Year: 2022

  • 31 Jan 2023 | AREA Occasional Lecture Series | James B. Lewis

    James B. Lewis (Korean History (Associate Professor) and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford)Aspects of a macro-economic model for Chosŏn Korea: The vicissitudes of a physiocratic state !ONLINE event!31 January 2023, 12.15–1.45 PM Abstract:In a public display in the ninth month of 1390, the registers for the tax-exempt, prebendal private and public lands were…

  • Retrospective: AREA Day 2022

    English version below Ende 2021 startete die AREA Ruhr ein neues alljährlich stattfindendes Veranstaltungsformat; den “AREA Day”.  Zielsetzung ist sich auf  “Auf die Spuren Ostasiens in NRW” zu begeben und diese Erkundungen einem breiten Publikum vorzustellen.  Veranstaltungsort war das Museum DKM in Duisburg, welches über eine exquisite und in Deutschland einzigartige  Sammlung ostasiatischer Kunst verfügt.…

  • Rector’s Visit to AREA Ruhr

    On 23 August 2022, UDE’s new rector, Prof. Dr. Barbara Albert, new Vice-Rector for Research and Early Career Research, Prof. Dr. Astrid Westendorf, and Dr. Ute Haußmann, assistant to the rector, visited AREA Ruhr to learn more about our Central Research Unit in East Asian Studies that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr. AREA…

  • 14 Oct 2022 | AREA Occasional Lecture Series | Shih Chih-yu

    Prof. Dr. Shih Chih-yu (National Taiwan University, Taipeh)Intellectual History of China and Chinese Studies: The Perspectives of Post-Chineseness !HYBRID event!14 October 2022 4.15–5.45 PM Abstract:The seemingly distinctive notions of China, China scholars, and China scholarship constitute one another in practice. This intellectual history project that stresses the encounter and choice of China scholarshas discovered individualized tracks…

  • AREA Ruhr welcomes Prof. Shih Chih-yu from Taiwan

    AREA Ruhr welcomes Prof. Shih Chih-yu as International Research Fellow Members of AREA Ruhr warmly welcome and are looking forward to work with Prof. Shih Chih-yu, a specialist on China studies, anthropology of knowledge, and international relations theory in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Determined to recollect and re-present intellectual heritage in Asia, he has…