The Korean Peninsula in Times of Multiple Crises: Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences  |  Fri–Sat, May 23–24, …
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The Korean Peninsula in Times of Multiple Crises: Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences  |  Fri–Sat, May 23–24, 2025, University of Duisburg-Essen
8th Annual Meeting of the Social Science Korean Studies Network in Europe (SoKEN), organized by the IN-EAST.

Proposal submission deadline: March 15, 2025
For more information please click below on the CfP file:
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Wegen hoher Suizidrate: Japan will strikte Schulregeln lockern. – Interview mit Steve Entrich im Schweizer Rundfunk, 11.2.2025

Im SoSe 2025 begrüßt das IN-EAST den Kollegen Daniel Koss, PhD (Harvard University)
Daniel Koss war für die World Bank …
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Im SoSe 2025 begrüßt das IN-EAST den Kollegen Daniel Koss, PhD (Harvard University)
Daniel Koss war für die World Bank und das Auswärtige Amt tätig, bevor er sein Studium in Harvard aufnahm und dort promovierte.
Nach einer Station am Institute of Political Science an der Academia Sinica in Taiwan kehrte er an die Universität Harvard zurück und arbeitet dort nun als Associate Senior Lecturer und Research Scholar.
Daniel Koss hat einschlägig sowohl zur VR China als auch zu Japan publiziert.
Am IN-EAST wird er u.a. seine Arbeit an einem Buchmanuskript zur Geschichte politischer Parteien in Japan fortsetzen. weniger

Südkoreas Yoon Suk-yeol: Gefolgsmann der Schamanen. Gastkommentar von Hannes Mosler in „Die Furche“, 2. Februar 2025.
Ist …
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Südkoreas Yoon Suk-yeol: Gefolgsmann der Schamanen. Gastkommentar von Hannes Mosler in „Die Furche“, 2. Februar 2025.
Ist Südkoreas Opposition von nordkoreanischen Agenten durchsetzt? Das behauptet zumindest der abgesetzte Präsident Yoon Suk-yeol, der einen Staatsstreich angezettelt hatte. Nun droht ihm die Todesstrafe.

Die Furche ist eine in Wien erscheinende Wochenzeitung.

Link zum Artikel (kostenpflichtig):
https://www.furche.at/politik-international/suedkoreas-yoon-suk-yeol-gefolgsmann-der-schamanen-15177139 weniger

Application Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025  | Seven Doctoral Researchers
The DFG Research Training Group 2833 East Asian …
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Application Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025  | Seven Doctoral Researchers
The DFG Research Training Group 2833 East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales offers seven 0,75 TV-L E13 positions at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen for Doctoral Research (m,f,x) from Oct 1, 2025 till Sep 30, 2029.

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group GRK 2833 solicits doctoral dissertations for research on East Asian projections and conceptions of the future: how they emerged, on what premises they were based, and how they have been and continue to be applied to the paradigmatic fields of (1) language, religion, and ideology, (2) self and society, (3) resources and technology, and (4) sovereignty and governance. The temporal focus is on the modern and contemporary periods. The relevant fields of research are

• Area Studies: Sinology/Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies and/or
• further disciplines with a strong focus on East Asia, such as Social Sciences (Political Science, Economics, Sociology), History, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies.

The doctoral studies will be conducted at the Faculty of East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), respectively its constituting faculties, with periods of fieldwork and archival/library research in East Asia. The participating researchers cooperate and coordinate their activities in the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr. GRK 2833 is supported by a grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded by the German federal government and the federal states. For further information on the research programme and the curriculum for doctoral researchers, please refer to the GRK 2833 website: https://east-asian-futures.de

Extent: part-time
Duration: temporary
Beginning: Oct 1, 2025
Application deadline: Jan 31, 2025

Your tasks

• Conducting doctoral research, including fieldwork in East Asia.
• Submitting a doctoral thesis after max. four years.
• Participating in the structured, English-language doctoral curriculum of the Research Training Group GRK 2833.
• Participating in the outreach activities of the Research Training Group.

