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Review: EACS Conference 2026
From July 21 to 25, 2026, several members of the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” attended the 26th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) held at Ca’ …
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Review: VfK Conference
In July 2026, Dr. Martin GEHLMANN, Dr. des. Youlim KIM, and doctoral researchers Seoyeon HAN and Minkyun PARK of the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” attended the conference of the Vereinigung für Koreaforschung (VfK) at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. The VfK Conference, …
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Swinging a Striking Hammer for the Future of the Earth
The story of “Moon Man“ is set in our near future, where space capabilities already drastically surpassed today’s expectations. The movie initiates its narrative by presenting us and mankind with an apocalyptic threat …
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On Doomsday Book (인류멸망보고서, 2012)
On March 18, 2026, during the second event in the “Visions of the Future in East Asian Cinema” series, Team Korea invited the audience to consider an important question: how do East Asian societies envision, plan …
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Perspectives on the future in the Taiwanese film “Marry my Dead Body”
In contrast to the other films discussed in this blog series, “Marry My Dead Body” can hardly be fitted into …
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Welcome to the Future! A Retrospective on our “Metropolis” Viewing Event
When we think about the future, we rarely do so in a vacuum. Our visions of what is to come are deeply …