Aya Adachi – AREA Doctoral Student Ruhr University Bochum & University of Duisburg-Essen This PhD project explores the research question of why Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) patterns differ in form and scope through a Comparative Political Economy perspective. The cases of China and Japan demonstrate the value of analyzing the role of the state and […]

Transnational Asian Studies – Multi-Level Dynamics of Identity Formation and Institution Building English version below Die DGA-Konferenz 2021 wird virtuell! Da ungewiss ist, wie sich die globale COVID-19 Situation entwickelt, stellt die Planung zukünftiger Veranstaltungen eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Der Schutz der Gesundheit hat oberste Priorität und hat uns dazu veranlasst  die zweijährlich stattfindende Konferenz […]

On September 25th 2020, the second AREA Ruhr Preliminary Results Workshop took place in a virtual space offered by a conferencing software. After their fieldwork, the workshop was a platform for the doctoral researchers of the second cohort of the AREA Ruhr Doctoral Programme to present their work to scholars in the field and to […]

Due to the current situation this will be an online workshop. During this workshop the second cohord of the doctoral researchers in the AREA Ruhr Doctoral Programme will present their field research findings and receive feedbacks and suggestions from both their supervisors and external guests, senior lecturers and professors in order to further develop their […]

Please register with kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.de to receive the respective Zoom link and password for the meeting. *Please notice that this event will start at 4 pm sharp* Within the ERC funded research project BuddhistRoad  we are happy to announce the following guest lecture: DUNHUANG AS SACRED SPACE: On the History and Formation of a Major Religious Site […]

Please register with kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.deto receive the respective Zoom link and password for the meeting. *Please notice that this event will start at 4 pm sharp* Creativity, Geometry, and Generative Design in the Architecture of Medieval Chinese Buddhism The famous pagoda at Songyuesi (ca. 523 CE) is not only the earliest full-size pagoda extant in China, […]

Towards a Transnational Sexual Field: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan Tuesday, 9th June 2020 | 6.30 – 8.00 pm  (Tokyo Time) Link to the event: https://www.dijtokyo.org/event/towards-a-transnational-sexual-field-male-vietnamese-migrants-in-contemporary-japan/ Prior registration required: geilhorn@dijtokyo.org, kottmann@dijtokyo.org For more information about An Huy Tran click here

INEAST Research Forum Lecture by Anke Scherer (in cooperation with Area Ruhr) Survey the Soil, Control the Country: The role of the Manchurian Colonization Corporation (Mantaku) in Manshukoku in the 1930s and 1940s Dr. Anke Scherer is Research Fellow at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Dept. Japanese History, Ruhr University Bochum Due to public […]

IN-EAST Lecture Series Summer Term 2020 Several members of AREA Ruhr present their research in this Lecture Series. For full programm click here. Upcoming Research Forum:  20 May 2020 | Dr. Anke Scherer