Your profile

• You hold an above-average Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in a discipline relevant to the chosen project.
• You command the ability to formulate an original research question independently and to plan a research design to answer the question.
• You are highly motivated to work in an interdisciplinary research environment.
• You have excellent written and oral skills in English and a high command of at least one East Asian language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, classical and/or modern).
• You are willing to conduct academic research also in a non-European context.
• You have a strong interest and an initial idea for a doctoral project in the research programme East Asian Futures, relating to one or several of the four subthemes.

Our offer

• Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility
• Team-oriented cooperation in a committed, international and appreciative team
• Employment at one of Germany’s largest universities in the University Alliance Ruhr network
• Support in reconciling family and work/academics (including childcare placement, holiday offers, mobile children’s room).
• You will benefit from being a member of the AREA Ruhr with its wide research network and of the respective graduate centres Research School at RUB and Graduate Centre Plus at UDE under the umbrella of the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), which provide research and learning environments with structured guidance on academic skills training, support for attending conferences, and manifold opportunities for networking and career development.

Required documents

1. a cover letter
2. a CV including relevant information on the candidate’s academic formation
3. certifications of degrees, academic performance, and tested proof of language skills, especially the proficiency in one or more East Asian languages
4. a synopsis of the prospective dissertation / postdoctoral research topic (maximum of 5000 words, references not included)
5. a writing sample in English (ideally an excerpt of the master’s or doctoral thesis or a translated summary thereof)

Additional information
The staff council may be involved in selection interviews.
As the position is funded by third-party funds, the employee has no teaching obligation.

The Ruhr-Universität Bochum is one of Germany’s leading research universities, addressing the whole range of academic disciplines. A highly dynamic setting enables researchers and students to work across the traditional boundaries of academic subjects and faculties. To create knowledge networks within and beyond the university is RUB’s declared aim.
The Ruhr-Universität Bochum stands for diversity and equal opportunities. For this reason, we favour a working environment composed of heterogeneous teams, and seek to promote the careers of individuals who are underrepresented in our respective professional areas. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum expressly requests job applications from women. In areas in which they are underrepresented they will be given preference in the case of equivalent qualifications with male candidates. Applications from individuals with disabilities are most welcome.

Contact details for your application
Simone KORTUNG, Phone: +49 234 32 12279
Nora BRASSE, Phone: +49 234 32 12116
All interviews will be conducted online.

For information on the collection of personal data in the application process see here: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/information-collection-personal-data-application-process

Please upload your application with the specification ANR: 4034 until January 31, 2025 in one pdf file onto the application platform: https://east-asian-futures.de/application/requirements/ weniger

Application Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025  | Six Affilliated Fellowships for Doctoral Research in Bochum and Duisburg
Starting …
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Application Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025  | Six Affilliated Fellowships for Doctoral Research in Bochum and Duisburg
Starting date: October 1, 2025

Fields of research
Area studies: Sinology/Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies.
And/or further disciplines with a strong focus on East Asia, such as Social Sciences (Political Science, Economics, Sociology), History, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies

Scope of the programme
The interdisciplinary Research Training Group GRK 2833 solicits doctoral dissertations for research on East Asian projections and conceptions of the future: How they emerged, on what premises they were based, and how they have been and continue to be applied to the paradigmatic fields of (1) language, religion, and ideology, (2) self and society, (3) resources and technology, and (4) sovereignty and governance. The temporal focus is on the modern and contemporary periods.

The fellowship positions are limited to the finalization of the candidate’s doctoral studies or a maximum of four years. The doctoral fellows are expected to apply for and secure external funding prior to or at the same time as applying for the doctoral fellowship in the Research Training Group GRK 2833 East Asian Futures (such as DAAD or other scholarships). The candidate’s applications for external funding will be supported by GKR 2833 and assisted if necessary. Upon admission, they are eligible for support of their fieldwork by travel grants of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for associated doctoral researchers in the Research Training Group GRK 2833 East Asian Futures. The doctoral studies will be conducted at the Faculty of East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), respectively its constituting faculties, with periods of fieldwork and archival/library research in East Asia. The participating researchers cooperate and coordinate their activities in the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr.

