Office Management Assistant The Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr is looking for an Office Management Assistant for its office on the Duisburg campus as soon as possible. This is a permanent 50% position with remuneration according to pay group 8 TV-L. The application deadline is 20th of  June 2022. You can find […]

AREA Ruhr’s First Guest Researcher: Eugenia Prasol from Ukraine Members of AREA Ruhr warmly welcome and are looking forward to work with Eugenia Prasol, a specialist on Japanese literature, who fled from the Ukraine due to the ongoing war. AREA Ruhr provides her with a research fellowship for six months to give her the opportunity […]

Liebe Ostasien-Interessierte, wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie unserer Einladung zum diesjährigen AREA Day 2022 folgen, die Veranstaltung findet im Museum DKM Duisburg statt.  AREA Day 2022 24. Juni 2022 / 13:30 – 19:00 Uhr Auch dieses Jahr begibt sich die AREA Ruhr „auf die Spuren Ostasiens in NRW“ und stellt anlässlich des 40-jährigen Jubiläums […]

Bulgan Erdenechuluun (IOA/Universität Bonn): Market growth and barriers to entry in Mongolia: Perspectives from Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurs Abstract: Mongolia is one of the emerging market economies which has been traditionally based on livestock and agriculture. Owing to its rich mineral deposits and other potential economic sectors, Mongolia has been successful in attracting numerous foreign […]

Summer Term 2022 – China’s Global Rise – Contesting the Liberal World Order? International Lecture Series, organized by the IN-EAST (Nele Noesselt) and SCRIPTS – Contestations of the Liberal Script (Cluster of Excellence hosted at Freie Universität Berlin). China’s Global Rise – Contesting the Liberal World Order?

Congratulations! Ms Yasmin Koppen, the first graduate of the MERCUR-funded AREA Ruhr Graduate School, successfully defended her dissertation „Landscapes and Legitimation: Localization Tactics of Political and Religious Authorities in China and Adjoining Empires“ on 24 January 2022.   Ms Koppen continues her study of the transcultural aspects of hydrolatry as post-doctoral researcher at the chair […]

Power shifts in the international system and transformations of the international order. China’s new normative role in global rule-making:the cybernorms. Guest lecture by Caterina García Segura   Abstract: The starting point of this talk is the fact that for years we have been witnessing two phenomena that are often presented as cause and consequence: the […]