The Research Training Group 2833 on the Topic “East Asian Futures” Is Offering Four Affiliated Fellowships for Doctoral …
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The Research Training Group 2833 on the Topic “East Asian Futures” Is Offering Four Affiliated Fellowships for Doctoral Research
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Students, Workers or Cash Cows? The Double-Commodification of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan  |  Wed, December 6, …
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Students, Workers or Cash Cows? The Double-Commodification of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan  |  Wed, December 6, 2023, 10 am CET
Hybrid event – Room LE 736 (Campus Duisburg) and online via Zoom

Yu-chin Tseng ist Researcher at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen.

Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/j/69068738996?pwd=Y2lUKytPVVNwTGlYTEN0bkovMkJQQT09

For information on the whole lecture series please refer to:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/events/in-east_research_forum

Abstract
International student flows in higher education between Asian countries have increased rapidly over the last decade. Building upon recent work on shifting patterns of intra-Asia student mobility and the labour migration in Asia, this lecture examines a unique case that is the convergence of these two, the government-led student-worker scheme, International Program of Industry-Academia Collaboration (IPIAC) in Taiwan. The IPIAC targets Southeast Asian students and provides opportunities for students to study in Taiwan while having vocational internships as an essential part of the degree program.

Drawing on interviews with Southeast Asian students studying in Taiwan and faculty members of Taiwanese universities, this research first gives accounts to the main factors that facilitate this unique practice: the neoliberal transformation of higher education and the labour market in Taiwan, and kinship and social networks that influence students’ choice of studying in Taiwan. The economic ties between Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries, including business investments, Taiwan’s reliance on contracted labour migration from certain Southeast Asian countries, and businesses in Taiwan largely relying on migrant workers to provide affordable labour, have laid the ground for the practices and popularity of the student-worker scheme. Furthermore, the aim of this research is to make an innovative inquiry on the ‘double commodification’ of the student-worker scheme in Taiwan, where students are treated as commodities on both the higher education and the labour markets. The author argues that the IPIAC is the convergence of student mobility and contracted labour migration, and it responds to both the high demands of the fee-paying students and the cheap labour forces through the process of double-commodification of students in an invisible way, which corresponds to the growing trend of seeing students as more affordable and flexible labour.

Bio
Yu-chin Tseng was appointed Junior Professor at University of Tübingen in 2018, and since then she has been serving as co-director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex in 2015. Her research interests lie in the area of gender, mobility, and intimacy in the context of Asia and Europe. Her current research comprises three main streams: the health behaviours and wellbeing of international students in Taiwan and in Germany; intimate mobilities and their correlation with states in Asia; China’s digital public diplomacy and its outreach to overseas Chinese in Europe. She has published widely on the topics of marriage migrants, gender and family, and China’s public diplomacy. Her latest publication, China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies, was published in the Journal of Contemporary China in 2023. weniger

Der Alumni-Verein AlFreDO lädt zur Mitgliederversammlung ein am 30. November 2023 um 18.00 Uhr, Raum LE 736
Liebe …
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Der Alumni-Verein AlFreDO lädt zur Mitgliederversammlung ein am 30. November 2023 um 18.00 Uhr, Raum LE 736
Liebe Alumni,

wir laden Euch zur Mitgliederversammlung unseres Ehemaligenvereins am Donnerstag, 30.11.2023 um 18:00 Uhr in die Universität Duisburg-Essen, Gebäude LE, 7. Stock ein.
Im Anschluss wollen wir den Abend gemütlich ausklingen lassen. Die offizielle Einladung und Tagesordnung findet Ihr unter dem folgenden Link:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/alumni/alfredo/einladung_mitgliederversammlung_2023-11.pdf

Nach Corona und Hackerangriff auf die Universität hat es einige Zeit gedauert, bis wir nun Aktivitäten wieder anschieben können. Die Gemeinnützigkeit des Vereins ist weiterhin anerkannt. Leider konnten nach dem Hackerangriff nicht alle Daten, die auf den Servern der Universität gespeichert waren, gerettet werden, darunter auch die aktuelle Mitgliederliste. Wir haben uns deshalb entschlossen, aktuelle Mitgliedsdaten noch einmal zu erheben und möchten alle bitten, das Mitgliedsformular und die Angaben zur Zahlung der Mitgliedsbeiträge ab 2024 auszufüllen und an AlFreDO e.V. per Post (AlFreDO e.V., c/o Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg) oder als Scan per E-Mail ( alfredo.ude@gmail.com) zu senden.

Aufgrund des Verlusts der akutellen Mitgliedsdaten möchten wir Euch bitten, diese Einladung auch an andere Euch bekannte Ehemalige des IN-EAST zu zirkulieren. Wir würden uns freuen, möglichst viele von Euch bei der Versammlung begrüßen zu dürfen. Anfang des kommenden Jahres werden wir Euch über die Aktivitäten von AlFreDO in 2024 informieren.

Viele Grüße, hoffentlich bis bald

Dirk Petzold & Helmut Demes weniger

Beyond Boundaries, Into Diverse Futurities: My Journey as a Female Sci-Fi Writer in Taiwan  |  Wed, November 29, 2023, …
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Beyond Boundaries, Into Diverse Futurities: My Journey as a Female Sci-Fi Writer in Taiwan  |  Wed, November 29, 2023, 2–4 pm CET  |  Online lecture
Registration link for participation in the Zoom meeting:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/s/61362883616

Hsin-hui Lin is a Taiwanese science-fiction writer, a literary critic and a PhD Candidate in Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University, Taipei.

