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GEAS Homecoming Symposium 2023
Doctoral candidates of Cohort IX (Cohort 2021) and of Cohort VIII (Cohort 2020) 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 dissertations.Everyone is welcome to join!
Location: TBC, GradSchoolVilla Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin (Barrier free entrance: Landoltweg)
Seminar | Managing Development and Civil Society in Greater China
This seminar is part of Erasmus+ exchange and open to all status groups. It will be led by Prof. Natalie Wai Man Wong, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei. More information in the course catalogue by the beginning of the semester (winter 23/24).
Project Talk | John Jacobs
Location: GEAS VC room (fireplace room) Grad School Villa Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
SCRIPTS Lecture | Jodie Sun: Brotherly Strangers: Kenya’s & Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019
Location: SCRIPTS Villa Edwin-Redslob-Str. 29 14195 Berlin
VSJF | Labor and (Im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, Regional and Rural-Urban Perspectives
The conference is organized by Ruth Achenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Helena Hof (University of Zurich / Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany), Aimi Muranaka (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Megha Wadhwa (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), JDZB and VSJF. GEAS members will also present!
Lecture | Dong-Hoon Seol (Jeonbuk National University): Immigration Reform in South Korea at a Time of Demographic Decline: In Comparative Perspective with Germany
Joint Lecture with VSJF e.V., organized by Dr. Megha Wadhwa (Japanese Studies, BMBF project), and supported by GEAS. This lecture is the first part of GEAS network lectures, which are organized by GEAS Researchers. Contact for the Stammtisch: Lucas Erlbacher.
Location: Lecture Hall (ground floor, 010/011) Grad School Villa Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
Info Session| Introduction to East Asian Library Resources
Location: Campus Library (Holzlaube) entrance at L-Strasse (Silberlaube!!) Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
GEAS Start-Off Day(s) 2023
Location: GEAS
Q&A for Applicants to the PhD program 2023 (for intake 2024)
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 GEAS Q&A will take place together with HCS Q&A on September 19, 2023, 2 PM, online only. We will answer any questions you may have about the application process and the program. The event will be held in English. No registration is necessary. Webex-Link to the Event (Pass: graduate) Program: 05 September 23 Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies 12 September 23 Graduate School of North American Studies 19 September 23 Graduate School of East Asian Studies & PhD Programme History and Cultural Studies 26 September 23 Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies 04 October 2023 Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies
Film Screening (JDZB) | Finding their niche - Unheard stories of migrant women
Location: Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin Saargemünder Str. 2 14195 Berlin Deutschland Tel.: +49 (0)30 839 07 0 Fax: +49 (0)30 839 07 220 E-Mail: jdzb@jdzb.de
Graduate Schools Summer Meeting and Garden Party
Location: Graduate School Villa, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
End of Semester Party Department of History and Cultural Studies
Location: Garden of the Grad.School Villa Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Lecture | Sustainable Future Bonds (Marina Zucker Marques, SOAS)
Location: Room 243 Latin America Institute (LAI) Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56 (Breitenbachplatz)
BCCN Talk | Gegen Anti-asiatischen Rassismus
Location: Online via Zoom
Triple Alliance Roundtable Discussion
Seven scholars from the Triple Alliance universities Peking University (PKU), University of Tübingen (UT), and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) are going to comment on Prof. Zhang Yongle's new book, Shifting Boundaries, on the global history of the Monroe Doctrine. The roundtable is online via Zoom. The language of the roundtable is English.