The English-language doctoral programme includes a structured curriculum and close guidance by experienced researchers while at the same time fostering early academic independence and creativity by providing support for conducting, presenting, and publishing the results of the RTG members’ research.

Doctoral researchers will be supervised by two professors affiliated with the East Asian Studies Departments of both universities. The list of participating supervisors is installed on the website of the programme. For further information and possible topics of dissertations see the GRK 2833 programme: https://east-asian-futures.de

What we offer

• You will work within the stimulating and inspiring research environment of the coordinated research programme East Asian Futures.
• You will benefit from being a member of the AREA Ruhr with its wide research network and of the respective graduate centres Research School at RUB and Graduate Centre Plus at UDE under the umbrella of the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), which provide research and learning environments with structured guidance on academic skills training, support for attending conferences, and manifold opportunities for networking and career development.
• Equality in research includes the element of empowerment and diversity. To work towards these aims, both universities offer separate and joint programmes for gender mainstreaming and mentoring.
• After the successful doctoral defense, the research and training group supports graduates to find their way into successful academic and non-academic careers in Europe and worldwide

Your profile

• You hold an above-average Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in a discipline relevant to the chosen project.
• You command the ability to formulate an original research question independently and to plan a research design to answer the question.
• You are highly motivated to work in an interdisciplinary research environment.
• You have excellent written and oral skills in English and a high command of at least one East Asian language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, classical and/or modern).
• You are willing to conduct academic research also in a non-European context.
• You have a strong interest and an initial idea for a doctoral project in the research programme East Asian Futures, relating to one or several of the four subthemes.

Recognising the relevance of gender and diversity is a central strategic criterion of sustainable university development for the RUB and the UDE. Both RUB and UDE are committed to integrating talented people into the groups of researchers and educators, regardless of gender, socioeconomic background, and ethnicity, and to promoting their careers in areas where they are underrepresented. Applications are also welcome from suitably qualified candidates with severe disabilities.

For details of the application process, please visit the GRK 2833 website with the explanation of the documents required for submitting an application: https://east-asian-futures.de

Required documents

1. a cover letter
2. a CV including relevant information on the candidate’s academic formation
3. certifications of degrees, academic performance, and tested proof of language skills, especially the proficiency in one or more East Asian languages
4. a synopsis of the prospective dissertation / postdoctoral research topic (maximum of 5000 words, references not included)
5. a writing sample in English (ideally an excerpt of the master’s or doctoral thesis or a translated summary thereof)

Relevant dates for applications
Starting date for applications (platform opening): December 1, 2024
Screening of applications: February 2025
Online interviews: End of February / March 2025
Notification on admission: April/May 2025
Deadline: January 31, 2025

Upload and contact
Applications should be uploaded via the application platform https://east-asian-futures.de/application/requirements/ ) and be addressed to Prof. Dr. Christine MOLL-MURATA, Speaker of the GRK 2833.
For questions, please refer to the FAQs or send an E-mail to application@east-asian-futures.de weniger

Gaps between de jure Entitlement and de facto ­Benefits: Drift and the Role of Employers in China’s Maternity Benefit …
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Gaps between de jure Entitlement and de facto ­Benefits: Drift and the Role of Employers in China’s Maternity Benefit System  |  Paper by Zhe Yan, Tobias ten Brink, and Armin Müller
Download:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/about/publications_green_series/paper140-2025.pdf weniger

On “Normal Houses” and “Family Households”: Understanding Housing Statistics to Conduct Research on Urban China  |  Wed, …
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On “Normal Houses” and “Family Households”: Understanding Housing Statistics to Conduct Research on Urban China  |  Wed, Jan. 29, 2024, 16–17.30 h  |  LE 736 (in presence)
Dr. Ryanne Flock is Postdoc Research Associate at the Chair of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Universität Würzburg.

Venue:
Institute of East Asian Studies
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg Campus
LE Building, Room LE 736
47057 Duisburg

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

Privat: Zwischen Überwachung und Profit. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2025, 164 Seiten.

