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  • Activity Report: Kohei MATSUURA

    Activity Report: Kohei MATSUURA

    During his fieldwork stay in South Korea from September 2024 to June 2025, Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” Doctoral student Kohei MATSUURA visited Busan, Tongyeong, and Seoul to do research on …

  • Activity Report: Anna-Maria RAU

    Activity Report: Anna-Maria RAU

    From July 4 to 8, 2025, the 28th Annual CHIME Conference was held at the Department of Music at the University College Cork in Ireland. Titled “Digital Futures for Chinese Music”, the conference was chiefly …

  • Activity Report: Eetu LAUSTELA

    Activity Report: Eetu LAUSTELA

    In the 4-year curriculum for doctoral students of the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures”, the second year comprises of 6 to 12 months of Fieldwork and Archival and Library Research in East …

  • Review: “My Colleague’s Project” Retreat

    Review: “My Colleague’s Project” Retreat

    From July 21 to 22, 2025, GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” held a retreat at the Wald- und Golfhotel Lottental in Bochum. Titled “My Colleague’s Project”, the retreat introduced an innovative format that encouraged PhD …

  • Activity Report: Nora WÖLFING

    Activity Report: Nora WÖLFING

    On June 6 and 7, Nora Wölfing, affiliated doctoral researcher of the Research Training Group, traveled to Nuremberg and Munich to conduct field research for her ongoing research project on contemporary art from …

  • Colloquium Jul 7, 2025

    Colloquium Jul 7, 2025

    The Online Colloquium of the Summer Term 2025 by the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” will continue with a lecture by Professor Aaron William MOORE, titled “Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900–1937”. You are cordially invited to …