
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.

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.

Introduction to Taiwanese (Tâi-gí) and Taiwan's Contemporary Popular Culture
Lecturer: Khó͘ Pōe-bín 許珮旻 M.A., and colleagues

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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