Datong Music Society (1919–1958) and the Making of “Heritage” in Early Chinese Music Modernity  |  Fri, Jan. 24, …
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Datong Music Society (1919–1958) and the Making of “Heritage” in Early Chinese Music Modernity  |  Fri, Jan. 24, 2025, 10–12 h CET  |  Online Lecture
Abstract:
Datong Music Society, founded by Zheng Jinwen (1872–1935) in Shanghai in 1919, was a major Chinese music organization that proactively responded to the cultural reform movement of the time. For decades, Datong was known for modeling new Chinese instrumental practices upon standardized Western settings, including changing the pitch setting (temperament), expanding the range of tones (register) and volume, and adopting the orchestral style for its ensemble. While these Western-inspired changes have lasting impact on Chinese music reform, recent discoveries of Datong’s archaistic styled instruments suggest an opposite direction of revival, one that prompts new reflections on modernity.
Among the recent discoveries is a set of Datong instruments donated to the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1925, which I confirmed with the help of the music curator Silke Berdux in 2023. The archaism of the gift set, which was a style common among Datong instruments production in its prime, afforded Datong to be known as the “spokesperson” of classical, or “ancient” (gu) Chinese music. Drawing from the concept of “exhibitory modernity” and reviewing Zheng’s views of history and exhibit, this talk will present Datong as a practical bearer of “heritage” in Chinese musical modernity during the interwar period. Unlike the preservationist notion of “heritage,” however, Datong challenges us to re-envision “heritage” as displaying purposefulness of the modern. Looking closely at its selected pieces, Datong’s instruments indeed showed a variety of creative styles.
A comparison with the “early music revival” happening almost simultaneously in the West helps illustrate Datong’s peculiar approach. Instead of applying fidelity in making early musical instruments in order to produce historical sounds, Datong was more interested in integrating the past with the present, bringing together revival and reform in seeking its futuristic vision of “datong” (lit. great unity), when Chinese music becomes a music of the world with its own national style.

About the speaker:
Joys H.Y. Cheung (Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan; M.M. in Ethnomusicology, University of Texas) is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. Her research has focused on the field of “music” in Chinese modernity emerging from interwar Shanghai, including issues of translated modernity, networks, the sublime, qin listening, historiography, and heritage negotiations. Her publications in 2023 include The Art Song of East Asia and Australia, 1900–1950 (Routledge), her second co-edited volume, and Making Chinese Instrumental Relics in Pre-UNESCO Modernity: Datong Music Society’s ‘Heritage’ Project (Journal of Music Research, Taipei). Her article Riding the Wind with Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony: The Kantian and Daoist Sublimes in Chinese Musical Modernity (Music & Letters, UK, 2015) received the Rulan Chao Pian Publication Prize in 2016. With her recent discovery of a set of Chinese musical instruments donated by Datong Music Society to Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany in 1925, she has initiated a collaborative exhibit and research project between her institution and the museum (2026), and has brought about a collaboration with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2024).

Access to the Meeting:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/65259835868
Meeting-ID: 652 5983 5868
Password: 684093

Link to the website of East Asian Futures:
https://east-asian-futures.de weniger

für Studierende der Koreastudien/Koreanistik in Deutschland  |  Freitag, 24. Januar 2025, 9.30–14.30 Uhr
Obgleich …
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für Studierende der Koreastudien/Koreanistik in Deutschland  |  Freitag, 24. Januar 2025, 9.30–14.30 Uhr
Obgleich die Zahl der Studierenden des Fachs Koreanistik/Koreastudien in Deutschland seit Jahren kontinuierlich steigt, bleiben langfristige Karrierechancen innerhalb der deutschen Universitäten nach wie vor begrenzt. Mit dem wachsenden Bedarf an Fachwissen über Korea bieten sich jedoch auch zunehmend vielfältigere Möglichkeiten für alternative, außeruniversitäre Karrierewege. Vor diesem Hintergrund zielte der Workshop darauf ab, Studierende der Koreastudien/Koreanistik an mögliche alternative Karrierewege heranzuführen. Dazu haben ausgewählte Experten und Praktiker aus verschiedenen Institutionen ihre eigenen Karrierewege sowie ihre koreabezogene Arbeit in Think Tanks, politischen Stiftungen sowie der Botschaft der Republik Korea in Deutschland vorgestellt und Chancen sowie Herausforderungen mit den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern diskutiert.

