Aya Adachi (AREA): Linking Patterns in Preferential Trade Agreements to Domestic Structure: The Cases of P.R. China and Japan Please register here to get the Zoom login information: ostasienwissenschaftliches-mittagsforum@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Please have a look at our conference booklet! Here you find an explanation on how this conference works online, the academic as well as accompanying programme, our tea salons and the conference quiz!→ Download Conference Booklet [update 9 March] [Best working with Chrome. Links might not work with Firefox. Elsewise safe to hdd and open with […]

Occational lecture series jointly with IN-EAST | Moderation: Karen Shire Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego) The Business Reinvention of Japan: How Japanese companies have responded to the rise of China and the globalization of supply chains This lecture discusses how Japan’s industrial architecture has changed over the 20 years, and how Japan’s leading […]

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, […]