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In the AREA Book Talk Series we look at and discuss newly released academic books that deal with East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. Experts from AREA Ruhr meet up with the respective authors to have a conversation about their recent work, learn more about novel research results and discuss the “research journey” that authors had been engaged in. The second and third Book Talks conducted in November 2024 and January 2025, respectively, have now been made available as part of the AREA Book Talk Series Podcast below.
In the second AREA Ruhr Book Talk in November 2024 Prof. Hannes Mosler of AREA Ruhr hosted Prof. Jin-Wook Shin (Chung-Ang University, Seoul) to talk about his edited volume Democracy and Human Rights in the Kim Dae-jung Era in order to assess the state of democracy and human rights in South Korea. The talk was conducted only a few days before South Korea’s state crisis started in early December 2024.
You can listen to their full conversation below:
AREA Book Talk Series: Podcast #2 – Shin
In the third AREA Ruhr Book Talk in January 2025 Prof. Christine Moll-Murata of AREA Ruhr hosted Dr. Yasmin Koppen (Leipzig University) to discuss her book about East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation: Localizing Authority through Sacred Sites in China and Vietnam (based on Yasmin’s doctoral dissertation at AREA Ruhr). Yasmin gave insights into the methodology called “Experiential Architecture Analysis” developed by herself to examine spatial-social interactions as evidenced at sacred sites in China and Vietnam as well as other aspects of her book.
You can listen to their full conversation (in German) below:
AREA Book Talk Series: Podcast #3 – Koppen