Urban Innovations and the Tokyo 2020 Games. IN-EAST School Workshop  |  Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 10–17 h  |  SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
The … »mehr

Urban Innovations and the Tokyo 2020 Games. IN-EAST School Workshop  |  Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 10–17 h  |  SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
The IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies of the University of Duisburg-Essen is inviting submissions for participants of a workshop on various perspectives dealing with the urban aspects of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (see below) in Duisburg on the 27th of February, 2019. Travel costs for speakers from within Europe will be covered. Abstracts (max 400 words) together with a short (max 200 words) biographic note should be sent to deirdre.sneep@uni-due.de by the 4th of February, 2019. For more information and inquiries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

‘City of Tomorrow’: Urban Innovations and the Tokyo 2020 Games

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the second Olympic Summer Games Japan. Already having become a widely discussed topic by in public and political discourse because of several large issues concerning the budget, the (location of) new facilities, and plagiarism concerning the Olympic logo, Tokyo is struggling to upkeep its image towards the outside. At the moment, the city is in the midst of its preparations, constructing 'physical legacies' to leave for future generations and in an effort to impress the rest of the world. In particular, the 2020 Games are characterized by an emphasis on the Paralympics (perhaps even more than the Olympics), and the promise of making the city ‘barrier free’, not only for those with a physical handicap, but also for the growing elderly population. Strongly focusing on showcasing technological prowess and excellence through urban innovations, the Games are advertised as 'the most innovative in history', and Tokyo as ‘city of tomorrow’. These claims, part of an antithetical message of transcending politics while clearly being used as marketing strategies, are remarkable in the case of the 2020 Games as the emphasis is on Tokyo as a city as innovative and livable. While in fact, Japan, and Tokyo as pars pro toto, is confronted with an ever-growing aging demographic (Coulmas 2007), the troublesome aftermath of the 2011 triple disaster (Gill, Steger and Slater 2013), and an economy still struggling to overcome past crises. In how far the city will manage to re-brand and improve itself in the upcoming year and a half, is debatable. This workshop aims to promote discussion on the urban aspect of the 2020 Olympic Games, analyzing the spatial aspects of the preparations from various socio-cultural perspectives and situating the event not only in Japanese history, but also in relation to the current power dynamics of global cities.
 
PROGRAM

10.00  Deirdre SNEEP: Opening Remarks
10.30  Miyo ARAMATA, Meiji University, Tokyo: Construction of the Main Stadium for the Second Tokyo Olympics: Implications and Issues
11.00  Coffee Break

Session 1  2020 Legacies I – Socio-cultural implications of the 2020 Olympic Games

11.30  Erez GOLANI SOLOMON, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (in cooperation with Christian DIMMER): Is it too Early to Speak about Zaha Hadid’s Ghost?
12.00  Heide IMAI, Hosei University, Tokyo (co-authored with Zdenka HAVLOVA, University of Tokyo): The Transformation of Tokyo’s Fish Market’s Identity: Tsukiji, Toyosu and Tokyo 2020
12.30  Christoph SCHIMKOWSKY, University of Sheffield: Regulatory Challenges and Innovations: ‘Manner Posters’, Public Transport, and Tokyo 2020
13.00  Lunch

Session 2  2020 Legacies II – Socio-cultural implications of the 2020 Paralympic Games

14.00  Deirdre SNEEP, University of Duisburg-Essen: “A Global Landmark for Young People”: the Elderly and the Making of a Barrier Free Tokyo 2020
14.30  Sam GEIJER, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences: Insights in the Impacts of the Paralympic Games: How Its Legacies are Influencing a Country’s Politics and Urban Development
15.00  Anoma VAN DER VEERE, Leiden University: The Local Effects of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: Discursive Separation and Pragmatic Considerations in Spreading Sports for Persons with a Disability in Japan
15.30  Coffee Break
16.00–17.00  Final Discussion

Student participation is welcome!
Registration is necessary by February 21, 2019:
birgit.geith@uni-due.de

pdf-download of the Program:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/events/program_city_of_tomorrow_2019.pdf

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Evaluating the Car License Auction Formats of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Singapore: Theory and Experimental Evidence  |  Thu, Feb. 14, 2019, 14 h  |  Room … »mehr

Evaluating the Car License Auction Formats of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Singapore: Theory and Experimental Evidence  |  Thu, Feb. 14, 2019, 14 h  |  Room SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
The IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Lijia Tan, Research Fellow at the IN-EAST School, is going to give a guest lecture to which we cordially invite all interested scientists and students.

