Korean-English) is available on some sessions. [image: 2026 ICCKS.jpg] [image: 2026 ICCKS Program.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A Master’s degree in Korean language pedagogy or a related field is expected by the time of appointment. Candidates from groups underrepresented in Asian Studies are encouraged to apply. Details about the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures may be found at https://www.smith.edu/academics/east-asian-languages-cultures . For more information and to apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/190505 . Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2026. Smith College is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all state and federal laws that prohibit discrimination. Please inform any qualified candidates you may know of this opportunity. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Irhe Sohn Korean Lecturer Search Committee Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From p.vierthaler at yahoo.de Mon Aug 10 00:50:21 2026 From: p.vierthaler at yahoo.de (Patrick Vierthaler) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KS] Looking for AKSE 2027 Panel Members References: <1674486488.1264574.1786337421303.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1674486488.1264574.1786337421303@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Koreanists, 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. 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 "Political Polarization and Memory" or "Right-Wing Discourse" (very broadly). (please see below) Should anybody be interested, please send me an abstract (300 words) and biographical details tovierthaler.patrick.7a at kyoto-u.ac.jp by 31 August the latest. 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. 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. 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. I look forward to hear from you! --------Patrick VIERTHALER Assistant Professor (Contemporary History) Institute for Research in Humanities / Hakubi Project Kyoto University 606-8501 Kyoto JAPAN 京都大学　特定助教（現代史）人文科学研究所／白眉センター Tel.: +81 - 80 - 2294 - 6434 HP: pvierthaler.com -------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pinktokki at skku.edu Mon Aug 10 10:39:43 2026 From: pinktokki at skku.edu (=?utf-8?B?6rmA6rCV7J2A?=) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:39:43 +0900 Subject: [KS] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Panelists=3A_=E2=80=9CWe_Know_How_This_End?= =?utf-8?q?s=3A_Narrative_Pleasure_for_Knowing_Audiences=E2=80=9D_=28AKSE_20?= =?utf-8?q?27=29?= In-Reply-To: <3ffa2b34e410865b32fc21e7708a5c@real-web-kr1-7c95954c76-b8xj8> References: <14af8c15b4c2eab24a9e1c10cb5c7cb@real-web-kr1-7c95954c76-p98cb> <3ffa2b34e410865b32fc21e7708a5c@real-web-kr1-7c95954c76-b8xj8> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am seeking participants for a panel proposal for the 33rd Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE), to be held at the University of Bucharest, Romania, from 24 to 27 June 2027. Panel title: “We Know How This Ends: Narrative Pleasure for Knowing Audiences in Korean Literature and Media” Organizer: PhD. Kim, Kang-eun (Research Professor, Sungkyunkwan Univ.) This panel begins with a seemingly simple question: What do readers and audiences enjoy when they already know how a story ends? The proposed topic arises from several conspicuous tendencies in contemporary Korean narrative culture. Classical and traditional narratives, as well as other widely familiar stories, continue to be retold and transformed. In contemporary Korean literature—particularly web novels—regression, possession or transmigration, and reincarnation have emerged as prominent narrative devices. At the same time, adaptations, remakes, remediation, and other forms of transmedia storytelling frequently move stories across literature, webtoons, film, television, games, performance, and popular music. These phenomena repeatedly place readers and audiences in a position of prior knowledge: they may already know the ending, the source narrative, the historical event, the genre convention, or an earlier version of the story. Rather than treating such foreknowledge as an obstacle to suspense, this panel explores it as a condition that generates distinctive forms of narrative pleasure, including anticipation, recognition, comparison, reinterpretation, and critical reflection. When the outcome or narrative pattern is already known, readers and viewers may focus less on what will happen and more on how, why, and through which variations it happens. Repetition may consequently become a source of pleasure rather than redundancy, while deviations from a familiar narrative may acquire heightened significance. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: retellings and transformations of classical, traditional, or otherwise familiar narratives; regression, possession or transmigration, reincarnation, return, and recursive narratives in web novels and other forms of contemporary literature; adaptation, remake, remediation, and transmedia storytelling; historical fiction, films based on true events, and the consumption of cultural memory; genre conventions and knowledgeable reader or fan communities; spoilers, anticipation, rereading, and rewatching; meta-narrative, intertextuality, allusion, and recognition; differences between knowing and unknowing audiences across cultural or linguistic contexts. The panel welcomes research on premodern, modern, or contemporary Korean literature and culture. Relevant materials may include fiction, film, television, webtoons, web novels, games, performance, and popular music. Comparative and transmedia approaches are also welcome, provided that Korea remains central to the paper. Doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and other early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to respond. The panel aims to bring together participants from different institutions, regions, disciplines, and career stages. My own paper examines the pleasures of reading Korean classical narratives whose conclusions are already known. It asks how foreknowledge redirects readers’ attention from the final outcome to narrative process, variation, repetition, and recognition. Those interested in joining the proposed panel are invited to submit the following: a provisional paper title; an abstract of approximately 300 words; a short biography Please send your proposal to pinktokki at skku.eduby 30 August 2026. Please feel free to circulate this call among colleagues and research networks that may be interested. 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