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Contributors/Authors: Helen Kim, Yonson Ahn, Jaok Kwon, Jihye Kim, Jan Creutzenberg, Katharina Süberkrüb, Yuri Ko, Jin-Wook Shin, Boyeong Jeong, Hannes B. Mosler, Yvonne Schulz Zinda, Yonsuk Chae
Citation: Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim eds. 2023. Cross-border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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Zhiyi Yang's new monograph on Wang Jingwei, Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times was published in November 2023 by the University of Michigan Press.
Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang's impact on cultural memory of WWII in China.
In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang's lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public's posthumous memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals, newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary, and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic impartiality.
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18. Juhee Jeong (Heidelberg University) and Xiaoying Jin (Heidelberg University) Online The Contribution of Sending Country's Policy Initiative to Youth Mobility: Case Study of South Korea's Overseas Employment Support
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For further information please contact: Prof. Yonson Ahn, Y.Ahn[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de
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On 21 and 22 September 2023, the TIE Conference 2023 (Annual conference of the "Wissenschaftliche Kommission Technologie, Innovation und Entrepreneurship - TIE") of the German Academic Association of Business Research, Section Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be held in Frankfurt.
The conference, organised by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz (Innovation and Entrepreneurship), Prof. Dr. Simone Wies (Marketing Strategy and Performance), and Prof. Dr. Lars Schweizer (Strategic Management) will take place on Goethe University Frankfurt's Campus Westend.
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After the first successful IZO Asia Forum in 2019 and an involuntary break due to the pandemic, we are pleased to be able to hold the second Asia Forum in Frankfurt in July 2023. This year, the event will focus on Korea and the global appeal of Korean culture.
Korean film and streaming formats have been becoming increasingly popular in recent history, with South Korea becoming one of the international media industry key players. What are the reasons and mechanisms behind this success story? And what might the future hold? These questions and more will be tackled by Dong Yeon Won in his keynote Korean Film and Television – Competitiveness and Future Prospects. As film producer and CEO of “Realies pictures", he gives insight into the industry and talks about his experience surrounding the production of internationally successful formats such as Along With the Gods and Masquerade. The keynote is part of the Asia Forum 2023, organized by IZO – Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien together with the research initiative ConTrust: Trust in Conflict and the joint research project CEDITRAA (Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia) at Goethe University Frankfurt. The talk will take place on July 6th 2023 at 6:15 p.m. at the Renate von Metzler-Saal at Casino Westend with a reception at 17.30. Admission is free, the talk is in Korean and Englishhttps://www.izo.uni-frankfurt.de/ | https://contrust.uni-frankfurt.de/ | https://www.ceditraa.net/
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