Abstract
Auctions are used to implement a quota system of car ownership in Singapore and in many fast growing cities of China. Three such cities where influential auction formats have been developed for allocating car licenses are the Asian metropolises of Singapore, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with other cities following suit. In this paper, we examine these auction formats theoretically and experimentally. We introduce reaction time as an important non-economic factor to model bidding behaviors in car license auctions. At the theoretical level, reaction time causes inefficient allocations in the Shanghai auction but not in the Singapore or Guangzhou auctions. The experimental results are consistent with our theoretical prediction that late bids prevail in all of these auction formats, but only lead to inefficient allocations in the Shanghai auction. Additionally, we scored the subjects' reaction time in the Shanghai treatment by conducting a number comparison task and we found a positive correlation between winning probability and the score for reaction time.

Bio
Lijia Tan is a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Xiamen University in China, where she stayed seven years and earned M.A. degree in Finance.
Her research interests are Experimental Economics, Behavioral Operation Management, and Game Theory. Her main research focus is the relationship between buyer and seller in procurement, including prosocial behaviour and negotiation protocol which could contribute to the efficiency of a supply chain; Auctioneer’s systematic bias in optimal auction mechanism; Laboratorial investigation for the efficiency of the practical auction formats. Her works have been published in Management Science and Pacific Economic Review. »weniger

Shuanping Dai: Hermes or Hephaistos: Arthurian technological progress and the future of mobile payment  |  Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4–5.30 pm  |  Room … »mehr

Shuanping Dai: Hermes or Hephaistos: Arthurian technological progress and the future of mobile payment  |  Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4–5.30 pm  |  Room SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, Duisburg

Shuanping Dai is Junior Professor at Mercator School of Management and Institute of East Asian Studies - Chair: Institutional Economics – Chinese Economic Studies

Contact: Kerstin Lukner
kerstin.lukner@area-ruhr.de
www.area-ruhr.de »weniger

Immigrant Japan – Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society  |  Tue, January 29, 2019, 6 pm  |  Room SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 … »mehr

Immigrant Japan – Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society  |  Tue, January 29, 2019, 6 pm  |  Room SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
Abstract
It is hard to imagine Japan, a society with a strong national cultural identity and a myth of racial homogeneity, as an immigrant society. Although at around 2.5 million and about 2 % of the total population, the presence of immigrants is not comparable to that in most other industrial countries, immigrants have nonetheless penetrated every aspect of economic and social life in this island country and are taking part in shaping its future. Based on many years of field research among immigrants from different national backgrounds living in Japan, this presentation examines how immigrants make home, build communities, and understand their existence in a country with distinct patterns of social organization and powerful ethno-national cultural narratives.

Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo. Co-organized by IN-EAST, Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK) and Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (InZentIM) »weniger

Projektmanager/in (administrative Koordination und Begleitung; Entgeltgruppe 11 TV-L) für die IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies. Bewerbung bis 31.12.2018

Wir … »mehr

Projektmanager/in (administrative Koordination und Begleitung; Entgeltgruppe 11 TV-L) für die IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies. Bewerbung bis 31.12.2018

Wir sind eine der jüngsten Universitäten Deutschlands und denken in Möglichkeiten statt in Grenzen. Mitten in der Ruhrmetropole entwickeln wir an 11 Fakultäten Ideen mit Zukunft. Wir sind stark in Forschung und Lehre, leben Vielfalt, fördern Potenziale und engagieren uns für eine Bildungsgerechtigkeit, die diesen Namen verdient.

