Biao Xiang Professor of Social Anthropology | University of Oxford & MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle A way out or a way in? Social competition in China and transnational mobilities Despite the major disruptions created by COVID-19, the momentum of outmigration from China seems to remain strong. Why are students, workers, and businesspeople eager to […]

Jörn-Carsten Gottwald   Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University BochumAREA Ruhr The Politics of Fintech Regulation in China(Co-organized with AREA Ruhr) To register for the lecture please click on the registration link:https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdeyspjgtG9WK4EtOrKgwQlwyhjbLlm-s

Kirk W. Larsen Professor of History | Brigham Young University The false promise of membership in the “family of nations”: Diplomacy, treaties, legations, and Chosŏn Korea’s fall into colonial rule in the age of high imperialism. In the late nineteenth century, Chosŏn Korea negotiated a series of treaties with neighboring Asian and Western powers. For […]

Katja Schmidtpott   Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum AREA Ruhr Transnational Urban History (Co-organized with AREA Ruhr) To register for the lecture please click on the registration link: https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdeyspjgtG9WK4EtOrKgwQlwyhjbLlm-s

Aya Adachi (AREA): Linking Patterns in Preferential Trade Agreements to Domestic Structure: The Cases of P.R. China and Japan Please register here to get the Zoom login information: ostasienwissenschaftliches-mittagsforum@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

IN-EAST Lecture Series Summer Term 2021 Some lectures are organized in cooperation with and co-sponsored by AREA Ruhr. For full programm click here.  

Please have a look at our conference booklet! Here you find an explanation on how this conference works online, the academic as well as accompanying programme, our tea salons and the conference quiz!→ Download Conference Booklet [update 9 March] [Best working with Chrome. Links might not work with Firefox. Elsewise safe to hdd and open with […]

Please register with kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.de to receive the respective Zoom link and password for the meeting. *Please notice that this event will start at 10 am sharp* Prof. Motokazu Matsutani (Tohoku University): Tohoku Christians’ Vision to Evangelize Korea — Oshikawa Masayoshi and his missionary interest in Korea Abstract:It is commonly believed that Japan’s Protestant Christian missions had […]

Please register with kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.de to receive the respective Zoom link and password for the meeting. *Please notice that this event will start at 2 pm sharp* Dr. Anders Karlsson: Unequal inequality: The Great Ming Code and the construction of a Confucian penal system in Chosŏn Korea  Abstract:With the establishment of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) on the […]