Category: News

Find general announcements, such as calls for applications, as well as reports on the various activities of the Research Training Group here.

  • Colloquium Oct 20, 2025

    Colloquium Oct 20, 2025

    The 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Review: “Thinking Futures in Asia” conference

    Review: “Thinking Futures in Asia” conference

    The international conference “Thinking Futures in Asia”, held on May 9–11, 2025, was organised by the Young Scholars’ Group of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) in cooperation with the Institute …