Ausschreibung 833/18

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen sucht am Campus Duisburg am IN-EAST für die IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies on Innovation in East Asia eine/n

Projektmanagerin / Projektmanager

(administrative Koordination und Begleitung)

(Entgeltgruppe 11 TV-L)

Ihre Aufgabenschwerpunkte:

Der/die Stelleninhaber/In übernimmt als Projektmanager/In die administrative Koordination und Begleitung eines Verbundforschungsprojektes des BMBF (IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies).
Im Einzelnen umfasst die Koordination und Bearbeitung folgende Aufgaben, für die umfassende Kenntnisse erforderlich sind:

Administrative Betreuung der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies:

• Verhandlungen mit Mittelgebern und Zuwendungsberechtigten über Verwaltungsmodalitäten sowie Mittelbewirtschaftung des Verbundvorhabens
• Planung und Organisation von Personalmaßnahmen sowie Infrastrukturmaßnahmen
• Prozess- und Informationsmanagement (Sitzungsorganisation)
• Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Unterstützung bei der Berichterstattung
• Planung von Dienstreisen und administrative Betreuung der Feldforschung
• Abwicklung interner Verwaltungsvorgänge (inkl. Abwicklung und Abrechnung von Beschaffungsvorgängen)

Bearbeitung des Drittmittelprojektes:

• Annahme der Drittmittel
• Prüfung von Unterlagen und Beratung bei der vorbereitenden Gestaltung
• Bewirtschaftung der Drittmittel
• Mittelanforderung
• Erstellen/Prüfung der Verwendungsnachweise
• Prüfung und Erteilung von Spendenbescheinigungen
• Schriftverkehr
• Projektabrechnungen
• Sollstellungen, Haushaltsüberwachung, Rechnungswesen
• Pflege der Projektdaten in SAP und in internen Datenbanken

Kurs- und Veranstaltungsorganisation und -management inkl. der Betreuung von externen Wissenschaftlern und Partnern, Pflege von internationalen Partnerschaften für die School

Unterstützung in der Programmentwicklung und Qualitätskontrolle sowie Unterstützung in der Vorbereitung von Forschungsanträgen

Ihr Profil:

• Fachhochschul- oder Bachelorabschluss oder vergleichbarer fachlicher Abschluss bzw. einschlägige Berufserfahrung in der Koordination internationaler Programme oder im Projektmanagement von Drittmittelprojekten
• Kenntnisse der Strukturen von Universitäten, Forschungseinrichtungen oder des öffentlichen Dienstes sind von Vorteil
• Sehr gute Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift
• Zuverlässigkeit, Flexibilität, Kontaktfreudigkeit, Teamfähigkeit und interkulturelle Kompetenz
• strukturierte Arbeitsweise, Management- und Organisationsstärke
• Routinierter Umgang mit MS-Office und anderer Standardsoftware sowie Internet und Terminverwaltung
• Erfahrung im Umgang mit SAP-Software erwünscht

Besetzungszeitpunkt: zum 1.2.2019

Vertragsdauer: befristet bis 31.12.2019 (Ende Projektlaufzeit)

Arbeitszeit: 100 Prozent einer Vollzeitstelle (die Stelle kann auch auf Wunsch geteilt werden)

Bewerbungsfrist: bis zum 31.12.2018

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen verfolgt das Ziel, die Vielfalt ihrer Mitglieder zu fördern (s. http://www.uni-due.de/diversity ). Sie strebt die Erhöhung des Anteils der Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert deshalb einschlägig qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Frauen werden nach Maßgabe des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Bewerbungen geeigneter Schwerbehinderter und Gleichgestellter i.S. des § 2 Abs. 3 SGB IX sind erwünscht.

Ihre vollständige Bewerbung richten Sie bitte schriftlich unter Angabe der Kennziffer 833/18 an den Kanzler der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, Dezernat 4, Sachgebiet 4.2, z.H. Frau Eilers, 47048 Duisburg.
Reichen Sie bitte die Bewerbungsunterlagen nur in Kopie ein. Bitte beachten Sie, dass Bewerbungen auf elektronischem Weg nicht angenommen und Bewerbungsunterlagen nicht zurückgeschickt werden. Schnellhefter oder Bewerbungsmappen sind daher nicht erforderlich. Wenn es nicht zu einer Einstellung kommt, werden die Bewerbungsunterlagen in regelmäßigen Abständen auf datenschutzrechtlich unbedenklichem Wege vernichtet.
Weitere Informationen zur Stelle erhalten Sie bei Herrn Helmut Demes (Telefon: 0203/37-94191, E-Mail: helmut.demes@uni-due.de ) und zum Bewerbungsverfahren im Personalsachgebiet bei Frau Eilers (Telefon 0203/37-91359, E-Mail: claudia.eilers@uni-due.de ).

