Coming Lectures

Past Lectures

Dr. Fabienne Wallenwein (Heidelberg University), 19 July 2023, Rice terrace landscapes and their traditional cultivation as resources for regional and local development? Insights into socio-cultural and economic transformations of the Hani Rice Terraces in Yunnan Province

Prof. Dr. Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University), 26 June 2023, Environmental Politics in East Asia

Prof. Wonsub Kim (Korea University), 19 June 2023, Building a Welfare System through Bounded Learning: A Case Study of Korean Long-Term Care Insurance

Dr. Amrita Saikia (University of Science and Technology Meghalaya), 12 June 2023, Tibetan Women-in-Exile in India: Construction of the Idea of the Tibetan Nation and Contributions to Tibetan Nationalism

Dr. Mike Prentice (University of Sheffield), 05 June 2023, Infrastructures of Distinction in Corporate South Korea

Prof. Dr. Axel Klein (Universität Duisburg-Essen), 10 May 2023, Zur Rolle organisierter Religion im politischen System Japans

Prof. Youngmi Kim (University of Edinburgh), 06 Feb. 2023, The 2022 Presidential Election in South Korea: The Politics of Resentment and Revenge Confirms Older Trends and Cleavages and Reveals New Ones

Dr. Konstantinas Andrijauskas (Vilnius University), 01 Feb. 2023, Sino-Lithuanian Relations

Dr. Thomas Arnold und Prof. Dr. Anja Senz (Heidelberg University), 25 Jan. 2023, Zur (Un)Sachlichkeit in politischen Debatten über China

Prof. June Hee Kwon (California State University, Sacramento), 18. Jan. 2023, Ethnic Borderland: The Un/Homeliness of Korean Chinese in Yanbian China

Prof. Dr. Markus Taube (University of Duisburg-Essen), 14 Dec. 2022, Chinas Volkswirtschaft im Krisenmodus: Neuorientierung in turbulenten Zeiten

Yewon Lee (University of Tübingen), 12. Dec. 2022, Occupying Shops to Defend Rights to Spaces of Livelihood: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Seoul

Dr. Jaok Kwon (Heidelberg University), 28 Nov. 2022, Creating Aspiration of Youth for Transnational Mobility: Youth Overseas Employment Programme in South Korea

Anna Growe and Simin Yan (Heidelberg University), 23 Nov. 2022, Governing Chinese Mega-city Regions – Organizing Spatial Development or Resigning in the Face of Size?

Prof. Shapan Adnan (SOAS, University of London), 16 Nov. 2022, Rural Development, Agricultural Modernization, and Social Change in China: Comparative Perspectives in Relation to South Asia

Prof. Pablo Pareja Alcaraz (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), 20 July 2022, EU-China Relations in the Aftermath of Brexit and Covid-19

Dr. Helen Kim (University of Leeds) 11 July 2022, Journeying towards Independence? Korean Nurses, Gender, and their ‘Twice Migration’ to the US in the 1970s

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz (Heidelberg University), 4 July 2022, Meet & Discuss: Sinology and Controversial China Issues

Prof. Chunshik Kim (Dongshin University, Korea), 27 June 2022, Duale Ausbildung und duales Studium in Deutschland und Übertragbarkeit der Bildungssysteme auf Korea

Prof. Jeanne Huang (University of Sydney), 8 June 2022, Applicable Law to Transnational Personal Data: Trends and Dynamics between China, the EU and the US

Prof. Giuseppe Gabusi (University of Turin), 8 June 2022, Whatever It Takes”: The Political Economy of the Chinese Communist Party

Dr. Kumiko Kawashima (Rikkyo University, Tokyo), 30 May 2022, Labour Migration under Recession: A Comparative Study of Younger and Older Japanese Skilled Workers in China

Prof. Simone Dossi (University of Milan), 18 May 2022, China’s Growing Role in the Mediterranean Region and the Implications for Europe

Prof. Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo), 2 May 2022, The Mobility of People between Japan and China in the 21^st Century

Youngeun Koo (University of Tuebingen), 31 Jan. 2022, Transnational Biopolitics and Cold War Geopolitics: Intercountry Adoption between “Divided” Korea and “Neutral” Sweden

Prof. Hyun Mee Kim (Yonsei University, Seoul), 17 Jan. 2022, Developmentalism-based solutions or existential voices? Divergent discourses facing climate crisis in South Korea

Dr. Ji-yoon An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), 6 Dec. 2021), The Family in (New) Korean Cinema

Dr. In Young Min (Heidelberg University), 22 Nov. 2021, An Impossible Choice?: Past, Present, and Future of South Korea’s Independent Nuclear Arms

Dr. Hyojin Lee (Ca’ Foscari University, ), 8 Nov. 2021, The Vulnerability of the Historical Memory on Women in Modern Korea: The Changing Narratives on Ch’oe Yŏngsuk

Dr. Hyun-Joo Lim (Bournemouth University), 7 July 2021, North Korean Female Human Rights Abuse and Women’s Resistance

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt, Anne-Sophie L. König (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), 30 June 2021), Robotik und Technologie in Japans Altenpflege

