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GEAS Application Period 2021 (for start in 2022)
The call for applications for 2022 is open between 15 Sepember and 12 November 2021. Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) will admit doctoral candidates to its program, beginning October 1 st , 2022. Up to 9 candidates will be accepted. GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3(-4)-year PhD program with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region. All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile: 1. the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, 2. the effects institutions have on processes, related to globalization and modernization in East Asia on the side of governments, bureaucracies, businesses, individual life-styles, etc., 3. the interdependencies of institutions in East Asia within and beyond its regional boundaries. More info and link to the application website:
Q&A for Graduate School Applicants 2021
The graduate schools of Freie Universität Berlin are holding a webinar series for applicants interested in applying to the current calls for applications for PhD programs. The webinar of GEAS will take place on September 28th , 2–3 p.m. We will answer any questions you may have about the application process and our program. The event will be held in English. No registration necessary. All important information can be found here .
UZH-FU (GEAS) Joint Dissertation Workshop 2021
Location: GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
IKS/GEAS Joint Summer School 2021: The contentious Koreans: Civil society, social movements, and human rights struggles in South Korea
This year's IKS/GEAS Joint Summer School takes place in hybrid format from 2-13 August 2021. The topic of the Summer School is: The contentious Koreans: Civil society, social movements, and human rights struggles in South Korea
Location: online via Webex and in Berlin
Jin Wook Shin: Characteristics of South Korea's Response to the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Social Consequences
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
Maximilian Mayer: Emerging Health Powers and the Implications of Zero-Covid Strategies in Asia-Pacific for Europe
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
KDIS-IKS Lecture: Lukas Mandl (EP): What Role for the European Parliamentary Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula?
Anmeldung/Registration Event Description Lukas Mandl , Member of the European Parliament (Group of the European People’s Party), Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Korean peninsula The event will be chaired by Dr Tereza Novotná (Freie Universität Berlin & EUROPEUM Prague). In 2004, the European Parliament (EP) established a special delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula. Since then, the delegation has maintained ties with both halves of the peninsula – the Republic of Korea in the South and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North. While the partnership with South Korea have been blossoming and the mutual contacts between the EP and ROK’s National Assembly have been growing, the relationship with North Korea has become strained over time. What is the role for the European parliamentary diplomacy on the Korean peninsula? How can the EP promote deepening of the partnership between Brussels and Seoul, particularly in the light of Covid-19 pandemic? What are the ways in which the delegation can contribute to improving the security situation on the peninsula and engagement with Pyongyang? Mr Lukas Mandl MEP, the chair of the EP’s delegation for relations with the Korean peninsula, will give a keynote lecture which will be followed by a discussion to answer these and other questions. Lukas Mandl... is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and member of the European Parliament. From 2008 to 2017, Mr Mandl was a Member of the regional parliament of Lower Austria and Chair of its Committee on European affairs. He was Secretary-General of the Employees' Organisation of the Austrian People's Party from 2010 to 2012. From 2015 to 2017, he was also Deputy Mayor of his hometown Gerasdorf. In 2017 he became a member of the European Parliament. During his first term, he served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety as well as the Committee on Petitions. Following his re-election in 2019, he currently serves on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and is Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In 2020, he joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union. Since 2020, Lukas Mandl is chair of the parliament’s delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula The event will be held in English and will take place digitally via Webex (the event will be recorded). Please register by May 31th, 2021.
Location: Webex
Kimiko Suda: Anti-Asian Racism during the Corona-Pandemic in Germany and beyond
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
10th Conference of the Young Scholars Group of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
Location: digital
Coffee Hour/Alumni Talks
Location: Webex
GEAS Lecture Series extended: East Asian Responses to Crisis
East Asian Responses to Crisis
Megha Wadhwa: Indian cooks in Japan at the mercy of their bosses and the state?
