Category: News
Find general announcements, such as calls for applications, as well as reports on the various activities of the Research Training Group here.
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Lecture by Prof. Lin-Chun WU – Oct 17, 2025
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This week, the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” will host a lecture by Mercator Fellow Prof. Lin-Chun WU, PhD. The lecture is titled “Engineering China: Modern Infrastructure, Transnational Engineers …
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Arrival of the Second Cohort of Doctoral Researchers
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in General newsOn October 1, 2025, the second cohort of Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” took up their work at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Ruhr University Bochum. The seven fully-funded and two …
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AREA Ruhr Roundtable to feature Mercator Fellows
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The Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” is pleased to announce the details for the upcoming AREA Ruhr Roundtable Discussion (hybrid format), featuring three of the RTG’s Mercator Fellows …
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Colloquium Oct 20, 2025
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in ColloquiaThe Online Colloquium of the winter term 2025/26 by the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” will set off 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 …
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Activity Report: Kohei MATSUURA
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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 …
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Activity Report: Anna-Maria RAU
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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 …