Dr. Mee-Kyung Jung (Dankook University, Seoul), 22 Feb. 2021, Two Keys to Pyongyang’s Past and Future – Moral Center and Korean War

Dr. Jaemin Shim (Hong Kong Baptist University), 09 Feb. 2021, Mass-Elite Representation Gap in Old and New Democracies

Dr. Sang-hui Nam (University of Bamberg), 20 Jan. 2021, Intermediäre Akteure hinter den Kulissen demokratischer Wahlen in Südkorea

Unnur Bjarnadottir (Heidelberg University), 15 Jan. 2021, Korean Cosmetics in Europe: Their Perception and Connection to Pop Culture from a Transnational Perspective

Xiaoying Jin (Heidelberg University), 11 Dec. 2020, A Review on Second-Generation Immigrants’ Research and theoretical rationale for East Asian Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany

Dr. Hyun Gyung Kim (Freie Universität Berlin), 21 Jan. 2020, The Flexibilization of the Korean TV Industry and the Birth of trans/national Stars in East Asia

Dr. Hojye Kang (University of Tuebingen), 15 Jan. 2020, Spin-off from military to civil: Alternative Way for the Denuclearization of Korea Peninsula

Ruixin Wei (Goethe University Frankfurt ), 11 Dec. 2019, (Trans-)national Identity and lived Experiences of Korean Chinese in China

Prof. Dr. Takashi Machimura (Hitotsubashi University), 06 Nov. 2019, Hidden Dimensions of Olympic Games: Tokyo, from 1964 to 2020

Prof. Dr. Myungkoo Kang (Seoul National University), 11 July 2019, A Cultural Critique of Hate Gazes on North Korea – An Interpretive Analysis of Pyeongchang Winter Olympic News

Yuanyuan Liu, Dipl.Soz. (Heidelberg University), 10 July 2019, Chinesische Top-Manager: Karrierewege, Einstellungen, Führungsstil

Prof. Dr. Hannes Mosler (Free University Berlin), 27 June 2019, Reformbedarf! Warum liegt Südkoreas Verfassung im Dornröschenschlaf?

Dr. Momoyo Hüstebeck (University of Duisburg-Essen), 19 June 2019, Deliberation in Japan angesichts der Herausforderung der repäsentativen Demokratie

Zhu Yi, M.A. (Heidelberg University), 29 May 2019, Framing Europe – eine Analyse von Europa-Beiträgen in den offiziellen und den sozialen Medien in China

Prof. Dr. Yonson Ahn (Goethe University Frankfurt), 22 May 2019, Memory and Commemoration of ‘Comfort Women’ in Post-War South Korea

Dr. Jin-Heon Jung (Free University Berlin), 08 May 2019, Transnational Migration and religious Conversion among North Korean Refugee-Migrants across Continents in comparative Perspectives

Prof. Dr. Unsuk Han (University of Tuebingen), 30 Jan. 2019, Rezeption der deutschen Einheit in Korea

Prof. em. Wolfgang Seifert (Heidelberg University), 22 Jan. 2019, Der Beitrag des Völkerrechts zur japanischen Kolonialherrschaft in Korea von 1910-1945

Dr. Oliver Corff (Berlin), 16 Jan. 2019, China: eine Wirtschaftsmacht transformiert ihr Militär

Dr. Susanne Fehlings (Goethe University Frankfurt), 12 Dec. 2018, Kaukasischer ‚Biznes‘ zwischen Tbilisi und Beijing: „Ethnic Entrepreneurship“ und die liberale Marktwirtschaft

Prof. Taeyoung Yoo (Korean University of Foreign Studies), 04 Dec. 2018, Varieties of Capitalism and Practice of Ideas

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz (Heidelberg University), 26 October 2018, Yidai yilu – Ein Band, eine Straße? Warum China auf Innovation und Kooperation angewiesen ist

Nikolai Putscher (Board of Directors, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank/AIIB), 23 July 2018, Die Rolle der Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) im Kontext der chinesischen Belt and Road-Initiative

Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University), 18 July 2018, Mao und das Wasser: Metaphern von Souveränität und Macht

Kai von Carnap (Chinese European Economics and Business Studies Berlin), 28 June 2018, Bitcoin, Kryptowährungen, Blockchain in China: Wird das Reich der Mitte zum neuen Entwicklungszentrum?

Jeanette Werning, M.A. (Heidelberg University), 20 June 2018, Archäologie und Umwelt in Xinjiang

Prof. Fu King-wa (University of Hong Kong), 28 May 2018, China’s 360-degree Information Control: An update

Dr. Oliver Corff (Berlin), 15 Nov 2017, Deutsch-chinesische Wirtschaftsinteressen im Spannungsfeld von Markt und Politik

Prof. em. Edward Friedman (University of Wisconsin), 14 June 2017, Forecasting China’s Future

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz (Heidelberg University), 03 May 2017, Korruption und die Möglichkeiten ihrer Bekämpfung in China

Zhu Yi, M.A. (Free University Berlin), 20 July 2016, Das Internet als Kampfplatz – Chinas virtuelle Arena im Zentrum politischer Kontroversen

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz (Heidelberg University), 27 January 2016, Chinas innere Dynamik und die außenpolitischen Folgen