Informationen über die Fakultät und die ausschreibende Stelle finden Sie unter:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east
https://www.uni-due.de

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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in an Universitäten (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) für die IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies. Bewerbung bis 7.12.2018

Wir … »mehr

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in an Universitäten (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) für die IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies. Bewerbung bis 7.12.2018

Wir sind eine der jüngsten Universitäten Deutschlands und denken in Möglichkeiten statt in Grenzen. Mitten in der Ruhrmetropole entwickeln wir an 11 Fakultäten Ideen mit Zukunft. Wir sind stark in Forschung und Lehre, leben Vielfalt, fördern Potenziale und engagieren uns für eine Bildungsgerechtigkeit, die diesen Namen verdient.
  

Stellenausschreibung 829/18

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen sucht am Campus Duisburg im Bereich der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies on Innovation in East Asia eine/n

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin /
wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter

an Universitäten (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)

Ihre Aufgabenschwerpunkte:

• Mitwirkung am Forschungsprojekt „IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies on Innovation in East Asia“
• Selbständige Forschung zu den Themen der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies in Kooperation mit den anderen Mitgliedern der Forschungsgruppen der IN-EAST School
• Mitarbeit bei der Organisation und Realisation der travelling conferences zu den Forschungsthemen der IN-EAST School
• Im Rahmen der Tätigkeit wird Gelegenheit zur wissenschaftlichen Weiterqualifikation geboten

Ihr Profil:

• Promotion im Bereich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Innovationsmanagement, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaften, Geisteswissenschaften, Stadtplanung und -entwicklung sowie den Ingenieurwissenschaften
• Interesse und Erfahrung in der Forschung zu Ostasien
• Hervorragende Englischkenntnisse, gute Kenntnisse im Deutschen und einer ostasiatischen Sprache erwünscht
• Fähigkeit zum disziplinübergreifenden Diskurs

Besetzungszeitpunkt: 2.1.2019

Vertragsdauer: bis zum 31.12.2019 (Ende Projektlaufzeit)

Arbeitszeit: 100 Prozent einer Vollzeitstelle

Bewerbungsfrist: bis zum 7.12.2018

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen verfolgt das Ziel, die Vielfalt ihrer Mitglieder zu fördern (s. http://www.uni-due.de/diversity ). Sie strebt die Erhöhung des Anteils der Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert deshalb einschlägig qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Frauen werden nach Maßgabe des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Bewerbungen geeigneter Schwerbehinderter und Gleichgestellter i.S. des § 2 Abs. 3 SGB IX sind erwünscht.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen richten Sie bitte unter Angabe der Kennziffer 829-18 an Herrn Helmut Demes, Universität Duisburg-Essen, IN-EAST, 47048 Duisburg,
Telefon 0203 37-94191, E-Mail: helmut.demes@uni-due.de

Informationen über die Fakultät und die ausschreibende Stelle finden Sie unter:
https://www.uni-due.de

pdf download of the English version:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/aus_829-18_wiss_mit_in-east__eilers__engl.pdf »weniger

in Tokyo and beyond – Workshop of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies  |  Wed/Thu, November 7–8, 2018, 13.15 h |  Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg, … »mehr

in Tokyo and beyond – Workshop of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies  |  Wed/Thu, November 7–8, 2018, 13.15 h |  Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg, SG 183
The metropolitan area of Tokyo is still the Japanese seismograph of new social developments in the public sphere, even after nearly two decades of decentralization reforms. Due to the rapid urban and social developments, the metropolitan society offers an ideal forum for social innovations.
With presenters from sociology, political science and cultural studies, the workshop offers various insights of social and urban innovations in the form of new social movements, democratic innovations, and recent urban developments and their effects on the local community.

