IN-EAST Research Forum
IN-EAST Research Forum
Summer Term 2024
IN-EAST Research Forum
In Winter Term 2023/24 the International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies is the lecture series Diversifying Immigrant Societies in (East) Asia. All lectures will be held online only via Zoom.
Wed, May 8, 2024, 10 a.m. CEST (online)
Chikako Kashiwazaki Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo
From side doors to skill-level shifts: Japanese labor migration policy and its impact on ethnic diversity
Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5Apc-irpjsrEtPNz085Xyuy1J6UujgKH43O
Wed, June 19, 2024, 10 a.m. CEST (online)
Peidong Yang Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The insecure migrant middle in Singapore: research insights on migrant professionals, immigrant teachers, and immigrant parents
Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5woceuqqD8jGdI1zCGzbmJxIvXKR4WVKlaH
Wed, July 17, 2024, 10 a.m. CEST (online)
In-Jin Yoon Professor, Department of Sociology, Korea University, Seoul
Current status and policy response to migrant integration and multiculturalism in Korea
Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u50qdeCgqToqHtePLf6_S_NppjpA9Wk6vica
This Research Forum is co-organised with the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany)-funded project QuaMaFA (Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia)
Winter Term 2023/24
IN-EAST Research Forum
In Winter Term 2023/24 the International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies is the lecture series Labor, Mobility and Migration of (East) Asia. The lectures 1 and 3 are held as hybrid events: both in presence in room LE 736 and as video conferences via Zoom. The lecture 2 is held as online lecture only.
Wed, December 6, 2023, 10 a.m. CET (Hybrid event)
Yu-chin Tseng Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
Students, Workers or Cash Cows? The Double-Commodification of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan
Wed, January 17, 2024, 10 a.m. CET (Online event)
Lenka Vylet’alová Assistant Professor, Palacky University Olomouc
Mapping the Transnational Migration of Highly Skilled Japanese Women in Dual Career Couple Context: a Conflict or a Confluence of Career and Family Trajectories?
Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5Epdu-ppjosGtELHe9DPkbiYoku0Wem_cCz
Wed, January 31, 2024, 4 p.m. CET (Hybrid event)
Sou Hyun Jang Korea University, Seoul
The Impact of Immigrants’ Transnational Ties with Their Home Countries in South Korea
Zoom Link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5EufuGorjspGNaKSv_J3yH2kUj_scbO-kqH
The lecture series is partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF)
Summer Term 2023
IN-EAST Research Forum
Lecture Series of the Institute of East Asian Studies. All lectures were held both in room LE 736 and as video conferences via Zoom.
Link: https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YlduCqqDkpG90cCoTQWPQ9mWBZDsw9rnuI .
Standard time slot: Wednesday, 10–12 am CET
Wed, April 19, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
An Huy Tran IN-EAST
The Charging Migrants: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Japan and the Transnational Negotiation of Sexuality and Masculinity
Wed, May 3, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Sandhya A.S. IN-EAST
Making Mobility a Market: An Economic Sociology of Migration Brokerage
Wed, May 17, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Ibrahim Öztürk IN-EAST
Populism and Economic Performance
Wed, May 31, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Bohyun Kim IN-EAST
Securitizing Climate Change in Green Taxonomy Discourses: A Comparative Analysis between EU and South Korea
Wed, June 14, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Giulia Romano / Markus Taube IN-EAST
Knowledge Transfers from China to Europe in the Field of Smart City Development: Preliminary Findings
Wed, June 21, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Ruixing Cao IN-EAST
Leader’s Educational Background and Chinese Official Finance Flows
Wed, June 28, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST – This lecture will be held online only!
Georg Blind IN-EAST
Productivity and Stress Levels in New Teleworkers in Japan: Mandatory versus Voluntary Introduction
Wed, July 12, 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Martin Hemmert Korea University, Seoul
The non-Internationalization of East Asian IT Start-ups: What Holds Them Back?
Winter Term 2022/23
IN-EAST Research Forum
In Winter Term 2022/23 the International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies was the lecture series Entering Choppy Waters? Cooperation and Competition in the Indo-Pacific. All lectures were held as video conferences in the form of a webinar.
Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 4 p.m. CEST
Felix Heiduk German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
The Evolving Regional Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 10–11 a.m. CET
Li Mingjiang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Implications for Strategic Realignments in the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 6 p.m. CET
Stephen G. Walker Arizona State University, Tempe
Understanding Role Change in the Indo-Pacific: The Evolution of Sino-US Relations
Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 5 p.m. CET
Gilbert Rozman Princeton University, NJ
How the Ukraine War Undermined Strategic Triangularity in the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 6 p.m. CET
Gaye Christoffersen Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Nanjing Center
The Role of Russia in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4 p.m. CET
Alice Ba University of Delaware, Newark
Institutional Competition and Transition: Positioning Southeast Asia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 6 p.m. CET
Shaun Breslin University of Warwick, Coventry
Tilting at Windmills? The UK and the Indo-Pacific
Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 11 a.m. CET
Thomas Wilkins University of Sydney
Expanding Japan’s Overseas Security Horizons: The “Special Strategic Partnership” with Australia
Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 12 p.m. CET
Kei Koga Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Japan’s Indo-Pacific Policy
Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 1 p.m. CET
Harsh Pant King’s College London
India in the Indo-Pacific: A New Role beyond South Asia
Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 10 a.m. CET
William Tow Australian National University, Canberra
Australia Faces the Indo-Pacific: Changing Power Dynamics and Alliance Calculations
Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2 p.m. CET
Saskia Hieber Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing; University of Regensburg
“The most Dangerous Place on Earth” – Taiwan, Military Modernisation, and Beijing’s Security Nexus
Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 2 p.m. CET
Alexandra Sakaki German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
Japan’s Security Policy amid Growing
Summer Term 2022
IN-EAST Research Forum
In Summer Term 2022 the International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies was the lecture series China’s Global Rise. All lectures were held as video conferences in the form of a webinar.
Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 6–7 p.m. MESZ
Steve Chan University of Colorado Boulder
Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order
Thu, April 28, 2022, 9–10 a.m. MESZ
Courtney J. Fung Macquarie University, Sydney
Looking to Lead? China and UN Peacekeeping
Wed, May 4, 2022, 11.30–12.30 a.m. MESZ
Scott Kennedy Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
Beyond Decoupling: Maintaining America’s High-Tech Advantages over China
Thu, May 12, 2022, 5–6 p.m. MESZ
Margaret M. Pearson University of Maryland
China’s Political Economy and International Backlash
Tue, May 24, 2022, 6–7 p.m. MESZ
Rosemary Foot University of Oxford
Institutional Pathways in Challenging the Liberal Order: China at the United Nations
Wed, May 25, 2022, 4–5 p.m. MESZ
Alexander Cooley Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
Daniel Nexon Georgetown University, Washington DC
Shock to the System: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Prospects for Liberal Ordering
Wed, June 8, 2022, 5–6 p.m. MESZ
Min Ye Boston University
The Belt and Road: China’s Evolving Global Grand Strategy
Wed, June 15, 2022, 3–4 p.m. MESZ
Alastair Iain Johnston Harvard University, Cambridge MA
How Discourses of Order Create Disorder: Comparing the US ‘Rules Based Order’ and China’s ‘Community of Common Destiny’
Wed, June 22, 2022, 6–7 p.m. MESZ
Pu Xiaoyu University of Nevada, Reno
Rethinking China’s Rise in a Changing Global Order
Wed, June 29, 2022, 4–5 p.m. MESZ
Oliver Stuenkel Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), São Paulo
The Tech War and the Future of Global Order
Wed, July 6, 2022, 5–6 p.m. MESZ
Wei Liang Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey
BRICS minus China? China Shock and the Future of the World Trade Organization
Winter Term 2021/22
IN-EAST Research Forum
Lecture Series International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies.
Webinar – all lectures were held as video conferences.
Standard time slot: Wed, 10–11 am CET (30 min. lecture, 30 min. Q&A), exceptions are marked in bold.
Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 16–18 h
Axel Klein University of Duisburg-Essen
Who Voted? Who Won? Who’ll Run the Country? A Closer Look at the 2021 General Election in Japan
(In cooperation with AREA Ruhr Occasional Lecture Series)
Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10–11 h
David Shim Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Memorials’ Politics: Exploring the Material Rhetoric of the Statue of Peace
Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 10–11 h
David M. Malitz Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo
Chinese and Japanese Medical Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 10–11 h
Alexandra Roland University of Duisburg-Essen
Don’t Touch My Dignity! Hate Speech an Incurable Illness?
Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 10–11 h
Cornelia Reiher Freie Universität Berlin
Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Revitalization in Japan
Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 10–11 h
Julia Dumin TU Dortmund University
A Focal Point of Democratic Consolidation? Studying the 2017 Presidential Impeachment and Its Implications for the Democratization Process in South Korea
Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 14–16 h
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer Freie Universität Berlin
Yamamoto Tarō and Reiwa Shinsengumi: Testing the Left-Wing Populist Hypothesis in Japan
(In cooperation with AREA Ruhr Occasional Lecture Series)
Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 17–18 h
Diana Schüler and Werner Pascha University of Duisburg-Essen
Beyond the Workbench: The Rise of the Cultural Industry in South Korea
Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 17–18 h
Celeste Arrington George Washington University, Washington DC
From Manners to Rules: Legalistic Governance and Secondhand Smoke Prevention in South Korea and Japan
Summer Term 2021
IN-EAST Research Forum
Lecture Series International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies.
Webinar – all lectures were held as video conferences.
Wed, April 21, 2021, 10–12 h
Janet Hui Xue Fellow, Center for Global Cooperation Research
The Use of Facial and Health Data in AI: The Case of the Health Code System in China and Implications for Implementations of the GDPR
Wed, April 28, 2021, 16–18 h
Florian Freitag Institute of Anglophone Studies, UDE
Middle Magic Kingdoms: Theme Parks in China?
Wed, May 5, 2021, 16–18 h
Nele Noesselt, Tanja Eckstein, Elizaveta Priupolina IN-EAST, UDE
Daguo Waijiao (Great Power Diplomacy): Visualized Narratives of Chinese Global Role Claims
Wed, May 12, 2021, 10–12 am
Karen Shire IN-EAST, UDE
The Ramseyer Affair as an Opportunity for Reflecting on the Social Organization of Sexual Exploitation
Wed, May 19, 2021, 10–12 am
Mika Toyota Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Shut-in Abroad: Social Incapacitation among Low-Income Male Japanese Elderly in Thailand
Wed, June 9, 2021, 16–18 h
Katja Schmidtpott Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum
The Making of the 20th Century City: Towards a Transnational Urban History of Japan and Europe
(Co-organized with AREA Ruhr)
Wed, June 16, 2021, 10–12 am
Anja Weiß Institute for Sociology, UDE
Transnational Comparison: Studying Standard Diffusion and the Glocalization of Medical Professional Practice through a Quasi-Experiment in Ankara, Beijing, Groningen and Würzburg
Wed, June 23, 2021, 16–18 h
Minh T.N. Nguyen Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam
Wed, June 30, 2021, 10–12 am
Giulia Romano IN-EAST, UDE
Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in a Chinese City: Policy learning under multiple hierarchies
Thu, July 8, 2021, 16–18 h
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum
The Politics of Fintech Regulation in China
(Co-organized with AREA Ruhr)
Wed, July 14, 2021, 10–12 am
Markus Taube IN-EAST, UDE
From Cooperation to Conflict (and back?) Endogenous Institutional Change and Strategic Logic in China’s International Economic Relations
Wed, July 21, 2021, 10–12 am
Harald Conrad Institut für Modernes Japan, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Overcoming the Ethnocentric Firm? – Perspectives on Foreign Fresh University Graduate Employment in Japan
Winter Term 2020/21
Populism in East Asian Democracies
Lecture Series International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies
Between November 2020 and February 2021, PinEAD hosted a nine-part lecture series, bringing together prominent scholars of the field. Except for one all presentations are available as video recordings. Just follow the links below.
Standard time slot: Wed, 10–11 am CET (30 min. lecture, 30 min. Q&A),
except for Nov 11, 2020: 9–10 am and Nov 25, 2020: 7–8 pm
Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 9–10 am
Hino Airo Waseda University, Tokyo
Japan as an Uncharted Territory of Global Populism? Disentangling Its Myth with New Research
Link to Video of the lecture of Hino Airo
Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 10–11 am
Lin Thung-hong Academia Sinica, Taipei
Populism in Taiwan, 2014–2020
Link to Video of the lecture of Lin Thung-hong
Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7–8 pm
Chen Jung University of California, Merced
Dehumanization and Polarization in the 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election
No recording available
Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 10–11 am
Kang Won-Taek Seoul National University
Populism, Polarized Partisanship and Democracy in South Korea
Link to Video of the lecture of Kang Won-Taek
Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 10–11 am
Yoshida Toru Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Putting New Wine into Old Bottles? Institutions and Actors behind Japanese Populism
Link to Video of the lecture of Yoshida Toru
Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 10–11 am
Nathan Batto National Chengchi University, Taipei
The (Rapid) Rise and Fall of Populism in Taiwan
Link to Video of the lecture of Nathan Batto
Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 10–11 am
Hijino Ken Kyoto University
Winds, Fevers, and Floating Voters: Populist Revolts in Urban and Rural Japan
Link to Video of the lecture of Hijino Ken
Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 10–11 am
Lee Sook Jong Sungkyungwan University, Seoul
South Korea’s Tamed Populism: Popular Protests from Below and Populist Politics from the Top
Link to Video of the lecture of Lee Sook Jong
Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 10–11 am
Suh Byung-hoon Soongsil University, Seoul
Is Gov. Lee Jae-myung a Populist? Focusing on Korean People’s Assessment of his Economic Policies
Link to Video of the lecture of SUH Byung-hoon
Summer Term 2020
IN-EAST Research Forum
Lecture Series International Research Colloquium of the Institute of East Asian Studies.
