The International Joint Workshop for Partner Universities Global Network was organized to enhance the academic and educational cooperation among Sheffield University (UK), University of Paris 13 (France), Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), University IULM Milan (Italy), Jilin University (China), Hanoi University (Vietnam), and Doshisha University (Japan) and to identify joint research quests. [More...] 

Low economic growth, growing social inequality, and long-term aging of the population have posed major challenges to the Japanese government over the past two decades. The electoral victory of the new Democratic Party Japan in 2009 raised hopes and expectations for new directions in policies and governance in Japan, but now with the third DPJ Prime Minister in exactly as many years in office, concerns center around governance capacities of the ruling party. [More...]

On December 15th, 2011 the Scientist in Residence of the University of Duisburg-Essen 2011, Prof. John Creighton Campbell Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor (emeritus)) together with Prof. Gerald L. Curtis Ph.D. (Columbia University, New York) hold the tandem lecture about the implications of the triple disaster for politics and social policy in Japan at the University of Duisburg Essen. [More...]

On October 28 and 29, 2011, the DFG Research Training Group 1613 “Risk and East Asia” in cooperation with the White Rose East Asia Centre, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield organized a workshop entitled:

“Ready or Not? Assessing Recent Changes in Japan’s International Crisis Management Capabilities”

The workshop brought together doctoral candidates, young post-doctoral scholars and renowned experts engaged in the study of Japan’s foreign and security policy and the country’s role in East Asia. [More...]

The workshop "Hands-on" Training in Economic Experimenting in Asia took place from September 19 to 24, 2011 at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.  [More...]

The September Seminar 2011 took place between the 5th and the 9th of September in Beijing. The attending doctoral fellows (Stephanie Bräuer, Magnus Dau, Susanne Löhr, Iva Ognjanovic, Ann-Kathrin Prior & Hans-Christian Schnack) had the chance to present their research topics to internationally- reknown Chinese experts in their disciplines. [More...]

Prof. Dr. Jinyang Zhu from the University of Applied Science, Konstanz held a guest lecture on "Presenting in Chinese" on July 12-13, 2011. He is an expert on Business Chinese and Chinese Economy. [More...]

The two June Workshops of the DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia" have been concluded successfully. The first cohort of PhD fellows attended the first Preliminary Results Workshop at the Gerhart-Mercator-Haus on June 24, 2011. [More...]

In 2011 the first East Asia Net conference was hosted by the Institute of East Asian Studies jointly with the DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia. EastAsiaNet is a network of leading European research schools with a well-developed social-science focus on East Asia, plus others that aspire to develop in this direction. It takes up issues that surpass the capacity of single institutions in training and in research. Ultimately, it contributes high-level expertise to a European perspective on Euro-Asia relations. [More...]

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association consisting of approximately 7,000 members worldwide met from March 31–April 3, 2011 for its annual conference . The AAS was founded in 1941, originally as publisher of the Far Eastern Quarterly.  [More...]

A workshop on behavioral economics was held to focus on culture as a factor for systematic decision making for every single person. It presented several lectures concerning this topic.   [More...]

Young social scientific researchers concentrating on China met on February 12/13, 2011 in Iserlohn. Under the umbrella of “State capacity and legitimacy in PR China” young scholars from Würzburg, Duisburg, Cologne and Tübingen came together in Schwerte to discuss their research ideas.  [More...]

Seven new doctoral fellows and two new post-doctoral researchers began their research in October 2010 at In-East, forming the 2nd cohort of the DFG Research Training Group 1613.   [More...]

Every doctoral fellow will have the opportunity to participate in one of the yearly September Seminars in Asia. Aiming at improving the quality of European doctoral research about East Asia field research coaching is provided in during a two week training in Japan and China. [More...]

The DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia" was holding a workshop on „Experimental Economics and Intercultural Research“ 2010.   [More...]

The Workshop was one of a series of methods training events in the DFG Research Training Group 1613, Risk & East Asia, at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University Duisburg-Essen.   [More...]

During the International Symposium at the Duisburg City Hall the DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia" was inaugurated and the fist Cohort of fellows was officially introduced. [More...]

The international symposium 2010 was held in June in the Duisburg City Hall and offered presentations by an international crew of East Asian related professors.  [More...]

Prof. Håkan Jerker Holm from the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden, was giving a guest lecture about how to conduct experiments abroad.  [More...]

The aim of this workshop was to discuss new transnational career opportunities and orientations for young female scholars in East Asian Studies and other dimensions of international careers in East Asian Studies, with a particular emphasis on gender dimensions of international research mobility.   [More...]

In November the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF) held together with the JDZB and the WREAC a symposium on Risk and East Asia.  [More...]