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
Coffee Hour/Alumni Talks
Location: Webex
Hybrid cultural heritage and rural revitalization in Japan: The commodification of intangible cultural property and “traditional” local crafts
Online Lecture in the framework of Una Europa PhD Workshop: Heritage Hybridisations: Concepts, Scales and Spaces. Introduction: Professor Jutta Eming
Korea-Europe Lecture Series on North Korea "8th Party Congress and Changes in North Korean Society"
Location: Webex
Coffee Hour/Alumni Talks
Location: Webex
Coffee Hour/Alumni Talks
Location: Webex
VSJF Conference: Continuity and Change 10 years after 3.11
Organized by Florentine Koppenborg (TUM, GEAS Alumna), Anna Wiemann (LMU) and Tobias Weiß (Uni Heidelberg), in cooperation with VSJF, JDZB and DIJ Tokyo.
Policy Transfer as Transcoding: The Context of German-Korean Research on Transformation
Guest lecture by Eun-Jeung Lee at Melbourne University
Remembering the 3.11 triple disaster in Japan (Reiher&Gerster)
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
Career Day for PhD candidates 2021
After the doctorate, countless career paths are open, but many doctoral candidates have little insight into potential professional fields. That's why we organize an annual career day for doctoral candidates, to which we invite numerous young people, most of them with doctorates, from very different professional fields. Within the framework of small discussion groups, doctoral candidates and young professionals can talk to each other: In what jobs do people with doctorates work? How did they manage to enter this field of work? To what extent was and is the doctorate helpful? What does every day work look like? This individual exchange is supplemented by selected expert lectures and information. This year, the Career Day, organized by HGS (Humboldt) will take place online. Link to registration
Casting ancient nets: Chinese grid-style social management during the COVID-19 pandemic (Habich-Sobiegalla&Plümmer)
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
EVFplus Book Launch: Migration Management in East Asia (Schubert/Plümmer/Bayok)
Location: online (Webex)
*Update* Fieldwork Workshop
Location: online
GEAS Digital Coffee Hour
Location: Webex
Coping with uncertainty: Berlin’s Japanese restaurateurs during the Covid-19 pandemic (Reiher)
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
GEAS Digital Coffee Hour
Location: Webex
GEAS Digital Coffee Hour
Location: Webex
Covid 19: Responses to a global pandemic (Lee)
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
GEAS Digital Coffee Hour
Location: Webex
KDIS-FU IKS Korea-Europe Center Inauguration Conference
Location: Webex online
*Canceled* GEAS Digital Coffee Hour
Location: Webex
Library Orientation
Location: Webex
EAJS PhD Workshop
oganized by the EAJS
PC and Remote Orientation
Location: GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
GEAS Start-off Conference 2020
Location: Henry Ford Building
Lost in Dissertation?
The Network Information Competence Berlin/Brandenburg offers an online event series for doctoral students from October 27 to November 5, 2020.
WorldCafé Webinar – Wege in die Promotion
Webinar presentations of foundations and funding programme partners to start a PhD
KDI-FU Lecture: Hyun-gyung Kim (FU Berlin)
The Korean Wave Celebrity and the Birth of the K-drama Conglomerate
Location: Webex
South Korea's Soft Power in the Era of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Lecture by Korean Studies
Career-Day-2020---Doctorate-Done_-More-Adventures-Ahead
Dear doctoral candidates, Do you wonder what might come next after your doctoral degree? Then join us on February 18 for the Career Day 2020 “Doctorate Done – More Adventures Ahead” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In presentations and eight different World Cafés speakers from various sectors and walks of life will give insight in their careers and answer questions your questions. This is your day – organized by fellow doctoral researchers from Humboldt-Universität, Freie Universität und Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin with the support of the member of Berlin University Alliance and HEIBRiDS, the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science. Interested? Check out the website for details and register right away. Looking forward to seeing you! Your DRS-Team Dahlem Research School Freie Universität Berlin Hittorfstr. 16, 14195 Berlin
GEAS/ BGSMCS /BerGSAS New Year's Reception
Berlin Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), and Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) would like to start into the New Year 2020 with a small New Year's Reception.
IKS Special Lecture: Moon Chung-in (Yonsei U)
Location: Institute of Korean Studies Otto-von-Simson-Str. 11 14195 Berlin
Panel: How do citizens perceive facial recognition technology across the globe?
