!!! Call for Applications !!! : DFG Research Training Group GRK 2833 „East Asian Futures“ (EAF)

The Research Training Group RTG 2833 „East Asian Futures“ will start at the Faculty of East Asian Studies (OAW), Ruhr-University Bochum in October 2023! It was funded together with the Institute of East Asian Studies  (IN-EAST)  at the University of Duisburg-Essen.  The spokesperson of the RTG is Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata (OAW).   The DFG Research […]

Guest Editors: An Huy Tran & Aimi Muranaka

AREA Ruhr doctoral researcher An Huy Tran and Dr. Aimi Muranaka (AREA Ruhr associated member) are the guest editors of the journal ASIEN (The German Journal on Contemporary Asia) 162/163 on “Transnational Flows of Contemporary Asia”. The publication is  the outcome of a panel related to migration the two scholars chaired at the DGA’s biannual […]

31 January 2023 | 12.15– 13.45 h | rescheduled AREA Occasional Lecture Series | James B. Lewis | Aspects of a macro-economic model for Chosŏn Korea: The vicissitudes of a physiocratic state

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   Abstract: In a public display in the ninth month of 1390, the registers for the tax-exempt, prebendal private and public lands were burned in the […]

AREA Day 2022 | Retrospective

https://www.area-ruhr.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/o_220912_DKM_Quer_Sub_Log_Start_fin.mp4   AREA Day 2022   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 […]

14 October 2022 | 16.15 – 17.45 h | AREA Occasional Lecture Series | Shih, Chih-yu | Intellectual History of China and Chinese Studies: The Perspectives of Post-Chineseness

Prof. Dr. Shih, Chih-yu (National Taiwan University, Taipeh) Intellectual History of China and Chinese Studies: The Perspectives of Post-Chineseness 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 of growth as well […]

Rector’s Visit to AREA Ruhr

New UDE Rector Prof. Dr. Barbara Albert visited AREA Ruhr On August 23rd, 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 […]