Lunch Forum

The East Asian Studies Lunch Forum will take place again in the summer semester 2025 and those interested are invited to attend.

The Lunch Forum will be held in hybrid form on Wednesdays from 12 to 1 pm (sharp). The lectures will take place on the campus of the Ruhr-University in building MB room 3/126 and will also be broadcast via Zoom. To receive a notification with the Zoom access link before each lecture, send a short email with the subject 'Anmeldung zum Mittagsforum', the text 'Teilnahme' and your name to ostasienwissenschaftliches-mittagsforum@ruhr-uni-bochum.de. As usual, food and drinks are allowed due to the lunch time.

Zoom-Meeting beitreten
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/65831089459?pwd=wbp6UWGIanjB0Sr9EnDlottMdXjKAw.1

East Asian Studies Lunch Forum programme

30. April

Christoph BRUMANN (MPI für Ethnologische Forschung, Halle): From Private to Public and Back? Kyoto's Cityscape Councils and the Urban Commons

Abstract:
Based on long-term anthropological engagement, the talk addresses the built environment of Kyoto, the former capital of Japan and acclaimed stronghold of history and tradition. Decades of conflict about the built environment led to a new building code in 2007 that continues to enjoy broad support. Details of building design, however, are now left to ‘local cityscape councils’ (chiiki keikan-zukuri kyōgikai), volunteer bodies that discuss construction plans with developers. Officially, local amateurs meet non-local professionals here, but ethnographic fieldwork in 2019/20 revealed that both technical expertise and Kyoto ties are present on both sides. State representatives are also less absent than officially proclaimed. The councils and their activities demonstrate that mixed management of the urban commons by the state and civil society can lead to amicable solutions that rise above vested interests. State involvement and urban ‘commoning’ should not be posited as mutually exclusive.

14. Mai

Stefan CHRIST (Sinologie, Nürnberg-Erlangen): Geschichte auf der Bühne: Historische Stücke im China des 21. Jahrhunderts

28. Mai

Hendrik JOHANNEMANN (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin): Konservativ und dynamisch zugleich: Aktionsformen und Netzwerke der südkoreanischen Anti-LGBT-Bewegung

4. Juni

Lena WESEMANN (Graduate School of East Asian Studies, FU Berlin): Relics from the Past. Narratives of Human Evolution in Chinese Museums

18. Juni

Jonathan Yainishet (Ethnologie, Göttingen): Recursive Futures at Division's End: Spatio-Temporal Entanglements in the Korean DMZ

25. Juni

Nadin HEÈ (Japanologie, Leipzig): tba

16. Juli

Seunghwan RYU (Graduate School of East Asian Studies, FU Berlin): Between Solidarity and Modernity: North Korea–Tanzania Agricultural Cooperation in the Cold War