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Please register with kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.deto receive the respective Zoom link and password for the meeting. *Please note 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,…

German Website incl. German flyer download English Translation of the German flyer: The exhibition documents the social, economic and cultural changes and upheavals that have become visible through labor migration since the beginning of the opening and reform policy in the People’s Republic of China. The focus is on the documentary work of the Chinese-American…

Edited by Sebastian Bersick and Werner Pascha of AREA Ruhr Professors Sebastian Bersick (Bochum) and Werner Pascha (Duisburg) have recently edited a special issue of the East Asian Community Review, a journal of Palgrave Macmillan with Professor Key-young Son of Korea University, Seoul, as editor-in-chief, on “East Asia and the EU – Partners in Global…

AREA Ruhr joined the CrossArea e.V. association in February 2019. For more German information on CrossArea e.V., see: https://www.crossarea.org/. CrossArea’s annual conference was held on 1–2 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/

On 1 October 2018, the second cohort of AREA Ruhr doctoral students started their studies in the “Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia” doctoral programme from AREA Ruhr. Jihoon CHUN, Marc Paschke, Miquel Salvadó-Gracia and An Huy TRAN have received funding from Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) for their projects. The projects cover the…