The aim of fhe start-off conference is to introduce the new cohort to the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, its principles and the PhD program.

Preliminary program

11.00 Introduction to GEAS

11.30 Research Design

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 What a PhD is all about - Planning your PhD

15.30 Wrap up and Coffee Break

16:00 Campus Tour

18:00 Book Launch Lecture: Richard Samuels - Special Duty – A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (at JDZB)