Panel with Genia Kostka (FU Berlin), jointly with Miriam Meckel (University of St. Gallen) and Léa Steinacker (ada)
Location: Hertie School of Governance Forum, 1st floor
Open Colloquium: Takenoshita Hirohisa (Keio University)
Location: Library 006 GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
UZH-GEAS Joint Dissertation Workshop 2019/20
Location: GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Beata Bochorodycz (AMU): Anti-nuclear Movement in the Post-Fukushima Japan: Structures, Mobilisation and Framing
Location: Lecture Room 010/011 GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 (Altbau) 14195 Berlin
Vera Mackie (UOW): Reproduction and Rights - Globalisation and Assisted Reproduction
Location: Holzlaube 2.2051 Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Writing Workshop: How to write a good policy paper. Applicable research outputs for policy-makers
Location: Library (006) Graduate Center HistCult GEAS Freie Universität Berlin Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
GEAS Homecoming Symposium
Doctoral candidates of Cohort V will be back from their fieldwork in Asia and present their findings and new ideas at our Homecoming Symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to give our PhD students the chance to receive feedback on their progress from a variety of different researchers and peers before they start writing their dissertation.
Location: Monday, K18 Japanese Studies Freie Unviersität Berlin Hittorfstr. 18 (new building) 14195 Berlin Tuesday, Lecture Room 010/11 Graduate Schools (GEAS) Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
SWP-EVF Design Thinking Workshop
SWP – GEAS/FU Berlin Design Thinking -Workshop unter Leitung von Dr. Nadine Godehardt & Dr. May-Britt U. Stumbaum, moderiert von Ilja Sperling
Grad Conference: Sovereignty and Institutions in East Asia
Location: Holzlaube Room 2.2058 Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Laike Yang: Global Value Chain, Trade and CO2 Emissions in China
Location: Holzlaube 2.2051 Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 ("Holzlaube") 14195 Berlin
Open Colloquium: Shinji Kojima (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific U)
Location: K 18 new building (Neubau) Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
CrossAsia Workshop (StaBi)
The State Library offers a workshop on how to discover CrossAsia’s variety of databases and the different access ways to the library’s digital and print resources.
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Autumn School 2019 @Nanjing University, China
This year's GEAS Summer School will become and an Autumn school and takes place in China at our partner university Nanjing, in cooperation with the School of Government and School of History. A detailed program will follow in the second week of October.
Location: School of History, Nanjing University, China School of Government, Nanjing University, China
EVFplus Workshop "Duelling Spatial Realities? China and Japan Redefining Spatial Order in (East) Asia"
The conference workshop brings together experts who have been continuously working with both Einstein Visiting Fellows Gunter Schubert (Sovereignty and International Law in the PR China) and Richard J. Samuels (East Asian Security).
Location: HFB/KIII Conference Room III Henry-Ford-Bau, Freie Universität Berlin Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
EVF Richard J. Samuels Book Launch: "Special Duty -A History of Japan’s Intelligence Community"
Location: JDZB Berlin (Japanese-German Center Berlin) Saargemünder Str. 2 14195 Berlin
Start-off Conference 2019
Location: GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
International Conference "Studying Japan"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin (Fabeckstr. 23-25, Holzlaube Room 2.2058 and 2.2059)
GEAS @ICAS 11 in Leiden
Location: Universiteit Leiden Kamerlingh Onnes Steenschuur 25 Leiden
Flow Writing Day
Writing Ashram Flow Writing Day #Sticking at it
Disputation Angela Leggett
Location: Room 202, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Boltzmannstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
CUPSL Beijing Guest Lecture: The Belt and Road Initiative: a new type of globalization and China's high-quality economic development in a new era
Location: Seminar Room 2.2058 (Holzlaube), Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Exchange Meeting with Mariia Kobzeva (St. Petersburg State University)
Location: Meeting Room 0.17, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Kenneth Mori McElwain (University of Tokyo): What do Japanese people want from their constitution?
Location: Seminar room 2.2051 (Holzlaube), Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin