In our Summer Symposium 2026, our first-year Early Career Researchers (Cohort 2026) will present their topics and progress in very short talks (max 15 mins), and PIs, faculty, as well as invited visiting fellows and guests will comment. The purpose of the symposium is to bring everyone together and give all researchers a chance to get to know each other's projects.
The Symposium will take place on-site, registration is not necessary. Everyone is invited to join the presentations, finger food and drinks are provided, and you are welcome to stay on for an evening Get-Together.
Program
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 9.30 am | Welcome Address | |
| 9.35 am | Ahhyeon Kim | Living in the Intangible War: Collective Trauma as a Socio-Technical Structure in Divided Korea |
| 10.10 am | Henrike Rottstock | Branding Socialist Solidarity: Cultural Diplomacy and the Lived Experience of the Cold War through the GDR-DPRK Relations (1949~1989) |
| 10.45 am | Break | |
| 11.00 am | Zixuan Zhang | Assembling Tea Worlds: Material Practices and Value Making in KMT Villages of Northern Thailand |
| 11.35 am | Aleksei Chigadaev | E-Commerce as Infrastructural Power: Chinese Platforms, Logistics, and Payments in Kazakhstan |
| 12.10 pm | Break | |
| 12.25 pm | Melanie Höschele | Wildlife Consumption Uprooted? Exploring Public Attitudes Toward the Consumption of TCM Wildlife Products in Post-COVID China |
| 13.00 pm | Lunch |
Further Information
events[at]geas.fu-berlin.de