Programm
9.30–10.00 Begrüßung und Einführung
Hannes Mosler (IN-EAST), Florian Pölking (OAW, RUB), Hee Byung Kuk Woo (Leiter des Europabüros der Korea Foundation, Berlin (online zugeschaltet))
10.00–11.00 Koreabezogene Arbeit in Politischen Stiftungen
Hendrik Johannemann (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
11.00–12.00 Koreabezogene Arbeit in Think Tanks
Eric Ballbach (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)
12.00–13.00 Pause / Lunch
13.00–14.00 Koreabezogene Arbeit in den Botschaften
Nathalie Forkert (Botschaft der Republik Korea)
14.00–14.30 Abschlussdiskussion

Download Poster:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/events/korea-event_poster_update.pdf weniger

South Korea at a Crossroads: The Martial Law Crisis, Its Roots, and What Lies Ahead  |  January 23, 2025, 9.00–10.30 …
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South Korea at a Crossroads: The Martial Law Crisis, Its Roots, and What Lies Ahead  |  January 23, 2025, 9.00–10.30 Uhr CET  |  Online Panel Discussion
Speaker: Hannes Mosler, IN-EAST
Moderator: Duc Quang Ly, CPG

Organized by German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) in cooperation with Asian Governance Foundation (AGF).
More information and Registration:
https://cpg-online.de/cpg-event/south-korea-at-a-crossroads-the-martial-law-crisis-its-roots-and-what-lies-ahead/ weniger

No pardons for the real enemies of liberal democracy in South Korea. In: The Hankyoreh’s opinion section, January 20, 2024 …
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No pardons for the real enemies of liberal democracy in South Korea. In: The Hankyoreh’s opinion section, January 20, 2024 (in Korean)
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Trust and Friendship in International Relations  |  Fri, January 17, 2025, 10–12 h CET  |  Online Lecture
Felix …
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Trust and Friendship in International Relations  |  Fri, January 17, 2025, 10–12 h CET  |  Online Lecture
Felix Berenskötter, PhD is Reader in International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London.

Abstract:
This talk explores the concept of trust in international friendship. Trust is generally accepted as intrinsic to and, perhaps, the key feature of friendship. Yet precisely because of its centrality, and because international friendship is not a straightforward phenomenon, we need to think carefully about how we situate and ‘see’ trust in such a configuration. The talk approaches this task in three steps: (i) reviewing different ways trust can be conceptualised in general, highlighting its future-orientation, (ii) offering a reading that is intertwined with an ontology of international friendship as shared being in time, and (iii) linking the concept to observable expressions in international politics, namely practices of solidarity, the sharing of private information/secrets, and critique.

Access to the Meeting:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/61329298406?pwd=SZIJ6oC5wZ7B6eNWbwcIJa7rDFBOre.1
Meeting-ID: 613 2929 8406
Password: 726307

Link to the website of East Asian Futures:
https://east-asian-futures.de weniger

Recalibrating ‘Skill’ in Changing Immigration Regimes: Skilled Migrants and the Nature of Work in Asia  |  January …
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Recalibrating ‘Skill’ in Changing Immigration Regimes: Skilled Migrants and the Nature of Work in Asia  |  January 16–17, 2025, 10.30 a.m. SGT (= 3.30 a.m. CET)
QuaMaFA (Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia) team would like to invite you to this upcoming hybrid workshop at the National University of Singapore on 16th–17th January 2025 from 10:30 a.m. SGT (= 3.30 a.m. CET). This workshop is co-organized with the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS ARI).

Please check details and register from: https://quamafa.de/upcoming-event/
We are looking forward to seeing you online (or in Singapore).

Workshop Organisers:
Dr Helena HOF
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and University of Zurich
Dr Aimi MURANAKA
University of Duisburg-Essen
Dr Ruth ACHENBACH
Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr Yang WANG
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Prof Brenda S.A. YEOH
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore weniger