IN-EAST News
10.06.2015 - 00:00
Mercator Fellowships conferred on Osawa Mari and Yu Keping
The IN-EAST is delighted to announce that Prof. Ozawa Mari and Prof. Yu Keping have been awarded the Mercator Fellowships sponsered by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. | The ceremony took place on June 10, 2015 in the presence of Prof. Ulrich Radtke, Rector of University of Duisburg-Essen at the Dissertation Proposal Workshop of the DFG Research Training Group 1613 "Risk and East Asia".
Opening Speech Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke, Rector, University of Duisburg-Essen:
Dear Prof. Osawa, Dear Prof. Yu, Dear Prof. Christiansen, Dear Prof. Shire, Dear Prof. Heberer, Ladies and Gentlemen,
With great pleasure I welcome you at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) today to the Mercator Fellowship Awards Ceremony for Prof. Mari Osawa and Prof. Keping Yu. Prof. Osawa, Prof. Yu, I would like to congratulate you both for receiving the prestigious Mercator Fellowship awards. Your participation as Mercator Fellows is a great honour for our Research Training Group "Risk and East Asia". [Read more …] https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/Full_size/Fotos_Mercator_Fellowships/Laudatio_Radtke.pdf
Laudatio by Prof. Karen Shire PhD for Prof. Dr. OSAWA Mari, Director and Professor of the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo:
Click here for a video of the laudatio: http://134.91.196.250/photo/webapi/embed.php?id=video_4d61726361746f72204c6175646174696f202d2046722e2050726f662e2044722e204b6172656e205368697265_6c6175646174696f5f6b6172656e73686972655f343830702e6d7034&quality=orig_h264
Laudatio by Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer for Prof. Dr. YU Keping, Professor and Founding Director, China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics:
It is a great honor to welcome Prof. Yu Keping to the University of Duisburg-Essen and in particular to the Institute of East Asian Studies. He is accompanied by his spouse Prof. Xu Xiuli who is a renowned professor of modern Chinese history at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Today, Professor Yu, you will be awarded a "Mercator Fellowship" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for distinguished foreign visiting professors. [Read more …] https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/Full_size/Fotos_Mercator_Fellowships/Laudatio_Heberer.pdf