Category: News

  • Start of DFG-funded graduate school on East Asian Futures

    The DFG-funded graduate school on “East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales” (GRK 2833) was launched at the beginning of October 2023. For more details on the inaugural event, please see: https://east-asian-futures.de.

  • Dr. Susanne Stein joins the AREA Ruhr team

    Dr. Susanne Stein joined the AREA Ruhr team at the beginning of September 2023. She is the coordinator of the BMBF-funded project “C-NET RNR – China-Kompetenznetzwerk für die Region Ruhr Niederrhein”. The project aspires to interconnect China-related knowledge and competencies located at single institutes of education and beyond in the “Ruhr/Niederrhein” area in a sustainable…

  • Congratulations to Jihoon Chun for successfully defending his thesis

    On 27 July 2023 Jihoon Chun has successfully defended his thesis on “Sangguk-sokpang 上國屬邦: Ch’ing-Choson 淸朝鮮 Confucian Protectorate, 1881–1895”. The whole AREA team applauds him on finishing the dissertation and wishes Jihoon Chun all the best for the future.

  • Congratulations to An Huy Tran for successfully defending his thesis

    On 28 April 2023 An Huy Tran has successfully defended his thesis on “Transnational Migration as Sexual and Masculine Strategy: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan”. The whole AREA team applauds him on finishing the dissertation and wishes An Huy Tran all the best for the future.

  • AREA Ruhr welcomes Prof. Shih Chih-yu from Taiwan

    AREA Ruhr welcomes Prof. Shih Chih-yu as International Research Fellow Members of AREA Ruhr warmly welcome and are looking forward to work with Prof. Shih Chih-yu, a specialist on China studies, anthropology of knowledge, and international relations theory in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Determined to recollect and re-present intellectual heritage in Asia, he has…