PROGRAMME

Wed, November 7, 2018
Session I: New Social Movements and Innovative Political Participation

13.15   Welcome and Introduction

13:30   Keiichi Satoh: “New Protest Cycle” Backed by the New Organizational Alliance? – Making Sense of the Frequent Large-Scale Demonstrations after the 3/11

14:15   Anna Wiemann: The Network Coalition E-shift – A New Form of Social Movement Organization?

15:30   Kei Takata: What’s so New about the ‘New New Social Movements’ in Japan?

16:15   Momoyo Hüstebeck: Invited Spaces – Deliberative Innovations in Comparison to Social Movements as Claimed Spaces

17:00   General Discussion / Conclusion

Thu, November 8, 2018
Session II: Social Effects of Urban Innovations

9:15   Introduction

9:30   Takashi Machimura: Tokyo’s Flexible but Uncontrollable City Regions as Innovative Base: Its Past Development and Future Challenges

10:30   Christian Tagsold: The Tokyo Olympics 2020: A Small-Scale but Functional Vision for the Mega-City?

11:15   Deirdre Sneep: “A Global Landmark for Young People” – Urban Innovations and Urban Aging in Light of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

12:45   Wrap Up and Final Conclusion

Download of the Programme with Abstracts and Bios:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/events/programm_social_processes.pdf

Contact: Momoyo Hüstebeck
momoyo.huestebeck@uni-due.de
Participation is free. Please register by
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CrossAreaStudies – Wie lokal können Regionalstudien sein? Konferenz von IN-EAST, CrossArea e.V. und BMBF  |  1. und 2. November 2018  |  Duisburg
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CrossAreaStudies – Wie lokal können Regionalstudien sein? Konferenz von IN-EAST, CrossArea e.V. und BMBF  |  1. und 2. November 2018  |  Duisburg
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Professor Takashi Machimura will visit the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow from October 29 until November 9, 2018
He will … »mehr

Professor Takashi Machimura will visit the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow from October 29 until November 9, 2018
He will participate at the workshop Social processes and effects of innovations in Tokyo and beyond on November 8–9 as a presenter with his lecture Tokyo’s Flexible but Uncontrollable City Regions as Innovative Base: Its Past Development and Future Challenges.

Takashi Machimura is Professor of Sociology at Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences in Tokyo. His current research themes include global city, urban social movement, mega-projects and mega-events, and development history in post-war Japan. His works appear in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and several books in English. His books include Anti-nuclear Social Movements after Fukushima Accident (co-editor with Keiichi Sato, 2016), Structure and Mentality in Developmentalism: Dam Construction in Post-war Japan (2011), and What is Civic-initiative Society? Conflicting Public Sphere in the Decision-Making Process of Aichi EXPO 2005 (co-editor, 2005), in Japanese. »weniger

Lijia Tan will visit the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow on October 23–26 and on November 19–23, 2018
Lijia Tan is … »mehr

Lijia Tan will visit the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow on October 23–26 and on November 19–23, 2018
Lijia Tan is Postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research interests are Experimental Economics, Behavioral Operation Management, and Game Theory. Lijia Tan will collaborate with the researchers of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies on the project Trust in Open Innovation. »weniger

Travelling ideas and concepts in urban development: limits of transfers and local contexts  |  October 8, 2018  |  IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies, … »mehr

Travelling ideas and concepts in urban development: limits of transfers and local contexts  |  October 8, 2018  |  IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
The detailed workshop program will be published here for download soon ... »weniger

Shiqiao Li will visit the IN-EAST and the IN-EAST School as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow on Oct. 6–13, 2018 and will give a talk on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018
Li … »mehr

Shiqiao Li will visit the IN-EAST and the IN-EAST School as Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow on Oct. 6–13, 2018 and will give a talk on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018
Li Shiqiao, PhD is Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture and Architecture + Architectural History and Chair of Architectural History at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. His research is focused on understanding Chinese architecture with its culture and intellectual frameworks. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing and obtained his PhD from AA School of Architecture and Birkbeck College, University of London. Li practiced architecture in London and Hong Kong, and initiated design proposals which were published and exhibited in journals and international exhibitions.