Location: Platform: Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82934770402?pwd=bkpwamkxKzZvV0I4eklVNzNGOGh6dz09 Meeting ID: 829 3477 0402 Passcode: 080852
Graduate Schools @International Week 2023
Location: Hybrid Event On-Site Meeting: Graduate School of North American Studies Lansstraße 5-9 14195 Berlin Germany
#9: LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Lecture | 6th Annual Kim Dae Jung Lecture - Suggestions for a Renewed Approach to Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Location: Institute of Korean Studies Otto-von-Simson-Str. 11 14195 Berlin
KEC Special Lecture | The Meaning of Jeolla Region in the History of Korea from the Perspective of Political History
Location: online via Webex
Book Presentation | Japan- ein Land im Umbruch
Location: Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin Saargemünder Str. 2 14195 Berlin Deutschland
Online Info Session Publications | UZH-FU Joint Dissertation Workshop 2023
Location: online | Zürich University
UZH-FU Joint Dissertation Workshop 2023
Location: Zürich University
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | #8 Infinite Expanses? China’s Space Science and Technology
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Lecture | Sheng Peng (Vienna): China and the First Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Negotiation, 1977-1980
Location: SCRIPTS Villa Conference Room (2nd floor) Edwin-Redslob-Str. 29 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #6
Location: @GEAS, lecture hall (VC room)
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #5
Location: @GEAS, lecture hall (VC room)
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #4
Location: @GEAS, lecture hall (VC room)
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #3
Location: @GEAS, lecture hall (VC room)
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | Roundtable: The Securitization, Moralization, and Idealization of Academic Cooperation with the PRC
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #2
Location: @GEAS, lecture hall (VC room)
Institutional Theory and Comparative Institutional Analysis #1
Location: online via Webex
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | Military-Civil-Fusion and China’s AI Research Strategies
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | China’s Innovation System: Driving or Translating Global Technological Trends?
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Lunch/Coffee Jour Fixe
Location: hybrid/Video Conference Room
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | Practice as the Criterion of Truth
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
NCCU-FUB Winter School 2023
This year's hybrid Winter School on Greater China takes place 9-13 January 2023 in cooperation with National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan.
Location: hybrid event
TA Young Scholars #4 | Urban Regimes in Centralized Political System: a study on urban political development in contemporary Russia
Location: online via ZOOM
GEAS Homecoming Symposium 2022
Doctoral candidates of Cohort VIII (Cohort 2020) 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: Graduate School Villa, VC Lecture Room 010/11 Freie Universität Berlin Hittorfstr. 18 (OLD building) 14195 Berlin
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | Ascent of Chinese Universities in World Rankings - Global Ambitions, Local Governance?
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Lunch/Coffee Jour Fixe
Location: hybrid/Video Conference Room
Info Session | Support.Point
Location: VC room/lecture room 010/011 Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
Info Session | Introduction to East Asian Library Resources
Location: Campus Library training room Freie Universität Berlin Garystr.39 14195 Berlin Germany
End of the Year Grad School Party
Location: Graduate school villa, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
TA Young Scholars #3 | How can villages become beautiful? An Analysis of Unintended Consequences during Rural Policy Implementation in China
Location: online via ZOOM
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | State-Science-Society: Tangled Ties in China's Plans to Become a Science Superpower
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
TA Young Scholars #2 | The Organizational and Operational Mechanism of Jas Otan in Kazakhstan
Location: online via ZOOM
*canceled* Lunch/Coffee Jour Fixe
Sorry, the lunch/coffee JF had to be canceled in November.
Location: hybrid/Video Conference Room
TA Young Scholars #1 | Culture, Youth and Nation-Region Building: History of the Kerala State School Youth Festival
Location: online via ZOOM
Info Session | Erasmus+ Doctoral Mobility
Location: VC room/lecture room 010/011 Hittorfstr. 18 (old building) 14195 Berlin
LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series 2022/23 | China's Rise Challenges Notions of the Science-State Relations
This lecture series is hosted by the LMRG (Lise Meitner Research Group) and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN), an initiative by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Q&A for Applicants 2022/23
The graduate schools of Freie Universität Berlin are holding a webinar series for anyone interested in applying to the current calls for applications for PhD programs. The webinar of GEAS (Graduate School of East Asian Studies) and (HCS) History and Cultural Studies takes place on 11 October 2022, at 2 PM. 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. Program: 20.09.222 Graduate School of North American Studies 27.09.22 Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies 04.10.22 Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies 11.10.22 Graduate School of East Asian Studies & PhD Programme History and Cultural Studies 18.10.22 Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies Webex Meeting Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mae56ddba0bc5a88221d8e509296734cd Meeting no.: 234 417 6992 Meeting Pw: graduate
GEAS Start-off Conference 2022
Location: several venues
Lecture | War and Women - the long and sad history (Lee Na Young, Chungang U)
Location: Institute of Korean Studies Otto-von-Simson-Str. 11 14195 Berlin
Virtual Lecture Series | A Day in the Life: Visiting North Korea
Location: Online: Webex
Virtual Discussion | Filming fieldwork
Location: Hybrid Event
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 Lecture Series | North Korean defectors' account as a source of information: issues and controversies
Location: Online: Webex