More information on the website of the RTG 2833 East Asian Futures:
https://east-asian-futures.de/category/news/

The DFG-funded Research Training Group 2833 East Asian Futures: Visions and Realisations on National, Transregional and Global Scales is a joint project of the Faculty of East Asian Studies (OAW) of Ruhr University Bochum and at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen. weniger

Labor, Mobility and Migration of (East) Asia. Three Lectures in Winter Term 2023/24
IN-EAST will continue its Research …
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Labor, Mobility and Migration of (East) Asia. Three Lectures in Winter Term 2023/24
IN-EAST will continue its Research Forum this semester with three lectures on the topic of Labor, Mobility and Migration of (East) Asia. The Research Forum is organized by Dr. Aimi Muranaka, who is also a member of the BMBF-funded project Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA).

The first lecture is on Wed, December 6, 2023, 10 h CET by Yu-chin Tseng: Students, Workers or Cash Cows? The Double-Commodification of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan. (Hybrid – in presence and online)

Zoom link for online participation:
https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/j/69068738996?pwd=Y2lUKytPVVNwTGlYTEN0bkovMkJQQT09

More information and pdf-download of the program:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/events/in-east_research_forum weniger

Article by Florian Coulmas about Text Neck, Nomophobia, and other Mobile-related Diseases. In: Interalia Magazine, November …
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Article by Florian Coulmas about Text Neck, Nomophobia, and other Mobile-related Diseases. In: Interalia Magazine, November 2023
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Brandon Hillier joined the team of the Chair of Karen Shire on November 1, 2023. Office: LE 726
Brandon Takayuki Hillier …
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Brandon Hillier joined the team of the Chair of Karen Shire on November 1, 2023. Office: LE 726
Brandon Takayuki Hillier is a visiting DAAD graduate student fellow at IN-EAST, from November 2023 to March 2024. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. A “post-disciplinary” social scientist, his work draws from diverse areas of social theory, political economy, and comparative institutional analysis. As part of his dissertation research, he will be empirically investigating the relationship between discourses of regional economic “decline” (in Germany, Japan, and the US) and the construction of labour markets. He has previously published on “smart cities,” the Japanese economic model, and regulation theory. weniger

Labor and (im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, regional and rural-urban perspectives
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Labor and (im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, regional and rural-urban perspectives
From November 3rd to 5th 2023, QuaMaFA https://quamafa.de/ ) has organized the VSJF conference, with a cooperation of VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan) and the JDZB (Japanese-German Center Berlin). The conference theme was centred on Labor and (Im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, Regional and Rural-Urban Perspectives. Nearly 90 people participated in the conference, including one keynote and three roundtable participants from Europe, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

The conference began with a keynote speech by Prof. Biao Xiang, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. His speech made participants considering about faith and trust in regards of human (cross-border) labour mobility. Following the keynote speech, the conference included four panels, covering topics from internal mobility in Japan to youth (im)mobility and intersectionality of migrants in/of Japan/East Asia. The conference concluded with a roundtable discussion by three panelists from East Asia, Professor Dong-Hoon Seol (Chonbuk National University, South Korea), Professor Hirohisa Takenoshita (Keio University, Japan), and Professor Yen-Fen Tseng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). They discussed the current debates on labour and (im)mobility in Japan and East Asia, and the discussion underlined not only the importance of the topic but also the need of further comparative research within the region.

The conference is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and Toshiba International Foundation.

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Kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit China. Plädoyer für die Fortführung des Dialogs und Handlungsempfehlungen …
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Kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit China. Plädoyer für die Fortführung des Dialogs und Handlungsempfehlungen für Kooperationsvorhaben.
Schriftenreihe ifa Input des Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen. Stuttgart, Oktober 2023, 23 Seiten.
Download: https://culturalrelations.ifa.de/forschung-detail/kulturelle-und-wissenschaftliche-zusammenarbeit-mit-china/ weniger

als Moderatorin für das 11. Junior-Forum-Programm, das vom 1. bis 3. November 2023 in Busan stattfindet
Link zum Deutsch-Koreanischen …
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als Moderatorin für das 11. Junior-Forum-Programm, das vom 1. bis 3. November 2023 in Busan stattfindet
Link zum Deutsch-Koreanischen Forum:
https://www.dekr-forum.de/ weniger

Von Los Alamos nach Hiroshima – wie aus überzeugten Wissenschaftlern Gegner der Atombombe wurden.
In: Neue Gesellschaft …
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Von Los Alamos nach Hiroshima – wie aus überzeugten Wissenschaftlern Gegner der Atombombe wurden.
In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 11/2023.
https://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/aktuelle-ausgabe/ (kostenpflichtig) weniger

The History War between Japan and Korea in Germany. In: The Hankyoreh’s opinion section, October 30, 2023 (in Korean)

Korea Day 2023: Tag der koreanischen Sprache & Kultur, Bochum, 28. Oktober 2023, 10–17 Uhr (zusammen mit dem LSI)

Von Misstrauen geprägt. Ein kritischer Blick auf die China-Strategie. In: Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, 10/2023, …
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Von Misstrauen geprägt. Ein kritischer Blick auf die China-Strategie. In: Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, 10/2023, 53–56.
Link zur Zeitschrift: https://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/aktuelle-ausgabe/ weniger

Das IN-EAST hat turnusmäßig ein neues Direktorium gewählt für die nächsten 2 akademischen Jahre
Direktor: Prof. Hannes …
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Das IN-EAST hat turnusmäßig ein neues Direktorium gewählt für die nächsten 2 akademischen Jahre
Direktor: Prof. Hannes Mosler
Stellvertretender Direktor: Prof. Markus Taube weniger