Category: Events
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9 Dec 2025 | Eighty years on: The End of the Second Word War in East Asia – Looking Back and Ahead | Dorothea Mladenova: Remembering the Military “Comfort Women”
This lecture is part of AREA Ruhr’s lecture and discussion series Eighty years on: The End of the Second Word War in East Asia – Looking Back and Ahead which deals with various topics related to the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. Dr. Dorothea Mladenova (Leipzig University)Remembering the Military “Comfort Women”: Memory Activism and the…
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CANCELED 4 Nov 2025 | Eighty years on: The End of the Second Word War in East Asia – Looking Back and Ahead | Karl Rössel: Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg
AREA Ruhr starts its new online Lecture and Discussion Series related to the 80th anniversary of end of WWII with a contribution (in German) by Karl Rössel who is curator of the exhibition “Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg” which had been developed and extended over several decades. We first watch a video with Rössel…
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25 Nov 2025 | AREA Ruhr Book Talk with Dr. Youngah Guahk
In the AREA Ruhr Book Talk Series, experts from AREA Ruhr are looking forward to meeting up with authors of newly released academic books that deal with East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. At AREA Ruhr, we are curious about getting insights into recently published research results and discussing the “research journey”…
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7 Oct 2025 | AREA Ruhr Roundtable Discussion “80 Years Later: Memory and Remembrance in East Asia at the End of World War II”
Prof. Hyung-Gu LYNN, PhDAECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean ResearchDepartment of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada Prof. em. Brantly WOMACK, PhDProfessor of Foreign Affairs emeritusDepartment of Politics, University of Virginia, USA Prof. Lin-Chun WU, PhDProfessor of HistoryDepartment of History, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Professor Dr. Christine Moll-Murata (moderator)Professor of History of China, Faculty of…
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CANCELED!!! 8 Sep 2025 | AREA Ruhr Roundtable Discussion (in person) with Prof. Richard J. Cook (Nankai University, China)
AREA Ruhr Roundtable Discussion (in person) with Prof. Richard J. Cook (Nankai University, China): Navigating the China Information Gap: East Asia Order & Insider Perspectives Date: 08 September 2025Time: 14:00-15.30Location: AREA Ruhr/University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, Geibelstr. 41, SG 183 Please join us for a two-part AREA Ruhr Roundtable Discussion with China-expert Prof. Richard J.…