Graduate School of East Asian Studies
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Cooperation Partners
GEAS Graduate School of East Asian Studies is a structured docotral programme of Dahlem Research School, the doctoral research facility of Freie Unviersität Berlin.
University Institutes
The school is based in the department of History and Cultural Studies. Our main cooperating departments (institutes) are:
1. History and Cultural Studies (Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, Korean Studies based on social sciences, History, Cultural Studies)
2. Political and Social Sciences (Political Science, International Relations, Social and Cultural Anthropology)
3. Business and Economics (Doctoral Program in Business Research)
4. Law (International, Public and Civil Law)
5. Philosophy and Humanities (Literary Studies, Gender and Theatre Studies)
Our main cooperating reseach institutes in Berlin are Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (JDZB) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP).
GEAS also cooperates with other graduate schools, mainly Berlin School for Transnational Studies (BTS), Global Politics, and our sister school in the Excellence Inititative. Our closest partner in PhD joint courses and workshop is URPP Asia and Europe of University of Zurich.
National and International Cooperation
GEAS builds on a long-established network of cooperations with leading universities in East Asia, especially in China, Japan, and South Korea. Moreover, GEAS cooperates closely with a growing network of East Asia related research institutes and associations in Europe and North America.
List of Cooperation Partners (university and non-university institutions)
| Cooperation Partners in Germany | Locations |
|---|---|
| Forum Transregional Studies | Berlin |
| Berlin School for Transnational Studies | Berlin |
| German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) | Berlin |
| German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) | Berlin |
| Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB) | Berlin |
| German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) | Hamburg |
| Risk & East Asia, DFG Research Training Group | Duisburg-Essen |
| Cooperation Partners in East Asia | |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| Fudan University | Shanghai |
| Nanjing University | Nanjing |
| National Taiwan University | Taipei |
| Beijing University | Beijing |
| Sun Yatsen University | Guangzhou |
| International Christian University | Tokyo |
| Keio University | Tokyo |
| Osaka University | Osaka |
| Sophia University | Tokyo |
| University of Tokyo | Tokyo |
| Tsukuba University | Tsukuba |
| Waseda University | Tokyo |
| Nihon University | Tokyo |
| Ewha University | Seoul |
| Korea University | Seoul |
| Seoul National University | Seoul |
| Sogang University | Seoul |
| Yonsei University | Seoul |
| German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) | Tokyo |
| Cooperation Partners Worldwide | |
| Edwin O. Reischauer Institute, Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | New York |
| Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California | Berkeley |
| East Asian Studies, Leiden University | Leiden |
| Department of Politics and International Studies, Warwick | Coventry |
| Hebrew University, Jerusalem | Israel |
| Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences | Moscow |
| Faculty of Asian and African Studies, University of St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg |
| Institute of East Asian Studies, Prague University | Prague |
| Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo | Oslo |
| Australian National University | Canberra |
| Korea Research University, University of New South Wales | Sydney |