AREA Workshop „System Competition in East Asia“ Friday, 19 July 2019 Location: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mensa, Bistroebene, Room II Outline The workshop “System Competition in East Asia” will deal with competing political and institutional constellations, mainly from the 19th to the 21st century. Our group conceives of system competition as a process that takes place between […]

You are invited to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte (GIGA – German Institute of Global and AREA studies) on „Overlapping Regionalism and the Venezuelan crisis (and the role of China)“. The lecture discusses the possible risks and potential benefits of overlapping intergovernmental regional organizations. Specifically, it studies the consequences of overlapping mandates […]

You are invited to a guest lecture by Prof. Martin de Jong (Delft University) on „Urban and infrastructure Development in China in an International Perspective“ In the past 10 years, Prof. Martin de Jong has conducted research on the promises and realities of sustainable urban development in China. In this presentation, he will pay particular […]

By An Huy Tran On May 17th 2019, the AREA Ruhr Proposal and Preliminary Results Workshop took place at the Wolfsburg Academy in Mülheim. The Workshop was a platform for Doctoral Researchers in the AREA Ruhr Doctoral Programme to present their works to professionals working in the field and interested audience and to subsequently receive […]

You are invited to an interactive AREA Ruhr workshop by Dafydd J. Fell, SOAS, London Department of Political and International Studies / Centre of Taiwan Studies   Part I | 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.Taiwan’s Political History 1945 – 2000 in Ten (Election) Advertisements Part II | 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.Taiwan’s Recent Political History in Ten […]

You are invited to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Hongtao Li Professor of Media Studies, Zhejiang University Hangzhou and Associate Professor II, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo Revisiting the Green Public Sphere: Chinese Media Discourse on Air Pollution This talk will take a historical and comparative perspective to provide an overall […]

You are invited to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Jörn Dosch   Chair for International Politics and Coordinator for International Relations and ERASMUS of the Faculty for Economic and Social Sciences Is Asia still Unique? The Continent’s Relevance for Theory-building in Social Sciences For the past three decades Asia has been one of the most […]

Proposal and Preliminary Results Workshop 17th May 2019 at the Wolfsburg in Mülheim an der Ruhr All of you are cordially invited, especially those interested in transnational issues. If you want to join, please contact Gwendolin Kleine Stegemann at g.kleine-stegemann@area-ruhr.de by 2nd of May. External experts at the workshop will be Jörn Dosch (Rostock), Glenn […]

AREA Ruhr will continue its lecture series in the summer term 2019, introducing research and researchers from IN-EAST and the Faculty of East Asian Studies. Talks will be held in English. All are welcome! 24 April 2019Prof. Florian Coulmas (IN-EAST) „Technologies of the Intellect“ location: RUB (room: UNI 134/2.06) time: 6 – 7 pm

AREA Ruhr joined the CrossArea e.V. association in February 2019. For more German information on CrossArea e.V. see: https://www.crossarea.org/ Cross Area’s annual conference was held from 1st – 2nd November 2018 on the  Campus of the University of Duisburg-Essen. The event focused on the topic of  „CrossAreaStudies – Wie lokal können Regionalstudien sein?“  https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/crossareastudies/