Category: News

Axel Klein (IN-EAST) and Anke Scherer (OAW) are going to jointly teach a BA-level class (in German) on “Climate and Environment in Japan” (Klima und Umwelt in Japan) in the upcoming summer term. The course is predicated on a video-based lecture series as well as texts relating to the historic, social, and economic dimensions of…

Open MA courses taught in English In the context of UA Ruhr (University Alliance Ruhr), students from the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Bochum University (OAW/RUB) have the opportunity to take classes at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (IN-EAST/UDE) and vice versa without paying additional fees. Potentially, this…

In the winter term 2024/25, AREA Ruhr launched its novel AREA Ruhr Book Talk Series (online format). Experts from AREA Ruhr met up with authors of newly released academic books that deal with East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. Following the exchange between the invited author and the AREA host, the audience…

AREA Ruhr is pleased to announce that the third volume in the AREA Ruhr Working Papers series has just been published. In the paper on “AI-Development in Tianjin, PR China: Triple Helix Patterns for a ‘Mission-oriented’ Innovation Endeavor”, Markus Taube analyzes current developments in AI-related innovation from the perspective of the triple helix paradigm. The…

Dear AREA Ruhr members, dear colleagues and dear friends, the AREA Ruhr team wishes you a very happy holiday season and a joyful and prosperous new year 2025!