Webinar – all lectures were held as video conferences.
Wed, May 20, 2020, 10–12 am
Anke Scherer Faculty of East Asian Studies, History of Japan, RUB
Survey the Soil, Control the Country: The role of the Manchurian Colonization Corporation (Mantaku) in Manshūkoku in the 1930s and 1940s
(Co-organized with AREA Ruhr)
Wed, May 27, 2020, 10–12 am
Nele Noesselt IN-EAST and Institute of Political Science, UDE
The PRC’s Global Leadership Claims in the ‘Green’ Economy
Wed, June 10, 2020, 10–12 am
Megha Amrith Research Group Leader, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Ageing, Migration and the Inequalities of Care in Southeast Asia
Wed, June 17, 2020, 10–12 am
Lei Li Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
Skill-biased Imports, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Allocation of Talent
Wed, June 24, 2020, 10–12 am
Hannes Mosler IN-EAST and Institute of Political Science, UDE
The Kwangju Uprising 1980 and the Politics of Memory in South Korea
Wed, July 1, 2020, 10–12 am
Thomas Kalinowski Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University
The Rise of East Asia and the Clash of Capitalisms
Winter Term 2019/20
Theory-based Research and Fieldwork. Social Actors, Strategic Behavior, and the Logic of the Chinese Party State
IN-EAST Lecture Series
Prof. Thomas Heberer has been involved with China in academic and professional capacity the past 40 years and he has, during this time, accumulated a wealth of research experience. In five individual lectures during the winter term 2019/20, he shared his profound knowledge about research on and fieldwork in China with the audience.
Thomas Heberer Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST, UDE
Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 16–18 h
China as a Developmental State. The Functionality and Logic of the Chinese Party State
Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 16–18 h
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China
Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 16–18 h
Political Representation in an Authoritarian Context: Formal, Informal and Digital Forms of Representation in China
Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 16–18 h
Decoding the Chinese Puzzle: Rapid Economic and Social Development Despite a High Level of Corruption
Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 16–18 h
40 Years of Fieldwork in China: Preconditions, Environment, Methodologies
Summer Term 2019
IN-EAST Research Forum
IN-EAST Lecture Series
Wed, April 17, 2019, 10–12 am
Kenneth Mori McElwain University of Tokyo, Japan, Political Science
What Do Japanese People Want from Their Constitution?
(Co-organized with AREA Ruhr)
Wed, May 8, 2019, 10–12 am
Werner Pascha IN-EAST, Economics
Japan’s “Silk Subway”: Reactions to China’s Infrastructure Initiative
Wed, May 15, 2019, 10–12 am
Markus Taube IN-EAST, Economics
Why Invest in Institutional Transfers? Cultural Idiosyncrasies and Entrepreneurial Motivation
Wed, May 29, 2019, 18–20 am
Florian Coulmas and Zi Wang IN-EAST, Sociology
Migration, Language, Satisfaction with Life
Wed, June 5, 2019, 10–12 am
Tao Liu IN-EAST, Sociology
Social Policy Research in China with an Interdependency-centered Approach
Wed, June 12, 2019, 10–12 am
Xueguang Zhou Stanford University, Ca., USA, Sociology
The Chinese Bureaucracy in Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian
Wed, June 19, 2019, 10–12 am
Feng Xu University of Victoria, Canada, Political Science
Eldercare Workers in Shanghai and Vancouver: An Essential yet Invisible Labour Force in Two Aspiring Global Cities
Wed, July 3, 2019, 10–12 am
Jens Wrona University of Düsseldorf, Economics
Trade and Market Integration in Japan
Wed, July 10, 2019, 10–12 am
Thomas Heberer IN-EAST, Political Science
Connective Representation in the Cyberspace: The Case of Chinese Entrepreneurs