Schedule

Time

Wednesday, March 10

14:00 – 16:00 Panel discussion participants: Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer {Moderator) Prof. Dr. Karen Shire Prof. Dr. Jörg Plassen Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter

Conference Opening, Chair of DGA Prof. Dr. Dr. Nele Noesselt   Welcome address, Rector of Ruhr-Universität Bochum Prof. Dr. Axel Schölmerich Welcome address, Vice Rector for Social Responsibility, Diversity & International Affairs, University of Duisburg-Essen Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau   Welcome address, Co-Directors AREA Ruhr Prof. Dr. Christian Schwermann (OAW, Ruhr-University Bochum) Prof. Dr. Markus Taube (IN-EAST, University Duisburg-Essen)   Welcome address, speaker of the Graduate School AREA Ruhr Prof. Dr. Dr. Nele Noesselt   Keynote speech and panel discussion Transnational Asian Studies: Implementing an Agenda for Our Times Prof Dr. Claudia Derichs (Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, HU-Berlin)

Time		Thursday, March 11
08:00 – 09:00		Keynote speech Transnational co-production of food safety in Asia Prof. Dr. Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)
09:00 – 11:00	PANEL CODE 016A Part 1 Industrialization in Northeast Asia: A Long-Term Perspective, 1900 to Now Organizer: Christine Moll-Murata / Flemming Christiansen	PANEL CODE 004A Civil Society in Identity-Formation and Institution-Building Processes in Asia Organizer: Kamila Szczepanska, Anna Caspari, Anja Ketels	PANEL CODE 002A Transnational Economies, Digital Labor and Globalization: Exploring Chinese Entrepreneurs’ Mobilities and Connections Organizer: Beatrice Zani, TSENG, Yu-chin
11:00 – 13:00	PANEL CODE 016A Part 2 Industrialization in Northeast Asia: A Long-Term Perspective, 1900 to Now Organizer: Christine Moll-Murata / Flemming Christiansen	PANEL CODE 015A Transnational Mobility in East Asia and beyond and its Institutional Actors Organizer: KWON, Jaok/Momoyo Hüstebeck END: 13:30	panel 006 migrated to 013sa
14:00 – 16:00	PANEL CODE 005K Defenders of Empire in Late Nineteenth Century East Asia: Qing-Chosŏn (淸-朝鮮) Negotiated Sovereignty and De Facto Protectorate Organizer: CHUN, Jihoon	PANEL CODE 011A Convergence with and Divergence from Eurocentric Regional Institutional Integration Organizer: JOE, UnHye/Francis M. Cao	PANEL CODE 008J Transnational Migration and Contemporary Japan: Flows and Realities Organizer: MURANAKA, Aimi/ TRAN AN, Huy
16:00 – 18:00	PANEL CODE 007J Die“Manzhouguo-Identität“ – Akteure, Institutionen und Diskurse zur Schaffung einer transnationalen Identität für die Bewohner des Staates Manzhouguo (1932-45) Organizer: Anke Scherer	PANEL CODE 003A Post-Imperium Identity Formation and Institution Building: Taiwan, Hong Kong and Central/Eastern Europe Compared Organizer: Thomas Gold	PANEL CODE 012SA Transnational religious connections across and beyond Southeast Asia Organizer: Mirjam Lücking

Time		Friday, March 12
08:00 – 09:00		Keynote speech Researching and teaching ‘peripheries’ in transnational Asian Studies: The case of North Korea Dr. Sabine Burghart (University of Turku, Finland)
09:00 – 11:00	PANEL CODE 001A Populism in North- and Southeast Asia – In Search of a Phenomenon Organizer: Axel Klein	PANEL CODE 014A Asienwissenschaften in der Relevanzfalle? Wege zu größerer gesellschaftlicher Wirksamkeit Organizer: Marina Rudyak, Bertram Lang	PANEL CODE 019NWG DGA Young Scholars Group
11:00 – 13:00	PANEL CODE 013SA Beyond national borders – Citizenship and belonging in Southeast Asia in the 21st Century Organizer: Mirjam Le, Mandy Fox	PANEL CODE 017A Klimawandel, Pandemie, Autoritarismus, De-Globalisierung und Reaktionsmöglichkeiten der Regionalstudien (Roundtable) Organizer: Markus Taube
14:00 – 16:00	PANEL CODE 009A Part1 Sustainable Urban Regions: Synthesizing Current Research Endeavours In East And South-East Asia Organizer: Katharina Borgmann	PANEL CODE 010A Part 1 East Asian Futures: Past and Present Organizer: Christine Moll-Murata
16:00 – 18:00	PANEL CODE 009A Part2 Sustainable Urban Regions: Synthesizing Current Research Endeavours In East And South-East Asia Organizer: Katharina Borgmann	PANEL CODE 010A Part 2 East Asian Futures: Past and Present Organizer: Christine Moll Murata	PANEL CODE 018C Current developments (and challenges ahead) in the fields of Chinese political science (Roundtable) hosted by ACPS Organizers: Nele Noesselt, Gregory Moore
18:00 – 18:30		Closing Session