Prof. Li Shiqiao seeks for spatial understanding with deep cultural frameworks through studies of Chinese cities, as well as how these cultural frameworks are fundamentally structured by distinctive features stemming from the linguistic constructs of Indo-European and Sinitic languages. All these come together to formulate new theoretical grounds for design.

His books include Understanding the Chinese City (Sage, 2014), Kowloon Cultural District (MCCM Creations, 2014), Architecture and Modern Thought (China WaterPower Press, 2009) and Power and Virtue: Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730 (Routledge, 2007).

Lectures by Shiqiao Li:
Oct. 8, 2018:
Talk at the Workshop Travelling ideas and concepts in urban development: limits of transfers and local contexts at Campus Duisburg,
Oct. 9, 2018:
Impuls Talk and invited guest critic at the ARUS Doctoral Colloquium, Campus Essen,
Oct. 10, 2018:
Guest lecture at the Graduate Research Group Scripts for Post-industrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions, Campus Essen.

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Prof. Yu Keping is going to visit the IN-EAST from September 30 to October 7, 2018. He will give a talk on Friday, October 5, 14–16 h, Room SG 183
Prof. … »mehr

Prof. Yu Keping is going to visit the IN-EAST from September 30 to October 7, 2018. He will give a talk on Friday, October 5, 14–16 h, Room SG 183
Prof. Yu Keping (Director of the Center for Chinese Government Innovations at Peking University, Director of the Institute of Political Development at Tsinghua University and Director of the China Center for Global Governance and Development (CCGGD)) is a frequent visitor at IN-EAST and Mercator Fellow of the DFG Research Training Group Risk and East Asia. His fields of expertise include political philosophy, comparative politics, globalization, civil society, governance and politics in China. Among his many books are Governance and Rule of Law in China (ed., Brill 2012) and Democracy Is a Good Thing (Brookings 2010).
During his stay he will supervise PhD students, conduct collaborative research, and investigate possibilities for further collaboration.

He will give a talk entitled "Challenges and Priorities for China’s Two Hundred Years’ Goals" on Friday, October 5, 14–16 h, in Room SG 183 (Geibelstr. 41)
Abstract:
There have been so many great changes in Chinese political, economic and social life since President Xi Jinping has become the top leader of China. Everything that changes is referred to as the “New Normal” or the “New Era”. Nevertheless, there are some things unchanged behind the changed, at least, for instance, the fundamental goals for China’s development in the long term. That is to have constructed a Xiaokang Society by 2020, to have made China a modernized country by 2050 and to then realize the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Mr. Xi Jinping refers to them as the “Two Hundred Years’ Goals” and the “Chinese Dream”. However, in order to reach the “Two Hundred Years’ Goals” China faces great challenges, and even risks. The presentation will explain and analyze the main challenges faced by China. Meanwhile, the speaker tries to summarize and evaluate the policy priorities to meet these challenges taken on by the Chinese government. »weniger

Momoyo Hüstebeck has started her new research project on deliberations in the Japanese and German political context
(German title: Innovative Formen … »mehr

Momoyo Hüstebeck has started her new research project on deliberations in the Japanese and German political context
(German title: Innovative Formen demokratischer Beteiligung. Bürgerdeliberation im japanisch-deutschen Vergleich).

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds her position until 2021. »weniger

Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Tan)  |  Theoretical Evolution and Trend of Sustainable Urban Construction in China – From eco-city to eco-civilization … »mehr

Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Tan)  |  Theoretical Evolution and Trend of Sustainable Urban Construction in China – From eco-city to eco-civilization (Gao)  |  Tue, June 26, 2018, 14 h  |  Building SG, Room SG 183, Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg
The IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies is pleased to announce that Kenneth Paul Tan, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, is currently visiting fellow at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies (Hiroshi Kitamura fellow). At a joint event together with Lijie Gao, Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, both are going to give a guest lecture to which we cordially invite you.

