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English version below Der AREA Day ist eine jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung, in deren Rahmen AREA Ruhr sich auf die Spuren Ostasiens in NRW macht. Dieses Jahr freuen wir uns besonders, euch am 9. November 2024 mit unserem Co-Organisator Taiwanherz ein Programm anbieten zu können, das die reiche Kultur Taiwans in den Vordergrund stellt und zeigt,…

#window2asia is a project of AREA Ruhr, which collects and publishes information on current and upcoming cultural events in the Rhine-Ruhr region. In our overviews, we feature exhibitions, concerts, movie screenings and workshops that are aimed towards the general public. With the summer break coming to an end, this month’s programme is filled once again…

Dr. Yasmin Koppen, post-doctoral research fellow at Leipzig University and former graduate of AREA Ruhr’s doctoral programme on Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia, has published a monograph with Frank & Timme based on her dissertation. Congratulations! AREA Ruhr supported the funding of the book’s open access option. Thus, you can start…

We look forward to welcoming Professor Fujihara Tatsushi as AREA Ruhr’s international research fellow in September and October 2024. Professor Fujihara from the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University in Japan is a well-known specialist on food and agricultural as well as environmental history (in Germany and Japan). During the time as fully…

In short succession, the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) at the University of Duisburg-Essen has published two new issues in its Working Papers on East Asian Studies, dubbed the “Green Series” for the colour of its cover. Issue No. 138 contains a paper by Giulia C. Romano, PhD and Prof. Dr. Markus Taube titled…