Presentations:

Zou Wenhui (Peking University, Institute of Area Studies (PKU-IAS)): Urban Regimes in Centralized Political System: a study on urban political power in contemporary Russia

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert (Tübingen University, Chair of Greater China Studies)

Geetha Kaimathuruthil-Wilson (Tübingen University, Dept. of Indology): Becoming Kāṟaḷmān: The many tales of the dancing Charlemagne and Paladins in the Caviṭṭunāṭakam Musical Theatre of Kerala, India

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (Freie Universität Berlin, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Director)

Lucas Erlbacher (Freie Universität Berlin, Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS)):The evolution of reform-era Chinese Economic Thought

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Fei Haiting (Peking University, School of Government, Assistant Professor)