Abstract (Kenneth Tan)
It is useful to think of contemporary Singapore, for all its complexity, as having a dual nature: Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation-state and a cosmopolitan global city of the top rank. This duality has produced a dynamic variety of contradictions and tensions, which have made all the more challenging the task of keeping the authoritarian Singapore system stable, durable, and successful. For one thing, the state has had to exert continuous effort to contain, rather than resolve, these contradictions in a pragmatic (that is to say, adaptive and undogmatic) fashion, whilst directing the public narration of a coherent and persuasive story that is acceptably meaningful and even inspiring to Singaporeans and other countries looking for ideas, role models, and partners for development and governance. This balancing act partly involves an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore’s capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this will mainly be through the exercise of soft (persuasive and attractive) power, which – when strategically combined with hard (military and economic) power – gives Singapore what former Harvard Kennedy School dean Joseph Nye (2013) called ‘smart power’. In this lecture, I analyze the increasingly multivocal and contested nature of the Singapore narrative – undergirding its national identity, brand, and soft power – by adopting a critical-analytical approach, inspired by Antonio Gramsci, which is centred on the notion of ideological hegemony.

CV Kenneth Tan
Kenneth Paul Tan is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where he has taught since 2007 and served as its fourth Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from 2013 to 2017. He has published in leading international journals such as Asian Studies Review, Critical Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, and positions: asia critique. His books include Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies And Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2017), Cinema and Television in Singapore: Resistance in One Dimension (Brill, 2008), and Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (NUS Press, 2007). His forthcoming book is titled Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press).

Abstract (Lijie Gao)
Despite the significant environmental problems resulting from China’s rapid economic development, the country is actively seeking solutions. Since the 1980s, the theory and practice of modern ecology in China have developed rapidly (Ma and Wang, 1984). A relatively complete set of theory, methodologies and plans for the construction of ecological cities guided by the socio-economic-natural complex ecosystem theory has been formed, providing theoretical and practical foundation for ecologically oriented sustainable construction beginning from 1990s. In practical phases, demonstration projects such as the Ecological Cities Construction Demonstration Zones accrediting different level of cities, towns, districts and development zones are effective incentives to facilitate sustainable development at local level, often all translated as eco-cities in China. At the other hand, international cooperation projects with government support, and paired with foreign involvement, with planners, architects after 2000s also flourished. With the new concept of Ecocivilization put forth, political and cultural dimensions of development are addressed. Some regions, such as Karamay, Guiyang, and the Minhang Development Zone, have been leaders in the implementation of the Ecological Civilization development model, and their experience offers valuable lessons for other regions in China as well as for other developing countries. During these theoretical evolution and trend of sustainable urban construction, a series of financial and political support policies supports from home and abroad has generated positive results nationwide, lessons are also learned through the process of these innovative ecological exploration. In this lecture, based on introducing sustainable urban construction trials, I will try to give a picture of their processes, challenges, institutional structures, development modes and approaches.

CV Lijie Gao
Dr. Lijie Gao from the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is currently on a DAAD PostDoc Fellowship at the Institute of City Planning and Urban Design at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Ms Lijie Gao has worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the focus on „Ecological-Sustainable Planning and Assessment” for several years with her main research interests in Sustainability; Low Carbon Development; IndustrialEcology; Urban Ecology. Her projects were awarded with several prestigious grants such as the National Natural Science Foundation China or the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Strategic Programme Fund (SPF). Her works has been publish in several peer-reviewed journals, monographs and edited volumes.

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Martin Hemmert ist vom 16.6. bis 15.7.2018 Hiroshi-Kitamura-Fellow an der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies
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Barbara Buchenau und Jens Martin Gurr sind vom 1.4. bis 30.9.2018 Hiroshi-Kitamura-Fellows an der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies
Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau und Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr forschen im Sommersemester 2018 (April–September 2018) an der IN-EAST School. Beide Professoren der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der UDE beschäftigen sich mit industriellen Altregionen im Strukturwandel wie dem Ruhrgebiet und dem nordamerikanischen „rust belt“. Jens Gurr ist gleichzeitig Sprecher des Kompetenzfelds Metropolenforschung der Universitätsallianz Ruhr, und Barbara Buchenau Prorektorin für Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, Diversität & Internationalität. Neben der Beratung der Postdocs der School arbeiten sie theoretisch an den Unterschieden und Gemeinsamkeiten des stärker geisteswissenschaftlich geprägten Konzepts der „Scripts“ und dem stärker sozialwissenschaftlich fundierten Konzepts der „institutional transplants“. Zudem sind sie zusammen mit der IN-EAST School, dem Kompetenzfeld Metropolenforschung und anderen Akteuren an einer Serie von internationalen Konferenzen beteiligt, auf denen die Entwicklungsperspektiven und -strategien industrieller Altregionen in den USA, Deutschland und Asien diskutiert werden sollen. »weniger

