Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, gerne möchten wir Sie auf eine Veranstaltung des China-Kompetenznetzwerks Ruhr Niederrhein (C-NET RNR) hinweisen, die wir in Kooperation mit der Research Academy Ruhr anbieten: Am 25. April 2024 findet von 09:15–16:30 Uhr unsere diesjährige Nachwuchsakademie zum Thema „Forschen in politisch herausfordernden Kontexten: Fokus VR China“ in Duisburg […]

Open MA courses taught in English   In the context of UA Ruhr (University Alliance Ruhr ), students from the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Bochum University (OAW/RUB) have the opportunity to take classes at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (IN-EAST/UDE) and vice versa without paying additional fees.  Potentially, this […]

The Online Colloquium of the Research Training Group GRK 2833 „East Asian Futures“ will ring in the new year with a presentation by Derek Kramer, PhD. You are cordially invited to attend the lecture. Derek Kramer, PhD (UK) “Flagging the Future:Science, Symbolism, and Sovereignty in Post-Liberation Korea, 1945–1950” Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, 6 PM – […]

https://www.area-ruhr.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/KoreaDay23_05_ohneSubs_720p.mp4 In late 2021, AREA Ruhr started an annual event called “AREA Tag” (or AREA Day) which seeks to explore traces of East Asia in North Rhine-Westphalia (“Auf den Spuren Ostasiens in NRW”) and to introduce them to a general audience. In 2023, the event was jointly organized with the Landes-spracheninstitut in Bochum as “Korea […]

AREA member Prof. Dr. Jens Wrona is going to give an online talk in the AREA Ruhr Occasional Lectures Series on June 26, 2024, 16.00–17:30 with the following title: “Culture, Tastes, and Market Integration: Testing the Localized Tastes Hypothesis” Abstract: Using monthly price data from the Survey of Wholesale Markets for Fruits and Vegetables of […]

Associate member Dr. Aimi Muranaka is going to give an online talk in the AREA Ruhr Occasional Lectures Series on January 25, 2024 (14.15–15.45) with the following title: “Sticking to norms or sticking out? Agency of Vietnamese female skilled migrants in the IT sector in Japan” Abstract: International migration has been touted that men initiate […]

The DFG-funded graduate school (2833) on “East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales” has just started at the beginning of October 2023. For more details on the inaugural event please see: https://east-asian-futures.de

Dr. Susanne Stein joined the AREA Ruhr team at the beginning of September 2023. She is the coordinator of the BMBF-funded project “C-NET RNR – China-Kompetenznetzwerk für die Region Ruhr Niederrhein”. The project aspires to interconnect China-related knowledge and competencies located at single institutes of education and beyond in the “Ruhr/Niederrhein” area in a sustainable […]

28. Oktober 202310.00–17.00 Uhrim Landesspracheninstitut in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Du möchtest für einen Tag nach Korea reisen – ganz ohne Reisepass, Kofferpacken oder Jetlag? Dann merke dir den 28. Oktober vor! Die Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr und das Landesspracheninstitut (LSI) in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum präsentieren den Tag der koreanischen Sprache und Kultur in […]

Congratulations! On 27 July 2023 Jihoon Chun has successfully defended his thesis on “Sangguk-sokpang 上國屬邦: Ch’ing-Choson 淸朝鮮 Confucian Protectorate, 1881–1895”. The whole AREA team applauds him on finishing the dissertation and wishes Jihoon Chun all the best for the future.