The Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” is pleased to host an online lecture by Mercator Fellow Prof. em. Brantly WOMACK, PhD. The lecture is titled “Beyond Hegemony: Lessons from Traditional China about Centrality and Control” and will take place on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM CET via Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/61805191474?pwd=NQ7KwYKNynh4sa4J4orjnq7gm6rl8C.1
Meeting ID: 618 0519 1474
Password: 141663

All interested parties are welcome to attend. Please direct inquiries about the lecture to info@east-asian-futures.de.

Brantly WOMACK is Professor of Foreign Affairs emeritus at the Department of Politics, University of Virginia, and Senior Faculty Fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. In 2023, he served as Boeing Visiting Faculty Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing.

He has authored more than a hundred journal articles and book chapters on Asian politics, with contributions to World Politics, China Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, and International Affairs. His publications include China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (Cambridge, 2006), China among Unequals (World Scientific, 2010), Asymmetry and International Relationships (Cambridge, 2016), and Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order (Cambridge, 2023).

Among his research interests are asymmetric international relationships, public authority and popular power in China, provincial diversification, and China’s relations with Vietnam and Southeast Asia.