Calendar
Virtual Lecture Series | North Korean defectors' account as a source of information: issues and controversies
Location: Online: Webex
Book Talk | Chris McMorran (NU Singapore): Ryokan - Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
Joint event by GEAS and Institute of Japanese Studies at FU Berlin.
Location: Lecture Room (010/011) Ground Floor Graduate School Villa (former TOPOI) Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
Virtual Discussion | Filming fieldwork
Location: Hybrid Event
Virtual Lecture Series | A Day in the Life: Visiting North Korea
Location: Online: Webex
Virtual Lecture Series | How North Korea Meets the World: Structure and Trend of International Trade
Location: Online: Webex
Sharon Kinsella (Manchester): Lecture and Joso 2020 Film Screening and Q&A
Location: Lecture Room (010/011) Ground Floor Graduate School Center (former TOPOI villa) Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
Lunch/Coffee JF
Location: hybrid/Video Conference Room
BUA Career Day for Early Career Researchers 2022
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 will take place online and is organized by Berlin University Alliance (BUA) at Humboldt Graduate School. Register here for participation for the Career Day: Register here: careerday@hu-berlin.de
Colloquium
Location: Korean Studies, Ott-von-Simson 11
KDIS-FUIKS Korea-Europe Center: Special Lecture Series on North Korea - 2021/22 ws
Location: Online (Webex)
BCCN Lectures Series: Workers and Change in China
Location: Zoom
Colloquium
Location: Korean Studies, Ott-von-Simson 11
BCCN Lectures Series: Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China
Location: Zoom
Postdoc Funding Opportunities for ECR
Location: online
KDIS-FUIKS Korea-Europe Center Special Lecture Series on North Korea - 2021/22 ws
Location: Online (Webex)
KDIS-FUIKS Korea-Europe Center Special Lecture Series on North Korea - 2021/22 ws
Location: Online (Webex)
Colloquium
Location: Korean Studies, Ott-von-Simson 11
BCCN Lecture Series: Networks of Contention – Linkages and Diffusion Processes in China’s Environmental Protests
Location: Zoom
KDIS-FUIKS Korea Europe Center: Special Lecture Series on North Korea - 2021/22 WS
Location: Online (Webex)
*Canceled* End of the Year Get-Together (忘年会)
Location: Graduate school villa, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Triple Alliance Lecture Series: Area Studies in a Comparative Perspective
Location: only digital
KDIS-FUIKS Korea Europe Center: Special Lecture Series on North Korea - 2021/22 WS
Location: Online (Webex)
VSJF - Presentations on rural Japan
GEAS Early Career Researchers and members of the DFG Research group “Urban-rural migration and rural revitalization in Japan” (PI Cornelia Reiher) will present their work at the VSJF Urban-regional study group on November 20, 2021 (online).
Location: digital only
UZH-FU (GEAS) Joint Dissertation Workshop 2021
Location: GEAS Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
East Asia Library Orientation
Location: Online via Webex
Colloquium
Location: Korean Studies, Ott-von-Simson 11
Colloquium
Location: Korean Studies, Ott-von-Simson 11
GEAS Start-off Conference 2021
Location: Graduate School Villa, Hittorfstr. 18,1 4195 Berlin Lecture hall
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 .
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:
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
Megha Wadhwa: Indian cooks in Japan at the mercy of their bosses and the state?
GEAS Digital Lecture Series: East Asian Responses to Crisis
GEAS Lecture Series extended: East Asian Responses to Crisis
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