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2026/02/: End of the lecture period in the winter semester 2025/26

Dear students, we wish you all the best for your exams and other final assessments. We hope you will have a good rest during the lecture-free period and look forward to seeing you all again in April for the summer semester.


2026/02/: End of the lecture period in the winter semester 2025/26

Dear students, we wish you all the best for your exams and other final assessments. We hope you will have a good rest during the lecture-free period and look forward to seeing you all again in April for the summer semester.


2026/01/: Spring School 2026

Introduction to Taiwanese (Tâi-gí) and Taiwan's Contemporary Popular Culture

Lecturer: Khó͘ Pōe-bín 許珮旻 M.A., and colleagues


2025/11/: Book Launch Event with National Taiwan Library

On December 12, 2025, the National Taiwan Library will launch the Chinese translation of the book “Eine kurtze Ost-Indianische Reiß-Beschreibung” (1669) by the Swiss painter and traveler Albrecht Herport. In cooperation with the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum there will be a hybrid event at the university's library, which will be held in German, English and Chinese.


2025/10/: Vortrag von Prof. Wu Lin-Chun: Engineering China – Modern Infrastructure, Transnational Engineers, and the Governance of the Everyday State

The Research Training Group GRK 2833 East Asian Futures invites you to a lecture by Mercator Fellow Prof. Wu Lin-Chun on 17 October 2025 at the Faculty of East Asian Studies.


2025/10/: IPEEA Mailinglist

We ask all MA IPEEA students to register for the MA IPEEA Mailinglist to receive the latest information.


2025/10/: Welcome

We warmly welcome all new and returning students to the winter semester 2025/26. We invite all students to join our welcoming/meet and greet on 29 October 2025 at 16.00 (st/sharp) in room GABF 04/509.


2025/10/: Moodle class

We ask all students to register for the Moodle class “Einstieg Ostasienwissenschaften (WiSe2025/26)” to obtain general information on the start of the semester. Please note: Students who want to take courses at the INEAST do not have to register as visiting students/Zweithörer.


2025/09/: AREA Ruhr Book Talk Series by Richard J. Cook Ph.D. (Nankai University, PRC)

The book talk deals with Cook's recent publication Asia-Pacific Secondary States as Kingmakers: Alignment Roles in the China-US Strategic Competition

Time: 08.09.2025 (Mo.), 11-12 am
Location:  (online via Zoom) with Richard J. Cook Ph.D. (Nankai University, PRC)
Host: Igor Sevenard (UDE, EAF)


2025/09/: AREA Ruhr Roundtable Series (in person) with Richard J. Cook Ph.D. (Nankai University, PRC)

Navigating the China Information Gap: East Asia Order & Insider Perspectives

The aim of this in-person event is to bring the analysis of East Asia’s regional order into dialogue with research practices in/about China. 
In doing so, we will concentrate on
    Geopolitics/Regional Order: Secondary states’ room for manoeuvre amid US–China competition;
    implications for analysis and policy advice
    Research in/about China: Access, ethics, collaborations, and publication practices
    under heightened geopolitical tensions.

Time: 08.09.2025 (Mo.), 2-3.30 pm
Location: AREA Ruhr/University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, Geibelstr. 41, SG 183