Category: Lectures

AREA member Prof. Dr. Jens Wrona is going to give an online talk in the AREA Ruhr Occasional Lectures Series on June 27, 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…

Martin Gehlmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Student Evaluation Examination in Chosŏn Local Schools Abstract: The reform of the student evaluation examination (kyosaeng kogang 校生考講) at the beginning of the 17th century marks a break in the examination culture and educational history of Chosŏn Korea. In order to strengthen the underfunded military after the Japanese invasions of 1592, student evaluation…

We regret to inform you that the lecture by Professor Lewis, announced for 13 December 2022, has to be rescheduled. We are currently trying to find an alternative date in early 2023 and will inform you as soon as rescheduling is accomplished.

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 12.15-13.45 h Abstract:In a public display in the ninth month of 1390, the registers for the tax-exempt, prebendal private and public lands were…