Prof. Kenneth Paul Andrew Sze-Sian Tan is Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies from June 9 to July 9, 2018
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Prof. Kenneth Paul Andrew Sze-Sian Tan is Hiroshi Kitamura Fellow at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies from June 9 to July 9, 2018
Kenneth Paul TAN is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where he has taught since 2007. From 2000 to 2007, he taught at the NUS’s University Scholars Programme and Political Science Department. He has written widely on (1) principles of public policy and administration (focusing on meritocracy, pragmatism, and public engagement); (2) liberalization, democracy, and civil society; (3) Asian creative cities and the culture industry (focusing on film, television, popular culture, and theatre); (4) race, gender, and sexuality; (5) spatial justice in Asian cities; (6) nation branding, soft power, and nation building; and (7) politics, society, and culture in Singapore. He has published in leading international journals such as Asian Studies Review, Critical Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, and positions: asia critique. His books include Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures after Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2017), Cinema and Television in Singapore: Resistance in One Dimension (Brill, 2008), and Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (NUS Press, 2007). His forthcoming book is titled Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press).

Kenneth Tan will collaborate with the researchers of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies on a project dedicated to the analysis of Singapore’s role as exporter of policies and sustainable urban development models to China. »weniger

Im Rahmen eines Aufstockungsantrags an das BMBF wurde die Laufzeit der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies um 9 Monate bis Ende 2019 verlängert
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Für die Aufstockungsphase genehmigte das BMBF Mittel in Höhe von knapp € 250.000. Ziel der Aufstockung ist es, den Transfer der Forschungsergebnisse systematisch zu verstärken. So werden in dieser Zeit in einer Serie internationaler Konferenzen Forschungsergebnisse der IN-EAST School einer breiteren Fachöffentlichkeit vorgestellt und mit ihr diskutiert. Hierfür nutzt das IN-EAST in Kooperation mit dem Kompetenzfeld Metropolenforschung der Universitätsallianz Ruhr sogenannte travelling conferences. Der Fokus wird auf Strukturwandel in alten Industrieregionen liegen. Neben dem Ruhrgebiet werden diese Konferenzen auch in mehreren Ländern Ostasiens sowie im „rust belt“ Nordamerikas organisiert, um einen praxis- und theoriegestützten Erfahrungsaustausch mit Experten vor Ort zu innovativen Konzepten der strukturellen Wandels zu initiieren. »weniger

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2 Postdocs der IN-EAST School in Förderprogramm für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs aufgenommen
Dr. Katharina Borgmann und Dr. Giulia Romano hatten Erfolg mit ihrer Bewerbung für das Programm zur Förderung des exzellenten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses an der UDE. Sie konnten die Forschungskommission und das Rektorat der Universität mit ihren Anträgen „The diffusion of ‘self-help’ policies in China: a focus on the ‘yi fang yang lao’ (housing for pension) policy“ (Romano) und „Cityscapes of Tomorrow: Contextualisation Process of Urban Sustainability Concepts“ (Borgmann) überzeugen und erhalten nun eine Anschubförderung der Universität, um ihre Forschungsideen zu eigenständigen Drittmittelanträgen weiterzuentwickeln. Wir gratulieren!

Mit Dr. Timo Heinrich und Dr. Momoyo Hüstebeck, die sich bereits in früheren Ausschreibungsrunden durchgesetzt hatten, wurden damit bereits vier Postdocs der IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies in das Programm zur Förderung des exzellenten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses aufgenommen. »weniger