On May 9, the Academic Meeting “Borders, slavery and identities: an overview” was held to initiate a line of research on the ancient history of the Korean peninsula in Spain, focusing on borders as integral elements of the processes of ethnogenesis in the region, as well as on the processes of transition and domination related to them, such as slavery.

This line of work is approached from a vision of the Korean peninsula in the world, not as an isolated area or unique phenomenon, but as part of world history and therefore resulting from regional and long-distance interactions, as well as comparable to phenomena occurring in other regions, such as the Mediterranean.

In this dialogue, fundamental questions of historiographical research were questioned in relation to aspects such as periodization, the organization of historical regions and their transformation, as well as the basis for comparative history, and historical research from the perspective of world history.